Pitch opportunity: Accelerate your Innovation to business!

Academic institutes and startups will get the possibility to pitch their innovative technology, -service or -product to the audience from the international agri-food industry. 

During this event, startups and academic business opportunities will have the opportunity to give a short presentation of 6 minutes. The aim of this pitch programme is to connect these business opportunities to investors for financing or to the breeding industry with the aim to collaborate and possibly perform pilot studies to validate their first product and/or service. In this way CropIB would like to stimulate knowledge valorisation and decrease the time to market for new innovations that could be applied for crop improvement.

Benefits
• Present to 200+ executives from the international agri-food industry
• Increase company´s visibility
• Connect to international collaboration partners throughout the value chain
• Connect to investors
• Boost of your product development and international market access.
• Online promotion (website, newsletter, social media and NetworkApp)

Who can apply?
Academic institutes and early stage companies (younger than 3 years or series B financing stage) that develop products or services for the agriculture industry.

Selection
Participation will be reviewed by the program committee. The candidates have to perform a test pitch which will be part of the selection procedure.

Conference registration is required. Participants from Academic institutes and early stage companies (younger than three years) will receive 50% discount on the regular registration fee.

The pitch program is supported by biotope ^{by VIB} , CEPLAS and StartLife.