Grow-NY Food & Agriculture Startup Competition
Awards up to $1 million to food and ag startups that build their business in New York.
The competition is administered by Cornell University's Center for Regional Economic Advancement on behalf of Empire State Development. To qualify, a business must be a registered, formative-stage entity meeting at least two of four markers: under seven years old, a first product or service already in testing or pilot-scale production, pre-revenue or early revenue, and a leadership team working to…
Grow-NY is open to early-stage food and agriculture startups anywhere in the world, spanning food, fuels, fibers, raw materials, and the hardware, software or services that support them, as long as they can show real progress toward commercialization. It excludes sole proprietorships, non-profits, and non-scalable businesses such as retail, gambling, real estate or hospitality.
Sign up free to see the funding breakdown
Sign up free to see the industries in scope
Sign up free to see the full eligibility
Sign up free to see how to apply
Sign up free to see what you submit
Sign up free to see how they score you
Sign up free to see the timeline
Sign up free to see where teams trip up
Guides for this application
All guides →How to Write a Grant Proposal Reviewers Can Score
Learn how to write a grant proposal around reviewer criteria, evidence, work packages, budget logic, and commercialization for deeptech and R&D funding.
DocumentsGrant Work Plan Template: Work Packages, Gantt, Milestones, and Risks
Use this grant work plan template to structure work packages, tasks, owners, deliverables, Gantt timing, dependencies, and risk registers.
DocumentsGrant Pitch Deck Example: Slides, Storyline, and Video Script
See a grant pitch deck example with slide outline, EIC-style pitch logic, demo-video script, and grant-vs-investor deck differences.
More from ESD
All grants from this funder →GENIUS NY Round 10
🇺🇸ESD · United States
Runs research teams and institutions for GENIUS NY in robotics, aerospace, and artificial intelligence.
Global NY Fund Grant
🇺🇸ESD · United States
Helps research teams and institutions for Global NY Fund Grant in artificial intelligence, manufacturing, and biotechnology.
NY Excelsior Jobs R&D Tax Credit Component
🇺🇸ESD · United States
Offers New York businesses tax credits for innovation spending through the Excelsior incentive framework.
NY Life Sciences R&D Credit
🇺🇸ESD · United States
Funds New York life sciences companies with tax credits that support innovation with high patient impact potential.
POWER UP Grant Program
🇺🇸ESD · United States
Offers research teams and institutions for POWER UP Grant in semiconductors, energy systems, and artificial intelligence.
REDC CFA Round 15
🇺🇸ESD · United States
Invests research teams and institutions for REDC CFA in manufacturing, energy systems, and artificial intelligence.
Similar grants
Browse the directory →
D.E.S.I.G.N. for BioE3 Challenge
🇮🇳DBT · India
Pays India's top biotech concept entries ₹1 lakh each month, with grants to build them.
MassChallenge Switzerland
🇨🇭MassChallenge · United States
Supports Swiss agtech, industrial, and health startups through a MassChallenge program with mentorship, networking, and investment pathways.
World Agri-Foodtech Startup Challenge
🇦🇪Gulfood · United Arab Emirates
Awards a share of a $135,000 prize pool to agri-foodtech startups pitching at Gulfood.
African Union – European Union Partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one coordination project to run the AU-EU food-security research partnership and seed-fund African agri-food startups.
Startup Innovation Awards
WFF · Global / Multinational
Awards at least $7,500 per category, plus a $10,000 bonus for the top agrifood startup.
Horizon Agriculture and Forestry Resilience Evidence
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M research projects that turn systemic-risk evidence into stronger resilience policies for European agriculture, forestry and supply chains.