Pepsico Greenhouse Collaborative Accelerator

Greenhouse Collaborative Accelerator

2025 APAC Sustainability Edition

For the 2025 Sustainability Edition, we are seeking sustainable APAC startups who want to innovate, grow, and get real-world feedback on their products and solutions.

Our collaborative, pilot-oriented program is designed to accelerate the growth of sustainable innovators. We support early-stage startups with a grant and the opportunity to pilot in PepsiCo’s value chain, as well as ongoing mentorship from PepsiCo experts.

Applications will be open from January 9 to March 13, 2025.

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Innovate and Grow with PepsiCo

We help innovative, sustainable startups to accelerate through close collaboration with PepsiCo. We are looking for early-stage startups that are looking for support to build resilient models, scale faster, and optimize for impact. Finalists will be chosen for their transformative solutions focused on circular economy, climate action, and sustainable agriculture.

Circular Economy:

  • Plastic collection and sortation to improve yield of recycling feedstock
  • Reusable and innovative packaging models
  • Advance plastic recycling technologies
  • Recycling value chain solutions

Climate

  • Renewable energy generation and solutions
  • Renewable and bio-based fuels
  • Carbon capture and storage  
  • Alternative energy vehicles and transport
  • Efficient and digital LCA solutions
  • Energy efficiency and system optimization of equipment models
  • Electrification of transportation and logistics

Sustainable Agriculture

  • In-field precision and new energy agriculture technology
  • Autonomous equipment for planting, harvesting and disease prevention
  • Electrification of transportation and logistics 
  • Incentive mechanisms for regenerative agriculture farming techniques
  • Sustainable fertilizer alternatives
  • Disease treatment technologies

What is the Greenhouse Accelerator?

We are a grant-based accelerator program in APAC that aims to help startups build innovations that solve sustainability challenges through mentorship and a pilot-based program. The program offers the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from PepsiCo as a corporate end user.

How does this benefit me?

By being a part of the Greenhouse Accelerator, startups will receive:

  • Wrap-around, ongoing mentorship from PepsiCo experts, partners and VCs
  • The opportunity to pilot innovations
  • Real-world insights on market viability and learning modules to help create impact
  • Non-dilutive grants to use towards growing the business

Greenhouse Accelerator Advantages

Growth

We accelerate you with pathways to build, scale, and grow your breakthrough innovations.

Ecosystem

Access and collaboration with PepsiCo and industry experts, investors, and VC partners

Learning

Gain access to industry insights about market dynamics, business model optimization, channel strategies, and more

piloting

Unlocking of potential pilot and partnership opportunities to test and scale your solution

Mentorship

Receive strategic guidance from PepsiCo experts and business partners to accelerate your business

Grants

Non-dilutive 20,000 USD grant for each finalist. Winner awarded an additional 100,000 USD

Our Ecosystem

strategic partners

alumni start-ups

Adiona

Adiona brings real-time data visibility to delivery operations. Adiona’s SaaS solution focuses on last-mile delivery-route planning and optimization, based on real-time data.

  • Australia
Cirac

CIRAC provides a breakthrough technology for recycling one of the most difficult to be recycled packaging waste, aluminum laminated plastic packaging.

  • Thailand
HRK

HRK Group promotes eco-friendly alternatives to plastic packaging and single use items, and invests in production for a unique range of solutions.

  • Vietnam
Muuse

Mouse’s traceable and customizable reuse models enable the circulation and return of reusables to packaging and return systems.

  • Singapore
RemakeHub

REMAKEHUB provides creative and impactful recycling solutions, transforming waste into the new generational lifestyle products through high tech innovative material and sustainable design.

  • China
Aspiring Materials

Aspiring Materials’ carbon-capture technology and high-quality low-emission materials help industries around the world get to net-zero emissions, faster, for long-lasting industrial decarbonization.

  • New Zealand

Green2Get is a long-term trash solution that intends to change the way players in the recycling value chain communicate and collaborate.

  • Thailand
MEDS Energized by Low Carbon Technologies

MEDS Venture offers sustainable energy solutions, specializing in scalable, robust energy modeling and simulation digital platforms.

  • Singapore
Turn

TURN’s system provides a sustainable alternative to disposable cups, incentivizing customers to reTURN cups to smart collection bins. TURN is now VYTAL US, the world’s largest reuse company.

  • New Zealand
Powered Carbon

Powered Carbon’s ground-breaking technology utilizes CO2 to cultivate fungi for eco-friendly fertilizers—changing the game in CO2 emission reduction.

  • China
Wildfire Energy 

Wildfire’s revolutionary gasification technology process enables cost-effective conversion of low value biomass and waste feedstocks into high quality syngas for electricity generation and production of fuels and chemicals.

  • Australia
X-Centric

X-Centric’s high-performance soil testing instruments provide accurate, precise and low-cost soil characterisation. Think about it like taking an “X-ray” of your soil to assess its health. X-Centric’s instrumentation, mobile app and dashboard provide a one-stop-shop solution to soil characterization needs.

