Calling on innovators & entrepreneurs

The global food system needs transformative thinking to address the mounting pressures of population growth and climate change. Indigo is launching a challenge that will encourage and empower the next generation of agriculture innovators.

With the goal of improving farm economics, supporting sustainable practices, developing products that meet consumer needs, and fighting climate change, we're inviting innovators and entrepreneurs to bring their best ideas forward. Winning innovations will be awarded $1M contracts by Indigo.

The Terraton Challenge will consider submissions that fall in one of three different categories.

The Terraton Challenge categories

• Soil carbon: we need new technologies that maximize agriculture's potential to draw down atmospheric carbon
  • Accelerate—technologies that speed up sequestration and expand the carbon storage capacity of soils 
  • Sample—tools and techniques that rapidly, accurately, and cheaply collect soil samples
  • Measure—tools and techniques that rapidly, accurately, and cheaply estimate soil carbon levels
  • Reward—protocols and markets that pay growers to capture and retain soil carbon