Portugal
Founded in 2016, Agristarbio wants to develop the best solutions for the production of sustainable organomineral fertiliser from organic waste creating the most economic value to its customers and being profitable at the same time. Agristarbio developed the innovative, ground-breaking environmental-friendly technology that transforms organic waste into a game changing efficient organomineral fertiliser without any CO2 or CH4 emissions in the process.
Switzerland
At Alver we offer range of High Protein Vegan Superfoods made with our innovative Golden Chlorella micro-algae, which is UNIQUELY neutral in taste and colour. It is rich in zinc, magnesium, vitamin B, omegas, carotenoids and has a full amino acid profile. Our finished product range includes high protein pasta, bars, soups, sauces, granola and mixed powders. Our pasta for example contains 22% protein but looks and tastes like traditional pasta.
Lithuania
Baltic Freya is a cleantech/agritech startup which is creating modular vertical farming systems, that do not use any soil for food & medical plant growing. Our technology applies circular economy principles, does not waste any resources and uses the most innovative growing method – fogponics. Baltic Freya’s goal is to enable its customers to sustainably grow more from less.
Germany
BIOWEG is a science-based company that combines biotechnology, material science and machine learning to create highly functional and customizable bio-based materials and ingredients. BIOWEG is headquartered in Quakenbrück, next to the German Institute of Food Technology (DIL), Germany.
Denmark
Beverage food tech company developing circular solutions that are pioneered as the world’s 1st circular brewery.
The Netherlands
Burgs Foods B.V. Processes insects into high quality nutritious food products. As one of the front runners in Northwestern Europe it is our mission to make insects more accessible by processing them to ingredients for high quality insect meat and in meat replacing consumer end-products. By focussing on efficiency and quality in processing methods of insects and research into functional properties of insect protein we set out to become the benchmark in this newly emerging industry.
The Netherlands
As you might know, engineered wooden board production requires deforestation which causes wide-reaching problems like biodiversity losses, increased GHG concentrations and more. Luckily, mother nature provides us with materials that solve these issues. These are the waste streams from coconut cultivation. CoirWood sources these leftover materials from Indian farmers and processes them into high-quality boards that can be used for DoItYourself jobs or a wide range of furniture products in the EU.
Germany
Crocus labs provides ultra high efficiency smart lighting systems to enable the largely unprofitable indoor farms to become profitable and sustainable.
Norway
DigiFarm is Norway’s leading ag-tech startup established in 2018, who has developed deep neural network models for detecting the highest accuracy field boundaries and seeded acres, using our model for deeply resolving Sentinel-2 from 10m to 1m resolution, achieving accuracy of IoU of 0.96+ across over 10 million hectares, worldwide.
Latvia
Compact incinerator for on-site utilisation of sewage sludge at small wastewater treatment plants. Suitable also for any kind of other organic waste utilisation, including mixed and high moisture.
Switzerland
farmer connect® is a global industry-led company with the vision to humanise consumption through technology. Its cutting-edge software promotes fair, sustainable and traceable agriculture, enabling an inclusive and efficient supply chain from farmers to consumers. Built on emerging technologies, such as blockchain, self-sovereign identity, and AI, the agritech ecosystem allows safe and private business data storage and sharing, as well as the exchange and tracking of information and payments.
Barcelona
Today, we’re a home compostable packaging and sports nutrition R&D company, having built this groundbreaking part of our business on the back of our existing healthy & organic food/sports food distribution business. We originally developed our home compostable solutions to replace single use plastic on our own brand of sports nutrition products, but the packaging part of the business has rapidly become our top priority, thanks to our easy-to-scale global IPR licensing model.
The Netherlands
FOODLOGICA is born to help food companies like food producers, catering and food e-commerce to solve any kind of logistic challenge related to last mile distribution. We cover basic needs such as refrigerated, dry or frozen storage, but we especially organise any kind of transport service, from order picking to cooled, frozen and dry deliveries to in-store arrangements of the products in case of Horeca, or door2door delivery for e-commerce. Our fleet of electric refrigerated custom-made vehicles.
