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T-Hub, a technological incubator started by the Telangana government, today said it has signed an MoU with Tel Aviv University's entrepreneurship centre StarTau for launching an accelerator program for agritech startups. According to an official release from T-Hub, an accelerator program will be launched in India and Israel and it will be a part of T-Hubs T-Challenge program charter which will focus on agritech for facilitating the growth of startups in this sector. The program will start in October 2016. "The Israeli innovation corridor for T-Hub is an extremely important one, given the opportunity India has to innovate over the next few years and Israels offering. "T-Hub is paving the way to lead this effort in healthtech, agritech and data sciences through T- Hubs cluster-f...

Ricult is an endeavor by a US-based start-up founded by 4 MIT and 1 Harvard graduates. They help smallholder farmers (< 10 acres holding) reduce information asymmetry and work their way out of poverty to become more impactful economic actors. At the heart of their concept is a virtual marketplace which allows farmers to procure agriculture inputs (seed, fertilizers, pesticides etc.), access interest-free/low interest based loans transparently and sell their produce directly to buyers (processing plants, corporate organizations etc.) directly from the Ricult marketplace. Founders Usman Javaid, (CEO) is an MIT alumnus with 15 years of experience in Telecom, Mobile Banking, Mobile Agriculture in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Jonathan Stoller, the CTO pursued his Masters in Compute...

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