EIT Food announces new cohort of agri-food start-ups
EIT Food, the world’s largest food innovation community, has announced its new cohort of 58 ground-breaking startups for the EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN), one of its prestigious entrepreneurship programmes. EIT Food is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
Each startup will receive access to the world’s largest and most dynamic agrifood community of industry experts, research institutions, corporate partners and investors.
The chosen startups – including 50 from across Europe and eight from EIT Food’s FAN Hub in Brazil – include:
EIT Food Accelerator Network – full list available to download here.
· Clean Food Group (UK) makes sustainable, local, scalable, healthier oils and fats, using fermentation.
· Melt&Marble (Sweden) is on a mission to become an enabler for the alternative protein industry by providing it with the best and tastiest fats, using precision fermentation to produce animal fats without the animal. The result: tastier plant-based foods, for consumers and the planet.
· NOOVI (Slovakia) offers a globally unique line of marking pheromones “Pheromark” that prevent pests from laying eggs on crops, without using any toxins.
· Nukoko (UK) is the new wave of bean-to-bar manufacturing, using fava beans instead of cocoa beans to naturally create a new type of healthy and sustainable chocolate from ingredients that are better for humans and planet.
· Pacifico Labs (Germany) has developed a scalable, carbon-neutral biomass fermentation process that produces seafood alternatives using mycelium and microalgae.
· Pack2Earth (Spain) has developed robust biomaterials from plants and minerals to substitute contaminating plastic in packaging and more.
· P-Agro Minerals (Latvia) has developed an affordable technology that recovers Phosphorus from wastewater in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants, enabling the use of P-Agro directly as a fertiliser in agriculture.
· Papkot™ (France) makes packaging plastic-free, recyclable and biodegradable by replacing plastic with pure paper improved by AI.
· PFx Biotech (Portugal) produces highly bioactive alternative human milk proteins, through precision fermentation, creating a new category of ingredients that will support and boost the immune system.
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