100+ Accelerator Sustainable Agriculture Challenge

The 100+ Accelerator is launched by AB InBev to help the company reach its ambitious sustainability goals faster by finding startups that could deliver breakthrough advancements across five key sustainability pillars—water stewardship, smart agriculture, circular packaging, climate action and upcycling. In its first two cohorts, more than half of the startups secured long term contracts with AB InBev.

Solutions

They are looking for the following solutions:

• Farmer Training, Engagement & Support
  • Easily accessible, scalable and convenient training for farmers across multiple topics – business management, sustainable farming and financial literacy. Focus on an e-learning company that can apply to ag.
  • Remote training for ag extension teams focused on providing locally relevant and up-to-date advisory services to farmers to produce quality crops sustainably
  • Systems and tools that strengthen the farmers’ commercial decision-making and enables alliances and information sharing among farmers
• Crop Quality & Productivity & Carbon Capture
  • Tools and technologies for the identification, prediction, and/or prevention of plant disease and pests, as well as alerts on the changing level of disease pressure and recommended mitigation actions
  • Tools and technologies to improve harvest and post-harvest processes to improve crop quality, yield, and farmer productivity, as well as quality parameters (DON, protein) and yield prediction
  • Crop damage prevention or mitigation during bad or erratic weather patterns
• New Innovations Testing & Analysis
  • Solution in the regenerative agriculture space (no platforms). Modeling capability is a preference
  • New technology applications for predicting & identifying areas of risk before contamination in food or beverage production
  • Supply chain transparency for agriculture; e.g., organic certification, provenance and supply chain assurance

Benefits

The 100+ Accelerator will provide support, guidance and access to potential funding through:

• Pilot customer opportunities with the four corporate partners: AB InBev, Coca-Cola, Colgate Palmolive, Danone and Unilever (including the potential to scale company-wide)
• Active mentorship, training and programming in product development, go-to-market, operations, sales and more
• Top mentor network of scientists, academics, domain experts, venture capitalists, corporate sustainability leaders, etc.
• Potential funding from Partner Companies and their networks

Criteria

• Open to all: challenges were developed with input from subject matter experts from the partner companies around the world to make sure they are focused on local issues that need to be addressed. They are seeking startups from around the world to answer the challenges and are eager to identify technologies and best practices that can be shared across the businesses and beyond.
• Other companies that share the common vision are welcome to join the 100+ Accelerator as a partner in the future. They want to become the leading Accelerator for sustainability, driving innovation and value creation, and this can only be achieved by true collaboration with others.

For more information, visit 100+ Accelerator.