AG 4 Future
Food Accelerator
For a Sustainable AG-Food Revolution
from Seed to Plate




















Our Focus on Sustainability
Sella Group and dpixel support the growth of startups operating in the agriculture field and bringing disruptive innovations to the market through innovative technologies, in order to reduce costs, manage complexity and increase capabilities, designing the entire food chain of the future: sustainable, accessible, efficient, climate-proof and adaptable to change.
Why AG 4 Future Food Accelerator
From hoeing to crop rotation, from refrigeration to hydroponics, from pasteurization to artificial meat, from freeze-dried foods to insect-based flour, innovation flourishes when applied to the AG sector.
All the more so today, with a globalized market that must respond to a demand for quality for 8 billion people.
A quality that must be guaranteed starting from the seed and up to the user’s plate, through solutions applied not only to the field but also to distribution, to the fresh chain, to packaging, to martech. The future of food must take into account all these areas of application.
AG 4 FUTURE FOOD answers this question through the selection of the best startups and international entrepreneurial projects, through partnerships with the best companies in the sector, through investments and through the most qualifying mentorship path on a global scale.
Our People’s View on AG

Martina Pace
Partner, COO
PeakBridge
“When we were approached to join the Agrifood 4 Future Food programme, we were immediately drawn in! We feel that Gruppo Sella’s vision to support AgriFood is aligned with our vision in support of the sector as a critical contributor for impact in the sustainability space. Although our food system contributes to climate change, the reverse also holds true. Due to increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, novel pest species, and shock weather events, climate change is influencing how we grow crops, creating a vicious cycle. PeakBridge’s view is that there is a need for disruption, which will come from innovation in terms of enabling technologies such as Alternative Agriculture, Alternative Proteins, Waste Circularity, Novel Ingredients. The ever-growing funding directed towards FoodTech in the last years has been key in establishing the sector. Further FoodTech venture capital investment is needed to ensure the sector continues to grow and scale to be able to reach the audacious climate goals”

Gianpiero Menza
Senior Manager – PartnersHips & Innovative Finance, Alliance/CGIAR
CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform scouts and supports talented teams and their science-driven ventures that hold the potential to radically transform agriculture for healthier, equitable, and sustainable food systems while contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.”

Marco Carminati
Sella Group

Martina Pace
“When we were approached to join the Agrifood 4 Future Food programme, we were immediately drawn in! We feel that Gruppo Sella’s vision to support AgriFood is aligned with our vision in support of the sector as a critical contributor for impact in the sustainability space. Although our food system contributes to climate change, the reverse also holds true. Due to increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, novel pest species, and shock weather events, climate change is influencing how we grow crops, creating a vicious cycle. PeakBridge’s view is that there is a need for disruption, which will come from innovation in terms of enabling technologies such as Alternative Agriculture, Alternative Proteins, Waste Circularity, Novel Ingredients. The ever-growing funding directed towards FoodTech in the last years has been key in establishing the sector. Further FoodTech venture capital investment is needed to ensure the sector continues to grow and scale to be able to reach the audacious climate goals”

Gianpiero Menza
“Agri-tech holds enormous expectations for finding effective solutions for agriculture and climate change, and there is an increasing interest from governments and investors. If properly scaled, many promising innovations could have a tremendous impact.
CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform scouts and supports talented teams and their science-driven ventures that hold the potential to radically transform agriculture for healthier, equitable, and sustainable food systems while contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals.”
Our People’s View on AG

Marco Carminati
“Sella Group’s daily and structured commitment to contributing to a more sustainable world is strengthened today with an initiative in a key sector for society and the planet, agriculture, and it does so by involving key players in renewal: startups, companies that can accelerate positive change with concrete results through sustainable innovation, in line with Sella’s ESG initiatives and objectives.”
Our Focus on Sustainability
The Accelerator
Dpixel and Sella Group aim to enable the agricultural domain, engaging with high potential startups able to design new AG & future food solutions that increasingly respond to the needs of society
promoted by
Founded in 1886, Banca Sella is the commercial bank of the Sella Group, excellence in the Italian financial world for its ability to innovate

Venture Incubator with over 10 years of experience in innovation processes supporting the best global startups
ecosystem partner

Innovation platform aimed at startups and companies to support growth, open innovation processes and digital transformation
Global Ecosystem Partner

Global research partnership for a food-secure future dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. Accelerate for Impact Platform (A4IP) is the venture space that harnesses scientific creativity, technological ingenuity, and entrepreneurship for transformative solutions for sustainable agriculture and climate action
partners

European leader in innovative and sustainable production and marketing of nuts, dried fruit, seeds, chocolate, and snacks

Founded in 1968, specialized in the production and distribution of preserved food worldwide, with high quality standards and careful selection of raw materials

Major supplier to large supermarket chains both in Italy and abroad, specialised in the “private label” sector – the supermarket’s brands

Proud pasta makers of over 120 shapes of PGI Gragnano Pasta, made only with 100% Italian durum wheat , bronze die and slowly dried at low temperature
Technical Partners





funds







100K€
Our Offer
Hey Startup,
We’re Looking for You!
We invest and support highly motivated teams and international startups in the pre-seed phase operating on cutting-edge technologies
How It Works
The program is spread over a total duration of 16 weeks (in addition to the scouting phase) and is divided into 4 phases with intermediate selections, to identify only the best startups.
Throughout the program, corporate partners are involved to get to know, according to their interest and availability, the participating startups
1° step – 18 Weeks
Scouting
& selection
2° step – 8 Weeks
Business Acceleration
3° step – 4 Weeks
Technical
Validation
4° step – 4 Weeks
Match
making
Innovative Food
New flavours
Cultured meat
4.0 food & beverage
Bug-based powder
High-performance food
Ag Biotechnology
Seeds
Bioenergy
Genetics
Chemicals
biopharmaceuticals
Automation & Robotics
Integrated sensors
Precision equipment
Connected agriculture
AI supply handling
Autonomous machinery
Data devices
Geoengineering
Agri market places
Farm optimization
Big data analytics
Decision support software
Logistics
Smart warehousing
Traceability
4.0 food packaging
Shelf life enhancement
Logistics optimization