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Prizes

Grow-NY food and agriculture business competition

Grow-NY

Status

Usually opens in March and May

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
$1,000,000

USD 3 million awarded each year to seven food and agtech startups; top prize USD 1 million.

Funder

Empire State Development, administered by the Center for Regional Economic Advancement at Cornell University

public · regional

Deadline: One call a year — 2026 round applications ran 1 Mar-15 May 2026; pitch competition and summit 12-13 Nov 2026 in Rochester. Next round dates not published.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

High-growth food and agtech startups from across the globe may enter, but winners must commit to a presence in the Grow-NY region of upstate New York.

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://grow-ny.com/

"High-growth food and agtech startups from across the globe are encouraged to enter the competition."

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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