The World Food Prize Foundation Innovate for Impact Challenge 2025 for early-stage Agtech Startups ( $65,000 in cash prize)

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Application Deadline:  April 15, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 World Food Prize Foundation Innovate for Impact Challenge. The World Food Prize Foundation, in collaboration with America’s Cultivation Corridor, is proud to launch the Innovate for Impact Challenge—a pioneering initiative devoted to accelerating agricultural know-how (AgTech) innovation. This Challenge seeks to determine and assist early-stage, tech-driven startups whose transformative options handle the crucial challenges of world meals safety and sustainability.

Unveiled on the 2024 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue, the Innovate for Impact Challenge invites forward-thinking entrepreneurs from across the globe to current breakthrough applied sciences aimed toward revolutionizing agriculture. This initiative aligns with the World Food Prize Foundation’s mission to raise improvements and encourage motion towards assuaging international starvation.

Eligibility Criteria

The Challenge is open to early-stage, for-profit startups in the AgTech area. Eligible firms should meet the next necessities:

• Demonstrate innovation, market potential and alignment with sustainability targets
• Be in early phases of improvement, from validated ideas to pre-Series A funding
• Have no less than one founder working full-time on the mission

Startups can be evaluated on:

• Innovation Impact: The novelty and significance of the answer
• Market Potential: Viability and demand throughout the agricultural business
• Sustainability Contribution: Alignment with environmental and social targets
• Scalability and Replicability: Ability to increase and adapt throughout numerous contexts

Program Benefits

• Global Call for Startups: Open to startups worldwide, with a particular emphasis on innovation and sustainability
• Live Pitch Event: Finalists will showcase their AgTech options throughout the 2025 Borlaug Dialogue
• Top Prize: The profitable startup will obtain $50,000 to additional their impression on international meals safety

Prizes and Recognition

The high three finalists will obtain:

• 1st Place: $50,000
• 2nd Place: $10,000
• third Place: $5,000

All finalists will achieve:

• Unmatchable international publicity by presenting their options on the 2025 Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa, which anticipates a gathering of over 1,500 meals and agricultural leaders from greater than 70 international locations
• Unique Opportunities to interact with traders, business consultants, fellow entrepreneurs, policymakers and potential companions from all over the world

Application Timeline:

• Applications Open: January 21, 2025
• Submission Deadline: April 15, 2025
• Top 10 Announced: June 2025 at DialogueNEXT India
• Virtual Public Voting: June-July 2025
• Top 3 Announced: August 2025
• Final Competition: October 21-23, 2025, on the Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the World Food Prize Foundation Innovate for Impact Challenge