The Valley builds. This is where you start.
El Valle construye. Aquí empiezas.
A free program for founders in the Rio Grande Valley. No fee, no equity, no obligation, convened by operators who live and build here. Valley Tech Lab is the venture-community arm of Greenridge, headquartered in McAllen.
The talent is already here. The infrastructure isn't, yet.
The Rio Grande Valley is one of the fastest-growing regions in Texas: young, bilingual, entrepreneurial, with a cross-border economy and a cost of living that turns a small runway into a long one. It has strong universities and deep domain expertise in healthcare, energy, and trade.
What it has lacked is a place to channel that into companies. Valley Tech Lab is that place: operator-led, community-first, and built to be the somewhere you no longer have to leave to start something.
Greenridge is headquartered in McAllen. We are not visiting.
Twelve weeks. Four phases.
Saturday sessions in person, plus team work through the week. From a raw idea, or no idea at all, to a public showcase in front of the Valley's founders, operators, and business community.
Ideation & team formation
Problem discovery, founder matching, and market-sizing workshops. Solo applicants meet their co-founders and commit to a concept.
Build sprint
Commit and build. Weekly stand-ups, mentor office hours, design and cross-border workshops, and a mid-program pivot-or-persevere checkpoint.
Validation & traction
Customer discovery, pricing, financial modeling, and storytelling, built into working sessions with operators who have done it.
Showcase
Final polish, then present what you built to the Valley's founders, operators, and business community. The beginning, not the end.
Nothing.
Valley Tech Lab is convened by Greenridge Ventures, which does invest in companies. Participating here does not make you a candidate and does not put you under any commitment. If we ever want to invest, that is a separate conversation you are free to end.
Founders, sponsors, and partners: start a conversation.
Cohort applications, founding-sponsor invitations, and venue partnerships all begin the same way. Tell us who you are and what you are building, and the Greenridge team running the Lab will follow up.
- A free seat in a twelve-week, operator-led founder program
- Co-founder matching, mentorship, and workspace in the Valley
- A public showcase in front of the Valley's builders and leaders
Important disclosures
Valley Tech Lab is a community program convened and operated by Greenridge Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Greenridge Group, LLC (USA). Sponsor and venue-sponsor opportunities described on this site are invitations to participate and do not constitute an agreement until executed in writing. Valley Tech Lab charges no fee and takes no equity in participant ventures, and participation is not a pathway to, or a condition of, any investment. Applications are read only by the Greenridge team operating the Lab and are not routed into any investment pipeline without the applicant's consent. Nothing on this site constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, nor investment, legal, or tax advice.