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Startup Unidos
Startup Unidos is a community organization focused on empowering underserved border communities in Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora through innovation and entrepreneurship.
Overview
What Startup Unidos does
What Startup Unidos is
Startup Unidos is a community organization focused on empowering underserved border communities in Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora through innovation and entrepreneurship.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- April 25, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
Startup Unidos as a community
Community overview
Startup Unidos is an organization founded in 2015, based in Tucson, Arizona. It focuses on fostering collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship in underserved border communities along the USA-Mexico border. The organization supports emerging companies, promotes growth in existing businesses, and builds the future workforce through various initiatives, including bilingual workshops and programs aimed at youth workforce development.
Community focus
Startup Unidos invests in small businesses and entrepreneurs, providing services such as mentorship, access to funding, and strategic partnerships. Their focus includes cross-border commerce, workforce development, and cultural entrepreneurship, primarily in the Arizona-Sonora megaregion.
Member value
Members benefit from mentorship, access to funding, and strategic partnerships, along with various programs aimed at enhancing entrepreneurial skills and workforce development.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Students · Builders
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- community and bootcamp
- Selection criteria
- open
- Regions
- North America
Community activity
Events and activity
Startup Unidos hosts several events including Startup Weekend, an intensive 54-hour event for fostering entrepreneurship and innovation, the Innovation Summit focusing on cross-border economic development, and The Healing Bridge, a wellness initiative combining traditional and modern healing practices.
Notable members
Notable individuals include Stephanie Bermudez, Founder & CEO, and other team members such as Martha Tapia and Jose Durazo.
Common questions
What to know about Startup Unidos
Upseed classifies Startup Unidos under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 25, 2026
Known limits
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