Catalyzing Innovations in Agrifood Technology

Berytech sources startups with technology-based solutions across the agrifood value chain and provides them with the support they need to scale into successful businesses with global impact.

About the program

Supporting innovative Lebanese startups with tech solutions for the agrifood sector

Berytech launched the Agrytech Program in 2017 with the support of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. Because of its impact and success, Agrytech was renewed in 2019, and again in 2022, under the ACT Smart Innovation Hub Initiative.

Through the Agrytech Accelerator Program, startups receive support to develop their Minimum Viable Product, test it with early adopters, and build their capacity to establish their business from marketing, financial, management and operational levels.

The Agrytech Accelerator Program aims to contribute to job creation and sustainable economic development while advancing the Lebanese entrepreneurial ecosystem.

290+ Entrepreneurs

supported so far

39 Startups

graduated from the first 5 batches

$2.5M+ in grants

dispersed since 2017

The program’s goals

Promoting the agrifood sector for better food security and economic growth in Lebanon

Advancing agrifood innovation and entrepreneurship

Supporting agrifood startups and developing partnerships between key stakeholders in Lebanon and the Netherlands

Creating job opportunities and boosting the economy

Reducing Lebanon’s brain drain and unemployment rates and contributing to a more productive and innovative economy

Contributing to local, regional, and global food security

Building local capacity, increasing productivity, and improving markets and trade

"Innovation is key. I’m convinced that the Lebanese agrifood sector will never compete on quantity, but on quality. In innovation, quality and added value make the competitive advantage of the Lebanese future in agrifood."

Hans Peter van der Woude - Ambassador of the Netherlands to Lebanon