Available Funding
OPEN - THE PRODUCTION BOARD - 2019 INNOVATOR FELLOW (DUE May 30, 2019)
A technology incubator and investment holding company aiming to improve the efficiency and economics of global food and agriculture markets, The Production Board will host the Innovator Fellow in San Francisco .
Applications are due May 30, 2019 – or until filled. Click here to learn more.
OPEN - FOOD FOR THOUGHT WORLDWIDE VENTURES - 2019 INNOVATOR FELLOW (DUE May 30, 2019)
An early-stage venture fund investing in breakthrough hardware, software and biotech solutions for the massive, worldwide food system, Food for Thought Worldwide (FTW) Ventures will host the Innovator Fellow in San Francisco.
Applications are due May 30, 2019 – or until filled. Click here to learn more.
Fellow Announced - BETTER FOOD VENTURES - 2019 INNOVATOR FELLOW
“Connecting people who are feeding the world with people who are changing the world through tech innovation.” International agrifood information and communications technology investors at Better Food Ventures will host a UC Davis graduate student fellow in Silicon Valley.
Better Food Ventures Fellow: Machine learning for precision epidemiology in response to livestock disease
Fellow Announced - TECHACCEL - 2019 INNOVATOR FELLOW
Technology and venture development organization TechAccel will host a UC Davis graduate student fellow at the Danforth Center for Plant Science in St Louis.
TechAccel Fellow: Leveraging natural maize metabolites to enhance crop resilience to fungal disease
Past Opportunities
Closed - 2019 Request for Innovators (Spring)
“Connecting people who are feeding the world with people who are changing the world through tech innovation.” International agrifood information and communications technology investors at Better Food Ventures will host a UC Davis graduate student fellow in Silicon Valley.
Better Food Ventures Fellow: Machine learning for precision epidemiology in response to livestock disease
Technology and venture development organization TechAccel will host a UC Davis graduate student fellow at the Danforth Center for Plant Science in St Louis.
TechAccel Fellow: Leveraging natural maize metabolites to enhance crop resilience to fungal disease
Closed - 2018 Request for Innovators
New investment platform, FoodShot Global (FSG), kicked off the program, by hosting a UC Davis graduate student in New York.
Inaugural Fellow: Mastering biochar for improved agricultural performance
Closed - 2017 Request for Innovation
Energy-Food Nexus
The Innovation Institute for Food & Health (IIFH) seeded projects in food, agriculture, health, engineering and technology. Having consulted with research and industry colleagues in 2015 and 2016, two interdisciplinary themes subsequently emerged as priorities— innovative solutions at the interface of energy and food.
An initial joint endeavor between the Energy Institute at Colorado State University (CSU) and the University of California at Davis (UCD) emphasized technologies and processes to address energy inefficiencies, food safety and nutritional content in food preservation. An illustrative area of interest includes, innovations to augment cold storage approaches, such as improving traditional drying practices used for tree nut, corn and rice preservation in the US. Instruments of change beyond food preservation technologies include advances in packaging, distribution, consumer education and behavior, as well as market and policy drivers.
Closed - 2016 Request for Innovation
Food, Ag and Health
The first innovation cycle was designed to foster uncommon interdisciplinary collaboration and generate transformational insights and real-world applications in the broad arenas of health, governance, knowledge, sustainability and values/behaviors.
Working with at least one UC Davis senate/federation member, innovation projects spearheaded novel and disruptive approaches to some of the key issues inherent in offering sustainable and equitable access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for the world’s burgeoning population. Other members were invited from across broad disciplines, including local and international physical and life sciences, social sciences and humanities, non-profits, food industry, venture groups, farming and ranching, business leaders, and software and hardware developers.
Regional and global breakthroughs in our understanding of the physical/environmental, social/cultural and economic/governance contexts of food production, processing, distribution and waste can transform industry and society. Eight projects in food, ag and health led the way.
