Competition
THRIVE Global Impact Challenge 2022 for Innovative Startups
Deadline: 26th of August, 2022
The THRIVE Global Impact Challenge is a global search for the most innovative startups who are advancing a more sustainable future for agriculture.
Aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Impact Challenge is focused on three key themes each one central to supporting the transition to a net-zero future for agriculture.
- Soil health & Biodiversity
- Increasing food security
- Reducing and offsetting emissions
Benefits
- Finalists from each theme will advance to the finals and pitch at the THRIVE Sustainability Summit where the overall winner will be announced.
- The Winning company receives the THRIVE Global Impact Challenge Award and a place on the award-winning THRIVE Global Accelerator Program in Silicon Valley. In addition the winner will also receive:
- Investment from SVG Ventures
- Silicon Valley Startup Bootcamp in the Summer of 2023 for two founders, hosted by THRIVE ($15k USD value)
- Automatic acceptance as a Samsung XTC Finalist
- Impact strategy program with Imagine Impact (Specialist Impact Consultants) Sponsored by ICL
Eligibility
Startups should be Seed to Series A with technologies focused in the following areas:
- Soil health & Biodiversity
- Regenerative agriculture
- Ag biotechnology
- Alternative fertilizers
- Alternative pesticides & herbicides
- Crop nutrition & novel inputs
- Biostimulants
- Water management.
- Increasing food security
- Alternative proteins
- Food loss prevention
- Circular economy
- Indoor farming
- Supply chain solutions
- Packaging
- Functional Ingredients.
- Reducing and offsetting emissions
- Carbon sequestration
- Carbon measurement
- Carbon markets
- Reducing animal emissions and animal cruelty
- Robotics & automation
- On-farm emissions reduction.
