Description Cost $20 Brainfood is a monthly, hands-on discussion with local entrepreneurs who share the secrets of their success. These monthly gatherings will help Miami startups and entrepreneurs understand the opportunities and challenges of launching and growing a business. Every participant will leave with a wealth of new ideas and key, practical advice to advancing one’s own entrepreneurial career. Brainfood is presented by The LAB Miami and Endeavor Miami and takes place at The LAB Miami in Wynwood, generally on the last Tuesday of each month. You can listen to all of our Brainfood Speaker Series events on our podcast! The Big Idea Box Abi Mandelbaum (Speaker) Abi Mandelbaum is a successful entrepreneur in the technology and education space. Most recently, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of YouVisit, an immersive technology company, which under his leadership grew to become an industry leader and was acquired in December 2019 by EAB and Vista Equity Partners, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious Private Equity firms. Abi holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a scholar for the National Society of Hispanic MBAs. He is a fervent advocate of youth entrepreneurship, and proud to be an Endeavor Entrepreneur. YouVisit is an award-winning education and immersive technology company with the mission to reinvent college recruiting. It is reinventing recruitment through its experiential content platform, which weaves multiple media types together into an immersive and highly interactive experience. These engaging online experiences evoke powerful emotions that move students to the next stage in the college recruitment process. Matt Hagman (Moderator) Matt was an award-winning journalist at The Miami Herald and Daily Business Review, Miami Program Director at Knight Foundation and, most recently, a candidate for U.S. Congress. As Miami program director, he launched Knight Foundation’s initiative aimed at building Miami’s startup and entrepreneurial community. Over nearly six years, Matt led $28 million in investment to launch programs including Endeavor Miami, The Idea Center at Miami Dade College, 500 Startups, Babson WIN Lab, eMerge Americas, Black Tech Week and LaunchCode South Florida, among many others. Previously, Matt was an award-winning journalist. He initially covered legal affairs for the Daily Business Review before moving to The Miami Herald, where he spent nearly eight years covering real estate, local government and worked as an investigative reporter. Awards include the Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism. Matt serves on the boards of Endeavor Miami, New World Symphony and U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Florida Advisory Committee. Most recently, he was a candidate for U.S. Congress. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University and a law degree from Vermont Law School and grew up in Cambridge, Mass. #BrainfoodMIA #LABventures #TheLABMiami @thelabmiami | @endeavorMIA | @knightfdn | @startupfiu Presented in collaboration with: Located in the heart of the vibrant Wynwood Arts District, the LAB is Miami's original coworking community. In 2012, the founding members of the LAB teamed up with the Knight Foundation and a group of angel investors to convert a 10,000 square foot warehouse into a shared office space and event venue. Since then, a growing number of Miami's brightest and most forward-thinking entrepreneurial minds have converged here to share their ideas, learn from one another, and build amazing companies and projects. Endeavor Miami was launched in September 2013, with the support of the Knight Foundation and a group of world-class business leaders. It is the first U.S. affiliate of Endeavor, a global non-profit organization that has advised and helped scale more than 800 high-impact companies in 37 markets around the world.