The HudsonAlpha AgTech accelerator invests up to 100,000 $ per year in ten high-growth startups (cohorts of five) working at the forefront of agricultural innovation.

HudsonAlpha AgTech Powered by gener8tor draws on HudsonAlpha's extensive experience in agroscience, in particular genomics. agriculturalplant breeding and diversity cultures; with gener8tor's national network of mentors and investors, and Huntsville's innate strengths as a technology centre. The programme invests in the best and the brightest startups that meet the challenges of food and nutrition food of a growing planet.

Each start-up receives a cash investment of 100,000 $ gener8tor, office space and access to gener8tor's global network of mentors and investors.

Benefits

• Investment
  • The selected teams will receive a investment 100,000 $ in exchange for 7.5 % of your company's equity using a simple agreement for future equity (SAFE).
• Cohort programmes
  • Weekly cohort programming covering topics such as understanding market size, choosing a revenue model and how to present to investors.
• 1 million + in offers and benefits
  • Incredible offers and benefits from providers such as IBM Cloud, Rackspace, Amazon, PayPal, Zendesk, Hubspot and Microsoft.
• Mentoring, coaching and one-to-one meetings
  • Twelve weeks of one-to-one coaching and mentoring from the gener8tor team in bi-weekly one-to-one meetings. One-to-one meetings with 100+ connections, including serial entrepreneurs, industry experts and investors.
• Office space
  • Participants will become part of the HudsonAlpha ecosystem and have access to state-of-the-art facilities on the 152-acre biotech campus. Companies will also have the opportunity to connect and collaborate with HudsonAlpha scientists.

Become a mentor

• Mentors are essential to the success of HudsonAlpha AgTech. Once a week during the programme, they invite a mentor to 'fast network' with each of the participating startups during a two-hour session. There will be opportunities to mentor in person or virtually so that teams can benefit from your expertise wherever you are.

Criteria

• Applications are welcome from start-ups based anywhere in the world and innovating in any area of agriculture.
• You must move to Huntsville, AL for the duration of the programme to take full advantage of cohort programming and the strength of the local ecosystem.
• Start-ups must participate in person.

For more information, please visit gener8tor.