Deadline: 1 April 2024
Apply for the Rockstart Fund that empowers early stage startups with groundbreaking visions for a regenerative and sustainable future across three domains: Energy, AgriFood, and Emerging Technologies.
They fund and empower purpose-driven founders scaling impactful solutions by leveraging emerging technologies and new business models that improve the food supply system from soil to gut. They offer domain-focused programs and co-investments up to Series B.
Purpose
- Regenerative & future-proof
- They look for solutions that restore the soils and oceans to become powerhouses for CO2 capture.
- Responsible & circular
- They’re interested in innovations that create value from wasted food and reduce food loss with sustainable solutions.
- Quantifiable consumption
- They seek tools that provide consumers with better access to trustworthy, nutritious food that tastes good and does good.
Criteria
- They invest in early-stage startups with a focus on agritech and foodtech.
- They shortcut your scaling journey through domain focused content and mentorship, market introductions and co-investments up to Series B.
- They are especially interested in startups innovating in
- Alternative packaging & proteins
- Smart fulfilment & logistics
- Bio alternatives to chemicals and plastic
- Precision food production
- Data & vertical data libraries
- Production capacity growth tools
- Upcycled products
- Tools to sequestrate CO2
- Supply chain traceability
- Molecular farming & genomics
- Impact certification in carbon markets
- Human health
For more information, visit Rockstart.
