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San José, Costa Rica (03 septiembre, 2020) — Hábitat para la Humanidad anuncia que el Centro Terwilliger de Innovación en Vivienda (CTIV), abre oficialmente la convocatoria para dos nuevas aceleradoras del ShelterTech ubicadas en el sudeste asiático y la región Andina. Esta última, ha sido diseñada por Hábitat y Village Capital. Se recibirán las postulaciones desde el 31 de agosto hasta el 30 de septiembre, 2020 en https://habitat.org/sheltertech/participate. 

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San José (Sep. 03, 2020) — Habitat for Humanity today announced that its Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter is taking applications for ShelterTech accelerators in Southeast Asia and in the Andean region of South America. As the world’s leading platform for affordable housing innovation, ShelterTech brings together entrepreneurial minds to answer today’s most pressing global shelter challenges.

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23 de julio de 2020 (Ciudad de México) — Village Capital, con el apoyo de MetLife Foundation, PayPal y Moody’s, anunció el día de hoy que 12 startups Fintech en etapa temprana han sido seleccionadas para formar parte de Finance Forward Latin America 2020. El programa de aceleración se llevará a cabo a lo largo de cinco semanas. El enfoque principal será capacitar a las startups para mejorar su modelo de negocio y lograr que sus soluciones sean accesibles para quienes más las necesitan, dentro del panorama económico actual. 

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July 23, 2020 (Mexico City, MX) —Village Capital, with the support of MetLife Foundation, PayPal, and Moody’s, today announced the twelve early-stage fintech startups selected to take part in Finance Forward Latin America 2020. An accelerator, Finance Forward Latin America 2020 will provide the startups with five weeks of training focused on improving their business models and making their solutions available to those who need them most in the current economic climate.

June 23, 2020 (Washington, DC) —Village Capital announced today that two startups, BridgeCare and JobBliss, were peer-selected to receive investment as a part of the Future of Work & Learning accelerator program for startups that are helping adults improve their lives through workforce development solutions, such as alternative credentialing, upskilling, and reskilling.

Washington, DC and New York, NY (January 21, 2020) — Village Capital today announced that Xendoo and Worthy Financial were peer-selected for funding during Finance Forward US 2019, an accelerator program that is a part of Finance Forward. A multi-year global coalition led by founding partners MetLife Foundation and PayPal, Finance Forward is supporting entrepreneurs on four continents who are building tech-enabled solutions to challenges around financial health.

Village Capital and MetLife Foundation selected eleven early-stage ventures operating in MENA for the ‘Finance Forward: Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 2019 accelerator program.

October 16, 2019 (Mexico City) —Village Capital announced today that two financial health startups, Monetus and ArriendoAsegurado, were selected by their peers as “most investment-ready” at the conclusion of Finance Forward: Latin America 2019, an accelerator to support financial health startups in Latin America. Each will receive USD $50,000 from MetLife Foundation, the proceeds of the grants will be used to strengthen and scale their operations.