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Pre-seed and seed-stage
Mercy Corps Ventures (DREAMS) supports pre-seed, seed, and early-stage startups building tech-enabled climate adaptation and resilience solutions in emerging markets, including Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. The program offers capital, support, partnerships, acceleration, and pathways to scale for founders developing catalytic solutions for a more resilient future. Through its Venture Lab, promising technologies can also receive co-design, funding, and testing to de-risk solutions and build evidence for scale.
Capital
Mercy Corps Ventures backs founders with capital to scale catalytic solutions.
Support
Recipients receive support and partnerships needed to grow and scale impact.
Acceleration
Mercy Corps Ventures identifies, invests in, and accelerates the growth of innovative solutions.
Pathways to scale
Founders receive pathways needed to scale their solutions.
Co-design, funding, and testing
Through Venture Lab, promising technologies are co-designed, funded, and tested to de-risk solutions and build evidence for scale.
Adaptive Agriculture and Food Systems
Part of Mercy Corps Ventures' Resilient Future Thesis.
Inclusive Climate Fintech
A core focus area under the Resilient Future Thesis.
Climate-Smart Technologies
A priority area for supporting resilient and sustainable futures.
Refugee and host community entrepreneurs building self-reliance through business
Mentorship, network, sector expertise
Check current fund status and deployment activity
Applicants should show a clear tech-enabled solution to climate adaptation or resilience and demonstrate deep understanding of the communities they serve. It will help to explain how the product addresses climate and economic instability and how support beyond capital, such as testing or partnerships, would help scale the solution.
2015
Active Since
Yes
Deploying
Multiple portfolio companies