--- title: "Three Continents, One Data-Driven eCommerce Startup and a Baby | Ann Pichestapong" url: https://www.seedstars.com/content-hub/life/three-continents-one-data-driven-ecommerce-startup-and-baby-ann-pichestapong/ --- 1. [HOME](/) 2. [RESOURCES](/content-hub/) 3. [SEEDSTARS LIFE](/content-hub/life/) 4. THREE CONTINENTS, ONE DATA-DRIVEN ECOMMERCE STARTUP AND A BABY | ANN PICHESTAPONG ![Three Continents, One Data-Driven eCommerce Startup and a Baby | Ann Pichestapong](https://seedstars-com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/p5corinne-kutz-tMI2_-r5Nfo-unsplash.max-1500x500.jpg) CEE • TECHNOLOGY ## Three Continents, One Data-Driven eCommerce Startup and a Baby | Ann Pichestapong Seedstars Global MARCH 14, 2020 In this episode, we meet Ann, founder and CEO of [**DataCue**](https://www.datacue.co/), who not only launched her own company but did it with her husband as her co-founder whilst travelling across Central and South America for their honeymoon! I hear you… is she crazy ; ) Successfully securing investment from Startup Chile, despite being foreign nationals (learn how they did it as you listen) Ann and her husband Sharam, a former data scientist at Trip Advisor set about creating a solution that would give small and medium-sized businesses access to big data solutions normally available only to the Amazons of the world. Discover how they managed to work together 24-hours a day with a young baby along for the ride too, how they overcame some big assumptions they made about doing business in the LATAM region and how they overcame a potentially disastrous situation. With many more valuable insights about startup life across 3 continents – DataCue now has a presence in Chile and the LATAM region, Europe and Asia. **The podcast is also available in the video format:** PROUDLY PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH [ ![GSMA](https://seedstars-com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/gsma.max-350x350.jpg) ](https://www.gsma.com/) PODCAST / VIDEOCAST WHAT’S YOUR WHY / INTERVIEWS SEEDSTARS WORLD 2019/20 LATIN AMERICA CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE CHILE TECHNOLOGY BIG DATA INFRASTRUCTURE ECOMMERCE SAAS FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ## More like this [ ![Kenneth Katafono](https://seedstars-com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/P4.max-320x550.png) OCEANIA • FOOD & BEVERAGES From Bait to Plate: How Traseable Is Increasing Food Security | Kenneth Katafono Come with us to the middle of the Pacific, where Kenneth is shaping the future of the fishing industry. Did you know that around 70% of the world’s tuna comes from the Pacific? __ ](https://www.seedstars.com/content-hub/life/bait-plate-how-traseable-increasing-food-security-kenneth-katafono/) [ ![Save 500 million Trees per Year](https://seedstars-com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Untitled_design_32.max-320x550.png) AFRICA • TECHNOLOGY How to Save 500 million Trees per Year? | Bethlehem Dejene More than ever, environmentalists like Bethlehem are convinced that the government can, and must, take more drastic measures when it comes to sustaining our only planet. __ ](https://www.seedstars.com/content-hub/life/how-save-500-million-trees-year-bethlehem-dejene/) [ ![Women-Led Startups](https://seedstars-com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Untitled_design_1.max-320x550.png) GLOBAL • TECHNOLOGY 7 Women-Led Startups That Impact People’s Lives in Emerging Markets Women make vast contributions to economies across the world, whether that’s in businesses, on farms, as entrepreneurs, or by doing usually unpaid domestic work. __ ](https://www.seedstars.com/content-hub/life/7-women-led-startups-that-impact-peoples-lives-in-emerging-markets/) [ ![Rebecca Enonchong](https://seedstars-com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Rebecca2.max-320x550.png) AFRICA • ENTERPRISE Rebecca Enonchong: To Be an Entrepreneur You Have to Be Crazy “If a black African woman could succeed in America in 1999, then all the entrepreneurs across the world can succeed!”, Rebecca Enonchong, tech entrepreneur, founder and CEO of AppsTech and iospaces. __ ](https://www.seedstars.com/content-hub/life/rebecca-enonchong-be-entrepreneur-you-have-be-crazy/) [ ![Tania Douglas](https://seedstars-com.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Tania.max-320x550.png) GLOBAL • TECHNOLOGY Tania Douglas: HealthTech Is Not Only About Tech In her speech, she addresses the global health issues and how they can be tackled with the technology in a smart way. __ ](https://www.seedstars.com/content-hub/life/tania-douglas-healthtech-not-only-about-tech/) --- ## Sitemap - [Sitemap](https://www.seedstars.com/sitemap.md): every public page on this site - [llms.txt](https://www.seedstars.com/llms.txt): what Seedstars does and where to start