  • Australia
Takachar - Technology, Equity, Environment

Takachar enables communities turn crop and forest residues into higher-value, carbon-negative bioproducts such as fertilizers, chemicals, and biofuels, preventing air pollution and carbon footprint associated with open-air biomass burning.

  • Thailand, India
Grac

Grac’s waste management model helps developing countries reduce waste, separate waste at source, reduce GHG emissions and build a circular economy.

  • Vietnam
ELIoT Energy

ELIoT Energy is decarbonizing the food & beverage industry through cutting-edge energy-shifting devices that optimize green energy usage in point-of-sale cooling appliances. ELIoT’s innovative plug’n’play batteries revolutionize how energy is consumed in refrigeration systems.

  • Melbourne, Australia
CIRAC

CIRAC provides a breakthrough technology for recycling one of the most difficult to be recycled packaging waste, aluminum laminated plastic packaging. CIRAC’s technology recycles aluminum laminated plastic into sustainable aluminum and heavy oil.

  • Thailand
Captivate Technology

Captivate Technology’s industrially-proven sponge-like adsorbent (MUF-16) is revolutionizing carbon capture by sieving carbon dioxide from emission streams.

  • New Zealand
Allev

AllEV empowers businesses in Thailand to achieve sustainability and cost savings through a game-changing subscription model for electric conversions, extending the life of existing commercial vehicles.

  • Thailand

2025 Timeline

Applications Accepted

March 2025

Launch Event

July 2025

Final Event and Winner Announcement

January 9 - March 13, 2025

Mentor Pairings

April 2025

Program Midpoint Virtual Event

September 2025

Support from the Greenhouse Ecosystem

"The financial support and invaluable mentorship we have received from PepsiCo over the past few months has really helped to build up our confidence, to grow the business at a scale we couldn’t envision before."
Powered CarbonChina
Powered Carbon
“This is, by far, the best corporate innovation program we’ve experienced. PepsiCo’s mentorship and resources have helped us sharpen our strategy and accelerate our growth. We look forward to further collaborating with PepsiCo to expand the reach of our solution and contribute to a more sustainable future.”
AlternoVietnam
Alterno
"The experience was invaluable, took me out of my comfort zone and helped me to think outside the box on how we help our mentees and collaborate to ensure we achieve what we had set out for."
Prabin, PepsiCo Mentor for WildfireAustralia
Prabin, PepsiCo Mentor for Wildfire
"During the program, we received valuable advice from mentors and GHAC committee (and their families!), gained insights from operations teams, and were introduced to their logistics suppliers, who could potentially become our customers in the future. These opportunities were invaluable."
AllEVThailand
AllEV
"Insightful discussion with our mentors based on their broader knowledge and experience base allowed us think in a more focused way about our strategic vision, our messaging approach, our business model, and how we present the company."
Aspiring MaterialsNew Zealand
Aspiring Materials
“As a leader in the beverage industry, Suntory PepsiCo Thailand is proactively addressing environmental challenges through an unwavering commitment to sustainability, innovation, and compliance. We are pleased to participate in this program to build a sustainable society that prioritizes environmental responsibility."
Ashish Joshi, CEO, Suntory ThailandThailand
Ashish Joshi, CEO, Suntory Thailand

FAQ

  • Pre-revenue up to $7M USD in sales in the last financial year
  • Have business operations in one of the participating APAC region markets (China, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Fiji, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Vietnam)
  • Be willing to work with PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator mentors and attend Accelerator events throughout the April to September program
  • Agree to the Terms and Conditions

Our selection committee will choose finalists based on the following refreshed criteria:

  • Innovation: Across the areas of Circular Economy, Climate Action, and Sustainable Agriculture, we will be looking for specific requirements. Please see Our Focus Areas on the website.
  • Partnership: Applicants must have a working prototype, ownable IP and up to $7m in revenue
  • Impact: Must be a viable, scalable solution with an impact on PepsiCo’s pep+ goals of RCBR, virgin plastic reduction, recycled content, regenerative agriculture, and/or climate targets.
  • Diversity: We are aiming for the cohort to be 50/50 male and female applicants, as well as having balanced geographical diversity.

We have a diverse range of PepsiCo mentors from across the business located in various divisions and geographies. The final list of mentors will depend on the nature of the finalists—the program team aims to match mentors most suited to the business needs of startup participants. Learn more about our pairing process here.

A committee comprised of PepsiCo leaders and program advisors will review all submissions.

Each finalist will receive a 20,000 USD equity-free grant. This is a one-time payment and is granted in order to support operations and help launch and/or scale their innovations.  

PepsiCo’s Greenhouse Accelerator program is a no equity, no cash cost program.   

However, some startups may need to supplement travel stipends in order to attend certain events and aspects of the program.  

The 2025 program will launch in April and conclude in September.

While a pilot is not guaranteed, the program will aim to help you unlock potential pilot and partnership opportunities to test and scale your solution​.

If you have any questions about the program, application process or more, please contact: info@greenhouseaccelerator.com.

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