He HEINEKEN Green Challenge announced the extension of its call to September 15. This HEINEKEN Mexico initiative incMTY It is an opportunity to innovate in water preservation.
Throughout its five previous editions, the HEINEKEN Green Challenge has achieved that the participating entrepreneurs obtain more than 5 million pesos of equity-free seed capital, that there are more than 3,637 participating projects and 11,114 entrepreneurs involved, in addition to which have been accelerated to 85 projects.
What you should know about HEINEKEN Green Challenge 2023
The 2023 edition of the HEINEKEN Green Challenge seeks to bring together Mexican entrepreneurs with innovative projects that identify opportunities and solve water problems in any of the four verticals: climate change affecting water, lack of drinking water in communities, inefficient use of water, and wastewater waste.
Registration must be done on the website heineken.incmty.com until September 15, 2023. Participants must organize themselves into teams of 2 to 5 people, whose members must meet all of the following requirements:
- Permanently reside in Mexico
- Be at least 18 years old and without age limit
- Active students or graduates from technical to postgraduate levels from educational institutions in Mexico or experts on the subject
- Have a project in the development stage from idea to a startup with first sales and growth or NGO initiatives:
- Sales no more than five million annually (technological base)
- Sales no greater than two million annually (social)
- Teams must be made up of a minimum of two people and a maximum of five.
- It is necessary that the project registration be under the leader’s name.
If selected to participate in the selection bootcamp, the founder/co-founder must be available to attend the activities of said stage.
You can register and consult the call in the official website here.
What are the prizes for the winners?
The HEINEKEN Green Challenge will reward the best projects of the 2023 edition as follows:
- First place: 650,000 pesos
- Second place: 265,000 pesos
- Third place: 130,000 pesos
- Fourth to tenth place: 65,000 pesos
In addition, there will be prizes in kind for the best 20 projects of the edition:
- Acceleration program lasting 12 weeks
- Access to the incMTY Accelerator 2024 competition
Important dates
- National preselection: from September 18 to October 1, 2023 in virtual mode
- Regional selection: from October 2 to 15, 2023 in virtual mode
- National Bootcamp: November 9 and 10, 2023 in person at Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey campus
- Semifinal: November 11, 2023 in person at Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey campus
- HEINEKEN Pitch: within the framework of the incMTY 2023 festival on November 15, 2023 in person in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
For more details about the challenge visit the official page of the award.
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