Caribbean Climate Pre-Accelerator

Benefits & funding

• A 6,000 USD equity-free stipend per venture; Halcyon pays its stipends in instalments before the residencies and once a program concludes.
• 10,000 USD in Amazon Web Services credits per venture.
• Two in-person residency weeks: Kingston, Jamaica from 26 June to 4 July 2026, and Bridgetown, Barbados on 19 and 20 November 2026.
• A virtual kickoff day plus four virtual programming days between August and November.
• Workshops on internationalization, global connectivity, capital strategy and product-market fit.
• Professional advisors from Halcyon’s expert network, and introductions to investors and other stakeholders.
• Cross-regional connections through Halcyon and the Hazelwood Network.
• Halcyon takes no equity in participating ventures.

Eligibility

• For-profit startups, hybrid models and revenue-generating social enterprises. Nonprofits are not eligible.
• Early-stage ventures, pre-revenue or post-revenue, with a working prototype, proof of concept, pilot or early customer validation.
• The venture operates in the Caribbean or serves primarily Caribbean markets. Founders in the diaspora qualify when their venture has active operations in the region.
• Work in climate adaptation and resilience: resilient infrastructure and built environments, blue economy and coastal protection, agriculture and food security, water resilience, nature-based and ecosystem solutions, energy and grid resilience, disaster preparedness, adaptation finance and data, climate insurance and risk transfer, health resilience, and community resilience. Halcyon places mitigation-only ventures outside its climate scope unless mitigation is a secondary benefit of adaptation work.
• Impact contributing to one or more UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• The applicant is the venture’s CEO or primary decision-maker, at least 21 years old by the program start, and fluent in English. Up to one co-founder may take part.
• Founders are expected to show local knowledge, community-rooted solutions, long-term commitment to the Caribbean, and readiness to scale into international markets.
• Halcyon’s general criteria also ask founders to work full-time on the venture and to commit to every residency and session.
• No nationality, residency or degree requirement applies to individuals; the geographic test is on where the venture operates.

Application process

1. 1
   Submit Halcyon’s year-round eligibility form, a short survey reviewed on a rolling basis; one submission per venture covers every Halcyon program. For this cohort the form had to be in by 24 April 2026.
2. 2
   Qualified ventures receive an invitation to a second-round invitational application, reviewed by Halcyon’s programs and leadership teams. The page lists 17 April 2026 as this cohort’s invitational deadline.
3. 3
   Finalists pitch an external Selections Committee of subject-matter experts on the virtual pitch days, held 6 and 7 May 2026.
4. 4
   Selected founders are notified, on 15 May 2026 for this cohort, and join the virtual kickoff on 11 June 2026.
5. 5
   Attend both residency weeks and the four virtual programming days through November.

Program timeline

1. Application window opens

   Mar 18, 2026

2. Invitational application deadline

   Apr 17, 2026

3. Eligibility form deadline for the 2026 cohort

   Apr 24, 2026

4. Virtual pitch days for finalists

   May 6, 2026 to May 7, 2026

5. Selected founders notified

   May 15, 2026

6. Virtual program kickoff

   Jun 11, 2026

7. Residency week 1, Kingston, Jamaica

   Jun 26, 2026 to Jul 4, 2026

8. Virtual programming days 2 to 5

   Aug 7, 2026, Sep 11, 2026, Oct 9, 2026, Nov 6, 2026

9. Residency week 2, Bridgetown, Barbados; program ends

   Nov 19, 2026 to Nov 20, 2026

10. No 2027 edition announced; Halcyon’s eligibility form stays open year-round