Deadline: 30 June 2024
Help in increasing the well-being of the people, consumers, and communities so they can fully participate in social, cultural, and recreational activities. Applications are now open for the 100+ Accelerator’s Health and Wellness 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 these types of solutions:
- Personal care and hygiene
- Technologies or initiatives that promote hygiene and personal care
- New delivery forms for Oral care and wellness beyond TP/MW (gels, patches, tablets, powders, etc.)
- Oral care solutions for underserved populations (diabetics, disabilities, rural, elderly, low-literacy, blue collar, and poor population)
- Balanced Nutrition
- Technologies that help consumers towards healthier living (i.e., nutrient, hydration monitoring)
- Solutions that can support consumers in making smart food & drinks choices (e.g., AI powered)
- Technologies or initiatives that promote maintenance of normal blood glucose levels
- Community Wellness
- Community driven approaches to support access to health & wellbeing programs or solutions
- Integrated telehealth/teledentistry platforms/patients and consumers engagement digital platforms
- Mental health, mindfulness, and self-esteem
- Technologies or initiatives that promote mental health, mindfulness and self-esteem for employees or communities
- Technologies or initiatives that can promote mental health and vitality
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.
