Value proposition

A community-driven post-acceleration program designed to support innovative companies in a growth-stage.

Xpand Puerto Rico is an exclusive program powered by the Puerto Rico, Science, Technology & Research Trust, through parallel18, and Fundación Banco Popular aiming to support growth-stage innovative startups from Puerto Rico that are ready to expand towards a sustainable growth and scale to new markets. The program seeks to combine Banco Popular's capabilities and resources with the domain expertise, scaffold, and community of parallel18's network of +600 investors and +75 corporate partners. At the same time, leveraging on other programs from the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust entrepreneurship pillar programs such as Colmena66; which provides a vast market research database that can benefit participating companies.