Startups Supported by the Accelerate for Impact Platform

Explore below featured early-stage breakthrough solutions for sustainable agriculture and climate action that the Accelerate for Impact Platform (A4IP) has supported through initiatives including Innovation Challenges, Bootcamps, and Acceleration Programs: learn more about their solutions and what they have achieved.

Mission-oriented, science-driven startups fill the crucial need for innovation and market disruption in food and agriculture: which in turn drives food systems transformation, spurs economic growth, creates employment, and delivers concrete solutions for rural communities, youth and women, while contributing to the SDGs in the long and short term. 
The Accelerate for Impact Platform (A4IP) is the venture space building on CGIAR’s legacy of Research and Innovation to co-design, accelerate and fund market-driven and multidisciplinary innovation at the nexus of agriculture, environment, and health.
A4IP works to connect CGIAR with the Innovation Ecosystem and bring together talented scientists, entrepreneurs, and partners for disruptive solutions. A4IP supports innovations through:

  • Access to CGIAR’s global scientists offering technical assistance for development and scientific validation of technologies
  • Provision of Agri-Tech business and market expertise through tailored support from private-sector partners and industry mentors
  • Connection to potential partners, acceleration funds, and global visibility to support venture growth
  • Proximity to farmers through CGIAR’s on-the-ground relationships toward opportunities for trials and piloting of solutions

Do you have an innovation of your own or want to connect with startups like these and our CGIAR scientists? Get in touch and innovate with CGIAR – [email protected].
[Last updated December 2022]

Startups

Fila7a

Fila7a provides an online eco-system to farmers to help increase their quality and productivity and help sell their products to a bigger audience. Fila7a aims to reduce intermediary costs for farmers, increase their access to market, promote their product nationally and internationally, increase their bargaining power and stimulate price transparency.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Finalist at Bootcamp, Acceleration Program, and Demo Day

 

Green growth

Green Growth provides farmers with real-time analytics on land productivity from each point in the field, thanks to data collected directly from harvesting machines. As a result, farmers can see yield maps that are used to optimize farm inputs, such as fertilizers, seeds and crop protection products in a sustainable farming approach.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Finalist at Bootcamp, Acceleration Program, and Winner of Post-Acceleration Support at Demo Day

 

YieldsApp

YieldsApp is a groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence based technology that provides a precise diagnosis of pests, diseases, and soil health together with the exact courses of action to take in order to sustainably avoid, eliminate, or prevent infestation or contagion, while minimizing the use of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Finalist at Bootcamp, Acceleration Program, and Winner of Post-Acceleration Support at Demo Day.

 

Smart BAC by EJ Agritech

Smart BAC optimizes the collection and transport of milk, by offering a solution that preserves product quality, while ensuring real time traceability for value chain stakeholders and improving the remuneration of producers.

Finalist at Bootcamp and Demo Day and Recipient of Acceleration Program in AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge

 

From Sand to Green

From Sand to Green creates new arable land by rehabilitating arid lands into orchards, leveraging endemic agroforestry plantations, solar desalination, and the opportunities created by carbon compensation mechanisms.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Finalist at Bootcamp, Acceleration Program, and Winner of Post-Acceleration Support at Demo Day

 

AgriScan

AgriScan develops and produces new portable sensors offering real-time soil analysis through a disruptive technology of embedded and network-connected artificial intelligence for data storage and analysis that enables farmers to optimize their fertilization decisions.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Finalist at Bootcamp and Acceleration Program

 

Intellexia

Intellexia is a solution providing remote and real-time monitoring of the entire cold chain for perishable products all along the production/manufacturing, goods transport and distribution phases.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Finalist at Bootcamp and Acceleration Program

 

PCS Agri

Track Tomato by PCS Agri is a solution that estimates tomato yields, detects the first outbreaks of phytosanitary problems and optimizes the use of pesticides, using video captures and artificial intelligence.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Finalist at Bootcamp, Acceleration Program, and Demo Day

 

Jodoor Greentech

Jodoor GreenTech is a network of franchised, modern and ecological hydroponic farms, specialized in leafy vegetables, aromatic and medicinal herbs. Jodoor's technology offers constant productivity and quality with an all year long fixed price to customers.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Finalist at Bootcamp, Acceleration Program, and Demo Day

 

