Valley Tech Lab is a free, twelve-week founder program in the Rio Grande Valley. Builders ideate, form teams, ship real products, and prepare to raise, together. No cost. No equity. Just the work.
Convened by Greenridge Technologies · In conversation with UTRGV and McAllen Country Club
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 world-class 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 keep founders independent in operation and unified in purpose.
Come with an idea, a skill set, or just relentless curiosity. Solo applicants find co-founders here. Bilingual builders, veterans, students, and career-changers are especially encouraged.
Ship real products during the build sprint, from first commit to live demo.
Model unit economics, understand risk, and make the numbers tell the truth.
Raw founder energy and resourcefulness, the will to make something from nothing.
Deep domain problems worth solving, drawn from one of the Valley's largest sectors.
Build for the border-corridor economy and the systems that power it.
Navigate complexity as a superpower. The founders who can operate in regulated terrain.
Saturday sessions in person, plus team work through the week. From raw idea (or no idea at all) to a public Demo Day.
Problem discovery, founder matching, and market-sizing workshops. Solo applicants meet their co-founders and commit to a concept.
Commit and build. Weekly stand-ups, mentor office hours, design and cross-border workshops, and a mid-program pivot-or-persevere checkpoint.
Customer discovery, pricing, financial modeling, the fundraising landscape, and pitch craft, built into deck and dress-rehearsal sessions.
Final polish, then present to local business leaders, angels, and the community. The beginning, not the end.
Valley Tech Lab is a community program of Greenridge Technologies, the engineering arm of Greenridge Group. We are building it alongside the institutions that make the Valley what it is.
A frontier engineering team shipping institutional-grade products. Greenridge convenes, funds, and operates the Lab, bringing operators from Robinhood, /mkt, and shipped studios to the mentor table.
greenridgetech.com ↗We are in conversation with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on a student and recent-grad pipeline, faculty mentorship, and venue, connecting the classroom to the company.
We are in conversation with McAllen Country Club as a host and community partner for sessions, mentor mixers, and Demo Day, convening the Valley's builders and business leaders in one room.
Partnerships marked "in conversation" are proposed and not yet finalized. Interested in becoming a founding partner or sponsor? Start a conversation ↓
Cohort 1 applications are open. Tell us a bit about you and we'll send the full application and program details. No cost, no equity, no jargon.
Takes about 30 seconds.
Or email inquiries@greenridgegroup.org directly.