We disrupt industries
by experimenting
with online marketplaces
When: Since 2001 |
Where: New York and Bogotá |
Current Resident Companies:
| Find Voice Talents. Quick. Affordable. Professional. |
Launch your marketplace of hotels hostels, b&bs, or vacation rentals. |
The API to get professional voices in minutes. |
| Travel like a local. Book from one. |
View who will be there. Book. Connect. Live it up! |
Let hotels, b&bs, and rentals compete for your stay. |
Our Companies
Current Resident Companies:
| Find Voice Talents. Quick. Affordable. Professional. |
Launch your marketplace of hotels hostels, b&bs, or vacation rentals. |
The API to get professional voices in minutes. |
| Travel like a local. Book from one. |
View who will be there. Book. Connect. Live it up! |
Let hotels, b&bs, and rentals compete for your stay. |
Current Portfolio Companies:
| The Latin American real estate marketplace. |
Technology campus for entrepreneurship in Bogotá. |
Hosting and SysAdmin professional services. |
| Find translators and interpreters. Fast. Affordable. Professional. |
Legacy Companies:
| The vacation rental marketplace. Sold. |
Nearshore web development shop. Sold. |
Find actors and models. Shut down. |
Professional employment marketplace. Shut down. |
Our Team
 Co-founder and Partner |
 Partner |
 Design Chief |
Advisory Team
 Co-founder of Torrenegra Labs |
 Onswipe, Grooveshark |
To learn about the teams of each one of our companies, refer to their web sites.
Jobs & Partnerships
Partnerships
We are always looking for technology and business partners that want to disrupt industries by experimenting with new marketplaces. If you have an idea, write us at contact@torrenegralabs.com
Jobs
Our companies always have job opportunities. To learn about them visit their websites and look for the "Jobs" link. These are some of them:
Coding Ninja with Voice123.com | BogotáCoding Ninja with BookingMarkets | Bogotá
Selenium Ninja with BookingMarkets | Bogotá
Executive Assistant with Torrenegra Labs | Bogotá
Language Co-founder (Entrepreneur) with BookingMarkets | Anywhere in the world
Travel Assistant with BookingMarkets | Anywhere in the world
Localo Scout with Localo.com | Anywhere in the world
Casting Ninja with Voice123.com | Anywhere in the world
Job Opening - Executive Assistant in Torrenegra Labs
Location: Bogotá
We are looking an astonishing person with superpowers to get things done, not afraid of learning while doing, who loves interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds, familiar or passionate to learn about start-ups, angel investment, MVP, valuations, exit strategies, ROI, head hunting, and more related to the start up and angel investment world, and overall understand our goals and help us to achieve them proactively.
We at Torrenegra Labs are passionate about experimenting with online marketplaces, and we love to identify business opportunities where we can create successful synergies; with Headquarters in New York City, offices in Bogotá, and operations in a wide variety of countries represented through business partners or our startups active presence. Our companies are aiming to make people lives easier through technology and benefit our stakeholders.
If you like what you have read and you believe you are a good fit for this position for your professional growth, keep reading...
Responsibilites:
- To support relations with key providers such as banks, lawyers and CPA's.
- To assist hiring processes in our funded companies.
- To create, review and summarize reports and audit documents.
- To maintain up to date corporate documentation.
- To arrange business meetings, events, travel schedule and reservations.
- To prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, and follow through on issues in a timely manner
- To support new startup launches.
Benefits:
- Globalize yourself interacting with an international team.
- Grow with the opportunities that a fast growing company like ours offers.
- Learn from the best team by being surrounded by them.
- Flexible working environment.
- Working from a cool office in beautiful Bogotá, Colombia.
- Travel opportunities.
- Competitive compensation.
Skills required:
- Multi-tasking oriented.
- Thorough.
- Sense of urgency but good at prioritizing.
- Proactive.
- Independent.
- Time-boxing master.
- Positive attitude.
- Telecommuting capable.
- Ongoing learner.
- Good negotiator.
- Technology enthusiast.
The ideal candidate must have the following:
- Able to move and/or live in Bogotá.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Ability creating and/or modifying processes.
- Strong knowledge of SAAS for business management.
- Excellent grammar in English and Spanish.
- A comfortable feeling about having an open schedule for business matters.
- Feeling comfortable about being an independent contractor.
- Own tools to work remotely such a recent laptop and a smartphone no older than two years, headset, and dedicated workspace.
- Redundant internet connection
While not required, these are considered highly relevant:
- Experience in professional services, business development, sales or marketing environment.
- Capacity of learning and dealing with industry-related terminology and figures.
- Leadership skills
How To Apply
Send an email message to jobs@torrenegra.com, including the following information:
- Subject: Executive Assistant
- Your name
- Phone number
- Links to your LinkedIn and Twitter profiles
On the same email:
- Your income expectations
- How did you learn about the position
- One paragraph describing how you envision a working day on this position
- One paragraph explaining what you perceive Torrenegra Labs does
* Resumes and C.V.s as attachment won't be read and incomplete applications will be discarded.
