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The AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator

Driving transformative change in our global agrifood system

Our current food system is at the heart of many of today's biggest opportunities and challenges. It's clear that we urgently need to accelerate wide-ranging solutions for how we produce, process, package, transport, consume, and dispose of our food.

The AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator drives this transformation by supercharging the growth of emerging foodtech and agtech startups tackling the world’s biggest challenges of sustainability.

Successful companies receive USD$100K investment from AgFunder and in-kind programme benefits, including an accelerator programme that refines your business model for global growth and plugs you into the AgFunder & GROW network.

Duration: 27 weeks

Meet our 2023 cohort!

Handpicked from our largest applicant pool yet, the cohort reflects the increasingly crucial interconnections between food, planetary health, smallholder financial inclusion, and climate.

Why register?

Sharpen your growth strategy

Sharpen your growth strategy

through bespoke coaching, mentor support and customer validation

Scale aggressively

Scale aggressively

by launching into new markets with customer acquisition, pilot project launches and resource matching

Raise investment

Raise investment

to fuel your growth and deliver impact where most needed in the world ​

What to expect

Supercharge your business growth in an accelerated period of time

We believe in holistic support to founders; business succeeds when founders have the commercial, technical, and professional support they need to thrive. We’ve structured the programme around thematic ‘streams’ for founders to create a personalised journey with a cohort mentality. We interrogate your value proposition and business model to ensure it is validated, customer-centric and scalable. We connect you with customers, suppliers, regulators, service providers, mentors, investors, and provide you with media exposure to help you GROW your business.

  • A series of one-on-one virtual coaching with GROW’s innovation and entrepreneurship experts over the five months
  • Periodic check-ins with the AgFunder investment team including the integration of a framework for impact measurement and stakeholder communication
  • One-on-one mentor sessions with GROW’s global network of cross-industry partners, including international food & agriculture MNCs, brand design, marketing, sales, sustainability, finance and more
  • Group learning and insight sessions to deepen your understanding in agrifoodtech, entrepreneurship, fundraising, sustainability and impact
  • Networking and connections with other agrifoodtech entrepreneurs

Anticipated commitment

While we expect consistent participation to get the most out of your programme experience, we also realise that running a startup is a full time commitment. Our programme sessions are several hours per week of formal activities which are designed to complement and fast-track the work you are doing to accelerate your business.

The benefits

Financial Support

Financial Support

USD$100K investment by the AgFunder GROW Impact Fund through a SAFE, to be converted at your next financing round (a programme fee of USD$30K will be deducted from this amount)

Product Testing & Development

Product Testing & Development

Access to growth partners for product testing, development and scaling

Customer Validation

Customer Validation

Matching with some of the world’s biggest agrifood MNCs to help with customer validation and feedback, deploying pilots projects, and securing new sales contracts

Investment Network

Investment Network

Curated introductions to AgFunder’s investment network of private and institutional investors from across the globe to help you raise your next funding round

Coaching & Mentorship

Coaching & Mentorship

Our experienced team of coaches & mentors offer startups a unique opportunity to learn from industry experts

Media exposure and publicity

Media exposure and publicity

Through the AgFunderNews platform with a global reach of 90,000+ subscribers, plus other PR, events and networking opportunities including a Demo Day at the conclusion of the programme

Visa support

Visa support

Opportunity to receive application support for SG EntrePass visa through GROW’s partnership with Enterprise Singapore

Impact areas

We’re on the hunt for companies operating in new frontiers of agtech and foodtech, tackling the world’s biggest challenges of sustainability, including (but not limited to) the following areas:

BIOMATERIALS

BIOMATERIALS

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Waste reduction and circular economies

Waste reduction and circular economies

PRECISION TECH

PRECISION TECH

FOOD BIOPROCESSES

FOOD BIOPROCESSES

CARBON MARKET SOLUTIONS

CARBON MARKET SOLUTIONS

Application process

Successful applicants for this programme usually have an MVP, are on their way to establishing product-market fit, and operate in at least one market.

1

Applications open

November 2023

2

Applications close

25 February 2024

3

Selections/interviews

March - April 2024

4

Programme starts

May 2024

Our 2023 cohort

2023

AgriFi.AI

India

Digital credit platform increasing financial inclusion for smallholder farmers and reducing lending risk for institutions.

2023

Amatera Biosciences

France

Accelerating the breeding of climate resilient perennial crops, starting with coffee and woody crops.

2023

CarbonFarm

France

Providing satellite-verified carbon credits to help rice farmers accurately quantify their emissions and fund their transition to sustainable practices.

2023

DHF Platforms

Vietnam

Smallholder-driven fresh produce platform delivering traceability, transparency and tech-optimised logistics to reduce waste.

2023

EXOSOMM

Israel

Improving health with a novel bioactive food ingredient containing natural miRNA, milk exosomes.

2023

FaunaTech

India

Novel smartphone-based diagnostics platform for rapid testing of milk and bovine health at the farmgate.

2023

Invest Inya Farmer (IIF)

Australia

A platform enabling everyday folks to invest into agriculture without owning a farm.

2023

Kawa Project

United States

Upcycling coffee waste to create valuable, less-toxic cocoa powder alternatives.

2023

NTP Technologies

United States

Enabling on-site, salt-free, sustainable and organic nitrogen fertiliser production.

2023

OlsAro Crop Biotech

Sweden

Developing salt-tolerant crops using AI-enabled trait discovery.

Ready to transform our food system?

Apply now for the next cohort of the AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator

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