Powered by Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the World Food Forum (WFF) Startup Innovation Awards is set to reward startups and entrepreneurs leveraging technology to put an end to global hunger.
Designed to support and showcase these innovators driving sustainability in the agrifood sector, the WFF Startup Innovation Awards aims to “elevate the next generation of entrepreneurs who are creating new technologies and innovations to benefit our planet and the agrifood systems we need to thrive.”
Benefits
The Startup Innovation Awards provide finalist and award winners:
- Potential for global visibility
- Ability to raise capital
- Network with global entities (governments, United Nations agencies, corporations, VCs, partners)
- Gain the mentorship opportunities they need to pioneer technological breakthroughs and help power a sustainable future for our food
Eligibility
The WFF Startup Innovation Awards seeks startups showing high potential for a positive impact in transforming agrifood systems, aligned to one of four categories:
- Better production
- Better nutrition
- Better environment
- Better life
Additionally, this year, the competition will also have a special award around how the innovation in each of the categories will contribute to the interconnected issues of the 2022 World Food Forum theme, “Healthy Diets. Healthy Planet.”
The competition is open to companies whose work impacts an element of agrifood systems:
- Production
- Aggregation
- Processing
- Distribution
- Consumption
- Disposal of food products that originate from agriculture
- Forestry or fisheries, and
- Parts of the broader economic, societal and natural environments in which they are embedded
How to apply
Apply before the deadline on Friday, July 15, 2022, to scale your agrifood startup globally.
