Biomimicry Institute Ray of Hope Accelerator 2025 ($15,000 in non-dilutive funding) – YOA

Deadline: April 19, 2025

Applications are open for the Biomimicry Institute Ray of Hope Accelerator 2025. The Biomimicry Institute’s Ray of Hope Accelerator is a 6-month program to speed up the expansion of nature-impressed startups to scale systemic options to the world’s most urgent environmental challenges.

Every 12 months, they help a cohort of ten excessive-affect nature-impressed startups from world wide, spanning Pre-Seed to Series A phases and throughout business verticals. Each chosen startup receives $15,000 in non-dilutive funding and over $50,000 value of in-kind providers, together with skilled mentorship, science-primarily based storytelling help, and connections to company leaders and mission-aligned traders. It additionally consists of an in-person Nature Retreat, the place founders will deepen their management expertise, foster group, and domesticate a nature-impressed ethos.

Benefits

• Each collaborating startup receives $15,000 in non-dilutive capital and $50,000 of in-kind providers to help their entrepreneurial journey.

Eligibility

• They welcome candidates from everywhere in the world.
• They are in search of early-stage startups which might be:
  • Nature-inspired: Drawing inspiration from organic processes, supplies, chemistry, or techniques to drive innovation
  • Impact-driven: Focused on tackling local weather and environmental challenges with scalable options
  • Early-stage: Ranging from Pre-Seed to Series A

Selection Criteria

When the inner group and exterior Advisory Committee members evaluate your application, they are going to be evaluating your entry on the next standards:

• Problem & Market Potential: Is the issue you might be tackling value fixing? Is the potential market measurement giant sufficient for sustained enterprise development, and aligned with the expectations of doable funding sources? What traction have you ever been in a position to acquire together with your resolution?
• Solution & Technology: Is the know-how doubtlessly disruptive? Does your resolution reveal the potential for a sustainable aggressive benefit (uniqueness, economically)?
• Nature Inspiration: Is your resolution primarily based upon or modeled after a method discovered in nature? Do you clearly talk the science behind your inspiration and know-how?
• Environmental & Social Impact: What are the environmental and social implications of your resolution? How does your startup make the world a greater place? How does your organization align with the UN SDGs?
• Team: Does your group have the important thing folks, range, and core capabilities it is advisable get to the following key milestones?

Application

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For extra data, go to Ray of Hope Accelerator.