Is your enterprise passionate about making sustainable change within agriculture in Pakistan? If yes, then apply to Acumen’s Pakistan Agriculture Accelerator Program.
Acumen Academy’s Pakistan Agriculture Accelerator offers a unique package of support for agri-entrepreneurs looking to develop a scalable social enterprise model. They’re looking for their next cohort of innovative social entrepreneurs who are looking to scale up and make an outsized impact on Pakistan’s food security by building the climate resilience of smallholder farmers.
Learn How To
Refine and develop a profitable and scalable business model
Test your key hypotheses for scaling
Build your leadership capacity and learn tools to help you be an effective agent of change
Develop robust strategies to bolster your financial sustainability
Pitch your business to investors and other stakeholders at a final showcase
Build networks with agri entrepreneurs and supporters in Pakistan and beyond
Develop the hard-edged leadership skills necessary to build better, truly inclusive, sustainable solutions
Modules
Module 1: Polarities Management
Prepared to engage in conflictual conversations, diagnose a polarity, and leverage it to drive towards a purpose
Diagnose and identify moments when values are in tension
Engage in difficult conversations and manage systems of values in tension using tools and frameworks
Module 2: Visions of Scale
Understand models for how impactful enterprises can scale
Develop a business model canvas that isolates key hypotheses for how your business model currently comes together
Learn about moral imagination and adaptive leadership
Module 3: Customer Insights
Clearly define your core customer and value proposition
Design customer experiments to test your most critical hypothesis
Module 4: Aligning a Pricing Marketing and Sales strategy to Your Value Proposition
Build a value proposition canvas using data from customer interviews and experiments
Begin to develop pricing models that are aligned with your value proposition
Build a customer funnel and identify marketing activities that bring your customer closer to the desired action
Module 5: Financial Model
Identify your major revenue assumptions and cost assumptions
Define major financial milestones for the next two years
Module 6: Pitching The Strategic Story of Your Business
Articulate a vision for scaling your enterprise that pulls together key metrics associated with your operational model, financial model, and customer insights
Practice pitching your business to stakeholders
What’s Included?
Seven Learning Labs
One-on-one consultation calls with Acumen facilitators
Lessons on customer discovery, sales and marketing, financial modeling, and pitching
Readings and lessons from Acumen Founder and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz’s Principles of Moral Leadership
Opportunity to compete for a share of $50,000
Graduate into Acumen’s global Foundry community
How it Works?
Over 12 weeks, you and your team will learn the essentials for building a business model that can achieve both social and environmental impact and profitability, all while connecting with a supportive network of peers and experts.
During the accelerator, you’ll dive into a curriculum that leverages Acumen’s investment strategy and pioneering moral leadership practices to help you develop the competence and character needed to build solutions that improve the livelihoods and climate resilience of smallholder farmers across the country. As a member of the accelerator cohort, you’ll be accompanied by and empowered through a community of expert advisors, investors, and peer mentors.
Eligibility Criteria
This accelerator is open to agri-entrepreneurs who:
Run a social enterprise (for-profit or not for-profit) based in Pakistan that is positively disrupting the agriculture sector in Pakistan and has a climate focus
Have a demonstrated track record of at least 18 months and market traction (must have evidence of customer demand, for example increasing revenues)
