OVERVIEW
The urgency of the climate crisis is more apparent than ever and disruptive innovation is key to creating a more sustainable, prosperous, inclusive, healthy and equitable future.
The THRIVE Global Impact Challenge is a global search for the most innovative startups who are advancing a more sustainable future for agriculture.
Focus Area
Soil, Health & Biodiversity
Every year, billions of tons of soil erode, exacerbating biodiversity loss. Prioritizing soil vitality is critical to ensure long-term food security, bolster biodiversity, and mitigate climate change impacts. This includes solutions for regenerative agriculture, bio-based pest control, novel crop nutrition, diversified ecosystems, and transition finance initiatives.
Food Security & Water Reduction
Our emphasis on food security addresses the critical challenge of sustainably feeding a growing global population, given the significant amount of food wasted annually. We seek solutions to optimize resource use, promote climate-resilient agriculture, automate and digitalize on-farm operations, improve supply chain efficiency, and reduce waste.
Reducing and offsetting GHG emissions
Rising carbon emissions are accelerating climate change, posing a significant threat to global sustainability. Our goal is to drive a shift towards a low-carbon economy by focusing on renewable energy, energy efficiency, carbon capture technologies, and sustainable transportation.
Cleantech: Water & Energy
In the face of escalating global water scarcity, leveraging CleanTech in the realms of energy and water becomes crucial. Our newest global impact focus includes technologies that enable smart irrigation, enhanced water measurement, eco-friendly inputs, bioenergy, energy management, and land use optimization.
STARTUP & SCALEUP
Meet our Finalists
Startups
Agrocognitive
Agrology is a predictive agriculture system that helps farmers monitor greenhouse gases, improve soil sequestration, and generate carbon credits.
Startups
ClearLeaf
ClearLeaf develops sustainable crop protection that manages the impacts of harmful pests while maintaining natural balances on the farm and protecting farmers and consumers.
Startups
Dronebee
DroneBee is developing Dionysus—an app that helps winegrowers to correctly dose pesticides by using UAVs/smartphones and AI algorithms.
Startups
Haystack
Haystack enables soil carbon market scalability by helping farmers and carbon markets quantify carbon accurately and cost-effectively.
Startups
Ponce
PONCE empowers growers to meet the food production demands through efficiency with IoT.
Startups
Vatorex
ClearLeaf develops sustainable crop protection that manages the impacts of harmful pests while maintaining natural balances on the farm and protecting farmers and consumers.
Scaleups
Autonomous Pivot
Autonomous Pivot is revolutionizing row-crop farming by transforming center-pivot irrigation systems into AI-powered farming robots, saving water and money.
Scaleups
Goanna Ag
Goanna Ag uses low-cost sensors and connectivity to optimize water management across the farm and significantly improve on-farm efficiencies for growers.
Scaleups
MagGrow
MagGrow’s technology significantly reduces waste and drift linked to conventional crop spraying, delivering optimum plant protection.
Scaleups
Thinkbio
Thinkbio is accelerating the transition to more sustainable crop production with Kreotec—a product which delivers a sustainable form of nitrogen to agricultural crops through the use of bacteria.
Agrology
Reducing and Offseting GHG Emissions
Meet our Finalists
Soil health & Bio-diversity
Agrology
Crobio Ltd
FICOSTERRA
Instacrops
PairTree
Solena Ag
Increasing food security
Ac-Planta Inc.
AirSmat Inc
Birdsol Pty Ltd
Krilltech
mesur.io
LiVA bio technologies
TRIC Robotics Inc.
Reducing and offsetting GHG emissions
Carba, Inc.
Circularity2, LLC
GreenPod Labs
Labby
UCROP.IT LLC
Water management & quality
Aquacycl
Autonomous Pivot
H+H LABS PSA
Livestock Water Recycling
Nanobubble Agritech
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