More info about Torrenegra Labs, its team and its ventures here.
Media Kit
Founded:
January, 2001
Offices:
New York City and Bogotá.
Inquiries:
What is Torrenegra Labs?
We are a group of driven, enthusiastic and people-oriented teams in different fields, dedicated to disrupt industries by experimenting with online marketplaces. We count on expertise, imagination and hard work to make dreams come true in a creative and sustainable way. Our goal is to make people’s lives easier through technology.
What companies has Torrenegra Labs created?
The list of companies we have created and invested on can be found here.
Who is behind Torrenegra Labs?
Our team can be viewed here.
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Contact Us
Email: contact@torrenegralabs.com
Phone: +1.646.825.9025
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1167, Secaucus, NJ, 07096
Alexander Torrenegra
Co-founder and Partner
i post in
i cofounded
- 2011 bookingmarkets
- 2011 voicebunny
- 2011 inbed.me
- 2010 localo
- 2010 letmego
- 2010 hubbog
- 2009 serverquo
- 2005 casting123 #fail
- 2004 language123
- 2003 voice123
- 2002 rentalo #sold
- 2001 torrenegra labs
i volunteer with
i have public profiles at:
i believe that:
- life is beautiful alongside my love, tania
- environmentalism should precede humanism
- humanism should precede patriotism
- religion and state should be separate
- the church of the flying spaghetti monster rocks
- this page is egocentric
- eating mammals is bad (for me)
- you are a nice person
Tania Zapata
Co-founder of TorrenegraLabs
i post in
i cofounded
- 2011 localo
- 2010 letmego
- 2004 language123
- 2003 voice123
- 2001 torrenegra labs
i volunteer with
i studied
- 2010 film & video, city university of new york
i have public profiles at:
i believe that:
- what alex believes + see below
- everyone deserves a chance
- we are all responsible for the improvement of the world
- i should know where my garbage goes
- bugs are cool
- philosophy is the most important topic one should study
- i like hammocks (especially the ones made in colombia) accompanied by a cold beer and a beautiful Caribbean sunset.
Leonardo Suarez
Partner
i post in
i cofounded
- 2011 voicebunny
- 2011 bookingmarkets
- 2011 localo
- 2010 letmego
- 2010 hubbog
- 2009 serverquo
i volunteer with
i studied
- 1999 industrial design, pontificia universidad javeriana
i have public profiles at:
i believe that:
- like attracts like
- family and friends precedes work
- 20 min of daily exercise will keep me away of the hospital
- every excess is evil
Javier Mesa
Merrcury Engine
Technology
The Merrcury Engine is a distributed infrastructure of software, hardware, data, and APIs. The Merrcury Engine has been used as the platform to power several marketplaces with dozens of web sites.
We started developing the Merrcury Engine back in 2008, and we constantly tinker with and improve it. These are some of its key features:
- Development Methodology: A custom flavour of Agile Development and the Rational Unified Process
- Documentation: Approx. 214 detailed use cases and 1107 user interfaces
- Architecture: Low-coupling service architecture (distributed in scopes)
- Framework: A customized version of CakePHP and jQuery
- Database Management System: MySQL with database version control
- Automated Testing: ~680 unit test asserts
- Internationalization: Full i18n and l10n for both the user interfaces and data provided by the users
- Hosting: Amazon EC2 and S3
We thought it might be fun to produce a handy visualization of its documentation. You’ll see the result below. We’ve rendered the pages and links from the wiki we used to document all of the use cases and user interfaces that we have developed for the Merrcury Engine. Each node is a use case or user interface. Each orange line is a link to a use case, while each black line is a link to a user interface. The version we’ve provided is very small, but the original size of the graph is around 25k x 20k pixels. It was rendered using the radial method of Graphviz.
Core Services
Web Interaction Service
- Allows users to interact with our website
- HTML5 and CSS3
- Layouts
- Internationalization
- Localization
- White labeling
- Error management
- SEO friendly (including sitemaps)
- Soon: Mobile friendly
Email Management Service (Morrison)
- Makes it easy for other services to send individual email messages
- Internationalization
- White labeling
- Anti-anti spam best practices
- Opt-out management for both registered and non-registered users
- Auto sign-in
- Bounce management
- Automatic creation of plain-text versions
Ticket Management Service (Cockerr)
- Allows customer service reps to properly interact with customers
- Based on OTRS
- Email, online chat, and phone
- Multilingual
- White labeling
- Ticket prioritization
- Auto-scaling
- Performance measurement
- Satisfaction surveys via WuFoo
API Management Service
- Allows other developers to interact with your methods and data
- Integrated with Mashery
- Service-oriented architecture
- Quota management
- Development community management
Account Management Service (Hendrrix)
- Allows visitors to sign up, sign in, manage their profile, etc.
