Ready to co-found your regenerative food system business?
Eager to change the food system?
Rootical start-up studio powers purpose-driven entrepreneurs in Tanzania to build and own their regenerative agri-food companies.
Tanzania needs a new way of doing business. The old model takes from the land, extracts value, and leaves farmers behind. We need a food system that works like nature — practical, resilient, and connected.
Like in nature, we are part of that system, not separated from it. To operate within that living world, we need distributed ownership and purposeful entrepreneurship. Regenerative agriculture is the application of that same worldview on agriculture and inclusive rural development.
Together we build profitable, scalable and impactful enterprises to accelerate Tanzania’s transition to a fair, inclusive and regenerative food system.
“ We aim to regenerate not only agriculture but also entrepreneurship and finance”
Why you should apply ?
Why you should apply ?
Find your edge in changing the food system.
You are ready to venture into building a business of your own.
Join a safe space & strong network to co-found a regenerative agri-food business
Partner with experts and rooted change-makers
The Rootical Founder
Experience
Get ready to embark on this systemic (ad)venture building journey!
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10 Days | 50 Change-makers.
In this crash course on food system leadership, 50 participants will be trained on regenerative agriculture and agroecology, food systems thinking and practice, purpose-driven entrepreneurship and human-centred design.
Together we analyse and deepen our understanding of the Tanzanian food system to identify the key challenges that you want to solve by building a business.
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3 Months | 25 entrepreneurs | 3+ days/week
In this second part of our Founder-in-Residence programme, you will come up with, test, develop and iterate on solutions that address the prioritised root challenges.
In 6 two-weekly human-centred design sprints you will be trained and supported to build solutions that matter.
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3 Months | 18 entrepreneurs | 3+ days/week
In this third and final part of our Entrepreneur-in-Residence phase, you will continue working on your business model, run 2 rapid tests, validate the economics, and get ready to pilot your solution.
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12-18 months | 6 businesses
At the end of stage three, 6-8 teams will be invited to enter the Studio and become co-founders of the most promising regenerative business models.
We learn by selling, learn by doing, piloting and testing your business model… all the way to proof-of-concept and incorporation. To 6 Businesses, Rootical provides a set-up investment of 30-40M TZS to give selected teams runway for launching autonomous operations, working towards product-market fit and onboarding their first external investors.
Rootical provides dedicated venture builder support and becomes a co-founder of the businesses that enter the studio.
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About 2 years after the start, the studio ventures should be ready to spin out of the studio.
As a co-founder, Rootical will continue to support the teams to organise capital, access networks of impact aligned investors, connect to expertise, build a team and manage overhead services. We will also offer support to address shared needs, benefit from economies of scale, and establish strong synergies across our studio ventures.
Are you a purpose driven entrepreneur passionate about regenerative agriculture and food?
Access training and networks of business development experts.
Critical insights and a crash course on regenerative food systems practice and leadership
Meet your co-founder(s)
Partner with food systems transformation minded founders and investors.
Work with highly purpose-driven, rooted and dynamic people
We work alongside you with expertise, funding, tools and a systemic building process to build & own your agri-food business.
