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New StartLife Accelerate program successful
Nine promising food & agri startups joined last months the new StartLife Accelerate program. Last week they celebrated the graduation of the cohort.
StartLife offers a unique curriculum to the cohort that includes tailored support and trainings from StartLife coaches and leading experts from the industry. Entrepreneurs, coaches and partners work together to ensure a sustainable success of the businesses. The program offers trainings on market validation, team development, financial modelling and more. In the last ten years StartLife has learned that these are crucial elements for startups to be succesful.
Eight of the startups were awarded the next tranche of funding from StartLife, and most are currently raising follow-on funding from investors in the StartLife community to spur their growth further.
More information about the programme you can find here.
Participants:
- Agri Gripping, Vine Weevil control using a trap system
- Beterschappen, Personalized meal solutions for kidney patients
- BirdsAI, AI-based land monitoring and visualization
- Burgsfoods, Cricket-based burgers
- Eden Advanced Technologies, Automated aeroponics farming systems
- Greencovery Upcycling technology for waste water streams
- Plant Meat Makers, Next-generation plant-based meat analogues
- Sponsh, Smart cotton that produces water from air
- ZERO FoodWaste, Automated food waste registration
Next edition 2019
The next edition of the StartLife Accelerate program will start end of March, 2019. If you’re interested to apply or learn more then send an email to thomas.vandenboezem@wur.nl