Agriculture

Innovating Beyond the Challenge in Agriculture

Agriculture is undergoing a fundamental transformation, and digital innovation is key to building a more resilient, sustainable food system. AgroStart focuses on specific challenge areas where collaboration can drive real impact. Explore our focus areas and see where your solution fits.

Open Innovation in Agriculture

Digital transformation is redefining the future of farming. At AgroStart, we believe that technology is key to solving agriculture’s most pressing challenges from resource efficiency and crop resilience to data-driven decision-making. Our open innovation call invites startups and product teams to co-create digital solutions that deliver measurable impact for farmers and food systems.

We’re looking for intuitive, scalable technologies that address real-world problems in agriculture. Whether it’s automating sample traceability, enabling early detection of crop stressors, or improving field-level insights, your innovation can help shape a smarter, more sustainable future.

AgroStart offers a collaborative environment where ideas grow into solutions. Through access to industry expertise, testing opportunities, and a network of forward-thinking partners, we help innovators bring their agricultural digital products to life.

Join us in building the next generation of AgTech. The time to innovate is now

Past Challenges

Sample Tracking and Traceability

We seek a technological solution that allows precise tracking and efficient management of soybean leaf sample inventory. The solution should be capable of automating identification at the time of collection, including geolocation of the collection site, storage, cataloging, and monitoring of the samples, ensuring high accuracy and reliability of the data. If your startup offers a cutting-edge technology solution, such as IoT (Internet of Things), blockchain, RFID, or others that ensure traceability and geolocation of the collection site, as well as data integrity, minimizing manual intervention and automating as much of the process as possible, with scalability to handle large volumes of samples, and most importantly, is easy to use for field operators and management teams, this challenge is for you. Startups with successful cases in the agricultural sector will have a competitive advantage. Interested startups should submit their proposals through the link below by 09/08/2024. The proposals must include a detailed description of the solution, previous use cases, and how the technology meets the objectives and requirements described.

Nematode Detection

Farmers face a critical challenge in crop production, where nematodes threaten their harvests and yield, season after season. AgroStart is currently seeking startups and/or digital solutions that are concentrating efforts to tackle this challenge head on, specifically in the areas of precise identification, standardization, accelerated sample processing, and the use of satellite imagery for diagnosis. Are you a startup who can help enable the early, accurate and, ideally, predictive detection of crop stressors, with special attention to nematodes?

Open Challenge

We’re always open to bold ideas that advance digital agriculture. If your startup is developing solutions with real impact for farmers and future generations, we want to hear from you. Let’s explore how we can work together.

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