Applications Open for Greentech LatAm 2025: The Future of Sustainability

The program will focus on startups addressing sustainability challenges in Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay.

Benefits

• Advice
  • Participate in a virtual investor forum and mock board meetings with representatives from financial institutions, corporates, experienced entrepreneurs, and investors who can help companies scale.
• Continued learning
  • Access to live and asynchronous sessions tailored to a virtual learning environment to help their companies identify early milestones and prepare for their next round of capital (if relevant) or significant expansion.
• Financial analysis
  • Access to an investment analyst who will coach you 1:1 on building a financial model, identifying unit economics, and using financial metrics to drive both business and investor diligence.
• Media exposure
  • Exposure to Village Capital’s program website and other communications collateral.
• Mentorship
  • Ability to meet with and receive mentorship from prominent investors, potential strategic partners, customers, and other founders.
• Networking
  • Access to a global network of mentors and founders.

Types of Startups they are Recruiting

• Agtech and Food Security
  • Tech-driven initiatives to address healthy nutrition, improve efficiency in agriculture, increase yields, reduce costs, and boost sustainability in agricultural practices.
• Circular and Regenerative Economy
  • Tech innovations minimizing waste, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable use of natural resources.
• Cleantech and Climate Tech
  • Tech solutions addressing climate change and building resilience to its impacts.
• Natural Resource Management and Biodiversity Conservation
  • Tech-enabled sustainable management of land, water, air, and wildlife, addressing challenges like degraded land, deforestation, and biodiversity loss.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligibility requirements include:
  • Have legal incorporation as a for-profit entity in Latin America, with operations in at least one of the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, or have expansion plans into these markets.
  • Have a market-based solution that tackles sustainability challenges in Latin America.
  • Have at least one full-time founder based in Latin America.
  • Be in compliance with local fiscal and business law.
  • Have a minimum viable product (MVP), and raised less than USD 1M in equity.
  • Have meaningful customer or business validation (not limited to revenue, it can also be successful pilot studies, number of users, and/or strategic partnerships).

For more information, visit Village Capital.