Incubators/Accelerators | Region 9
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Name of Program
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City/Country
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Incubator/Accelerator
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Notes
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Info
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| WAYRA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Accelerator | "Wayra connects technology disruptors with Telefónica to generate joint business opportunities. Wayra operates through 11 hubs in 10 countries within the Telefónica footprint: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom and Venezuela, leading to the entrepreneurial talent of these ecosystems on a global scale. We are the global interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems." | https://ar.wayra.co/ |
| SociaLab | Montevideo, Uruguay | Accelerator | "We are the largest network of problem solvers in the world. We expand the impact and efficiency of the sustainability, innovation and communications strategy of public and private organizations, identifying the problems that concern them most, supporting sustainable and scalable entrepreneurship ideas that solve them and positioning these processes on the public agenda." | https://socialab.com/# |
| ThalesLAB | Montevideo, Uruguay | Incubator | "ThalesLab is a Uruguayan organization created in 2014. We are entrepreneurs and leaders in technology and innovation, we share our experiences and strategies transforming our mistakes into lessons. We focus on the quality of the ventures, not the quantity. We support startups and technology spin-offs (companies that arise to offer new products or services from existing companies) that are in early stages of development and have high potential." | https://thaleslab.com/ |
| RUTA N | Medellin, Colombia | Incubator | "Our mission is to articulate the CTi ecosystem to transform Medellín into a knowledge economy, in which, by 2021, innovation is its main driving force. To achieve this we have set three strategic priorities: attract talent, capital and global companies to the city; develop and strengthen the innovative and entrepreneurial business fabric; and generate CTi solutions for city challenges." | https://www.rutanmedellin.org/es/ |
| NXTP LABS | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Incubator | "We are an early stage venture firm focused on generating positive impact at scale in Latam by building the best ecosystem of tech entrepreneurs, mentors, investors and corporates." | https://www.nxtplabs.com/ |
| Startup Chile | Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile | Accelerator | "Start-Up Chile (SUP) is a public startup accelerator created by the Chilean Government for high-potential entrepreneurs to bootstrap their startups and use Chile as a foundation. Today, Start-Up Chile is the leading accelerator in LATAM, among the TOP 10 globally, and one of the biggest and most diverse startup communities in the world. Start-Up Chile has been a global game changer. After it was created, 50 countries followed suit and created similar programs." | https://www.startupchile.org/ |
| ALDEA | Bogota, Colombia | Incubator | "ALDEA is aimed at innovative entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs domiciled anywhere in the country, natural or legal persons, spin off (structured and constituted business models that are the result of another organization already consolidated), …" | https://aldeainnpulsa.com/ |
| Founders Institute | Panamá City, Panamá | Accelerator | ""The Founder Institute works with both entrepreneurs and teams at the pre-seed stage: idea stage, prototype stage, early company stage." | https://fi.co/insight/the-vast-potential-for-startups-in-latin-america |
| Njambre | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Accelerator | "We develop support and investment programs for entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators." | http://www.njambre.org/ |
| Naranya Labs | Monterrey, Mexico | Accelerator | "We work with our customers and partners to build new business models, create new revenue streams, gain more consumer insight and reach higher consumer engagement while taking their assets to the digital space. Our customers include leading companies in telecommunications, media, entertainment brands, consumer brands, retailers, education and government entities." | http://www.naranya.com/ |
| Doing Labs | Cordoba, Argentina | Incubator | "doing LABS is the startup incubator of the Blas Pascal University, whose objective is to encourage the growth and scaling of innovative technology-based ventures." | http://doinglabs.ubp.edu.ar/ |
| 500 Mexico City | Colonia Juarez, Mexico | Accelerator | "500 is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. We were the most active seed stage venture capital firm in the world in 2015, according to CB Insights in 2016. Since its inception in 2010, 500 has provided hundreds of millions of investment dollars, acceleration programs, and support services to thousands of entrepreneurs in over 60 countries." | https://latam.500.co/latam/ |
| Alta Ventures | Monterrey, Mexico | Accelerator | "Alta Ventures Mexico is an early-stage Mexico venture capital fund helping passionate entrepreneurs grow innovative companies in Mexico. We take an active approach to investing in areas where the Alta team and network has domain experience. These areas include internet, SaaS computing, mobile computing, consumer, security, communications and health care." | https://altaventures.com/ |
| 21212 – Novo Posicionamento | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Accelerator | "The 21212 was designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Created in 2011 to help entrepreneurs create value in Brazil's growing digital marketplace, 21212 was the country's first digital startup accelerator." | https://21212.com/ |
