Agri-TechE is happy to as soon as once more help the Tesco Agri T-Jam 2025 providing early-stage agri-tech innovators a possibility to discover how their options align with the wants of the UK’s main retailer and its provide chain companions.

We’re working with Tesco and innovation platform Main Edge Solely (LEO) to advertise this chance throughout our ecosystem. As a part of this collaboration, Tesco is providing the profitable start-up a yr’s membership of Agri-TechE and a talking slot at our REAP 2025 convention to share their innovation with a extremely engaged viewers.

We’ve seen that essentially the most profitable outcomes come from those that use the expertise to check assumptions, achieve suggestions, and begin a dialogue. Agri-TechE Director Dr Belinda Clarke explains:

“We’re happy to proceed working with Tesco on the Agri T-Jam. It’s a useful alternative for start-ups to know how their innovation could be seen from a provide chain perspective – what resonates, what wants refining, and the best way to form the proposition to suit inside real-world programs.

That sort of suggestions will be massively useful, particularly at an early stage.”

Functions for the 2025 T-Jam are actually open till Monday thirtieth June 2025, and can culminate in a pitch day the place chosen finalists current their options to Tesco and its companions.

What’s Tesco on the lookout for?

The Tesco Agri T-Jam invitations start-ups from all over the world to pitch applied sciences that contribute to the retailer’s wider sustainability objectives, together with reaching web zero, restoring nature, and enhancing animal well being and welfare. Entries are being welcomed that tackle:

  • Animal Well being & Welfare
  • Soil Well being & Resilience
  • Water High quality & Use
  • Speedy Illness Diagnostics
  • Agricultural Waste Discount
  • Crop Loss and Meals Waste Discount
  • GHG Emissions Discount
  • Accountable Discount in Chemical Inputs (pesticides and antibiotics)
  • Biodiversity Help 

What’s on supply for the winner?

Following the appliance and choice course of, as much as ten start-ups will probably be shortlisted to pitch on the T-Jam pitch day, with the winner receiving:

  • Mentoring and suggestions from Tesco’s Sustainable Agriculture & Fisheries staff
  • Quick-track introductions by way of LEO to Tesco’s provide chain community
  • A possible trial with considered one of Tesco’s provide chain companions
  • Agri-TechE membership (Hecto)
  • A talking slot at REAP Convention 2025

Natalie Smith, Head of Sustainable Agriculture and Fisheries at Tesco, mentioned: “We’re dedicated to creating and implementing progressive sustainable agriculture practices throughout our provide chains. Agri T-Jam is now a longtime gateway into the Tesco community for start-ups and innovators, and we’re hopeful the competitors might help all our finalists additional develop their work within the sector.”