We are excited to announce our upcoming participation in the 2013 VilCap/VentureWell – Louisville Agriculture and Cleantech Accelerator program, a sustainable energy and agriculture business competition in Louisville, Kentucky.
This competition is seeking the next generation of enterprises focused on technology-driven solutions to the country’s most pressing agriculture and energy issues.
We have partnered with Village Capital and VentureWell to sponsor the competition. Like Sustainable America, Village Capital and VentureWell seek to find, evaluate and fund derserving early-stage businesses that focus on sustainability. Sustainable America believes in the power of markets and entrepreneurs to affect positive change.
Do you have an innovation in energy or agriculture that will change the world?
We encourage you to apply if:
- You have a commercially scalable technology invention delivering impact
- Are working in one (or more) of the following verticals:
- Agriculture, including agribusiness local/sustainable food, and supply chains
- Energy or Environmental Sustainability, including renewable energy and emissions reduction
Selected ventures will participate in an outcome-based accelerator (18 winning programs in 6 countries to date), present to leading investors, and be mentored by industry leaders and their peers. Village Capital and VentureWell will pre-commit $100,000 of investment ($50,000 each for the top two enterprises), with participating entrepreneurs themselves deciding who receives investment.
If you are an entrepreneur with a sustainable energy or agriculture business and want to find out more about competing, click here to apply!
We’re proud to be making our first investment as an organization in partnership with Village Capital and VentureWell and and look forward to seeing all of the exciting new innovations! Sustainable America has set goals to reduce oil usage by 50% and increase food availability by 50% by 2035, and supporting the best and brightest’s innovative ideas takes us one step closer to reaching those goals.
Contact Sustainable America’s Gray Peckham at gray@sustainableamerica.org, or Village Capital’s Gray Robinson gray.robinson@vilcap.com to apply or find out more.
