Innovations and Technology in Agriculture, Aquaculture, and the Environment

About

F³ Tech (Farm-Fish-Food) is a proof-of-concept and commercialization initiative that is creating a renaissance of economic growth and prosperity through innovation and technology that is built upon Maryland’s traditional industries of agriculture and seafood. F³ Tech enables solutions through the development of new products and services in response to market-driven problems and challenges. This is accomplished through a series of stages that guides entrepreneurs from idea through commercialization. LEARN MORE…

F³ Tech Consists of the Following Three Industry Segments

Envirotech

offers opportunities to address the impact of agriculture and aquaculture activity on the environment. This includes applying environmental science, green chemistry, environmental monitoring, electronic devices, and other products and technologies to monitor, model, and conserve the natural environment and resources.

Program

F³ Tech started in 2017 and is a statewide initiative that utilizes the rural-urban collaborative environment in Maryland. Other State priorities focus on the Baltimore/Washington corridor’s strong technological resources; F³ Tech focuses on Maryland’s traditional industries of agriculture and seafood. Maryland’s rural knowledge and know-how combines with the urban ideas and investment. The overall F³ Tech program consists of three stages that provide entrepreneurs, innovators, startups, and existing businesses with the resources to achieve proof-of-concept and commercialization of new product and service ideas and innovations.

Challenge Events Help Advance New Industry Sector Focus in Maryland

F³ Tech Challenge Events are one-day innovation competitions in which students, entrepreneurs, and innovators form teams and tackle real-world, market-based problems and challenges in Maryland’s traditional industries of agriculture and seafood. The teams present their innovations and solutions to a panel of industry judges and are eligible for $1,000 cash awards. Click below to learn more details, to see a schedule of Challenge Events throughout Maryland, and to register for an upcoming event.

See Fall 2018 Schedule and Register

AlgenAir Makes It Into STRT1UP Showcase: Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 4:00 PM

Hear from Pitch Across Maryland Finalist

Discovered during the year-long STRT1UP Roadshow

Highlights!!!

Angel Academy session as well as Opportunity Zone Overview and Pathways to Early-stage Capital

Finalist Pitches

VOLT

Mobtown Fermentation

HoneIn

Tsao...

February 22, 2019/0 Comments

Farmworkers could be replaced by robots sooner than we think

Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a seasonal farmworker?

Source: Farmworkers could be replaced by robots sooner than we think - The Washington Post

February 18, 2019/0 Comments

How to feed the world by 2050? Recent breakthrough boosts plant growth by 40 percent

Recent advances to address hunger through agricultural advancement have been shown to boost crop growth by 40 percent by creating a shortcut for a glitch that plagues most food crops.

Source: How to feed the world by 2050? Recent breakthrough boosts plant growth by 40 percent -- ScienceDaily

February 17, 2019/0 Comments

Team

Mentors, coaches, investors, and other valuable members of the agriculture, aquaculture, environmental, innovation, and startup ecosystems provide their expertise to the accelerator program. The interactions and counsel they provide to participating startups is the most valuable aspect of the program.

Contact Info

For questions and additional details, you are welcome to contact the Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center -- the lead organization administering the F³ Tech Accelerator Program.