2022 THRIVE Global Impact Challenge for Innovative Startups

July 28, 2022 34

Applications are open for the THRIVE Global Impact Challenge 2022. The THRIVE Global Impact Challenge is a global search for the most innovative startups advancing a more sustainable future for agriculture.

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FOR: Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Startups / SMEs, Techies,

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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.

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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:
1. Investment from SVG Ventures
2. Silicon Valley Startup Bootcamp in the Summer of 2023 for two founders, hosted by THRIVE ($15k USD value)
3. Automatic acceptance as a Samsung XTC Finalist
4. Impact strategy program with Imagine Impact (Specialist Impact Consultants) Sponsored by ICL

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Eligibility

Startups should be Seed to Series A with technologies focused in the following areas:

Soil health & Biodiversity
1. Alternative pesticides & herbicides
2. Crop nutrition & novel inputs
Increasing food security
1. Alternative proteins
2. Food loss prevention
3. Circular economy
4. Indoor farming
5. Supply chain solutions
6. Packaging
7. Functional Ingredients.
Reducing and offsetting emissions
1. Carbon sequestration
2. Carbon measurement
3. Carbon markets
4. Reducing animal emissions and animal cruelty
5. Robotics & automation
6. On-farm emissions reduction.