100+ Accelerators Inclusive Growth 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:

• Inclusive Value Chains
  • Solutions to support our ecosystem while reducing poverty as microcredit and microfinance
  • Innovations and initiatives to reduce the cost to serve our retailers: services, marketplaces, technologies to reduce the costs of our retailers by leveraging the scale and/or capabilities of the accelerator program partners, etc.
  • Technologies and tools that support engagement of people in extended value chains
• Operational Safety and Workforce Development
  • Solutions to help evolve safety culture, build capacity to manage risk, improve psychological safety in the workplace, empower the employee as the problem solver (not problem to be solved), build forward accountability, and ensure reliability and resilience in operations (Human and Organizational Performance) – The HOP Coach (Bob Edwards)
  • Solutions to reduce risk in motor vehicle operation by removing the human (error likely) element, improving fuel efficiency, etc. by moving towards autonomous driving solutions for fleet – startup / technology TBD
  • Solutions to supplement or layer controls in the workplace around critical steps / tasks by leveraging AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology to notify and/or stop processes where employees are at risk in the workplace – Triomobil, Bosch, Intenseye, etc.
• Supply Chain and Advertising Transparency
  • Solutions to improve transparency in the advertising/media supply chain, which specifically promote diverse content creators and inclusive sponsored content
  • Responsible advertising supply chain solutions that promote inclusivity, well-being, or belonging, at the individual consumer, community, non-profit, or corporate level
  • Solutions for better traceability of our supplied materials and labor and human rights control processes for our third-party services suppliers (overall impact in our Responsible Sourcing policy – via supplier auditing, training, communication and transparency)
• Value Chain Transparency
  • Solutions to track and monitor environmental and social impacts throughout the entire value chain, from raw materials to finished products.
  • Solutions to identify potential risks associated with labor practices, environmental degradation, and conflict minerals.
  • Solutions to improve traceability of materials and products to ensure responsible sourcing.

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.