The EU-LAC Matching Platform is specifically focused on creating cross-border partnerships between startups and corporations from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe. The matching is the first step to join our equity-free acceleration programme.
Beyond startups and corporates, any innovation stakeholder of these regions is welcome to join the platform.
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By joining our Matching Platform, Corporates and leading companies with established businesses can tackle the challenges of Digital Transformation through open innovation and collaboration with startups and SMEs.
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By joining our Matching Platform, startups, scaleups, and SMEs with innovative digital-based solutions seeking to expand internationally can get connected with corporates and venture clients to grow their business.
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By joining our Matching Platform, Investors can explore cross-regional investment opportunities and join a vibrant community dedicated to driving innovation and economic growth.
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By joining our Matching Platform, Business Accelerators can raise their profile joining a prestigious community and enrich their services exposing startups to corporate venture clients and partners to develop digital partnerships.
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By joining our Matching Platform, Business Organisations can enhance relevance of the challenges faced individually and collectively by their associates and provide them with visibility to collaborate with international partners.
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By joining our Matching Platform, Public bodies can wield influence and gain leverage through an EU funded prestigious accelerator to multiply the impact of public innovation programmes and initiatives.
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Innovative corporates with a tech challenge to solve
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Startups ready to solve your digital challenges
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Active corporate challenges to be digitally solved
4 reasons why you should register to theEU-LAC Digital Accelerator Matching Platform.
EU-LAC Community
Members benefit from being part of a global network, allowing them to connect with international players, share best practices, and gain insights into emerging trends and technologies from different markets.
Business opportunities
The platform enables members to discover and explore new business opportunities in various markets and ecosystems, facilitating expansion and growth beyond their existing reach.
International expansion
This is the perfect place to fulfill your internationalisation ambitions, as we facilitate the creation of cross-regional and digital business partnerships between Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Expert support
Once you match with a corporate or startup and your partnership gets selected to join the EU-LAC Accelerator, you will benefit from tailored acceleration services ranging from proof-of-concept and business model designing, to scaling and investment.
We applied because the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator gives us exactly what we need but can't easily build alone: a structured PoC roadmap, expert mentoring and funding guidance, plus the €7,000 grant to adapt, integrate and test Compass in a real Spanish hospital.
Pablo Tabares
Co-Founder & COO
Bork’s platform allows us to make better-informed decisions on when to buy, which in a volatile market is a game-changer. Through this partnership, we’re exploring not only cost savings but a new level of procurement intelligence.
Koldo Atxutegi
Chief Innovation Officer
EU-LAC has provided us with the necessary tools to reach a corporation, enabling us to carry out a pilot project that would otherwise have taken us many months to present and develop.
Héctor Gil
CEO
We particularly appreciated the pilot-focused approach, which allowed us to validate Azitek’s RTLS system in real operational conditions. The outcome that excited us most was gaining real-time visibility of our industrial assets, enabling smarter decision-making.
Gordon Reid
Chief Sales Officer & Chief Operating Officer
The outcome that excited us most was the successful deployment of Azitek’s real-time tracking system in Jamaica, proving the scalability of our technology and opening the door to broader regional adoption.
João Ferreira
Senior Business Developer
Joining this programme, together with the support of EU-LAC, has allowed us to move from intention to action, achieving an important milestone and, most importantly, creating real opportunities for growth and better support for our patients at Centro Skinner.
Diana Luna Torres
Marketing & Administration Director
What makes the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator unique is how hands-on they are in turning international collaboration into tangible outcomes. We found the perfect clinical partner to pilot our digital mental health solution and validate its impact in a real-world setting.
Rocío Fausor de Castro
Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer
The EU-LAC Digital accelerator opened access to innovative technologies hard to find in the local market and helped us develop a solid business case and technology roadmap tailored to the sector's real needs.
Jean Louis Fallen
Corporate Head of Innovation
Through collaboration with MotionsCloud we significantly streamlined vehicle damage inspections, reducing processing time and improving consistency, while the EU-LAC Digital Accelerator played a key role in aligning our goals and accelerating the pilot into a scalable solution.
