EU-LAC Digital Accelerator

We help you get your corporate-startup solution closer to market readiness 🛒 Apply now to the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator’s open call #5! For WHO? Corporate-startup collaborations spread over Europe, Latin America, or the Caribbean 🌎 WHAT will you GET? Pick among 12 acceleration services (PoC, Soft landing, Investment readiness, etc.) that will get you one step closer to building a cost-saving process or a profit-making product 📈 🚀 45+ corporate-startup partnerships have already boarded the EU-LAC rocketship, apply now to be the next one! bit.ly/4k3PUvy

Can you… (a)…build AI agents that automate enterprise workflows across complex platforms? 🤖 (b)…optimise aerospace production planning with AI-powered scheduling and bottleneck forecasting? ✈️ (c)…detect driver fatigue, stress, and cognitive overload with privacy-first AI monitoring? 🚗 3 corporates are looking for the perfect startup match! Meet & Match on our matching platform ⬇️

Startups focus on the product. But what corporate clients really want is a partner. Join our webinar “Co-creating with corporates for Caribbean startups & SMEs in the age of AI” taking place on: 📅Thursday 21 May 2026 🕚10:00 AST A snapshot of the programme: • Why pitching a “ready-made” product gets rejected by corporates • What changes when moving from selling a product to co-creating a solution • How to use AI tools to validate ideas in a matter of months before investing time and money ➡️Register HERE: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Turn your data into decisions you can act on THIS quarter. Our webinar “How Caribbean firms can turn data into clients & productivity” is going live on: 📅Wednesday 20 May 2026 🕚10:00 AST Some topics we’ll explore together along with Ebony De Leon, CEO at DataAura and Dennis Augustine, Founder at DX Alliance: • What is blocking you from making sales, ops, and finance data-driven decisions • Dashboards and BI tools you can use today with a limited budget and no in-house data team • How to turn everyday data into adjusting pricing or prioritising the right customers ➡️Register HERE: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Welcome #Misión3 team to our network of accelerators! 💥 -------- The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator partners with other accelerators worldwide to maximise startups’ potential to raise more funding and find corporate partners to develop new pilots. If you're an accelerator keen on offering a corporate matching service to your startup, contact us for more information!

"Corporate validation is a very good starting point, but it's not enough." Rita Anson, Partner & Co-founder at @NordicIgnite, expands on what investors look at in an early-stage startup. Thanks Rita, for the interview (and more video snippets coming 👀).

Handling car accident insurance claims in a matter of 𝚍̶𝚊̶𝚢̶𝚜̶ minutes 🚗📄 This is the story of Grupo Novelli, an Uruguayan firm that worked with German startup MotionsCloud: eulacdigitalaccelerator.com/2026/01/20/gru…

Driving a pilot with an international corporate is a fantastic opening to approach clients in the same market🚪 But... ...What local rules can block you? ...Will customers pay the price you expect? ...Who are you really competing against? ➡️ Apply with your corporate partner here & Tap into our "Soft landing" service: eulacdigitalaccelerator.com/open-call/?utm…

🗣️ An international school pilots an AI language-speaking tool aiming for 80% teacher adoption. 📦 A distributor pilots an AI warehouse system to achieve 30% faster replenishment and 15% quicker truck processing. 🏥 A mental health centre pilots a patient data platform to reduce admin time by up to 40% while improving care continuity and tracking. “Validating a pilot” can seem a little abstract. But it’s not. All of the above are real outcomes experienced by our corporate-startup collaborations.

Insurance claims no longer require physical inspection thanks to your smartphone📱 This is the story of Grupo Novelli and German startup @motionscloud.

Hackathons → Speed dating Incubators → Dating casually  CVC → Arranged marriage Pilots → Dating show How are these analogies relevant? Read the newsletter 💘 bit.ly/4vWNRiA

2 acceleration services that corporates love ❤️‍🔥- By Miguel Rodríguez. 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁: “De-risk” a startup innovation before implementing & scaling. You test a solution on a small scale with lower time/financial commitment vs. other corporate venture mechanisms. 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀: Learn how to align expectations with a startup - Goals, KPIs, etc. Corporates and startups speak different languages. Bootcamps allow for mutual understanding!

“Validate our technology”. This is what Morten Wolter and Wimesa managed to do with the help of the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator programme and connect2evolve. ➡️ Read more about this corporate-startup collaboration: eulacdigitalaccelerator.com/2026/02/26/sie…

Welcome @ConnectBogota team to our network of accelerators! 💥 -------- The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator partners with other accelerators worldwide to maximise startups’ potential to raise more funding and find corporate partners to develop new pilots. If you're an accelerator keen on offering corporate matching services to your startup, contact us for more information!

Match with an international corporate. Validate a digital transformation pilot. Use it as a passport to sign clients in a foreign market. That’s, in short, the proposal we have for startups. 45 corporate-startup partnerships accelerated so far. How to join? Everything will be explained on Wednesday, 29 April at 10:00 CEST in a webinar organised with the Lodz Special Economic Zone: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

What advantages do open-innovation pilots offer corporates… vs. CVC? vs. Acquisitions? vs. Incubators? Fatima Valer, from @Wayra & EU-LAC Digital Accelerator will let you know ⬇️

On-site surveys, travelling days via boat or foot, mapping solar potential and terrain, and listing community needs An adventure? No. The work needed to deploy clean electricity in remote rural areas. For connect2evolve at Siemens Energy, there must be a more efficient way to do this. The firm partnered with Wimesa, an AI startup based in Germany: ➡️ Read the full article here: eulacdigitalaccelerator.com/2026/02/26/sie…

Go-to-market requires local trust. Not just a good product. But how do you create trust when you're from another continent? @MitigaSolutions, led by Alejandro Marti, is a Barcelona-based startup keen on international expansion. Through local player Wayra and the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator, who vouched for them, they partnered with not 1 but 2 Latin American companies to run a PoC ⬇️

What boxes does a startup need to tick to run a PoC with a corporate? How does it later contribute to its growth? Answers below by Fatima Valer, Innovation Strategist at @Wayra & EU-LAC Digital Accelerator ⬇️

An application to pull data out of field trip interviews and reduce time and costs by over 30%? That is the solution German startup #Wimesa is working on, along with #connect2evolve by Siemens Energy, to enable scaling of clean electricity deployment in remote areas ⬇️

¿Por qué corporaciones y startups necesitan colaborar? Organizamos un nuevo evento de presentación de EU-LAC Digital Accelerator en español. Descubre cómo puedes participar en el programa de aceleración que ya ha apoyado a más de 45 alianzas internacionales que: 1. Ahorran costos para #corporaciones 2. Permiten entrar en mercados internacionales para #startups. 📅 Jueves 16 de abril | 09:00 (hora de Quito) / 16:00 (CEST) 📍Inscríbete aquí: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 🤝En colaboración con la @UEenEcuador y la RECID - Red Ecuatoriana de Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo!