Accelerating programs
ClearLeaf is showing increasing strength
ClearLeaf storms accelerating programs all around the world! We were one of the 12 winners of the MassChallenge Switzerland, and also finalists of the Future of Food Latam program, GLOCAL AgriFoodTech LATAM, TheYieldLab/UNEP Sustainable Agtech Challenge, Thrive/Bayer Sustainability Challenge. We have also been accepted into the support program of StartLife, Europe’s longest-running and leading AgriFoodTech accelerator, AND into Australia-Latin America Business Council (ALABC) for landing in Oceania. This recognition from the top professionals and investors in the AgTech sector allows ClearLeaf to envision rapid deployment on all continents. And a success commensurate with the revolution that our flagship GotaBlanca® line of products offers for safe and sustainable agriculture.
As we continue to get invitations to participate in accelerating and investment platform programs and competitions. ClearLeaf´s unique value proposition has allowed us to move into the final rounds of Accelerate2030, Pomona AgTech, Terra by RaboBank + RocketSpace, AUGE FaseCrear - FondosPuestaMarcha, Row Crop Challenges, LaIdeaIncubatorProgram, FoodShot Global, Growth Train, Elemental Excelerator, Facagro, Brinc, and others. Some of these programs offer the chance to win prize money but most importantly, all offer access to their networks, mentors, investors and more. ClearLeaf is currently participating in some of these global programs – with great chances of winning several of these competitions. This focus on platform programs is primarily oriented toward securing our next round of investment, generating visibility in the global AgTech community, and most importantly to secure our next strategic partner or collaborator.
MassChallenge Switzerland has announced that ClearLeaf is part of the Top12 winners of 2021’s edition.
Since 2016, MassChallenge Switzerland has been a leader in helping startups across Europe grow their businesses by accelerating 396 startups across multiple industries that have raised more than $318M in funding.
In addition to the early-stage startup accelerator, which accepts startups from any industry, MassChallenge Switzerland has expanded its offerings to accelerate innovation in the food sector with an industry-specific track for early-stage startups as part of the 2021 accelerator. This also includes a challenge program matching later-stage startups with corporate partners in the food industry.
“2021 was MassChallenge Switzerland’s biggest and strongest year ever. We had our largest ever cohort at 107 startups […] Virtually all these amazing businesses are purpose-led enterprises - 57% being focused on Good Health, Responsible Production/Consumption or Climate Action.” - said Matt Lashmar, Managing Director of MassChallenge Switzerland.
gBETA AgTech is a free, seven-week accelerator for early-stage companies from around the country. Each of five participating startups receives a $25,000 investment via uncapped convertible note or on their existing financing terms. Each gBETA program is capped at five companies to ensure meaningful engagement with sponsors and other resources. Participants receive intensive and individualized coaching and access to gener8tor’s national network of mentors, customers, corporate partners, and investors. The program is designed to help startups gain early customer traction on their product or idea, and establish metrics that can make them competitive applicants for full-time, equity-based accelerators or seed investment.
StartLife is Europe’s longest-running and leading agrifoodtech accelerator. Since 2010, they support agrifood startups shaping a sustainable food system with breakthrough technologies. StartLife offers a full range of startup support services, including access to its global network of leading corporates and dedicated agrifoodtech investors. StartLife is based in Wageningen (the Netherlands), the heart of Food Valley and also the home of its co-founder Wageningen University & Research.
Funded and initiated by the United States Department of State, the La Idea Incubator Project is a powerful initiative focused on strengthening entrepreneurship and job creation across the Western Hemisphere. La Idea especially encourages trade and commerce between Central America and the United States. The program is a collaboration between InBIA and the Regional Center for the Promotion of MSMEs (CENPROMYPE).
Accelerate2030 is a program co-initiated by Impact Hub Geneva and the UNDP, with a mission to scale internationally the impact of entrepreneurs working towards achieving positive social and environmental change contributing to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In the last six years, Pomona Impact has completed 22 investments in 20 companies, achieving a combination of solid financial returns and impact. Pomona Impact is in the process of increasing funds for the Fund of Pomona Impact II, LP (FIP) to increase the capital that we will utilize to support scalable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which are prepared to create high social and/or environmental impact.
With operations in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, México and Uruguay, NXTP Labs is the most active fund for tech companies in Latin America. The firm has partnered with teams from more than 15 countries, and has invested in more than 184 companies in just over 6 years of operations. The company adds value to the startups that belong to its portfolio by including them in acceleration programs that generate a fertile ecosystem of innovation and a network that benefits entrepreneurs, investors and mentors.
Rabobank and RocketSpace have launched TERRA, the food & ag tech accelerator. Combining RocketSpace’s global tech ecosystem and startup network with Rabobank’s food and agribusiness leadership and expertise, Terra was designed to address the emerging growth of food & agriculture startups. Rabobank, the program’s founding corporate partner, will be joined by a diverse group of companies from the food and agriculture sectors who will collaborate with startups on real-life product testing and go-to-market solutions.
Growth Train aims to help companies in their journey as a startup to a thriving, scalable and financially sustainable business that makes a positive impact in society, in the region of Lolland-Falster, Denmark.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and The Yield Lab Institute aim to identify AgTech Startups, with a scalable business model, that can tackle some of the most pressing issues of climate change in agri-food systems in the Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC).
The call for this challenge was aimed at innovations and startups with products, services and/or technologies that are contributing to fight the causes and impacts of climate change, thus creating more regenerative, sustainable and inclusive agrifood systems.
Auge, or University Agency for Entrepreneurship Management of the University of Costa Rica is a Unit specialized in the creation and acceleration of knowledge-intensive companies and entities, attached to the Vice-rectory for Research, operating with the financial and logistical support of the UCR Foundation. They constitute an entrepreneurial community that incubates innovative projects and promotes dynamic organizations to contribute to inclusive and sustainable development.
Village Capital, with the support of Visa Foundation, has launched an investment readiness program for Latin American startups that are tackling the region’s most pressing challenges in the agritech and foodtech sectors. The program will support two cohorts, each of 8 to 12 startups.
Entrepreneurs will benefit from Village Capital’s award-winning curriculum, intensive feedback from their peers, valuable connections, and one-on-one mentorship with potential customers, investors, and industry experts. They are encouraging applications from entrepreneurs building high-growth, scalable solutions focused on addressing the following challenges: Increasing Access to Agricultural Finance and Infrastructure, Feeding a Growing Population, and Preventing Food Waste.
Glocal is the first Latin American Accelerator for both, startups and mid – sized established companies in the Agribusiness Sector.
They area focus on farming and foods industry (agritech, biotech, agri-fintech, agri-insurctec).
In a market with plenty of ideas but with a scarcity of teams to put them into practice, Glocal focuses on enhancing the implementation of innovating concepts at different stages.
The THRIVE | Bayer Sustainability Challenge aims to identify and support key startup and scaleup innovators to implement solutions that promote sustainability through reducing the environmental impact of crop protection, reducing field greenhouse gas emissions, and empowering smallholder farmers to access sustainable agricultural solutions. The THRIVE | Bayer Sustainability Challenge combines Bayer Crop Sciences’ sustainability commitments and THRIVE’s Global Initiative focus on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals to promote innovations that can address pressing challenges in the global agrifood chain.
