Congratulations to our Global Impact Challenge Winners

Reducing & Offsetting GHG Emissions & overall winner

Improving Soil Health & Biodiversity

Increasing Food Security

Water Management & Quality

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

STARTUP & SCALEUP

Meet our Finalists

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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

United States
Agrology’s advanced carbon monitoring system empowers farmers to be better land-stewards through ground truth data that shows the changes in soil carbon and soil microbial activity continuously.
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Crobio Ltd

United Kingdom
CroBio leads a remarkable mission: to address the global challenge of improving soil water retention and increasing soil carbon, to ensure farmers have sustainable harvests.
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FICOSTERRA

Spain
Ficosterra helps farmers increase the yield of their crops by biological solutions that ensure better harvests and optimization of ROI.
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Instacrops

United States
Instacrops is a precision agriculture startup that helps farmers maximize their crop yields. Farmers use Instacrops to increase their crops yield by 22% on average.
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PairTree

Australia
Pairtree’s Integration Engine allows them to connect over 100+ integrations of IoT sensors, Apps and satellite imagery for agricultural applications to their platform--similar to Zapier or Plaid’s SaaS approach to solving ‘Interoperability’ in the Fintech sector.
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Solena Ag

United States
Solena harnesses the power of the soil microbiome to create personalized, data-driven agriculture.
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Increasing food security

Ac-Planta Inc.

Japan
Ac-Planta tackles climate change disasters, in particular food and water crises by utilizing epigenetics that enhance plants’ resilience against drought and heat.
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AirSmat Inc

Nigeria
Empowering African farmers with tech for higher yields, sustainability, and climate resilience. Transforming agriculture for a brighter future.
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Birdsol Pty Ltd

Australia
BirdSol is an innovative global AgTech company with a patented and novel avian deterrent and wildlife management technology based on an integrated AI system called Cherrp.
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Krilltech

Brazil
Krilltech offers green physiological nanoboosters that increase crop productivity, quality and resistance by assisting in plant metabolism.
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mesur.io

United States
The mesur.io Earthstream® Platform utilizes autoML and AI to continuously integrates customer unique data with contextually relevant open-source intelligence (OSINT) to deliver the most comprehensive view of supply chain risk and trade compliance in real-time.
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LiVA bio technologies

Israel
LiVA more than doubles fresh-produce shelf-life, using patented pre-biotic inserts applied to the packaging for less than $0.02 per insert.
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TRIC Robotics Inc.

United States
TRIC Robotics is helping farmers control pest and disease using ultraviolet light as a alternative for chemical pesticides.
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Reducing and offsetting GHG emissions

Carba, Inc.

United States
Cleantech leader fighting climate change, burying carbon, selling removal credits. Our reactor turns biomass into solid carbon for underground storage.
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Circularity2, LLC

United States
C2 will be “first to scale” in delivering high-integrity biochar for carbon dioxide removal, through a proprietary US network of “localized biochar ecosystems”.
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GreenPod Labs

India
An Agritech startup developing active packaging to extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables at ambient temperature.
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Labby

United States
Labby specializes in digitizing the dairy farming industry through advanced mobile optical sensing solutions, offering real-time milk composition and quality information to farmers worldwide.
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UCROP.IT LLC

United States
UCROP.IT enables verified sustainable agriculture in a global scale to be shared amongst farmers and companies.
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Water management & quality

Aquacycl

United States
Aquacycl’s wastewater treatment as a service improves water quality, increases resilience, reduces costs and mitigates 90% of GHG emissions.
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Autonomous Pivot

Israel
An autonomous AI solution for row-crops irrigation, fertigation and crop-protection.
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H+H LABS PSA

Poland
H+H Labs intends to be the market leader in small and mobile water treatment, recovery, and desalination units using supercavitation.
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Livestock Water Recycling

Canada
LWR is cleaning the worlds wastewater by transforming biomass from livestock and food production into RNG, carbon offsets, and natural fertilizers enabling food producers to maximize profits and their ESG.
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Nanobubble Agritech

New Zealand
Nanobubble Systems add super high amounts of oxygen to water to dramatically improve crop yield and water use efficiency.
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Permalution

Canada
Permalution has developed climate adaptation technology using fog and clouds and are on a mission to democratize a new water source.
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SWAN Systems

Australia
Revolutionising agriculture with precision irrigation technology for sustainable water management, higher yields, and optimal resource use.
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Judging Panel

Ag-Science Researcher, Agronomist, IPI coordinator

Manager of Kubota Innovation Center Silicon Valley

Director, Agricultural and Environmental Metrics

VP, Global Carbon Assets & Quality

Technology Innovation Manager

Director of Corporate Programs

Senior Director Data & Digital Platform

Managing Director EMEA
& Global Programs

Vice President, Petroleum and Innovation

Brand Expansion & Portfolio Manager

Associate Vice President, Investments

Venture Partner

Hadar Sutovsky

VP External Innovation, ICL Group
GM of ICL Planet Startup Hub

Director, Innovation

Managing Director Canada

Founder & CEO

Vice President,
Agriculture

GM of Kubota Innovation Center Silicon Valley

Vice President - Research & Development

Plant Health Technology Lead, R&D

Head of AgroStart and Digital Officer - Agricultural Solutions NA

AgTech Front End Innovation Leader

Partner

Sr. Director of Venture Investments

Managing Director - Innovation Center Europe at Kubota Holdings Europe

Managing Director, Research for Industry

Regional Digital
Strategist

Director, Fund and FellowshipDirector, Fund and Fellowship

Digital Innovation Coordinator

Regenerative Agriculture Impact Investing Manager

Solution Success
Manager

Senior
Vice President

Director Of Sustainability

Digital Innovation Manager

Sustainability Data Scientist

Head of Sustainability Excellence

Open Innovation Lead

Partnerships & Ecosystem

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