Deadline: 13 July 2025
Submissions are now open for the High-Growth AI Accelerator Program, which helps businesses access the computation power and expertise needed to validate or develop scalable machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions in the agrifood sector.
The High Growth AI Accelerator delivered for the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme is a 14-week accelerator programme for UK-based startups, scaleups and SMEs to help them validate and develop ethical and desirable AI and ML deep-tech solutions.
Focus Areas
- The opportunity focuses on addressing critical challenges in the agrifood sector with AI solutions that can drive meaningful transformation across the entire value chain. They are seeking proposals that demonstrate technological innovation and practical impact in areas such as precision agriculture, crop and livestock management, sustainable food production, supply chain optimisation, food safety, and climate resilience.
Award Information
- Selected businesses will benefit from collaborating closely with industry players in the sector, access up to $100,00 in cloud credits, technical and business expertise from their valued partners, strategic and technical guidance, holistic diagnostics, tailored support, to accelerate their product readiness.
Challenges
- They invite innovators to tackle specific commercial challenges, developed in collaboration with industry leaders. Applicants are encouraged to choose a challenge aligned with their expertise.
- Biodiversity and methane monitoring challenges in collaboration with Hartpury Digital Innovation Farm
- Livestock management and identification challenges in collaboration with Peacock Technology
- Biomass condition management challenges in collaboration with Nestlé
- Dairy forecasting and optimisation challenges in collaboration with Dale Farm
- Your idea for the partners: an invitation to present your proposal to the challenge owners
Eligibility Criteria
- The programme is inviting applications from UK-registered startups, scaleups and SMEs that:
- Have have existing or new AI-enabled services or AI-integrated infrastructure solutions that can demonstrate to solve one of the challenges of the call
- Have strong technical teams
- Have available data and an immediate need for computation
For more information, visit Innovate UK Business Connect.
