After a cohort is selected, successful applicants will receive eight months of hands-on technical assistance. After this period, they will transition into the alumni program, where they benefit from continued direct connections to investors and partners, media publicity support and access to relevant resources.

Ideally the founder or CEO is actively involved in the process and acts as the main point of contact with the Connector team during the program. Where required, you may provide additional points of contact from your management team to streamline communications. In the lead-up to the in-person pitch event, our regular engagement is expected to be a one-hour call per week, as well as correspondence through email. After which, our support is flexible and can be tailored to your business needs. During this stage, your engagement with us will depend on the level of support you require.

Selected agribusinesses will receive a dedicated point of contact, as well as support from the Connector and extended team dependent on their specific needs. The Connector and extended CLIC team hold a wealth of expertise, spread across climate and nature finance, impact measurement, capital raising and communications. We also engage external specialists where necessary.

No, the Connector is not mandated to make direct investments into the agribusinesses we support. Instead, we are well positioned to help them to unlock high impact capital from relevant investors within our network.

We provide no-cost technical assistance to climate and nature positive agribusinesses in emerging economies, enabled by funding from the UK Government, Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office. We do not take fees or shares in return for this.

Certainly. We use a typology to understand agribusiness practices that can have high relevance for climate mitigation, climate resilience and nature. If we can see these practices within the business model, then the Connector can work alongside the agribusiness to explore potential indicators and methods to quantitatively or more qualitatively assess impact.

For the most part, we operate remotely and flexibly. In the case of in-person pitching events, at least one representative from the agribusinesses will need to travel to attend.

We prioritize the privacy of agribusinesses in our cohort and are dedicated to ensuring that all information received by the Connector is managed in full compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) guidelines. Where relevant, bilateral non-disclosure agreements can be executed to provide relevant assurances.

If successful in your application, you will be committing to active participation through sufficient resource allocation through the length of the program. Agribusinesses’ levels of involvement and contribution are often correlated with expected quality of outputs and outcomes. You will also be committing to sharing relevant materials required for effective TA, in a timely manner, as well as attendance on calls arranged for alignments and discussions with the CLIC team.