Agricapture by CAPTURE SOLUTIONS LTD

Agricapture by Capture Solutions connects conscious consumers to the farmers and locations where crops are grown, ensuring traceability and transparency. Agricapture uses a combination of smartphones, digital weighing scales, QR codes and digital payments to ensure that the processing of raw goods is fully traceable and accurate.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Finalist at Bootcamp, Acceleration Program, and Demo Day

 

LYSPACKING by B.Green

LYSPACKAGING by B.GREEN proposes an alternative to plastic using a technology transfer based on organic plant inputs to produce sustainable packaging.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Semifinalist at Bootcamp

 

PIPA

PIPA aims to improve farmers' productivity and product quality through smart agriculture. PIPA allows farmers to control remotely their watering procedure using a new generation of agricultural sensors and machine learning techniques.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Semifinalist at Bootcamp

 

Tensor Leaf

Tensor Leaf uses a data driven and controlled environment approach to promote indoor and urban agriculture development in densely populated regions to enhance domestic food security for local populations. Its unique sensing systems and algorithm-based nutrient formulations reduce the overall demand of fertilizer, while simultaneously allowing producers to reuse spent reservoir nutrients.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Semifinalist at Bootcamp

 

City Farmers

City Farmers offers automatic hydroponic kits to enable the urban population to farm at home, while supporting them through the production of hydroponic nutrient solutions necessary for plant development, training and assistance.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Semifinalist at Bootcamp

 

Manhat

Manhat is a deep technology startup that uses a "natural water distillation" patented technology for sustainable water and floating farm solutions. Manhat produces fresh water in a natural way without producing brine or needing electrical energy. The water produced feeds into its floating farm solution to provide a sustainable alternative food production system.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Semifinalist at Bootcamp

 

BE IN AGRICULTURE

BE IN AGRICULTURE is an international platform for professional, scientific and technical exchange between stakeholders in the agricultural sector. More than a professional network, the platform provides an innovative digital offer targeting stakeholders on the different value chains.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Semifinalist at Bootcamp

 

OBENS

OBENS is a supply chain transparency platform that facilitates collaboration and end-to-end traceability between international buyers and local producers of natural and organic produce.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Semifinalist at Bootcamp

 

IBS Technologies

IBS Technologies provides date palm investors to have precise information on the irrigation needs of their farms, at any given time. Through wireless sensor networks, the system allows the development of the activity by increasing yields and rationalizing the use of water resources.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Semifinalist at Bootcamp

 

IrriSmart

IrriSmart is a smartphone application that integrates all components of the soil-water-crop-atmosphere continuum to provide farmers with precision irrigation parameters, and as consequence reduce water consumption.

2022 AgriTech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Semifinalist at Bootcamp.

2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Winner of USD $5000 equity-free grant from IFAD ; Full ($25K) Scholarship to Master Level I Open Innovaton and Youth Entrepreneurship from CIHEAM Bari; Technological Due Diligence, Expert Mentoring, and Market Analysis from IIT 

 

CO2 GRO Inc.

CO2 GRO Inc. (GROW: TSXV) is a People, Planet, and Prosperity-focused precision ag-tech, clean-tech company. We are on a mission to transform 5 million hectares of protected fruit & vegetable growth facilities so they can increase yield by 30% and feed half a billion more people around the world. Our proprietary technology uses an aqueous CO₂ solution to create a microfilm onto plants in protected growth facilities. This enriches crops with CO₂, suppresses the spread of micropathogens, and increases high-yield, high-quality varieties of produce.

2022 Agritech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Demo Day Guest Presenter

 

Kitovu Technology Company

Kitovu is an agriculture-focused technology company that uses data to eliminate guesswork and supply chain inefficiencies in African agriculture, enabling farmers to make more money off their farms through increased yields and access to markets.

2022 Agritech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Demo Day Guest Presenter

 

Agrint

Agrint strives to protect trees and also takes care of the yield. Our first product is the IoTree a durable, energy-efficient seismic sensor. The IoTree connects to a network of sensors. The most relevant data will be carried and calculated using AI algorithm processors on the cloud to give the growers the best ability to monitor their trees.

2022 Agritech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Demo Day Guest Presenter

 

BioFishency

BioFishency Ltd. develops, manufactures and markets a new breed of Recirculated Aquaculture Systems (RAS) water treatment solutions to produce healthier fish. The company’s proprietary technology deploys water treatment systems to reduce water consumption with full parameter monitoring and control, to enhance efficiency and productivity, and year-round harvest of high quality fish. Patented, BioFishency’s disruptive water treatment technology, guarantees a highly sustainable fish growing method that shifts the water treatment process from bacteria-based filters, to a controlled industrialized system that maximizes RAS ROI by minimizing CAPEX and OPEX.

