100+ Accelerator’s Nature and Biodiversity 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:

• Biodiversity Traceability and Impact Assessment
  • Technologies or solutions to accelerate positive biodiversity benefits in nature-based solution projects
  • Technologies or solutions to improve ecosystem services performance and/or resilience
  • Technologies or solutions to increase genetic diversity to improve crops or nutrient content in plant-based foods
  • Technologies to measure and track biodiversity in the implementation of nature-based solutions and agriculture projects
  • Technologies to measure value chain risk associated to biodiversity loss
• Biodiversity Enhancement in Agriculture and Nature-Based Projects
  • Technologies or solutions to accelerate positive biodiversity benefits in nature-based solution projects
  • Technologies to measure and track biodiversity in the implementation of nature-based solutions and agriculture projects with a preference for solutions that focus on more than one type of technology (eDNA, acoustic, etc.) and multiple types of biodiversity (pollinators, birds, mammals, etc.)
  • Technologies or solutions to increase genetic diversity to improve crops or nutrient content in plant-based foods
  • Technologies or solutions to improve ecosystem services performance and/or resilience

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.