Halcyon Caribbean Climate Pre-Accelerator 2026 – YOA

Deadline: April 17, 2026

Applications are open for the Halcyon Caribbean Climate Pre-Accelerator 2026. In partnership with the Hazelwood Network, Halcyon’s Caribbean Climate Pre-Accelerator will assist early-stage local weather founders throughout the area. This six-month pre-accelerator is designed to catalyze local weather innovation, goal regional challenges, and assist proximate founders which were beforehand underserved. The program will concentrate on internationalization, international connectivity, and capital readiness, leveraging Halcyon and the Hazelwood Network’s cross-regional networks in Latin America, Africa, and the United States.

The Pre-Accelerator is devoted to the architects of Caribbean resilience: these creating the infrastructure, meals methods, and instruments that enable the area to not solely survive the local weather disaster, however to guide the world in adaptation options. Climate leaders constructing sensible, scalable options that assist Caribbean communities put together for, stand up to, and get better from local weather impacts are inspired to apply. Also inspired are service-based mostly fashions, group enterprises, and tech and blended options.

Sectors

Solutions addressing local weather adaptation and resilience, together with however not restricted to:

• Climate-resilient infrastructure and constructed surroundings: 
  • Hurricane-resistant supplies; modular housing; flood-proofing methods; cool roofs and passive cooling; stormwater drainage options; local weather danger instruments for actual property; resilient retrofitting companies
• Blue economic system and coastal safety: 
  • Coral restoration; mangrove restoration; coastal erosion prevention; storm surge monitoring; regenerative ocean farming; sustainable fisheries know-how; marine ecosystem monitoring
• Agriculture and meals safety:
  • Climate-smart agriculture instruments; drought-resistant crops; hydroponics and greenhouse methods; regenerative farming; irrigation know-how; publish-harvest storage; native meals processing
• Water resilience and water tech:
  • Rainwater harvesting; decentralized water purification; desalination innovation; leak detection methods; watershed monitoring; floodwater seize and reuse
• Nature-based and ecosystem resilience options:
  • Reforestation ventures; mangrove enterprises; coral reef rehabilitation; watershed restoration; agroforestry; wetland restoration; city greening; biodiversity monitoring platforms; blue and inexperienced carbon challenge improvement
• Energy and grid resilience:
  • Solar and battery methods; group microgrids; cellular renewable energy models; vitality storage innovation; demand administration platforms; resilient energy for essential services
• Disaster preparedness and emergency response:
  • Early warning methods; emergency communication platforms; fast injury evaluation instruments; drones for mapping; catastrophe logistics coordination; group preparedness apps
• Adaptation finance and information intelligence:
  • Climate danger analytics; resilience scoring instruments; municipal modeling software program; adaptation funding platforms; influence measurement instruments
• Climate insurance coverage and danger switch:
  • Parametric insurance coverage; micro-insurance coverage for farmers and fishers; danger pooling fashions; embedded insurance coverage options; local weather underwriting instruments
• Health and local weather resilience:
  • Heat stress monitoring; mosquito and vector management; cooling methods for clinics; local weather-linked illness monitoring; telehealth for catastrophe restoration
• Community and social resilience:
  • Community resilience planning instruments; local weather workforce coaching; local weather migration assist platforms; resilient tourism fashions; localized provide networks

Benefits

• $10K in Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) credit
• $6K fairness-free stipend per enterprise
• Workshops with consultants in internationalization, international connectivity, capital technique and product-market match
• Professional advisors
• Networking with traders and diversified stakeholders in local weather
• Access to Halcyon and the Hazelwood Network’s cross-regional networks

Eligibility

• Location: Companies have to be based mostly within the Caribbean with alternatives for scale round and past the area.
  • Founder or firm have to be based mostly within the Caribbean or constructing an answer primarily serving Caribbean markets.
  • Diaspora founders with energetic operations within the area are welcome.
• Stage: Early-stage founders which can be pre- or publish-income.
  • Pre-seed or early seed stage.
  • Must be past concept stage.
  • Must have a working prototype, proof of idea, pilot, or early buyer validation.
  • Revenue shouldn’t be required, however traction is most well-liked.
• Business Model: For-profit startups, hybrid fashions, and income-producing social enterprises are eligible.
  • Nonprofits aren’t eligible to apply.
• Legal Status: Companies have to be absolutely legally included.
• Sector: They welcome functions for all adaptation and resilience options addressing actual local weather dangers going through Caribbean communities, companies, or governments.
• Team:
  • May apply with as much as one Co-Founder.
  • Applicant have to be the CEO or maintain main resolution-making energy.
  • Must be fluent in English (programming will likely be in English).
  • Must be at the very least 21 years of age by the beginning of this system.
• Founder Attributes: 
  • Have lived expertise or deep native information of the area.
  • Are constructing options rooted in group wants.
  • Demonstrate lengthy-time period dedication to the Caribbean.
  • Are able to scale past one island or nationwide market.
  • Are motivated to have interaction worldwide markets and traders.
• Program Engagement: Applicant(s) should decide to taking part in all residencies, program actions, occasions, and in-particular person and digital classes.
• Impact: Must be creating a product and enterprise which contributes in direction of a number of of the UN’s 17 SDGs.

Application

The program is delivered in a hybrid modality via a digital kickoff assembly, two in-particular person residencies within the Caribbean, and 4 extra digital programming days.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Halcyon Caribbean Climate Pre-Accelerator.