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IDB Lab Announces the Winners of the 2024 WeXchange Women STEMpreneurs Competition

The winners will present their solutions on October 31 and November 1 in IDB Lab Forum , the IDB’s flagship event focused on innovation and technology. WeXchange, the platform of the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB Lab, which connects women entrepreneurs in STEM...

October 1, 2024
New Call for Proposals: Catalytic Green Fund - Driving Decarbonization in Latin America and the Caribbean

IDB Lab, in partnership with Latimpacto, the Green Climate Fund, the Bayer Foundation, and Coca-Cola, has launched a new call for proposals for the Catalytic Green Fund, an initiative designed to strengthen the decarbonization ecosystem in the region. Aiming to reduce up to 6.2 million tons of CO₂...

September 26, 2024
IDB Lab Finances Circular Economy Development in Colombia

By Manami Nakayama, Estrella Peinado and Edgar Parra To promote the development of the circular economy in Colombia, IDB Lab will finance a project to enhance the processing of engineering plastics. The project seeks to increase the recovery and recycling of materials by implementing more efficient...

September 23, 2024
IDB Lab Forum Focuses on Financing Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Generate more Inclusion, Climate Action and Productivity

The international meeting organized by the IDB's innovation and venture capital laboratory will promote innovative solutions that generate impact at scale in Latin America and the Caribbean. IDB Lab, the Inter-American Development Bank's innovation and venture capital lab, will hold the third...

September 10, 2024
New Program to Finance Clean Community Energy for Production in Latin America and the Caribbean

IDB Lab, the innovation arm of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), along with the IDB and the German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation (DGRV), launched LAC E-Coop, a program to help rural organizations access clean energy for their productive activities through financial services and...

August 8, 2024
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