Pitch your innovative startup to a select audience of eager investors, potential partners, and influential thought leaders at this exclusive Climate Innovation event.

Background

The global agriculture industry is grappling with significant challenges, including dramatic climate change, severe resource scarcity, evolving consumer demands, and frequent supply chain disruptions. These pressing issues underscore the urgent need for sustainable, resilient, and equitable agricultural solutions. Groundbreaking innovations in agriculture offer promising opportunities to enhance crop yields, boost nutrient efficiency, and significantly reduce environmental impact.

St. Louis, renowned for its rich agricultural heritage and vibrant innovation ecosystem, serves as the perfect venue to convene global leaders and visionary innovators to collaboratively drive progress in sustainable agriculture.

Building on the success of the 2024 ReACH Summit and the Global Food Systems Dialogue Series, this event aims to further cultivate a dedicated community committed to transforming food systems through advanced agricultural techniques. This highly interactive, diverse workshop, by invitation only, will focus on propelling this crucial initiative forward.

Event highlights: Startups will have the unique opportunity to showcase their cutting-edge companies and pioneering innovations to a dynamic and engaged community, amplifying the momentum towards groundbreaking agricultural and food systems transformation.

'Climate Innovation Day' will spotlight revolutionary technologies, products, and solutions that are actively reshaping the future of plant nutrition and crop development, with the potential to profoundly revolutionize agriculture and address global challenges.”

What we're looking for

Areas of interest

We're interested in startups focused on areas including:

Plant nutrition
Next generation crops

Startup location

Accepting applications from startups based in all countries

Stage of funding

We're looking for startups at the following stages:

Pre-seed
Seed
Series A

Acceptable technology readiness levels (TRL)

We're looking for startups with solutions in the following TRL range:

Levels 1-9

What we can offer you

Benefits:

Expertise

Connectivity to Bayer, Clim-Eat and other ecosystem partners. Interactive workshops led by industry experts will provide attendees with practical insights and actionable strategies for driving innovation in plant nutrition and next-generation crops.

Networking

Networking opportunities throughout the event and beyond will enable attendees to be part of a supportive formal community of innovators reinforcing regenerative solutions. This platform will support cross-sector collaboration, knowledge exchange, catalyze new partnerships and initiatives that can drive meaningful impact related to food, climate, nature and just transition critical areas.

Who we are

Bayer’s vision of #HealthForAll, #HungerForNone drives our need to strengthen innovation capabilities in all areas of agriculture. We know we can’t accomplish this alone, so we're always interested to hear about novel, early-stage scientific innovations that can contribute to feeding the world without starving the planet. You have our commitment to take a look, match with our R&D priorities and provide you timely feedback.

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Reviewers

Phil Taylor

Director of Open Innovation & Outreach

Dan Ruzicka

Innovation Sourcing Lead - Biotech Breeding

Q&A with Bayer Crop Science

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In-Person Locations

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Relevant Keywords

Agricultural Engineering

Agricultural Science

Crop Cultivation and Harvesting

Food Engineering & Processing

Sustainability