Joaquín Barboza
CEO
Working with Mobility allowed us to validate and scale our automated AI vision damage inspection solution in a real-life environment. The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator was crucial in facilitating the partnership and accelerating the path from pilot to tangible business value.
Seba Hawas
Customer Success Manager
EU-LAC helped us move from interest to evidence: testing whether Advanced Microturbines’ solution can operate reliably in real water network conditions and become a replicable model for other facilities in Latin America.
Franco Guazzotti del Risco
CEO
This pilot project allowed us to validate, in a real-world setting, an artificial intelligence solution for personalised progress tracking of our 8,000 students in schools.
Juan Manuel Bottía
Innovation Manager
This pilot programme has been decisive: the tool produces the same results in the Colombian education system as it does in Spain, and it has shown us how to adapt it to the country’s specific context to ensure its viability.
Sergi Grau Carrión
CEO
Through our FutureScents open innovation challenge, we identified Nextmol as a strong partner to accelerate data-driven innovation in the development of sustainable fragrance solubilisers.
Renata Corradi Haenel
Innovation Management Global Director
The EU-LAC Digital Accelerator helped us bring Nextmol's computational chemistry platform to Latin America. The combination of co-funded PoCs, direct industry connections and their support opened the door for us to work with Indovinya and take a first step in Latin America.
Monica de Mier
CEO
Thanks to the EU-LAC programme, we were able to connect with the ideal client for our AI-powered voice agent solution, allowing us to take the pilot project into a real-world, relevant setting.
Susanna Hoyer
SVP of Commercial Operations
This time, it allowed us to work with Alvarez Bohl, a leading corporate company in Peru whose innovation strategy is fully aligned with ours. The positive outcome of the PoC gives us a strong foundation to move forward into a commercial contract with the client.
José Cristian Cortés
CEO
By launching Alma, our AI-powered assistant, we automate routine enquiries so our teams can focus on the moments that matter most: delivering empathy, human connection, and exceptional service. The result is a more efficient, scalable, and people-centred operation.
Romina Pró
Chief of Staff
Machu Picchu Foods was spending a full day of team time on a single supplier search. With our Company Agent that same search takes about an hour, and their buyers spend it choosing suppliers instead of hunting for them.
Sebastian Denef
CEO
Register and match to accelerate your partnership
We offer customised acceleration services to expand new businesses in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean through open innovation and cross-border collaboration
- Click on "Register now".
- Indicate your type of entity: Startup/SME, Corporate, Investor, Accelerator, Business Association, Public Body.
- Fill in personal details and company information.
- Welcome to the matching platform! Be proactive: explore the platform, list the members with potential synergies...and get in touch! If any doubts, contact us.
- Meet new partners! Once you match with a startup (as a corporate) or with a corporate (as a startup), we will invite you to apply to the open call where you will have the opportunity to be selected to receive acceleration services valued to up to €30,000, or €40,000 if a Caribbean partner is involved.
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FAQ
You can apply to as many challenges as you want. However, avoid engaging in more conversations with corporates than you can realistically manage.
We encourage a qualitative rather than a quantitative approach. You are more likely to receive a response from a corporate if your application is tailored, specific, and clearly demonstrates the value of your solution. A selective and well-prepared approach generally delivers better results than applying broadly.
The specifications of each challenge are already published on our Matching Platform.
You can request a meeting to further explore how your solution could fit, but this depends on the corporate’s interest and availability.
Corporates typically receive a high volume of messages and meeting requests. To increase your chances of getting a response, clearly articulate the added value your solution brings and why it is relevant to their specific challenge.
Corporates receive a large number of messages and may not respond unless they clearly see a strong fit. Note that applying to a challenge does not guarantee a response.
You are welcome to contact us directly. If you are an eligible startup, we will try to identify alternative matching opportunities for you.
In your message, please include:
• The challenges you want to apply to
• A short description of your digital solution (including your website URL)
• Your unique value proposition for addressing the challenge.
