About

Our accelerator program includes:

We provide start-ups with a structured program that caters to the company's needs. The program is involves regular work sessions, mentorship and access to Agropur's network and plants. We want to help you grow quickly and sustainably.
Here are the program's key features:

$20,000 cash

A three- to four-month program in fall 2018*

  • Customized program with mentors (including workshops and a variety of mentors and guest speakers)
  • Collaborative co-working space in Canada
  • Access to the pilot plant in St-Hubert (Quebec, Canada)

Visibility at the private Demo Day at Agropur's headquarters in Quebec, Canada at the end of the program

Potential for additional funding

*Dates and locations subject to change

Program Topics

The program will cover food and consumer goods industry areas of expertise, including:

  • Business planning, marketing & sales
  • Development and manufacturing (R&D)
  • Food quality and labelling
  • …

Community & Mentorship

  • Access to Agropur's teams, executives and experts
  • Exposure to industry leaders

*The mentorship program may change according to the needs of the start-ups and availability of mentors.

A look back at the 2017 Inno Challenge

Montreal, February 8, 2017 – Agropur Cooperative, in partnership with the Quartier de l’innovation de Montréal, AG-Bio Centre and NineSigma, announced today that three submissions have been selected in the first round of the “Together, let’s reinvent dairy!” Inno Challenge.

The selected participants are Marc Purcell and Nathalie Miller, serial entrepreneurs who are enthusiastic about teaming up with a major Canadian cooperative to bring their latest creation to grocery store shelves; Martin Macouzet, Ph.D., an inventor who has been refining a dairy product concept for years; and the Institut de technologie des emballages et du génie alimentaire (ITEGA), which joined forces with the leading communications agency LG2 to develop a project that bridges research, consumer wants and the dairy industry’s needs.

The three selected respondents were chosen after thorough examination of their nomination files by the Inno Challenge jury. In all, 63 respondents from 8 countries submitted cutting-edge ideas. “We were very excited about the number, the diversity and especially the quality of the submissions,” said Robert Coallier, CEO of Agropur. “We congratulate the selected participants and thank all the respondents to our first Inno Challenge. We believe there is incredible potential to reinvent dairy products. We are very eager to work with these creative thinkers to co-develop revolutionary products through open innovation.”