Cultivate Oklahoma

Innovators and businesses with a product or technology that has an on-farm or production agriculture application.
 
Applicants must have operations, investment or impact in Oklahoma and must be located in a community with a population of 50,000 or less.

Activate Oklahoma

Oklahoma-based innovators and businesses with a product or technology and who are based in rural Oklahoma.
 
Applicants must have operations, investment or impact in Oklahoma and must be located in a community with a population of 50,000 or less.

Cultivate Oklahoma

The Cultivate Oklahoma pre-accelerator pipeline focuses on helping Oklahoma innovators who have ideas and technologies that have an on-farm or production-agriculture-focused implementation to help farmers, ranchers or production agriculture be more efficient, productive and resilient by connecting innovators with a national network of farmers who help test and incubate technologies and innovations.

Activate Oklahoma

The Activate Oklahoma pipeline is focused on helping companies and innovators in rural Oklahoma bring to life their ideas that will help create a brighter future for our rural communities through fostering innovation, creating better communities and providing job opportunities.

Cultivate Oklahoma

Cultivate Oklahoma is a pipeline with a specialized cohort of ventures with innovations addressing agricultural inputs, technology, water, regenerative agriculture, processing, distribution, manufacturing, and consumers and management.
 
Innovations and technologies should have a production agriculture implementation.

Activate Oklahoma

Activate Oklahoma is a generalist pipeline for companies that are developing products, innovations or technologies that span an array of industries and applications.
 
Successful applicants should have innovations that improve rural Oklahoma through economic impact, social impact or other material impact.

Cultivate Oklahoma

The Cultivate Oklahoma curriculum is powered by our national partner, AgLaunch, which has nationwide expertise developing companies with agricultural innovations.

With help from our in-state partners at Oklahoma CareerTech, Oklahoma Small Business Development Centers, Oklahoma i2E, Oklahoma State University’s Food and Agricultural Products Center and the Noble Research Institute, the Cultivate programing features business basics, product mentorship and a workshop to prepare cohort members to apply for the AgLaunch365 national business accelerator.

Activate Oklahoma

The Activate Oklahoma curriculum is powered by Oklahoma CareerTech, Oklahoma Small Business Development Centers, Oklahoma i2E, Oklahoma State University’s Food and Agricultural Products Center and the Noble Research Institute, each of which have deep resources for Oklahoma businesses.
 
The Activate curriculum is an organized pipeline of Oklahoma resources that features product mentors and personal mentors.

Cultivate Oklahoma

Cultivate Oklahoma will provide cohort members with a rigorous curriculum developed by AgLaunch that analyzes their innovations and business practices to help prepare them to bring their ideas to market.
 
Cultivate Oklahoma includes a module to help cohort members apply for the AgLaunch365 accelerator, a nationally competitive accelerator that includes six weeks of agriculture-specific business development curriculum, followed by two years of ongoing business coaching and on-farm trials.

Activate Oklahoma

Activate Oklahoma will connect cohort members with a deep library of Oklahoma-centric business resources and knowledge that will help guide them as they bring their ideas, technologies and products to market.
 
Partners providing resources include Oklahoma CareerTech, Oklahoma Small Business Development Centers, Oklahoma i2E, Oklahoma State University’s Food and Agricultural Products Center and the Noble Research Institute.

Cultivate Oklahoma

Innovators who are selected to participate in AgLaunch365 and successfully graduate the program pitch their market-ready concepts to a committee of investment partners who evaluate the pitches and could offer equity investment in ventures that both meet the program’s mission and have marketplace viability.

Activate Oklahoma

Upon completion of the Activate Oklahoma pipeline, successful companies and innovators will qualify to pitch their idea to a collaborative investment committee representing Oklahoma Farm Bureau and Cortado Ventures for an opportunity to receive equity investment from a group of investment partners.

Cultivate Oklahoma

The application is located on Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s website at okfarmbureau.org/AcceleratorApp. One application is used for both tracks, and applicants should specify which pipeline they feel best suits their innovation.

Activate Oklahoma

The application is located on Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s website at okfarmbureau.org/AcceleratorApp. One application is used for both tracks, and applicants should specify which pipeline they feel best suits their innovation.