Deadline: 22nd September, 2023.
Have a deep tech startup or project that uses advanced technology to answer a societal, environmental or industrial challenge?
Apply for the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge.
2023 Track
FOOD & AGRICULTURE
Feeding the Earth’s population while protecting our planet
- Precision agriculture and animal husbandry
- Mobilizing data acquisition and analytics to monitor, understand, and act on farming and rearing
- Empowering farmers for resources management
- Regenerative crops and farming
- Improving soil health and overall biodiversity
- Reducing GHG emissions through carbon sequestration and nitrogen management
- Substituting/reducing the use of pesticides and other hazardous chemicals
- Engineering crops for improved yield, pest resistance, and nutritional value
- Alternative food and feed production
- Developing new ingredients to leverage for food and nutraceuticals (alternative proteins, functional foods…)
- Developing modern ways of production with reduced carbon footprint (cellular agriculture, precision fermentation…)
- Food safety & supply chain
- Improving food production, processing, distribution and quality
- Limiting and upcycling food and agricultural waste
- Ensuring transparency and traceability throughout the supply chain
Benefits
- Connections
Winners get 1-to-1 coaching & personal introductions with potential investors, partners and clients.
Connect with industry experts, investors & fellow entrepreneurs at our Global Summit.
Join our Deep Tech Pioneers community for all-year access to a global network.
- Visibility
Receive the Deep Tech Pioneer recognition & get a chance to be featured in our reports and invited to speak at future events.
Pitch or showcase opportunities in front of renowned industry leaders & investors.
Get spotted by international media, with interview opportunities.
- Funding
€100K Grand Prize, €30K 2nd prize and €20K 3rd prize – all equity-free, no strings attached.
Advertise your open fundraising to our active international investor network.
Join our Investor Day for 1-on-1 meetings with 150+ renowned VCs and CVCs.
We welcome startups that are:
- In the early-stage of development or the beginning of their commercialization phase (up to series A)
- Based on a new technology, a scientific discovery or a complex engineering process
- Addressing an industrial, societal or environmental unmet need or creating a new market
- Composed of a team of at least 2 people
- Not a subsidiary or spin-off of an existing company
For more information and applications