LDC Climate Resilience Prize 2025
Pays a non-dilutive CHF 100,000 to the startup with the biggest climate impact on food and ag.
Startups apply online and LDC/MassChallenge follow up the following April; successful applicants join a physical workshop event in Switzerland in early July to quantify their climate impact -- CO2 removed or avoided, water saved, waste prevented -- using the MassChallenge Impact Calculator. Those who complete that quantification pitch to a jury in an online semi-final, then an in-person final in L…
LDC and MassChallenge Switzerland want proven, later-stage solutions that build climate resilience in food and agriculture value chains: regenerative agriculture and smart farming, end-to-end supply chain traceability, upcycling low-value agri commodities, CO2 reduction across agricultural value chains, and low-carbon biofuel value chains.
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