AgriStart
Offers mentoring and up to EUR 2,000 in services to early-stage Romanian agrifood startups.
AgriStart is a startup programme from Impact Hub Bucharest, running as EIT Food's Romanian representative and backed by EIT Food and Bayer, that gives early-stage Romanian agrifood ventures mentoring and up to EUR 2,000 in services. Ten teams are picked for a first stage of business-model validation, market-entry strategy, pitching practice, and four individual mentoring sessions. Two of those ten…
The program funds Romanian-based agrifood ventures at the validated-idea, prototype, MVP, or early market-testing stage, spanning digitally driven farming and food-production tech, sustainability-minded food systems, the circular economy, food-waste reduction, packaging, and supply chains. It is open to early-stage entrepreneurs, researchers turning their work into products, university staff, corporate or nonprofit-based innovators, past EIT Food Challenge Labs participants, and teams spanning multiple disciplines.
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