Banco Santander is looking for innovative startups to help digitalisation and sustainability in the agriculture industry in Spain and/ or Portugal.
Sponsoring Agency: Banco Santander
Size of the Fund: Not Available
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/11/2021
This open innovation programme promoted by Banco Santander fosters collaboration with startups to resolve the major challenges facing the agriculture industry and to help farmers and stockbreeders to boost the productivity, profitability and sustainability of crops and livestock.
Challenges
• Digitalisation
o They help farmers and manufacturers to:
Discover new products to replace current ones.
Avoid losses to ensure greater competitiveness in traditional dryland farming.
They provide technology, data and business analytics to:
Improve information systems on production.
Harvest crops based on data rather than on intuition or habit.
• Sustainability
o They look for solutions that:
Reduce and optimise the use of phytosanitary products.
Improve water use.
Enable an efficient use of fertilisers without compromising profitability.
Allow precise farming.
They provide farmers and stockbreeders with tools so they too can help the planet:
Integrating the value chain to deliver organic products.
Endowing farming processes with greater intelligence and analysis.
Promoting the consumption of national organic products to the population.
Benefits
Because at Banco Santander they take the improvement of one of Spain’s and the planet’s key industries — the agriculture industry — extremely seriously, which is why they are offering you the chance to:
• Access training and mentoring with their experts.
• Conduct concept testing inside the framework of the Santander Startups The Call open innovation programme.
• Receive support in managing and carrying out concept testing.
• Explore a potential commercial and investment relationship with Banco Santander.
Eligibility Criteria
• For this program, Santander is looking for startups that:
o are established as a legal entity
o have a product or service in the market and demonstrate traction (turnover, customer growth and other indicators)
o are innovative solutions geared towards the needs of the agriculture industry
o are aligned with one or more use cases proposed by Banco Santander.
• Essentially, the call has been conceived for use within the sphere of Spain and, or in Portugal.
• Banco Santander is looking for startups that are fully realised and/or established in the market and are operational in Spain and/or Portugal, having developed at least one MVP. They must also offer genuinely innovative solutions to work with farmers and stockbreeders in transforming the agriculture industry.
More information at https://www.santanderx.com/calls/santander-startups-the-call-agro/603620db4ede860012c8a465?detail=true
