Start-Up Chile, CLP 15-75M and zero equity
Start-Up Chile by Corfo, the public accelerator of Corfo, offers CLP 15 million to CLP 75 million per startup with no equity taken, depending on the track. The BIG13 call closes on 24 November.
The Start-Up Chile by Corfo site gives the deadline as 24 November at 13:00 (GMT-3). On 4 November, Emol's Portal Pyme reported that BIG13 starts its acceleration in the first half of 2027 and that the call is open to founders from any country. Per Emol, selected foreign projects can also get a two-year work visa and support to set up in Chile.
The three tracks, with the conflicts we found between sources:
- Build: CLP 15 million, four months, for early-stage startups. The Build page says women will lead at least 50% of the startups in the generation.
- Ignite: four months, for startups with a functional product. The Ignite page says CLP 25 million, while Emol, El Ecosistema Startup and the Start-Up Chile by Corfo LinkedIn description say CLP 30 million. We could not resolve this. The Ignite page also mentions a possible extension of CLP 20 million.
- Growth: CLP 75 million, for expansion-stage startups. The Growth page says 8 months, BIG13 press says 6. The LinkedIn description says "6-month acceleration program (with an 8-month subsidy execution period)".
Per Emol, women founders applying to Ignite and Growth can reach Corfo co-financing of 90% and 60%. The pages we read do not say what that percentage is measured against.
Amounts here stay in pesos. The program pages give USD approximations that do not agree with each other: CLP 15 million is "approx. 15K USD" on the Build page, CLP 75 million is "Approx. 100K USD" on the Growth page.
Not published: the number of BIG13 places and the total budget. The track pages say a generation takes up to 50 Build, up to 30 Ignite and 10 to 15 Growth startups, but that is not a BIG13 count. We could not find the BIG13 terms and conditions: the track pages still link the BIG11 PDF.
Who pays: Corfo. The Start-Up Chile site footer reads "Start-Up Chile de Corfo 2026". How Corfo funds the call is not stated in the sources we read.
The track record, by the program's own count and undated: its home page says "More than 3000 startups have already gone through one of our programs." For the previous call, El Ecosistema Startup reported on 26 July that BIG12 selected 59 startups from 1,296 applications, announced on 23 July. That is a secondary source, not the program. By our arithmetic that is about 4.6%.