Pitch Agrihack is a digital agriculture competition focused on accelerating entrepreneurial growth and job creation in the agriculture sector by leveraging advanced technologies and youth participation in Africa’s food security agenda.
This seventh edition of Pitch AgriHack invites African businesses to pitch their approach to driving technological innovation in the agriculture sector. Generation Africa, a thematic platform of the AGRF will host the competition, which is sponsored by global development organization Heifer International.
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Six winners will be selected from the open-application categories and two winners from the invite-only AYuTe Africa Challenge category. The winners will be announced at the AGRF Summit which takes place September 6-10 in Nairobi.
Benefits
- The competition provides cash prizes to innovators driving increased use of technology and job creation across the agricultural sector in Africa.
- The open competition portion of Pitch AgriHack 2021 will support companies that are driving innovation in agriculture across three categories with prizes totaling US$45,000:
- Early-stage,
- Mature/Growth-stage,
- Women-led
- A fourth invite-only category, known as the AYuTe Africa Challenge, sponsored by Heifer International, will award up to US$1.5 million in grants to scalable ventures that are already generating measurable impact for Africa’s smallholder farmers.
- Top contestants will receive a one-day boot camp in preparation for their final pitches, with winners receiving continued support as they develop and grow their enterprises.
- Business profiles of the finalists will also be published in a Deal Book for circulation at the AGRF and online, while individual profiles will be made public on the genafrica.org platform and reviewed for relevance to their investor community.
Eligibilities
Applicants should have:
- A clear and defined description on how their solution is impacting small holder farmers
- Strong organizational and operational structure
The applicant applying must:
- be aged 18-40 on the day of submission to the 2021 Pitch AgriHack Competition
- be the founder/co-founder of the enterprise represented in the competition and play an active role in its operations and leadership
- have no criminal record related to corruption, tax evasion, financial impropriety, felony or other offences
- Not be a previous Pitch AgriHack finalist or winner
- must submit the application form in English
- must agree with the Terms & Conditions
Application Process
- You have to provide your Company Name and Founding Date.
- Tell them what you do and why your Business has potential.
- Pitch video url and this can be your Instagram, Youtube, Vimeo, Daily Motion Video or Slideshare presentation.
- You have to submit your address.
- You have show your online presence through website or Social media.
- To apply for any program, you need to create a user account on VC4A.
- When this is done, you can log in, go to the program page you wish to apply for and click on the “apply” button to start your application. Most application forms allow you to ‘Save & continue later’ so you don’t have to complete the application in one go. You can always find your saved and submitted applications in the Applications tab in your profile.
- Some programs require you to have a venture profile on VC4A too. If you don’t have a venture profile yet,go to your account and click on “add a venture”.
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Application Deadline: August 16, 2021
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