The food and agtech accelerator has accepted an inaugural cohort of eight, with half of the intake focusing on the agtech space.
Yissum, the tech transfer company of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, formed a food and agtech accelerator called HUGrow yesterday to advance technologies based on research from the university.
HUGrow will be supported by Hebrew University’s agtech-focused seed fund AgrInnovation, its entrepreneurship centre, HUStart, and the Robert Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
The initial cohort of eight startups will take part in three months of entrepreneurial training with lecturers, mentors and business leaders, spending another six months developing their…
