PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator Program: APAC Sustainability Edition 2025

The Greenhouse Accelerator is a grant-based accelerator program in APAC that aims to help startups build innovations that solve sustainability challenges through mentorship and a pilot-based program. The program offers the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from PepsiCo as a corporate end user.

Focus Areas

• Circular Economy:
  • Plastic collection and sortation to improve yield of recycling feedstock
  • Reusable and innovative packaging models
  • Advance plastic recycling technologies
  • Recycling value chain solutions
• Climate Action:
  • Renewable energy generation and solutions
  • Renewable and bio-based fuels
  • Carbon capture and storage
  • Alternative energy vehicles and transport
  • Efficient and digital LCA solutions
  • Energy efficiency and system optimization of equipment models
  • Electrification of transportation and logistics
• Sustainable Agriculture:
  • In-field precision and new energy agriculture technology
  • Autonomous equipment for planting, harvesting and disease prevention
  • Electrification of transportation and logistics
  • Incentive mechanisms for regenerative agriculture farming techniques
  • Sustainable fertilizer alternatives
  • Disease treatment technologies

Benefits

• By being a part of the Greenhouse Accelerator, startups will receive:
  • Wrap-around, ongoing mentorship from PepsiCo experts, partners and VCs
  • The opportunity to pilot innovations
  • Real-world insights on market viability and learning modules to help create impact
  • Non-dilutive grants to use towards growing the business

Funding Information

• Grants: Non-dilutive 20,000 USD grant for each finalist. Winner awarded an additional 100,000 USD.

Eligibility Criteria

• Pre-revenue up to $7M USD in sales in the last financial year
• Have business operations in one of the participating APAC region markets (China, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Fiji, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Vietnam)
• Be willing to work with PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator mentors and attend Accelerator events throughout the April to September program

Selection Criteria

• Their selection committee will choose finalists based on the following refreshed criteria:
  • Innovation: Across the areas of Circular Economy, Climate Action, and Sustainable Agriculture, they will be looking for specific requirements.
  • Partnership: Applicants must have a working prototype, ownable IP and up to $7m in revenue
  • Impact: Must be a viable, scalable solution with an impact on PepsiCo’s pep+ goals of RCBR, virgin plastic reduction, recycled content, regenerative agriculture, and/or climate targets.
  • Diversity: They are aiming for the cohort to be 50/50 male and female applicants, as well as having balanced geographical diversity.

For more information, visit PepsiCo.