| Aceleradora | Recife, Brazil | Accelerator | "Acceleradora is the first startup accelerator in Brazil. We work with entrepreneurs, companies and venture capital funds to create and invest in fast growing businesses." | http://aceleradora.net/ |
| Tayrona Ventures | Bogota, Colombia | Incubator-Accelerator | "Tayrona Ventures is a hands-on accelerator/incubator that invests in and works closely with Colombian start-ups in their growth and expansion across Latin America. It’s mission is to create the next breed of Latin American Internet blockbuster companies. Though based in Colombia, Tayrona Ventures works alongside like-minded funds/accelerators." | https://tayronaventures.wordpress.com/ |
| Start Up Peru | Lima, Peru | Incubator | "StartUp Peru is an initiative of the National Innovation Program for Competitiveness and Productivity – INNÓVATE PERÚ, of the Ministry of Production, which includes seed capital and scaling contests for innovative, dynamic and high-impact ventures. Startup Peru is a tool, and at the same time an opportunity, for innovative entrepreneurs to have a way and a means to carry out their business ideas of high added value that contribute to the development of the country." | http://www.start-up.pe/ |
| Startup Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico | Incubator | "Enter the entrepreneurship ecosystem with value propositions It is a Building Blocks system (it admits the transfer of the Milestone according to the profile of each generation, so that it is not necessarily sequential), it allows new entrepreneurs to approach the important process of entrepreneurship and innovation in Mexico, promoting business skills and abilities that help ideas to materialize and become an innovative product or service with high impact on the market" |
https://www.startupmexico.com/ |
| Chrysalis | Valparaíso, Chile | Incubator | "« Chrysalis creates, empowers and grows innovative technological businesses with high productive impact, through the delivery of an integral incubation service recognized for its customer orientation and operational excellence, consistent with the PUCV pro-entrepreneurship policies»" | http://www.chrysalis.cl |
| Imagine Lab | Vitacura, Chile | Incubator-Accelerator | "We are the incubator and business accelerator supported by Microsoft Chile , in which we are responsible for developing, transforming and enhancing innovative technology-based ventures. At Imagine Lab, we accelerate our startups and open the doors for them to scale in various markets, through the delivery of subsidies, knowledge, commercial and investment networks, thanks to the key alliances with relevant actors in the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our value proposition and differentiating approach is the approach we offer to startups with the corporate world , for which we actively work in open innovation processes with various corporations in multiple industries, in which we integrate our startups efficiently and successfully, positively impacting the entrepreneurship ecosystem." | https://imaginelab.cl/ |
| Instituto 3IE | Valparaíso, Chile | Incubator | "We promote entrepreneurship and innovation through programs for entrepreneurs and companies that want to revolutionize the technology industry." | http://www.3ie.cl/ |
| Startup Rio | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Accelerator | "Rio de Janeiro State's public-private initiative and partners to foster a culture of entrepreneurship, transforming the state into an international hub of digital technology. Who is it for: Brazilians and Foreigners, Teams of up to 3 participants, Entrepreneurs in digital technology." | http://www.startuprio.rj.gov.br/ |
| New Ventures | Mexico City, Mexico | Accelerator | "Our acceleration programs provide strategic support, mentorship and business development to social entrepreneurs in México and Latin America." | https://nvgroup.org/ |
| Social Good Brasil | Florianópolis, Brazil | Accelerator | "We do this through programs, events, and training for social actors, entrepreneurs, and organizations to drive the social impact of their actions, businesses, and projects to an exponential scale." | https://socialgoodbrasil.org.br/ |
| Startup Farm | São Paulo, Brazil | Accelerator | "We believe in the power of combining entrepreneurship and technology to promote the world’s evolution." |
https://startup.farm/en/ |
| MacondoLab | Barranquilla, Colombia | Incubator-Accelerator | "We generate research and innovative capabilities in companies, through co-creation processes and agile, warm and flexible technological developments for the transformation of knowledge into short-term results." | https://macondolab.com/nosotros/ |
| Ideas Factory | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Incubator-Accelerator | "Ideas Factory is an ecosystem of solutions designed to accompany entrepreneurs in the process of turning an idea into a business opportunity. Through different programs, we accompany entrepreneurs in the pre-acceleration, incubation and acceleration stages of their startups." | http://www.ideasfactory.la/ |
| STARTUPLAB MX | San Luis Potosi, Mexico | Incubator | "StartupLab is an agency specialized in entrepreneurial education and non-profit corporate innovation. We offer startup incubation programs, business acceleration and different workshops to increase the development of entrepreneurial skills.We offer models for the development of innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems. We help governments, educational institutions and entrepreneurs generate strategies and programs that transform communities, productos and businesses." | https://startuplab.mx/en/ |
| Emprende FCh | Santiago, Chile | Incubator | "We are a private nonprofit corporation that fosters innovations that "move the border of the possible." Our partners are the State of Chile and BHP. In FCh we generate international networks, delivering high impact solutions to address Chile's challenges in sustainability, Human Capital development, Education, Aquaculture, Entrepreneurship and Food." | https://fch.cl/ |