?? Startups Grant for Your Business

Are you ready to collaborate with global partners and take your solution to the next level in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Global South?

This is your chance! ?

You are invited to join an innovative ecosystem that supports entrepreneurs and startups. With a focus on sustainability, winners receive funding and expert mentorship to scale their solutions globally.

In the last edition, 667 startups from over 79 countries participated, with the top solutions gaining invaluable support to expand within the UAE and beyond.

Take a look at how past winners are already making a difference, and learn how you can be the next to bring your vision to life.

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Scale your solution globally at the FoodTech Challenge 3.0

?? The FoodTech Challenge 3.0 is seeking startups in Food & Water, Food & Energy, and Food Loss & Waste.

?? Prizes:

• Secure over $2M in cash prizes and grants
• Scale your solution globally with the support from partners such as Hub71 (Global Tech Ecosystem) and Sheraa (Entrepreneurship Center)
• Receive UAE and Global South-focused grants

? Register by December 12, 2024.

?? Apply here!

The FoodTech Challenge is Back

The FoodTech Challenge is a global competition that identifies and supports leading early-stage, tech-driven solutions poised to transform food systems in arid, hot, and increasingly challenging environments.

It has garnered over 1,100 applications from startups across 98 countries in just two editions. Now in its third edition, the FoodTech Challenge is offering its largest prize yet – $2M in cash – to help winners make tangible progress in scaling their start-ups.

?? Winners of previous editions have had remarkable successes, raising additional funding, launching joint ventures, and deploying their solutions in the UAE.

• Sustainable Planet, using water lentils to create protein isolates without arable land or freshwater, has enrolled in Hub71 and is finalizing a $5M investment to scale-up in UAE.
• Aquagrain, producing soil enhancers with food waste, has finalized a $2.5M with Abu Dhabi’s waste management company and has begun growing trials with Silal to test the efficacy of their product on several crops.
• Orbisk, using AI-enabled cameras to quantify food waste, has installed its equipment in over 20 hotels across the UAE. Currently exploring opening a UAE office and has hired a country manager, based in Dubai to service their growing number of clients across the GCC.

?? Check out our global competitions here!

Our team of experts would be pleased to assist you. Feel free to contact ?? Alexander Young at [email protected] if you have any questions or inquiries.

Best of luck,

The Agorize Team