SEEDBED 2020

This multi-location Launch programme trains and supports teams over a six-month period to help them better understand the needs of their customers and validate their business ideas. Seedbed is designed for early stage products or services that utilise innovative agrifood technologies set to make a big impact on any part of the food sector, including the way we produce, deliver, consume, recycle and value our food.

WHO

Technology and business savvy agrifood entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and early-stage startups looking to validate their minimum viable product and test their assumptions.

HOW

This game-changing customer-discovery programme allows you to test the market directly with 100+ potential customers and learn how to progress from commercial proposition to validated business. At the end of the programme, you’ll pitch your idea to a panel of industry experts, receiving constructive feedback and the chance to secure up to €20,000 follow-on funding from EIT Food to help bring your product to market.

• Training at a five-day residential bootcamp based on unique customer-oriented methodology to help you create a startup business model. Your business address will determine your Seedbed bootcamp location. See below for 2020 dates and locations 
• Mentorship from leading agrifood sector experts with specialised knowledge and skills to develop food sector innovation
• Funding of up to €10,000 to validate your business idea with potential customers, plus the opportunity to access a further €20,000 through a Startup Launch Grant.

APPLICATION

Applications for Seedbed 2020 open on Monday 13th January and must be completed and submitted by Sunday 15th March 2020 at 5pm. 

The application form will ask you to complete a series of questions about your team; business idea and status; and how it relates to EIT Food strategic objectives.

We also require a short 1-2-minute video which clearly describes the product or service you want to bring to market. Only candidates who submit a complete application, answering all the questions in the online application form, will have their applications evaluated by reviewers. Applications must be submitted in English.

Please complete you application online in this link