Awards

Food4Future – Expo Foodtech is held every year in Bilbao. The event brings together professionals, avant-gardists and revolutionaries in the agri-food sector, with the aim of bringing together new ideas to advance the global transition towards efficient and sustainable food systems.

Agricolus, for the 2023 and 2024 editions, won the Foodtech Innovation Award for the category: “The most innovative solutions for the digitalization of the food and beverage industry”

Satellite data represent an added value for the Agrifood-Tech sector that affects several actors along the supply chain: starting from the first mile, where remote crop scouting is a very useful tool for farmers.

Agricolus has been selected as the winner and runner-up of the Call for Ideas “Space-Innovation for Agrifood-Tech: form Space to the Supply Chain”, launched by E. Amaldi Foundation, ESA Space Solution and ESA Business Application for Italy.

The Expo FoodTech Startup Forum was held as part of the 2021 edition of Food 4 Future, looking for startups whose solutions have an impact on the agri-food supply chain.

Among the 2000 startups in the sector, 200 applications were received and 20 companies were selected to present their pitch. Among them was Agricolus, which won the Startup Forum’s first prize with the opportunity to be part of an acceleration program.

The Global Agripreneurs Summit is a major international event where innovators and leaders in the agri-food sector from all over the world work together to contribute to the diffusion of innovations and push agriculture as a sustainable source of growth and economic development.

The Summit hosts the Future Agro Challenge: the Olympics of Agripreneurship where cutting-edge solutions from all over the world compete to win the title of “Agripreneur of the Year”. Agricolus was awarded the prize for the best team 2019.

The National Association of Young Innovators (ANGI) is the first italian non-profit organization entirely dedicated to the world of innovation. The Association’s mission is to present itself in Italy and around the world as a point of reference for development in all its forms.

In 2018, Agricolus received the award for the AgTech category, one of the eleven categories awarded, for a total of twenty-two young companies: the top managers of large Italian and international corporations presented the awards.

The Gaetano Marzotto Prize is one of the activities promoted by the Progetto Marzotto Association, founded in 2010 and inspired by the figure of Gaetano Marzotto. The Award is aimed at new entrepreneurs whose main objective is to make innovation, business and society coexist, opening a path oriented towards open innovation and internationalization.

For the 2018 edition, Agricolus was awarded the CAPITOL ONE SPECIAL AWARD | COPERNICO | MARZOTTO VENTURE ACCELERATOR  in the “From idea to business” category.

The “Start to Be Circular” is promoted by Fondazione Bracco, Fondazione Giuseppina Mai (Confindustria) and Banca Prossima, is an initiative created to promote the transition in favor of sustainable growth, through innovative entrepreneurial initiatives and dedicated to startups committed to the circular economy.

125 startups from 16 Italian regions applied for the call, including Agricolus, which ranked third, winning an incubation program at Speed ​​Mi Up, the incubator of Bocconi University, the Milan Chamber of Commerce and the Municipality of Milan, including training, tutoring and consultancy services.

Startup Europe Awards 2017 is an international competition promoted by the European Commission and the Finnova Foundation. It aims to stimulate open innovation and collaboration between the different actors of the European ecosystem through public-private partnerships in support of entrepreneurs.

The Italian call was addressed to all startups belonging to the following categories: Creative, Energy, Fintech, Green, e-Health, IoT, Smart Cities, Social Innovation, Tourism, Water, Agritech, Legal, Space, Cyber ​​security, Climate, Fashion, Edtech and Gastronomy. Agricolus was the winner for the Agritech category.

For the 2017 edition, held at the “La Nuvola di Roma” conference center, FORUM PA chose as its guiding theme the role that public administrations can and must have in building economic and social development that guarantees fair and sustainable well-being.

Agricolus was selected among the 100 projects positively evaluated by the Quality Jury for the initiative Premio 10×10 = 100 projects to change the PA at the FORUM PA Challenge 2017.

Now in its third edition, the initiative promoted by the Young Entrepreneurs of Confindustria del Sud in collaboration with associations that promote innovation, aims to give startups and SMEs an opportunity to get in touch with investors and potential partners to accelerate their growth.

Agricolus was selected for the AgroFood category, receiving training and feedback from qualified coaches and industry experts.

StartUp Europe is an initiative of the European Commission, one of the most important pillars of the “Digital Single Market” strategy.

Thanks to its innovative decision-support project, Agricolus won the prize offered by EBAN, the pan-European organization representing “early stage” investors present in over 150 organizations in over 50 countries.

It also received the IBN prize, offered by IAG, Italian Angels for Growth, one of the largest italian business angel networks.