Shortlisted Teams
30 shortlisted start-ups have been selected from 667 submissions across 79 countries!
50% of the proposals were focused on tackling food production – with a focus on insect farming and aquaculture, farm management, plant-based solutions, and precision farming. Applications addressing food loss and waste solutions account for the other 50% of the shortlisted start-ups – which featured food waste tech, food sharing platforms, supply chain monitoring, and traceability as key themes.
Food Loss and Waste
| Name | Description | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Chemometric Brain | A unique cloud-based software-as-a-service solution for food quality control aimed at fostering digitization of quality and supply chains to ensure the supply of safe and sustainable food | Spain |
| Coffee Resurrect | The first Biotech company in Africa to create nutraceuticals and Food ingredients from coffee waste | Ethiopia |
| Food ATM | Preventing food wastage by providing affordable meals for lower income communities & workers | UAE |
| Fotortec | Upcycling vegetable waste into sustainable protein ingredients to help food producers deliver products better aligned with consumers health, environmental, and social expectations | USA |
| Kafoodle | An intelligent software solution connecting commercial kitchens to consumers and allowing them access to full food information across the supply chain | UK |
| NATURPOD | A product that keeps fruits and vegetables fresh for longer | Spain |
| Neolithics | High visibility, non-destructive, industrial quality control systems for fresh produce supply chain to maximize value and minimize waste | Israel |
| Novfeed | A proprietary chemical-free biotechnological platform where organic waste is converted into a natural, traceable, and safe non-animal and non-GMO protein source to be used in aquaculture | Tanzania |
| Orbisk | AI image recognition technology leveraging automation to quantify food waste in professional kitchens seamlessly, reducing food waste and improving sustainability and profitability | Netherlands |
| PostHarvest | A highly accurate, real-time monitoring sensor providing information on fresh produce in cold storage | Australia |
| Revoltech | A unique patent-pending freezing technology that keeps cells alive | UAE |
| SolarXWorks | An applied solar company focused on real world solutions that help customers reduce costs, improve access to energy, drive energy efficiencies, and increase revenue | US |
| TRACER | A serialization and traceability as a service platform within an interoperable blockchain platform that brings supply chain nodes together, extending benefits to manufacturers, retail chains and customers | UAE |
| Uvera | An IoT device that increases the shelf-life of food within only 30-seconds, with an AI-powered app that builds an online food inventory and predicts food spoilage | KSA |
| Yeap | A sustainable yeast-based protein (functional and Bulk in the form of TVP -Texturized Vegetable Protein) made from spent yeast | Israel |
Food Production
| Name | Description | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Airponix | A smart, soil-less and sustainable game changing fog-based technology to grow nutritious food crops locally with 95% less water | UK |
| Aquagrain | A cleantech soil improver produced from food waste that delivers more crops with less water | UK |
| AQUALIFE iFARMS | An organization transforming food waste to animal feed and fertiliser using black soldier flies | Nigeria |
| Blue Aqua Foodtech | An alternative protein producer that will replace fishmeal with insect protein as the main source of protein used in fish feed | Singapore |
| Circa Biotech | Improving organic waste management in urban cities by converting food waste into protein, oil and organic fertiliser for nutritious chicken and fish feed, and fertilizer | UAE |
| FreezeM | “Making insect farming simple by providing ready-to-use packages of “”larvae seeds”” with extended shelf-life to insect farmers worldwide” | Israel |
| Future By Insects | An integrated approach of microalgae-based carbon sequestration, wastewater treatment and insect farming to upcycle food waste, demonstrating sustainability and circularity (CO2>Algae>Insects) | UK |
| Insect Feed Technologies | Converting food waste into sustainable, all-natural insect products for food production. | Singapore |
| Midbar | Cultivating crops with water harvested from the air in inflatable Aeroponic farms | Korea |
| NAX Solutions | Helping growers make smarter decisions using satellite information, to produce more, consuming less resources | Spain |
| Onami Foods | Algae and plant-based seafood | France |
| SeaSpire | Developing whole-cut seafood alternatives using plant-based proteins and 3D bioprinting. | India |
| Sustainable Planet | Growing plant-based protein (water lentils) on non-arable land and creating a protein isolate from the fastest growing plant on our planet | UK |
| Terraform Food | Alternative food sources with precision fermentation (animal-free dairy products) | Uruguay |
| We Balance | A new generation of healthy proteins, foods and beverages, and confectioneries created using fungi-micro biotechnology | Vietnam |