2022 Agritech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Demo Day Guest Presenter 

 

SMAPPLab

SMAPPLAB is an agtech startup developing AI/ML-based SaaS pest monitoring tools with the ambition of empowering agricultural businesses of any size to mitigate the exposure of crop production to pest pressure. We provide multi-sensory and self-cleaning pest insect traps forming a system of early detection surveillance that allows farmers to take better care of their crops and make more informed decisions on the optimal times and dosage of spraying. To this end, our traps collect a wide variety of data to forecast pest outbreaks and deliver high-impact actionable insights on a subscription basis.

2022 Agritech4Morocco Innovation Challenge: Demo Day Guest Presenter

 

SwitchOn

SwitchON works with farmers in India to enhance knowledge and training on sustainable practices and organic agriculture, as well as to address the absence of markets for organic produce. SwitchON has made farmers self-sufficient and created a zero-waste farm production model. To date SwitchON has helped over 350 farmers by linking them to various government schemes and facilitated seed procurement licenses.

2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Winner of USD $5000 equity-free grant from IFAD

Rural Famers Hub / Capture

Capture from Rural Farmers Hub is a precision management and crop intelligence solution for crop health & soil quality assessment for small farmers, plantations, and out-growers. It uses big data to advise on the optimal farming decisions that are personalized and delivered in near real-time, accessible via SMS and mobile apps.

2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Winner of Full ($25K) Scholarship to Master Level I Open Innovaton and Youth Entrepreneurship from CIHEAM Bari

 

Cloud Pads

Cloud is redesigning the period experience by using banana fiber waste with organic cotton and bioplastic to create disposable period pads that are better for menstruators’ bodies and the environment. The pads are healthy, natural, responsible, and convenient, yet 100% biodegradable and compostable.

2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Winner of Full tuition assistance to Master Level I Open Innovaton and Youth Entrepreneurship from CIHEAM Bari; Communications/Storytelling Mentoring from The Lexicon; 3-month Investor Readiness Program from Rockstart; Business Plan Mentoring and Access to Development Teams from IITA BiP

 

SeaSoilution

SeaSoilution uses the excessive amounts of foul-smelling brown algae, or Sargassum, resulting from climate change and overfertilization to produce a nutrient rich Biostimulant, an organic fertilizer 2.0 that improves the soil quality and the long-term growth of plants.

2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Winner of Communications/Storytelling Mentoring from The Lexicon; 3-month Investor Readiness Program from Rockstart 

 

NovFeed

NovFeed uses chemical-free biotechnology to transform organic waste to produce new cost-effective and sustainable protein ingredients using bacteria single cell protein to replace unsustainable sources such as fish meal and soy meal.

2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Winner of Communications/Storytelling Mentoring from The Lexicon; 3-month Investor Readiness Program from Rockstart; Business Plan Mentoring and Access to Development Teams from IITA BiP

 

KoolMill

Koolmill has pioneered a paradigm shift in rice processing, offering a simpler, gentler, ultra-low power, off-grid technology. Through their novel Machinery as a Service Business Model, their technology is affordable and accessible to all, delivering more food from existing harvests with less loss, less power, and less environmental impact.

2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Winner of Business Plan Mentoring and Access to Development Teams from IITA BiP; Technological Due Diligence, Expert Mentoring, and Market Analysis from IIT 

Hook & Delivery (H&D)

Hook & Delivery (H&D) consists of a miniature biodegradable patch with dissolvable bioinspired microhooks which anchor to plant leaf surfaces and access plant vascular tissues for in situ leaf applications, providing high precision, high efficiency, and low biodiversity impact molecular and micro/nano vehicle delivery for a range of markets.

2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Finalist 

 

NjordFrey

NjordFrey provides developing smallholder farmers access to advanced and sustainably designed aquaponic-based solutions as part of a credit model, that will reduce levels of malnutrition while increasing their economic growth.

2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Finalist

 

Sabex

SABEX is a digital commodity trading and warehouse receipt financing platform built on blockchain, offering a significant price-risk management solution for both buyers and sellers and providing transparency to all players.

2021 Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge: Finalist