Radicle Growth

Radicle Growth invests in the agriculture and food industries. It is known for the Radicle Challenge, a pitch-day competition that it created to find entrepreneurs who are solving a problem or changing an existing business model.

At each challenge, start-ups pitch to a panel of judges. The winner receives an investment and access to Radicle's network of contacts.

What Radicle Growth offers

• The Radicle Challenge: pitch competitions built around investment themes such as stage of innovation.
• Investment: funding for the winning company.
• Ecosystem access: introductions to Radicle's network for the companies it backs.
• Deal flow programmes: challenges run with partners to find technologies, categories or regions that interest them.

Customers and markets

Start-ups in agriculture and food technology, and corporate partners looking for them. Partners named for past challenges include Syngenta, Nutrien, Corteva, Bayer, World Agri-Tech, OurCrowd and Start-Up Nation Central.

Key facts

• Sector: agriculture and food
• Format: partner-backed pitch days