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IDB Lab

Innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank that funds pilots across Latin America and the Caribbean

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About IDB Lab

IDB Lab is the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank. It runs challenges and financing programmes for projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, including work on blockchain and digital tokens.

Services

  • Innovation challenges: competitions such as the Digital Tokens for Biodiversity Innovation Challenge, run with partners.
  • Project financing: selected teams design projects to become eligible for support.
  • Innovator network: winners join the wider IDB Group network of innovators.

Who it serves

Startups and organisations across Latin America and the Caribbean. Its biodiversity challenge received 86 proposals from 21 countries, and chose teams in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Key facts

  • Parent: Inter-American Development Bank
  • Partners: Natural Capital Lab and LACChain
  • Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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