The Netherlands
Forest Wool turns pine needles – a waste of the timber industry – into fiber used for manufacturing of textiles for clothing.
United Kingdom
An ability provider, enabling smart operation of agricultural machinery. With cameras, deploying colours of light, and machine learning to monitor crop status, such as disease, in real-time. The protected key technology is three-dimensional multispectral imaging which allows laboratory analysis at economic cost. A FOTENIX enabled sprayer or harvester provides the next step of data-driven farming to producers, whilst the cloud platform ensures agronomic insights that compound with each use.
United Kingdom
We design Smart IoT waste solutions to reduce food waste streams in commercial kitchens in real-time & provide automatic solutions at reasonable prices. We work in the undeserved market of SME’s. We seek to make high impact at low cost.
Norway
Greentech Innovators have the slogan to “Give waste a value”. We are developing new waste management solutions reducing green house gas emission and producing protein from the food waste. Food waste on landfills is causing 11% of global methane, a 32 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbondioxide. There is a global need for protein and we are producing single cell protein as feed.We are also producing fertiliser to substitute mineral fertiliser.
Italy
Hexagro is building an Urban Farming Network to increase the accessibility to healthy food and decentralise vertical-indoor farming to overcome its current scalability challenges. The Living Farming Tree is a modular system that can adapt to any indoor environment and provide a point-of-access of living plants thanks to the partnership with local producers. The gathered data and technology are transferred to our social project in Colombia to increase the local access to vertical farming tech.
Finland
iFarm is data-driven technology of growing greens, vegetables, berries and edible plants on vertical farms. The heart of the solution is IT-system Growtune which is responsible for automatisation and management of the vertical farm. In general, we offer an automated technology for growing plants all year round and without sun or soil in a fully controlled indoor environment. Farms can be situated anywhere in close proximity to consumers, shorten the supply chain and facilitate optimal harvests
Sweden
We have developed a number of ink compositions with the ability to measure gas concentration within a food package. The gas concentration has a direct correlation with bacterial growth and can therefore provide an indication of the freshness of the product. With our inks, we produce dynamic shelf life labels for food packaging with the ability to provide fact-based information of the status in real-time. Our first generation of labels are developed to be applied to fresh meat products.
The Netherlands
We have created the world’s most delicious kebab! 100% powered by plants and completely guilt free. Karma points guaranteed!
The Netherlands
Don’t Waste It, Just Drink It! We pour cocoa wastage in a bottle. And strangely enough, that’s delicious. At Kumasi Drinks, we believe in honest supply chains without food loss and poverty. Therefore, we produce cocoa fruit drinks out of a product that so far has been perceived as a waste product: the cocoa fruit pulp. With our Kumasi Gassi’s (carbonated cocoa fruit soda) and Kumasi Sappi’s (non-carbonated cocoa fruit soda) we aim on bringing pure & quirky drinks to the market.
Switzerland
LAGOSTA is a Swiss blue biotech company, expert in biomedical chitosan. It is produced via farming European spiny lobsters in our state-of-the-art indoor fully controlled facility. Spiny lobsters are organically grown, without any use of chemicals, antibiotics, nor hormones. During growth, spiny lobsters naturally generate moults. LAGOSTA harvests these by-products and converts them into chitosan. This resulting product exhibits unparallel molecular characteristics for biomedical applications.
Bulgaria
LAM’ON is a 100% biodegradable laminating film for print based on corn with an innovative toxic-free adhesive layer. We sell rolls of laminating film to print and publishing houses at the same price range as the current solutions.
Germany
Lite+Fog is developing a new process for the cultivation of plants on textile carrier materials using fog as advanced irrigation methods. This includes an innovative approach to new farm architecture and a improvement of the farming process, which could only be the ultrasound-generated fog made possible.
United Kingdom
Maximising crop quality in agriculture is key, and produce that doesn’t meet class 1 standards results in wastage at the primary production stage. At MycoNourish, we add value for growers. We do this with beneficial fungi that work in symbiosis with crops to enhance yields. Unlike other products, our fungi are customised to suit specific crops — delivering targeted benefits and providing a reliable, tailored means of reducing waste and improving both sustainability & yields.
