#P18Turns5 🚀 Back in 2017, hurricane María was a turning point for Puerto Rico and for parallel18. Then and there our preaccelerator, @pre18startups, was born as a long shot at stimulating Puerto Ricans' wit for innovation. One that was unleashed with a drive to use entrepreneurship as a means to push forward through the crisis. The program was a tool to motivate them to innovate and find solutions to local and global challenges. 🏁 Today, more than 70 #pre18ners have completed the pre-acceleration process, 33 of them have gone on to become #P18Startups and so our bet on early-stage boricua ventures continues.