Paulo Rogério Nunes

Co-Founder, Vale do Dendê

06/06/2024

06/06/2024

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New Frontier

Paulo is the co-founder of the Instituto Midia Étnica, the largest Black media, in Brazil that operates since 2005. Mr. Nunes was also a Fulbright Humphrey Fellow, at the University of Maryland, where he studied Journalism and Digital Media and also is an Ashoka fellow since 2008. In 2016, he created the first Black Startup accelerator in Brazil, Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley), in Salvador, Bahia. He was one of the 11 young leaders invited by the ex-president Barack Obama to a private meet in his last visit to Brazil and also spoke on the opening of the first Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. He is also alumni at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. He is partner of Afar Ventures.