Saudi Arabia
Natufia is an agtech start-up that develops a unique machine-learning technology growing the most nutritious organic plants right where they are consumed: in the kitchen of homes and restaurants. Natufia is endorsed by Michelin Star Chefs and advised by Bosch top executives. We have 20+ patents and trademarks in our IP portfolio.
Switzerland
NaturaYuva is disrupting the natural ingredients value chain to deliver high quality, niche and sustainable ingredients to the food, nutraceuticals, phytopharma and cosmetics industries. Its model is based on regenerative agroforestry, direct support to (Indian) farming communities and full control of the process from seed to delivery.
United Kingdom
Ozo Innovations (“Ozo”) delivers competitive advantage to the global food industry and beyond, through innovation in hygiene and sustainability. We transform the operational efficiency and sustainability of food producers by reducing the time, energy, water, and labour used to meet demanding factory hygiene standards. Our goal is to become a global leader in safe, smart, and sustainable hygiene solutions.
The Netherlands
We believe that nature and agriculture can cooperate instead of compete. We also believe that farmers and local communities across the globe deserve a long-term profitable future. That’s why we focus on Regenerative Agriculture. What does that mean? An agricultural system that is designed to ensure farmers with: food security, economic resilience and input self-sufficiency. This system creates several benefits for farmers and communities, such as: increasing soil carbon, biodiversity, water storage and forest preservation. It fosters food security and sovereignty, next gen farmer motivation, rural development and women empowerment. On the economic side, it lowers external input costs, creates different income streams due to diversification and may, in some cases, even increase yields. We develop model farms and model schools on all scales and all around the globe. The future is regenerative. Join us now!
Germany
We build the AirBnB for food storage in Africa. As spin-off from the World Food Programme accelerator we are an impact-driven social business. Our grain trading and storage platform enables rural entrepreneurs to start crop micro-warehouses and make 60-100% in profits which are shared with smallholders. Through collected data we target smallholders with tailored agri-packs and remote extension tripling yields and incomes. We eradicate post-harvest loss, fix a broken value chain and fight poverty.
Denmark
Seasony is enabling vertical farming with robotics. Our mobile robot “Watney” takes care of all internal logistics and monitors plant growth while providing a base for all kinds of automation modules for harvesting, pruning, cleaning, etc. This gives farmers significant cost savings and allows for a data driven operation.
The Netherlands
Development & Supply of Clean and efficient insect-based protein, fats and chitosan, as highly functional food ingredients for food manufacturers
Germany
SmartCloudFarming does advanced soil analytics using remote sensing. Our mission: modernise century-old soil management practices using data and AI, simplify soil carbon assessment and monitoring, and restore soil health.
With our 3D digital soil maps for soil carbon, soil moisture, and soil nutrients, we are simplifying soil management, creating technology parity for small-holder farmers globally, and bringing trust and transparency to soil carbon verification and certification.
Throw No More contributes systematically and effectively to reduce global food waste. Our main solution is the Throw No More app, which enables interaction between grocery stores and their customers. The app easily and efficiently promotes products with a short shelf life at a greatly reduced price. The customer can see in real-time how many units remain of a given item, with picture of the product, original price, discounted price and directions to the store.
Switzerland
TicInsect Sagl is a startup founded in 2019 in the Lugano region. The goal of TicInsect is to transform the feed and food value chain towards a circular economy. TicInsect will collect local agricultural residues and, organic waste from the food industries and the households and, using Black Soldier Fly (BSF) Hermetia illucens larvae, transform them into three high-value products: Insect meal for feed for livestock and pets, oil for biofuel and a fertiliser.
Food: Consumption, Food: Waste
TotalCtrl is a leading B2B SaaS food waste prevention company that saves customers money and time by giving them total control over inventory based on expiration dates. We help our customers in gaining control and cutting costs. Our technology is built as API modules that can easily integrate with third-party systems, like procurement platforms and sales systems. Our solution combines complex technical instruments to provide users with the necessary information for improved inventory management.