BECOME A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY​

We connect startup founders with the top companies and investors in the food and agribusiness industry in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.​

CAPITAL

Close the next funding round through private equity or venture capital investments.

PILOT

Discuss opportunities with our corporate partners.​

NETWORK

Get connected and take your place in the line of change makers.​

Our stage for startups has different formats, starting with a listing in our market overview, special reports about your activity, innovation crowdcasts, food-tech-focus events and the startup accelerator.

Please get wired with our team, to see what we can stage together.​

Our selection criteria:

If your startup meets the following criteria we’d love to get in touch:

Is your startup real?

  1. Early stage startup team, not a single entrepreneur
  2. Ideas in implementation and not in discovery
  3. Existing customer feedbacks and already in use or close to MVP

Is it worth doing?

  1. Long term market advantage based on unique technology
  2. Clear relevance for the food and agriculture value chain
  3. Good chance-to-risk profile

Can it win?

  1. Growing global demand for the problems solution
  2. No regional, national or cultural market barriers
  3. Founders willing to create the world’s best solution to the problem

OUR MENTORS AND EXPERTS

Bjoerne Drechsler

Bjoerne Drechsler

First Deputy Managing Director
«Ekoniva Technika-Holding» LLC
Member of the Management Board Ekotechnika AG

Leonid Yakovlev2

Leonid Yakovlev

Product manager
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Elena Zueva2

Elena Zueva

Corporate Communications Manager
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George Bilkis

George Bilkis

Manager Business Development and M&A
Group Strategy – New Business Ventures

Igor Bruevich

Igor Bruevich

General Manager
KWS Russia

MaikLaske

Maik Laske

Group Treasurer at Multitude SE,
Digital financial services and solutions provider

Ilya Mikhailov w

Ilya Mikhailov

Senior Analyst
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Sergey Sobolev

Sergey Sobolev

Director. Food & AgTech Development
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Alexander Markevich

Alexander Markevich

Agri-business & Food chain
expert in Russia

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Stefan Meyer

Vice-President
The Federal Union Aquakultur e.V.