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Santander Startups The Call Agro

Santander SmartLab

We’re looking for innovative startups to help digitalisation and sustainability in the agriculture industry in Spain and/ or Portugal.

  • Aimed at: Startups/Scaleups
  • Located in: Any country
  • From the sector / s:
    • Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Forestry and Fishing
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    • Food and Food Production
    • Hardware and Production of Computer and Electronic Components
    • Business Management and Consultancy Activities
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  • Requirements

    For this programme, Santander is looking for startups that:

    • are established as a legal entity
    • have a product or service in the market and demonstrate traction (turnover, customer growth and other indicators)
    • are innovative solutions geared towards the needs of the agriculture industry
    • are aligned with one or more use cases proposed by Banco Santander.   


    Furthermore, the programme seeks new lines of business that work in a startup mode (innovative business lines, with a high technological capacity, professionals specialized in different sectors and with fluid contact with the customer, agile development, ongoing prototyping, etc.) and fulfil that which is described above.  


    Essentially, the call has been conceived for use within the sphere of Spain and, or in Portugal

  • General information

    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.


    The selected initiatives will be able to test out their innovative solutions by virtue of Banco Santander’s support, conducting concept testing with clients and agents from the agriculture industry.  


    In which challenge do you wish to register your startup?


    Digitalisation

    We help farmers and manufacturers to:

    • Discover new products to replace current ones. 
    • Avoid losses to ensure greater competitiveness in traditional dryland farming.


    We provide technology, data and business analytics to:

    • Improve information systems on production. 
    • Harvest crops based on data rather than on intuition or habit. 


    Sustainability

    We 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.


    We 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.

     

    The programme


    Find out whether your startup can participate.



    We’re 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.


    Why participate?


    Because at Banco Santander we take the improvement of one of Spain’s and the planet’s key industries — the agriculture industry — extremely seriously, which is why we’re offering you the chance to:


    • Access training and mentoring with our 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.

Call stages

1. Application Period
from Mar 8, 21 to Apr 13, 21
2. Evaluation of startups
from Apr 14, 21 to Apr 16, 21
3. Selection Day
from Apr 27, 21 to Apr 29, 21
4. Conceptual Pilot
from May 10, 21 to Aug 1, 21
5. Demo Day
from Sep 19, 21 to Sep 22, 21

This event will see the startups privately present the results of their concept testing.


Please note


The milestones and dates outlined may be subject to changes made by Santander to optimise the programme’s execution. Participants will be informed of such changes by email or on the website.

Open stage
from Sep 20, 21 to Sep 22, 21 - 10:59 PM (GMT+01:00)
Selection process
the Sep 23, 21
Applications closed
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