Impact Hub Mexico City and Fomento Social Citibanamex announced the opening of the fifth edition of the national program EMERGING 2023. Through this initiative, it seeks to support 90 creative industries ventures that also generate a positive social impact.
What is EMERGING 2023?
EMERGENTE 2023 is a linking and exhibition program in which the selected ventures will be able to participate in a face-to-face bootcamp in which, for one day, they will learn to improve their business models and learn about the opportunities for creative industries that exist in Mexico.
The 10 best participants will have the opportunity to live a strengthening experience in Mexico City and compete for a seed capital fund of 150,000 pesos.
“EMERGENT 2023 has been a program with a great impact not only on the participants, but also on the creative economy. We have seen how Mexican creativity has been used as the main input to create innovative products or processes of high value”,
Vanessa González, director of Fomento Social Citibanamex, commented in a statement.
The EMERGENTE community has close to 200 creative ventures with social impact from all over Mexico. And there have been 12 ventures among which almost a million pesos of seed capital have been distributed to promote them.
How to participate in the call
For the EMERGENT 2023 bootcamps, six main regions of the country were identified, in which all the states of the Mexican Republic are considered. The bootcamps will be carried out in a face-to-face format for which those selected ventures will have support in travel expenses so that they can participate.
- All those persons of legal age residing in Mexico, who have a project or who have founded, co-founded or run a company within the creative industries, mainly creative businesses that offer services or products in industrial and/or functional design such as workshops, may apply. from artisans or design studios; creative services such as theatres, cinema and music; and technological platforms such as web platforms and applications related to the creative industries.
- The applicant projects or companies must generate a positive impact either through their production processes, business model, or through their products or services.
- The companies must be in an early stage, that is, not exceed three years from their legal registration at the time of starting the program; The projects must have a pilot developed and already be generating an impact.
- The call will be open from Monday, August 7, and until 11:59 p.m. on September 30, 2023.
You can find out the details and register your venture on the Impact Hub Mexico City page mexicocity.impacthub.net/emergente
“Mexican creativity has enormous potential and with Emergente we hope to help creative ventures overcome the barriers they may face to create success stories.” commented Mario Romero, director of Impact Hub CDMX.
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