AGRI UDAAN- Food and Agribusiness Accelerator 2.0 (Download PDF)

ICAR-NAARM Technology Business Incubator (TBI), a-IDEA and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad’s (IIM-A) incubator Center for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) announced “AGRI UDAAN”- Food and Agribusiness Accelerator 2.0.

Programme to select startups for mentoring to scale operations in agri-value chain for effective improvement in agriculture.

• 6 month program where shortlisted agri startups will be mentored to scale up their operations- called Accelerator.

• Selected innovative startups should have working prototype and initial market traction

• Support given through education, mentorship, and financing.

• Startups enter accelerators for a time as part of a cohort- shortlisted by evaluation panel comprising of industry veterans, business experts, R&D scientists.

• Four distinct factors make accelerators unique-

  • Fixed term

  • Cohort based

  • Mentorship driven

  • Culminate into demo day

• About 8 to 12 startups to be selected for final cohort for capacity building workshop.

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AGRI UDAAN will be reaching out to agri-startups with a series of road shows in Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata & Hyderabad.

Past Accelerator Program

Previously NAARM TBI a-IDEA India’s first Food & Agribusiness accelerator 2015 in partnership with IIM-A CIIE, National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB) created a great impact- providing impetus to AGRI UDAAN – a unique initiative for upliftment of agri startups

Rigorous Mentoring and Acceleration

• Shortlisted cohort of startups to undergo a capacity building (CB) workshop in ICAR-NAARM.

• Startups to be trained in aspects of technology commercialization, product validation, business plan preparation, risk analysis, customer engagement, finance management, fund raising etc.

• A match making process between startup and mentor.

• Accelerator program to culminate with demo day with investors at Hyderabad and Mumbai.