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?
- Early stage startup team, not a single entrepreneur
- Ideas in implementation and not in discovery
- Existing customer feedbacks and already in use or close to MVP
Is it worth doing?
- Long term market advantage based on unique technology
- Clear relevance for the food and agriculture value chain
- Good chance-to-risk profile
Can it win?
- Growing global demand for the problems solution
- No regional, national or cultural market barriers
- Founders willing to create the world’s best solution to the problem
OUR MENTORS AND EXPERTS
Bjoerne Drechsler
First Deputy Managing Director
«Ekoniva Technika-Holding» LLC
Member of the Management Board Ekotechnika AG
Leonid Yakovlev
Product manager
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Elena Zueva
Corporate Communications Manager
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George Bilkis
Manager Business Development and M&A
Group Strategy – New Business Ventures
Igor Bruevich
General Manager
KWS Russia
Maik Laske
Group Treasurer at Multitude SE,
Digital financial services and solutions provider
Ilya Mikhailov
Senior Analyst
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Sergey Sobolev
Director. Food & AgTech Development
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Alexander Markevich
Agri-business & Food chain
expert in Russia
Stefan Meyer
Vice-President
The Federal Union Aquakultur e.V.