New start-up program BL.INC. offers agrifood entrepreneurs flying start

Innovative agrofood entrepreneurs in Limburg now have a unique opportunity to get their business off to a flying start. The new start-up program BL.INC. offers advice, support and an extensive network.

The acceleration program BL.INC. wants to help entrepreneurs in the agri-food sector get off to a good start. Several partners on and around the Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo have joined forces to help participants create a promising business model. The start-ups receive three months of intensive guidance from professionals, enabling them to further shape and sharpen their business. Knowledge is available in all kinds of areas, such as financing, research and safe food.

Community

Participants receive advice from experienced mentors and can count on support from the business developers of the member partners. They can use a workplace on the campus in Venlo. Thus they are directly part of the innovative community at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, where seventy organizations work on innovations in the field of health and sustainability.

Facilities

The intensive guidance of three months is focused on innovative entrepreneurs in the agrifood sector, with possible crossovers to manufacturing and logistics. Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo is the location and springboard for start-ups or spin-offs to realize new innovations in the field of healthy and safe food, future farming and biocircular economy. On the campus, start-ups have direct access to the network of experts of many knowledge partners, to the facilities in the field of research and development and they receive advice from business developers and mentors. All this makes the campus an inspiring place to meet and work.

First round

The first round of the start-up accelerator BL.INC will start in March 2020, followed by two more rounds. Interested entrepreneurs can contact Elle Janssen of Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo for information: elle.janssen@brightlands.com.

BL.INC is a partnership of LIOF, Rabobank, Region North Limburg and Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo.