CULTIVAR PARTNER INITIATIVES

📅Application Deadline: March 31, 2025

We’re on a worldwide search for our 14th cohort, comprised of early-stage startups looking to take their businesses to the next level. The Arch Grants Startup Competition awards innovative, scalable, job-creating startups with $75,000 non-dilutive grants (plus an additional $25,000 for companies relocating to St. Louis) and provides access to an ecosystem of resources in exchange for headquartering their businesses in St. Louis for at least one year. Competition applications are evaluated by over 400 industry experts from the St. Louis community and around the country.

In order to qualify, a startup must be:

• Developing an innovative and scalable business

• Building a technology-enabled solution

• In the validated-idea, bootstrapped, pre-seed, or seed stage

• Interested in locating in or relocating to St. Louis, MO for at least one year

• Operating as a for-profit business

• Led by at least one founder working on the company as their primary or full-time professional role. This requirement must be met by the time funding is provided.

🔗Apply for 2025 Grants Funding

Not ready to apply, but wish to receive reminders and updates regarding the Startup Competition? Complete the signup form here.

📅 When: April 17, 2025

📍 Where: St. Louis, MO

Geospatial technologies, methods, and information can help build a food secure future, from finding new ways to decide where we grow crops as the climate changes, to generating innovative models for how organizations coordinate along supply chains, to helping people see the impacts of eating well every day. TGI is assembling an interdisciplinary community of researchers, innovators and implementers to work together to advance geospatial innovation and create a new future for the food system grounded in sustainability and food security.

How to Get Involved?

Join the Workshop Waitlist: TGI invites you to apply to join 3 in-person workshops to shape the upcoming Geospatial Innovation for Food Security Challenge. 

Take the Community Survey: Share what you think and help shape the Geospatial Innovation for Food Security Challenge (GIFS) by answering the five questions in our community survey. 

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📅 When: May 6-7th, 2025

📍 Where: St. Louis, MO

Join us for two days of networking, high-impact programming, and pitches from 70+ of the regions best startups. 

Company applications: Click here to submit your application for consideration to pitch at InvestMidwest 2025 by February 28th.

Registration: Click here to register.

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