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Biography
Alexander Torrenegra is a Colombian entrepreneur. He founded multiple companies including Torrenegra Labs, Voice123, VoiceBunny and Torre. He was featured in MIT's TR35 Colombia's list of Top Innovators Under 35 in 2012.
Early life and education
Torrenegra grew up in Bogotá, Colombia. In 1993, he founded Apache X Cybernetic Enterprises Limited at the age of 14. He attended the University of St. La Salle and Florida International University. He graduated from Miami Dade College with a degree in Computer Science and is part of the Stanford University Leadership Program.
Career
In 1998, Torrenegra moved to the United States. He met his wife, Tania Zapata, who was a voice actress, in Miami, Florida. In 2000, they cofounded Torrenegra Labs. Torrenegra and his wife founded Voice123, which applied the concept of reverse auctions to the voiceover industry, in 2003. By 2007, the company passed $1 million in sales in 2007, and had approximately 150,000 voice actors registered and over 75,000 agency clients by 2016. In 2008, Torrenegra founded LetMeGo, a company focused on hotels competing for bookings. The company closed in 2011.
Torrenegra, his wife, and Lucho Molina founded Torre in 2012 with the launch of VoiceBunny, an API for professional human voices. Torrenegra has also co- founded BookingMarkets, Language123, Casting123, and WeHostels, a mobile app to book hostels.
In 2013, he was part of a delegation of immigrant-entrepreneurs that met with President Barack Obama. He also works to improve government support for innovation in Colombia.