Ladderworks is an editorial platform aiming to empower over a million children as social entrepreneurs through illustrated books and online curricula. Their current series features interviews with social entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders, highlighting their contribution to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Mónica A. Ramos Li is a trained industrial engineer and a social entrepreneur passionate about creating solutions to real-world problems and empowering individuals to achieve a better quality of life through education and the development of circular business models. She is also a co-founder of Musa, a microlearning solution.

At the recent Startup Latam Festival in Santiago, the founders of Clay, Musa, and Cryptomate shared insights on the key challenges of enhancing leadership roles within the startup ecosystem. They all concurred on a common theme: ‘We need to approach things differently’.

It was during the pandemic when Mónica Ramos and Patricia Barrios, both Peruvian entrepreneurs and residents of Lima, realized that there was a need to digitize the employees of the leading companies in the neighboring country.

The IFE Living Lab successfully validated the functionality and instructional capability of Musa on May 31, 2023.

In this episode, we interview Mónica Ramos Li, CEO and co-founder of Musa, an EdTech startup based in Peru that is transforming the educational landscape in Latin America by offering microlearning courses to students through an automated chatbot on WhatsApp. Since its launch in October 2021, Musa has reached over 200,000 users and has expanded its operations to Ecuador, Chile, and Mexico.

The need and opportunity to prioritize skills have aligned. For bold leaders, the outcome is business transformation. Solutions like skill-based hiring have the potential to position organizations at the forefront of innovation, enabling business strategy to adapt to the complexities of the future labor market.

With a presence mainly in Peru, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, in two years, their startup Musa has served 350,000 people with their training through chatbot.

In Latin America, only 39% of companies hold a positive outlook regarding the availability of talent in the next five years, according to a recent report from the World Economic Forum.

From language learning, sciences, and technology to personal and professional development tools, collaborative learning, and pre-university education, these edtech companies offer innovative e-learning solutions for everyone.

The Peruvian initiative is one of the 10 finalists in this competition, with over 200 participating solutions from 34 countries in the region. The 5 winners of the TPrize 2021 will be announced this Monday.

We’ll tell you about the process of addressing an educational need through teamwork with a great ally! Musa, a platform closely tailored to the diverse profiles of the participants.