Agcelerate Oklahoma

Innovators and businesses with a product or technology that has an on-farm or production agriculture application.
 
Applicants must have operations, investment or impact in Oklahoma and must be located in a community with a population of 50,000 or less.

Activate Oklahoma

Oklahoma-based innovators and businesses with a product or technology and who are based in rural Oklahoma.
 
Applicants must have operations, investment or impact in Oklahoma and must be located in a community with a population of 50,000 or less.

Agcelerate Oklahoma

The Agcelerate Oklahoma pre-accelerator pipeline focuses on helping Oklahoma innovators who have ideas and technologies that have an on-farm or production-agriculture-focused implementation to help farmers, ranchers or production agriculture be more efficient, productive and resilient by connecting innovators with a network of farmers who help test and incubate technologies and innovations.

Activate Oklahoma

The Activate Oklahoma pipeline is focused on helping companies and innovators in rural Oklahoma bring to life their ideas that will help create a brighter future for our rural communities through fostering innovation, creating better communities and providing job opportunities.

Agcelerate Oklahoma

Agcelerate Oklahoma is a pipeline with a specialized cohort of ventures with innovations addressing agricultural inputs, technology, water, regenerative agriculture, processing, distribution, manufacturing, and consumers and management.
 
Innovations and technologies should have a production agriculture implementation.

Activate Oklahoma

Activate Oklahoma is a generalist pipeline for companies that are developing products, innovations or technologies that span an array of industries and applications.
 
Successful applicants should have innovations that improve rural Oklahoma through economic impact, social impact or other material impact.

Agcelerate Oklahoma

The Agcelerate Oklahoma curriculum focuses specifically on companies with agricultural innovations.

Curriculum is provided by our partners AgLaunch, Oklahoma CareerTech, Oklahoma Small Business Development Centers, Oklahoma i2E, Oklahoma State University’s Food and Agricultural Products Center and the Noble Research Institute, the Agcelerate programing features business basics, product mentorship and a workshop to prepare cohort members to apply for the AgLaunch365 national business accelerator.

Activate Oklahoma

The Activate Oklahoma curriculum is powered by Oklahoma CareerTech, Oklahoma Small Business Development Centers, Oklahoma i2E, Oklahoma State University’s Food and Agricultural Products Center and the Noble Research Institute, each of which have deep resources for Oklahoma businesses.
 
The Activate curriculum is an organized pipeline of Oklahoma resources that features product mentors and personal mentors.

Agcelerate Oklahoma

Agcelerate Oklahoma will provide cohort members with a rigorous curriculum that analyzes their innovations and business practices to help prepare them to bring their ideas to market.
 
Agcelerate Oklahoma includes a module to help cohort members apply for the AgLaunch365 accelerator, a nationally competitive accelerator that includes six weeks of agriculture-specific business development curriculum, followed by two years of ongoing business coaching and on-farm trials.

For founders who aren’t quite ready to hit the national stage, Agcelerate Oklahoma can be a launchpad for an agriculturally-enriched version of our Activate Oklahoma program.

Activate Oklahoma

Activate Oklahoma will connect cohort members with a deep library of Oklahoma-centric business resources and knowledge that will help guide them as they bring their ideas, technologies and products to market.
 
Partners providing resources include Oklahoma CareerTech, Oklahoma Small Business Development Centers, Oklahoma i2E, Oklahoma State University’s Food and Agricultural Products Center and the Noble Research Institute.

Agcelerate Oklahoma

AgCelerate Oklahoma graduates have two exciting opportunities to continue their innovation journey:

• AgCelerate Oklahoma cohort members who join the Activate Oklahoma pipeline qualify for an opportunity to pitch their innovation, technology or venture to a panel of investment capital partners at our Demo Day for a chance to receive equity investment in their enterprise.
• AgCelerate innovators who are selected to participate in AgLaunch365 and successfully graduate the program pitch their market-ready concepts to a committee of investment partners who evaluate the pitches and could offer equity investment in ventures that both meet the program’s mission and have marketplace viability. Learn more about AgLaunch365 at AgLaunch’s website.

Agcelerate Oklahoma also prepares founders for non-dilutive funding opportunities such as grants, loans and creative lending mechanisms.

Activate Oklahoma

Graduates of the Activate Oklahoma pipeline qualify for an opportunity to pitch their innovation, technology or venture to a panel of investment capital partners at our Demo Day for a chance to receive equity investment in their enterprise.

Activate Oklahoma also prepares founders for non-dilutive funding opportunities such as grants, loans and creative lending mechanisms.

Agcelerate Oklahoma

The application is located on Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s website at okfarmbureau.org/AcceleratorApp. One application is used for both tracks, and applicants should specify which pipeline they feel best suits their innovation.

Activate Oklahoma

The application is located on Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s website at okfarmbureau.org/AcceleratorApp. One application is used for both tracks, and applicants should specify which pipeline they feel best suits their innovation.