Pitch AgriHack is a digital agriculture competition focused on accelerating entrepreneurial growth and job creation in the agricultural sector by leveraging advanced technologies and youth participation in Africa’s food security agenda. This eighth edition of Pitch AgriHack invites African Businesses to pitch their approach to driving technological innovation in the agricultural sector. Generation Africa, a thematic platform of the AGRF will host the competition, which is sponsored by the global development organization Heifer International.
The competition provides cash prizes to innovators driving increased use of technology and job creation across the agricultural sector in Africa.
WORTH
- 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 on Africa’s smallholder farmers.
- 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 5-9 in Kigali.
- Top contestants will receive a one-day BootCamp in preparation for their final pitches, with winners receiving continued support as they develop and grow their enterprises.
ELIGIBILITY
- The open competition portion of Pitch AgriHack 2022 will support companies that are driving innovation in agriculture across three categories with prizes totalling US$45,000:
- Early-stage
- Mature/ Growth-stage
- Women-led
DEADLINE: July 29 2022
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