AgriFoodX

Today, we are thrilled to announce our 2024 cohort of 50 ground-breaking European startups and 8 Brazilian startups, bringing cutting edge technology, community and science together to transform our food system. These fast-growing startups, whose impactful solutions contribute to transforming our food system, were selected from over 500 applications received. Not only are they challenging conventional practices across the entire food and agriculture value chain, but they are also working to solve urgent sustainability challenges and build value aligned with both planetary capacity and consumer demand. During the evaluation process, over 60 industry experts ensured that the selected startups not only share EIT Food's commitment to creating a healthier, more sustainable, and transparent food system in alignment with EIT Food Accelerator Network’s mission emphasised themes for each of our five European innovation hubs: Food bioprocessing, Helsinki Hub  Next generation of plant sourced solutions, Paris Hub  Sustainable food packaging, Bilbao Hub  Future proof agriculture, Munich Hub  Food as medicine, Haifa Hub Keep your eyes peeled in the coming days as we reveal the startups that form this year’s cohort by hub/ theme. For those of you too excited to wait, you can see an overview of the selected European startups here: https://lnkd.in/d2HC7xPx A big thank you to: Everyone that applied - we really appreciate your interest and enthusiasm Our programme delivery and corporate partners All of our amazing evaluators that helped us with the challenging task of choosing our seventh cohort The whole EIT FAN, EIT Food and Entrepreneurship teams, who have worked tirelessly to ensure a fantastic start to EIT Food Accelerator Network 2024. Over the coming months we will support the chosen startups from across Europe and Brazil, validating their technology, accelerating their commercial readiness and connecting them to the leading actors within our #food system,  linking those who need technology and innovations, those who are developing it, and those who might finance and scale it. We can't wait to see the teams accelerate, collaborate and grow! ➰ Stay tuned to know more about the EIT FAN Programme 2024 activities! https://lnkd.in/e4XnUh3N Marie Russier, Benoit Buntinx, Dr. Christoph Mandl, Marie Brueser, Samantha Gadenne, Belen Moscoso del Prado Gonzalez, Marie Breysse, Benoît Lelong, Matthias de Kock, CFA, Dr. Avital Regev Siman-Tov, Uri Lesmes, Mirva Lampinen, Pinja Pöri, Aino Piirtola, Kevin Camphuis, Nikola Baumschlager, Rita Laukemper, Juliet Bray, Amparo de San José Riestra, Marie Poyet, Ann Generlich, Anna Laudy-Nagy, EIT Food West, EIT Food Alumni, EIT Food North-East, Ewa Karolewska, Pawel Ciach, Yulia Bodnar, Friederike Wagner #TheFutureOfFood #ImprovingFoodSystemsTogether #AgrifoodTechStartups, #Accelerator, #startups, #newcohort