Opportunity Description
At DIAL Ventures we solve the biggest challenges in Agrifood, one of the fastest-growing industry investment segments, by tackling high-impact areas like sustainability, traceability, food safety, and environmental impact to name a few. The DIAL Venture Studio engages with you as an entrepreneur through our fellowship program to provide all the resources required to move you quickly into a founder role opportunity in your newly created startup.
Participant Profile
Innovation Fellows are entrepreneurs at heart and will possess an innate drive to accomplish great things. They will accept measured risks along a path to potential great rewards. They will be humble and willing to learn from their mistakes and accept coaching from experienced startup veterans. Their default will be collaboration seeking joint team successes. They will innovate and consistently measure their progress while being flexible enough to adjust their course as needed. They will be self-managers with enough ego to accept many "noes" on the path to a big "yes". They possess high self-efficacy and are internal locus-of-control dominant and are courageous and ready to engage industry experts and executives. Finally, Innovation Fellows pay attention to detail and are diligent in documenting their learnings.
Venture Studio Activities
- Ideas sourced from industry and research.
- Concept testing with industry partners.
- Business and market entry plan development.
- Pre-seed stage funding to launch your company (up to $1M).
- Assist with business creation resources such as software, product design, key hiring, marketing, financial and legal.
- Minimum viable product development.
- Field trial facilitation with industry partners.
- Initial sales opportunities with industry partners.
- Help in securing seed funding to transition into company growth.