Built in Puerto Rico: Three Founders on What Nobody Tells You About Scaling from the Island

Everyone talks about Puerto Rico as an emerging startup ecosystem. Fewer people talk about what it actually takes to build and scale a company from the island, the operational realities, the talent challenges, the capital gaps, and the decisions that don’t make it into the pitch deck. In this session of the Angeles Puerto Rico Forum, we sit down with the founders of three Puerto Rico-based companies doing it right now: Raya Power, iTerra Solutions, and Supply Veins. Three different industries. Three different growth trajectories. One honest conversation about what scaling from the island really looks like, the parts that work, the parts that don’t, and what mainland capital needs to understand to show up effectively. This is not a success story panel. This is a founder conversation, and it is exactly the kind of conversation the Angeles Puerto Rico Forum was built to create. Guests Meghan Wood, Co-Founder & CEO – Raya Power: Plug-and-play solar and battery systems that give Puerto Rican homeowners and renters clean energy and outage protection — no roof, no permits, no electrician required. Jonathan Soto-Nieves, Founder & CEO – iTerra Solutions: iTerra Solutions National security and defense technology company building autonomous threat intelligence and counter-UAS systems from Puerto Rico — the Arsenal of the Caribbean. Charles Masters Rodriguez, Founder & CEO – Supply Veins: Supply Veins (Techstars ’24) AI-powered B2B marketplace for automotive fleet parts, built by a West Point graduate and Army veteran who saw the same supply chain failures in the military that plague commercial fleets today. See you there!