Mexico City (March 6, 2025) — Village Capital launches Greentech LatAm 2025: The Future of Sustainability, the second iteration of an emerging markets initiative supporting sustainable innovations. The Latin American program will select ten early-stage startups in Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay.
The program is part of a broader global effort spanning Africa and Asia to support and scale startups working to address the effects of climate change.
The latest UN Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR 2023) reveals that only 16% of the SDG targets are on track to be met by 2030. This is due mainly to the slow implementation of solutions. Latin America’s population is disproportionately affected by climate change with the recent, significant rise in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events. Roughly 1.7% of the region’s GDP is lost annually to natural disasters.
Applications close on May 9, 2025. Full details and eligibility criteria can be found here.
The call for applications is open to regional startups that are building solutions to accelerate the shift towards sustainable development, focusing on areas such as:
From August through September 2025, the selected entrepreneurs will meet for three online workshops. The curriculum is focused on helping them develop the networks and tools they need to scale their impact and uplift their communities. They will work closely with industry experts, investors, ecosystem partners, and an investment analyst who will coach them 1:1 on building a financial model, identifying unit economics, and using financial metrics to drive both the business and investor diligence.
All startups that apply to the program will be invited to join Abaca, Village Capital’s free web app. Abaca includes Capital Explorer, which equips entrepreneurs to make strategic fundraising decisions that align with their mission and vision and identify relevant resources and capital providers. Abaca also helps entrepreneurs on a venture path to assess their investment readiness using a consistent set of Venture Investment Levels (1-9) and then plan and track progress toward their next level with the Milestone Planner.
For more information, contact Yireth Villaverde at Village Capital (yireth.villaverde@vilcap.com).
About Village Capital
Village Capital is reinventing the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future. Known for its groundbreaking approaches to supporting founders who are building solutions to emergent social, economic, and environmental challenges, VilCap unlocks critical social and financial capital for early-stage companies to maximize business and impact growth.
Village Capital has operated in Latin America since 2015 by running over 20 accelerator programs involving more than 20 countries in the region including Bolivia, Guatemala, and Paraguay. VilCap has supported more than 200 locally-based startups working in sectors such as economic mobility, financial health, and sustainable agriculture. Learn more at www.vilcap.com and follow @vilcap_latam.