- Facebook integration
- User profiles
- Standard users, sellers, and admins
- Vouch management
- Account closure management
- Secured user profiles
- Automatic redirection after sign in
- Soon: Welcome lessons via email
Messaging Service (Mozarrt)
- Allows users to send messages to other users, and reply to them
- Message threads
- Multiple message types
- Automatic translation
- Intelligent recipient fields
- Anti-spam filters
- Manual or automated editorial control
- Quote attachments
Marketplace Services
Listing Management Service (Sinatrra)
- Allows sellers to showcase their services and products
- WYSIWYG listing management
- Manual or automatic quality control
- Change logs
- Image management
- Pricing and availability
- Automatic finding of lowest possible price for listing
- Multiple managers per listing
- Intelligent listing removal
- Switch-on / Switch-off features
- Contact listing owner via email, phone, or call back request
- URL customization
- Multilingual fields
- Automatic translation for multilingual SEO
- Soon: Review management
- Soon: Craigslist posting
Location Management Service (Arrmstrong)
- Allows other services to be aware of geographical locations
- Connected to geonames.org
- Auto-import from Wikipedia
- Time zone awareness
Soon: Subscription Management Service (Orrson)
- Allows users to pay and manage their subscriptions
- Weekly, monthly, yearly
- Multiple payment methods: Credit card, PayPal, checks
- Multiple currencies
- Localization
- Auto adjustment of rates
- Multiple membership types
- Auto renewal
- Auto reminders
Search Service (Mastrropiero)
- Allows visitors to find listings
- High-performance
- Sort by multiple criteria
- API ready
- Multilingual
- Geographical searches
- Sharable links
Booking Service (Marrley)
- Allows visitors to reserve the services offered in the listings
- One-page checkout
- Automatic notification to seller
- Automatic commission calculation
- Automatic and manual cancellations
- Feature to report bookings happening outside the system
- Seller can reserve the right to decline purchases
- Secure transactions
- Integrated with Cybersource
- PCI compliant
Soon: Invoice Management Service (Waterrs)
- Charges sellers commissions as a way of monetizing the marketplace
- Multiple payment methods
- Automatic invoicing
- Automatic payment processing
- Balance management
- Multiple currencies
- Automatic payment collection
- Secure transactions
- Integrated with Cybersource
- PCI compliant
Reverse Auction Services
Request-for-Proposal Management Service (Kubrrick)
- Allows buyers to post their needs and have sellers compete for them
- Projects, itineraries, RFPs, etc.
- Location aware
- Flexible timing
- Optional editorial reviews
- Broadcasting of invitations to sellers via email
- Flow control for invitations
- Direct invitations by buyer
- Email statuses
- Manual and automatic closure of the bidding process
- Quote retrieval via email or web
- Modification management
Quote Management Service (Brrown)
- Allows sellers to submit quotes for RFPs
- Fast one-page form
- Shows quotes submitted by others
- Automatic pre-filling using existing seller data
- Questions for buyers
- Timing control
- Multiple currencies
- Modification management
- Optional editorial reviews
- Quote retraction
Marketing Services
Email Campaign Management Service (Charrly)
- Allows the broadcast of marketing and legal messages to registered users
- Detailed fragmentation
- Automatic opt-out management
- HTML and plain-text
- Delivery speed control
- Click-through measurement
- Dynamic insertion of user-specific variables
Affiliate Program Service (Osbourrne)
- Allows users to refer others and get paid
- Flexible commissions
- Anti-scam techniques
- Friendly referral URLs
- Banners and pamphlets
- Facebook and Twitter integration
- Deep linking
- White labeling
- Email stats and notifications
- Multiple currencies
- Payments made via PayPal or wire
- Email address book importing
- Local and international tax management
Email Invitation Management Service (Rrose)
- Systematically invites potential sellers to the marketplace via email
- Periodic emails
- Opt-out management
- Massive uploads
- White labeling
- Anti-anti spam techniques
Soon: ROI Management Service (Echeverri)
- Measures the ROI of each listing
- Tracking of listing exposure
- Daily stats
- ROI index generation
Development Contributors
- Henry "Tufla" Canastero @tufla
- Lucho Molina @luchomolina
- German "Gonzo" Gonzalez @germangonzo
- Alexander Torrenegra @torrenegra
- Javier Andrés Mesa @javierandres456
- Omar Duque @omarduque
- Andres "Falkon" Herrera
- Nicolas "Nickman" Bohorquez @nickmancol
- Gisella "Gigi" Borja @gigiborja
- Sergio "Alucard" Perilla @fighterguard
- Luis Betancourt @luis3etancourt
- Juan "†" Cruz @neurobug
- Alberto Dominguez @_dominguez_
- Amaury Prieto @amauryprieto
- Jairo Aparicio
- Juan Carlos Martínez
- Javier Serrano