Nigeria
Zebra CropBank is building Africa’s post harvest services platform for farmers to store, manage and monetise their produce.
United Kingdom
Sustainable Planet‘s green initiative is focused on growing water lentils (45% protein) scaled at industrial level, an opportunity for the African and middle eastern regions to secure food.
United States
Organicin Scientific is focused on minimizing the reliance on chemical antibiotics in farming, which is known to contribute to environmental pollution, antimicrobial resistance, and disrupt biodiversity. Instead, they leverage bacteriocins, naturally occurring antimicrobial proteins, as a sustainable alternative.
India
Stellapps is a dairy-led deep tech solutions company that helps significantly improve productivity, quality, and traceability in the dairy value chain. This increases farmers' profitability and reduces their carbon footprint. We leverage deep-Tech such as IoT, Cloud, and AI/ML while working with Indian rural farmers, livestock and milk.
Must be a privately-funded startup company working on innovations in Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment and Better Life.
See official rulesFinalists and Winners will be selected based on the Judges’ assessment of the following equally-weighted criteria: Tech for good/responsible innovation for a radically better world, product/market fit, product innovation and team. For full details see the link below.
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Venture Capital Funding Raised by XTC Startup Finalists (2015-2023)
VCs and CVCs on the XTC Evaluation Committee, Global Partners
Female Founded finalists
Managing Director - Climate, Environmental & Natural Resources
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Programme Management and Implementation Specialist
Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, FAO
Agri & Climate Tech Venture Builder Expert
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
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