Hispanic New York

HNY is an interactive and mobile website that serves as a comprehensive portal to all things Latino & Latin American in the United States.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Media and Entertainment
  • Location New York City, NY, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded September 2011
  • Employees 2
  • Website hispanicny.com

Company Summary

HNY is an integrated platform of social media networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.) comprising up to 10 million connections from our target demographic, plus a 5-year-old blog on Latino and Latin American issues. Our target market is female and male English-dominant college-educated Hispanics and Non-Hispanics interested in Latin American and Latino issues, ages 18-65, and with annual income of 40,000 – 200,000 and more.

Team

  • Claudio Iván Remeseira
    CEO and Founder

    New York-based award-winning journalist. Worked for print, cable, and radio in the USA and Latin America. Editor of "Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook" (Columbia University Press, 2010) an anthology on the city’s Latino, Latin American and Iberian cultural heritage, and winner of the Latino International Book Award in the category of Best Reference Book in English (2011) . Translator of the Spanish-language on-line section of The Nation.

  • Jeffrey - Vargas
    CTO

    QA/CMS manager for BET Networks Interactive since 2010. His tasks include monitoring the overall health and functionality needs of our user from our internal CMS; troubleshoot ongoing issues and develop resolution paths to address user needs/issue. From 2002 to 2009, Technology Director, Time Out New York. Tasks included every aspect of IT used in creating Time Out publications. Brown University, B.A. Born and raised in New York City.

Advisors

  • Christopher Klatell of Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, PC
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Joseph Gruenfeld 85-04 Queens Boulevard, 2nd Fl, Elmhurst, NY 11373 - Phone: 718-424-7101
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Friends and family
    Unconfirmed
    Tony Bechara, Chairman of the Board, El Museo del Barrio
    Unconfirmed
    Group of investors related to the art world
    Unconfirmed

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