Reshaping Food Systems LatAm 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 27, 2026

Applications are invited for the Reshaping Food Systems LatAm 2026. In partnership with Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh, this system’s fourth version will assist eight startups who’re decreasing meals loss and waste in Latin America. With explicit emphasis on improvements that leverage knowledge and AI to allow higher resolution-making, anticipate dangers, and optimize operations in complicated and fragmented meals methods.

They are searching for startups with a give attention to:

• Embedded Consumer Waste Reduction: Solutions that combine waste-decreasing behaviors into shopper buying, cooking, and storage by way of sensible applied sciences, shelf-life optimization, nudges, and resolution-assist instruments.
• Process Optimization at Food Centers: Solutions that allow proactive waste prevention by way of stock traceability, waste monitoring, demand planning, and operational optimization.
• Climate-Resilient Production and Distribution: Solutions that scale back loss dangers throughout manufacturing, submit-harvest dealing with, storage, and transport by way of low-price chilly chain options, spoilage detection, local weather-adaptive packaging, biotechnology, and resilient logistics.
• Food Loss and Waste Data Infrastructure: Solutions that allow measurement, monitoring, and reporting of meals loss and waste throughout provide chains, supporting ESG reporting, operational resolution-making, and alignment with SDG 12.3.
• Redistribution and Circular Utilization: Solutions that allow the protected redistribution, resale, or repurposing of surplus meals, prioritizing human consumption earlier than secondary makes use of.

Benefits

• Access to an funding analyst who will present 1:1 teaching on constructing a monetary mannequin, figuring out unit economics, and utilizing monetary metrics to drive each the enterprise and investor diligence. Participate in mock board conferences with representatives from monetary establishments, firms, skilled entrepreneurs, and traders who will help their startup scale.
• Access to a various and inclusive community of mentors and founders inside the agriculture and meals sectors.
• Access to dwell and asynchronous periods tailor-made to a digital studying surroundings to assist their firms establish early milestones and put together for his or her subsequent spherical of capital (if related) or large growth.
• Access to the in-individual program summit in Mexico City centered on networking with related stakeholders within the affect ecosystem, together with potential shoppers and traders.
• Exposure on Village Capital’s program web site and different communications collateral.
• Meet with and obtain mentorship from outstanding potential strategic companions, traders, potential prospects, and different founders from Latin America and the US.

Eligibility

• Have authorized incorporation and operations as a for-revenue entity in no less than one Spanish-speaking Latin American nation.
• Have a market-primarily based answer that tackles meals loss and/or meals waste challenges in Latin America.
• Have no less than one full-time founder primarily based in Latin America.
• Be in compliance with native fiscal and enterprise legislation.
• Have a minimal viable product (MVP) and raised lower than USD 1M in fairness.
• Have significant buyer or enterprise validation (not restricted to income; it will also be profitable pilot research, variety of customers, and/or strategic partnerships).

Application

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For extra info, go to Reshaping Food Systems LatAm.