Eight AgTech Startups Selected for SAP.iO Foundry Paris Accelerator Program

14 avril 2021

As part of its new Agribusiness acceleration program, SAP.iO Foundry Paris has unveiled the 8 start-ups specializing in innovation around agriculture and agri-food selected. Three French start-ups, Connecting Food, Sencrop, and Procsea France SAS, are among the companies joining SAP’s accelerator.

For 10 weeks, SAP.iO will support these start-ups in their growth, both on the business and technological aspects. New technologies will be at the center of this program, with the aim of helping agribusiness and agriculture transform to make a positive and sustainable impact.

Data, artificial intelligence, blockchain to transform agriculture and the agri-food industry

This accelerator program initiated by SAP.iO Foundry Paris will focus on 3 major issues:

Digital Farming & Data-Driven Agriculture: how to integrate data, artificial intelligence, analytics, decision support platform in Agribusiness?
Next-gen Agricultural Origination Processes: how to combine compliance and traceability throughout the production and transformation process?
Sustainable AgriBusiness Supply Chains: how to make agriculture more responsible and environmentally friendly throughout the value chain?

Sébastien Gibier, director of the SAP.iO accelerator talks about this new program and its objectives:

“The food industry is a major business sector for France. At the European level, it ranks second behind Germany, and today there are many large French groups with international scope. Innovation is a key factor in the sector’s competitiveness, and it is also a means of reducing global food inequalities and problems.

It is in this context that we decided to support start-ups in the Agtech field. It is with great enthusiasm that we are launching our first SAP start-up acceleration program entirely dedicated to agriculture and agribusiness. This new international program aims to bring various improvements to the agribusiness sector: greater efficiency, transparency and security.

With this in mind, we have selected these eight French and foreign start-ups whose mission is to create innovative solutions that complement those of SAP and together bring more value to our customers.

The eight winners

Eight high value-added start-ups specialising in procurement, supply chain, production monitoring platforms and decision support tools will benefit from this programme.

There are three French start-ups, two American, one Israeli, one German and one Canadian. Here is the complete list:

Connecting Food, a French start-up using blockchain technology and smart modules to provide transparency, end-to-end traceability and a complete digital audit of food products before they reach consumers’ hands.
Sencrop, a French decision support platform with the particularity of being able to manage and animate a community around its platform that can connect together IoT sensors and different sources of information that will help the farmer make the right decision.
Procsea France SAS, a French start-up based in Rennes, which seeks to provide the seafood industry with the latest technologies, structuring and standardizing data, and improving the traceability and sustainability of the industry. In doing so, it aims to bring value to each of these players and also transform the seafood trade as a whole.
Agrora, based in Germany, enables agricultural processors and traders to save time on procurement and distribution processes by offering procurement software for agricultural products.
Heavy Connect, a US-based mobile compliance platform that addresses the challenges faced by farmers who are often faced with numerous health and regulatory controls.
Grain Chain Inc, a US start-up, provides a platform to level the playing field for producers, buyers, storage operators, lenders and all other participants in the global agricultural supply chain. Its solution combines blockchain and IoT-driven technology to automatically verify and execute smart contracts, creating fully automated and digitized workflows at every step.
Milk Moovement, an established Canadian startup that scales across the entire milk supply chain, from harvest to delivery. Milk Moovement acts as a communication tool between all companies involved in the dairy supply chain.
Clairifruit, an Israeli start-up specializing in the quality control of fresh produce, especially fruit, which uses artificial intelligence and cameras to identify whether fruit is of good quality and fit for consumption.