Acceleration & Market Entry Program

As a later stage accelerator powered by RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG, one of Europe’s biggest players in agriculture, we offer tailored solutions and precisely the resources you need right now to boost your business. With each StartUp participating in the program, we design a joint innovation project over five months, including a monthly intensive Acceleration Week, which will be tailored to your individual business requirements.

This innovation project comprises a go-to-market or business expansion strategy based on both, the customer’s necessities and the StartUp’s core competencies. To implement the joint innovation project, all StartUps in the program will be provided with an individual project budget.

Market access

  • 1,000+ distribution sites
  • 200,000+ farmers
  • International sales network in 9+ countries

Investment/Resources

  • Access to an individual project budget for the implementation of a joint innovation project
  • Chances for strategic investment by RWA

Network & Know-how

  • Dedicated Lead-Mentors from RWA and the Lagerhaus cooperatives assist in scaling up and entering new markets
  • 120 years of market experience in agriculture and affiliated industries

StartUp-friendly Design

  • 5 Acceleration weeks in Vienna
  • Weekly remote coaching sessions
  • Coverage of travel expenses

Questions about the program?

Write to us: office@agroinnolab.com

Our Alumni:

2018

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Cabasus

Cabasus invented a High Tech health and activity tracker for horses. The device allows tracking the health of the horse 24/7 via a mobile app. As a health measurement, the tool helps to detect and prevent colic, lameness, diseases, and further training can be improved due to monitoring analysis.

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BIORFARM

Biorfarm is an online platform for direct marketing of agricultural products. Consumers can adopt organic trees, beehives, or vines and receive their harvest directly at home. On Biorfarm, the customer creates his own digital orchard and can monitor the plant’s growth process.

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Vitirover

Vitirover revolutionizes weed control in viticulture and fruit production with the development and production of solar-powered, fully automated mower-robots, which represent an alternative to glyphosate. Vitirover is offering maintained hectares by deploying herds of mower-robots.

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Crop Intellect

Crop Intellect is a research and development company focused on developing innovative technologies for liquid fertilizers. The patented technologies increase yield, improve the quality of crops and prolong the shelf life of fruits. Crop Intellects products can be formulated as an additive and enhance the efficiency of existing products.

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Landpack

Landpack is specialized in the development, production, and marketing of environmentally friendly packaging, especially for grocery logistics. As an alternative to Styrofoam, they developed a new technology to produce organic, sustainable packaging out of pure straw fiber, which is not only an excellent insulating material but also moisture regulating and shock-absorbent.

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Insylo

Insylo has a groundbreaking solution that allows the remote monitoring of the livestock farms’ silos and the optimization of the replenishment logistics at a fraction of the costs of comparable solutions. Due to real-time monitoring of the filling levels in silos, the logistic process can be optimized and further time and money saved.

2017

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agra2b

agra2b is an online trading system that helps farmers improve their agricultural purchase and sales by digitizing, analyzing and simplifying their agricultural trade. The system supports farmers in communication, administration, and settlement with suppliers and customers in order to increase success sustainably.

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BartsParts.eu

BartsParts.eu is a webshop for slow-moving spare parts in the field of agricultural and lawn mowing technology. BartsParts combines decentralized stored spare parts into an integrated, digital spare part warehouse and conveys them to purchasers worldwide. Thus, local spare parts warehouses can utilize their old stock and customers can choose from a large offer with high discounts.

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FarmPin

FarmPin helps to improve plant performance due to satellite imagery and growth graphs. Problems such as crop stress, plant moisture distribution, clogged nozzles, and pest damage can be detected earlier with this technology. Farmers receive growth graphs from their fields directly on their smartphones and can react faster.

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FarmHedge

FarmHedge is a mobile and secure trading platform between farmers and agribusiness companies. The tool allows resellers to send tailored offers directly to their customer’s smartphones. Farmers can, in return, send requests to buy products or sell commodities.

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Livestock Technology Services Inc.

Livestock Technology Services Inc. is designing and manufacturing IoT-based capsules that are orally ingestible by cows and measure temperature, drinking/eating habits, movement, and other critical biometric data for disease, estrus-, and birth management. The data is collected up to 300 times per day and cow and is analyzed using a proprietary Deep Learning algorithm.

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Livin Farms

Livin Farms offers the first desktop hive for the growth of healthy and sustainable food in the form of mealworms at home. The Hive is a portable, smart insect farm with a micro-ecosystem for mealworms, with the additional benefit of recycling food waste. Further, Livin Farms currently develops a mass production system, which also should enable the production of mealworms for B2B customers.

2016

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CropTech

CropTech is a StartUp from Slovakia that developed a sensor-based monitoring and automation system, which can be used for various applications such as hydroponics, aquariums, and gardens. Their product “ResponzIO” is designed to fully automate all processes and adapts its actions based on sensor feedback.

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Evja

The Italian StartUp Evja is combining Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and self-calibrating agronomic models. They developed the so-called OPI, an Intelligent Support System that helps farmers lower the usage of chemical products and water due to real-time monitoring and enables early prediction of diseases.

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Evologic Technologies

Evologic Technologies invented a unique technology that allows growing hairy roots in industrial-scale bioreactors. Their novel technology enables large-scale AMF (Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi) production at a competitive price. The advantages are an increase in accessible soil volume, nutrient uptake efficiency, and water efficiency.

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Tevatronic

Tevatronic, an Israeli StartUp, developed an autonomous irrigation control system. Sensors are measuring the actual need for water, which in turn optimizes the usage of water and fertilizers. Their system is fully capable of deciding when and how much to irrigate, and it executes the irrigation decision without human intervention.