AgLaunch has formally opened functions for the 2026 AgLaunch365 Accelerator, a daring, multi-stage problem designed to catapult the subsequent technology of agtech startups—not in a lab or a pitch room, however within the subject, shoulder-to- shoulder with farmers. Purposes are due by September 15, 2025.

When you’re constructing a breakthrough startup that may reshape how we develop meals, increase animals or steward the land, then we’re your proving floor.

AgLaunch365 isn’t like different accelerators. We embed founders immediately into the real-world complexity of farming. Chosen startups will companion with AgLaunch’s aligned and related nationwide farmer community, made up of farmers working tons of of 1000’s of acres, greater than 150 crops and all main courses of livestock. Utilizing normal trial protocols and milestones, these innovation-ready producers function throughout various areas and manufacturing programs all through the nation, forming an enormous, real-time suggestions loop that powers know-how validation and adaptation at scale.

What Accepted Startups Achieve

  • Funding: $100K preliminary funding, with extra milestone-based capital accessible by seed spherical to arrange for a strategically timed Collection A.
  • Farmer Perception: Endorsement and co-development help from the trusted nationwide farmer community.
  • On-Farm Trials: Industrial-scale testing in real-world circumstances in key markets, funded by a sponsored cost-share program developed with the Tennessee Division of Ag and now being replicated throughout the US.
  • Farm Knowledge Entry: Datasets from farm operations to coach, take a look at and refine your mannequin(s);
  • Technical Experience: Steerage from in-house agriculture experience from managing farm trials to constructing regional groups.
  • Enterprise Growth: Deep understanding of market entry and scaling inside a posh agricultural system.
  • Strategic Partnerships: Unapparelled entry to influential companions like Ag Ventures Alliance and Farm Journal.
  • First Entry: Precedence integration into new AgLaunch ventures together with the AgLaunch Knowledge Cooperative and others in growth.

What Accepted Startups Give

  • 10% fairness: Founder-friendly phrases to a shared pool benefiting farmers and mission-driven companions,
  • Time and Dedication: Willingness to iterate, refine, and scale your know-how in collaboration with AgLaunch and its ecosystem,
  • Embedded Engagement: Boots-on-the-ground method to fixing advanced agricultural challenges in farm areas throughout the U.S.
  • Unwavering Focus: Relentless drive to realize daring, system-changing outcomes.

What Kind of Startups Ought to Apply

Early-stage, pre-seed startups which might be engaged on groundbreaking applied sciences that want ongoing suggestions iterations from farmers.

  • Clever Farm Programs: Autonomous equipment, sensible infrastructure, AI-driven instruments, “vegetation as sensors”
  • Regenerative Organic Options: On-farm biomanufacturing, microbial and dwelling inputs
  • Farmer-Centered Knowledge Platforms: AI copilots, sensors and cooperative information ecosystems
  • Regionally Tailored Improvements: Options grounded in place, ecology and native tradition
  • Full-Stack Ag Robotics: Scalable robotics for labor, precision and worth supply

A full listing of 20 “areas of curiosity” is on the market HERE

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How It Works

The journey begins with a farmer-sourced down-select to yield invites to a 2-day aggressive, in-person Problem Occasion in Memphis, Tennessee this fall. Problem contributors will work together with AgLaunch, farmers and investor companions, refine their enterprise fashions and pitch to safe a spot within the unique 2026 AgLaunch365 cohort, which can begin in January 2026 with multi-year farm trials beginning in Spring of 2026. The startups chosen for the 2026 cohort will obtain deep help by product growth, subject validation and early commercialization constructed round actual farmer trials and co-development throughout the U.S. integrating into milestone- primarily based capital allocation.

If you need to be taught extra, please be part of us for a brief Q&A webinar:

  • August 4, 1-2pm CT: Registration hyperlink.
  • August 14, 12-1pm CT: Registration hyperlink.
  • August 25, 12-1pm CT: Registration hyperlink.

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