🎉 Congratulations to the 10 EIT Food Accelerator Network Bilbao Hub startups for presenting their pitches during the Tech Validation event!
Our big thanks to the jury panel, including Angel Santos, Pedro Alvarez Bretones, Cruz Mendigutía, Jorge García, Stephane Durand, Samantha Gadenne, CSIC, for hosting the event, and Juliet Bray and our corporate partners! Excellent work!
These 10 amazing startups are championing the shift from single-use plastics to effective reuse solutions and eco-friendly materials made from food and fish waste and pulp fibres:
🚀 MarinaTex is developing a new seafood waste and algae material, designed as a planet-conscious alternative to plastic films.
🚀 Senoptica Technologies is a novel smart packaging sensor that helps identify failed packs and provides condition data for supply chain analytics, predicting spoilage and extending shelf life.
🚀 Papkot® is pioneering a new era in sustainable packaging with its innovative, fully biodegradable, and recyclable solutions. Thanks to its unique coating, it gives paper the same material performance as plastic.
🚀 Relicta - Innovation of Packaging has developed a water-soluble, transparent and biodegradable bioplastic for packaging made from fishwaste.
🚀 MakeGrowLab converts food waste into SPM nano cellulose fibres, capable of producing paper materials that rival plastic in performance and offer sustainable food protective packaging options.
🚀Blue Ocean Closures produces closures from highly pressed natural fibers that are biobased, biodegradable, and recyclable as paper in a fast, cost-effective, and scalable system.
🚀 By upcycling food industry streams, wastes, and by-products, Outlander Materials produces UnPlastic, a functional, compostable, and non-plastic alternative to single-use packaging solutions.
🚀 AgriFoodX uses agri-food by-products as a source of environmentally sustainable, high-value biomaterials for innovative food products and stronger biodegradable and compostable bio-based packaging applications.
🚀 Zero Impack offers reusable packaging and provides physical and digital infrastructure for leading food service operations in school canteens, university campuses, corporate offices and progressive cities.
🚀 Pack2Earth develops biobased flexible film and injection materials that are robust, compostable at ambient temperature, organically recyclable, and suitable for manufacturing packaging.
🥂 You did us proud! We thank our mentors Eduardo Quemada McGuckian, Vanessa Ballard – the Vertical team Jason Hill, Lars Melakoski, research centres ITENE, Miriam Gallur Blanca, Fraunhofer IIS, CSIC, INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, hub leads and partners for accelerating these startups and getting them pitch-ready! 🙏
