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Switzerland: A thriving hub for FoodTech innovation. Proud to see Farmy, the Swiss farm-to-fork pioneer, featured among Switzerland’s top startups transforming the food industry. With 149 FoodTech and AgriFood startups and €677 million in funding since 2014, Switzerland has become a powerful incubator for sustainable and high-impact innovation in food production, distribution, and consumption. What’s fueling this growth? Consumer demand for transparency, sustainability, and health-conscious choices has never been stronger. With this rising trend, Switzerland’s FoodTech ecosystem is leading the charge, driving sustainable solutions across every link of the food value chain. It’s an inspiring moment to witness—and be part of—this collective movement toward a more resilient and responsible food system. Explore our in-depth look at the Swiss FoodTech landscape and the startups shaping the future of food: https://lnkd.in/ewgVYBfK #FoodTech #AgriFood #Innovation #SwissStartups #FarmToFork #Sustainability #SwissTech #FutureOfFood #GreenGrowth #Farmy #FoodEcosystem

🇨🇭 Switzerland is not only home to several FoodTech 500 winners but also a vibrant hub for startups aiming to revolutionize the food industry. According to our FoodTech Data Navigator, Switzerland is home to 149 FoodTech and AgriFood startups. In terms of investments, the sector has attracted €677 million in funding since 2014. And the industry's CAGR for investments between 2018 and 2023 stands at an impressive 29.5%, outpacing the 24.8% average growth across the broader European ecosystem. Check out our deep dive into Swiss FoodTech ecosystem in our recent blog: https://lnkd.in/ewgVYBfK Brij Sahi, Matteo Panzavolta, Marcin Niedzielski, Carrol Plummer, Cristian Anastasiu, Daria Reisch, Urs Briner, Tobias Nordmann, Matteo Vanotti, Christian Bärtsch, Daniel Protz, Walfredo della Gherardesca, Denis Weinberg, Olga Dubey, Anian Schreiber, Renaud Enjalbert, Andrea Tassistro, Bruno Cheval, Ciro Borrelli, Marcel Arndt, Tobias Schubert, Dave Behrends, Steve Tanner, Manuel Klarmann, Georgios Savoglidis, Patrick Albrecht, Doris Erne, Naomi MacKenzie, Marison Ian, Mark Essam Zahran, Wheycation (Lokalgenuss AG), Yeastup #ForwardFooding #FoodTech500 #switzerland #foodtech #agrifood #innovation #sustainability

🎉Exciting News! We are thrilled to announce that EIT Food has been recognised as one of Europe's Leading Startup Hubs in 2024 by the Financial Times! 🌟After months of meticulous research, including public calls for participation, surveys among alumni and peers, as well as extensive desk research, the top 125 companies for accelerator and incubator programmes across Europe have been identified. And EIT Food has proudly secured its place among these distinguished hubs! 🌱 EIT Food's Entrepreneurship programmes EIT Food Seedbed Incubator, EIT Food Accelerator Network and EIT Food RisingFoodStars have proudly secured EIT Food's place among these distinguished hubs and EIT Food rated particularly high, number 4, in the best Hub Network category! 💪 This achievement underscores the incredible innovation, dedication, and entrepreneurial spirit within our community. We couldn't be prouder to carry the title of one of Europe's Leading Startup Hubs. 🙌 We extend our gratitude to everyone who has contributed to this success by joining us on this remarkable journey. Together, we continue to push boundaries, foster innovation, and make a lasting impact for a healthy and sustainable food system. 👉 Check out the full list of Europe's Leading Startup Hubs from the Financial Times: https://lnkd.in/eDXYvRhN 👉 For further insights, view the full article: https://lnkd.in/eXTnzb8H 👉 Discover more about our EIT Food Entrepreneur programmes or to mark your interest for our next cohorts, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gU-j8ue 👏 Thank you for being part of our incredible community, and here's to many more milestones ahead! Benoit Buntinx, Marie Russier, Lukxmi Balathasan, Narjis Chakir #seedbedincubator #eitfoodcommunity #foodsystemtransformation #agritech #agrifood #innovation #incubatorprogramme

𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐭: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞-𝐔𝐩 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 🌱 Within 5 years, #Brabant will be the leading scale-up hotspot for foodtech startups. A bold ambition that we will collectively strive to achieve. Why do we believe Brabant is the place to scale up your startup? ✨𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://lnkd.in/erHrceJX Thanks to a wealth of breeding-, agricultural-, and food processing knowledge, Dutch agrifood products are exported worldwide. Much of this food production and technology excellence is centered around Brabant. It's central location, connecting leading food technology universities like Wageningen University & Research, TU Delft, and Universiteit Gent, is key to its development as a scale-up ecosystem. The blend of industry knowledge and academic R&D drives product development from small to large-scale production. In addition, the existing value chains for the production of animal and plant-based proteins are well-established in the region. This is underpinned by numerous knowledge institutions and well-established pioneers in plant-based alternatives, such as the internationally renowned The Vegetarian Butcher and Redefine Meat. We have the ambition to make Brabant the scale-up plant of Europe: a scaling hotspot, with pilot and demo facilities at various locations for the transformation of startups into scale-ups. This initiative comes from BOM (Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij), REWIN West-Brabant, and the Provincie Noord-Brabant. Join us in accelerating this transition and let's make a big impact on the future of food. Thijs Taminiau, Pieter Meuwissen, Marjan Welvaarts, Freek van den Heuvel, Jonica de Bruijn, Ingrid Oomen-Peeters

✳️ Newsflash! Brabant is the #ScaleUp Plant of Europe! ✳️ ✳️ Provincie Noord-Brabant recognises that we have the potential to create innovative, sustainable #PlantBased #FoodSolutions and sell them internationally. However, there's a challenge: there aren't enough facilities for start-ups to develop their ideas and bring them to market quickly. ✳️ Step in, a new ambitious provincial initiative aimed at providing long-term, sector-specific support for startups in the scaling phase. This endeavour will be carried out through the region's phased approach to growth, with support from pilot, modular demo, and full-scale facilities. Additionally, collaborative partners will focus on international positioning, acquisition, and forming partnerships with global startups. ✳️ Monkeys By The Sea is proud to have been named one of the 5 most promising Plant-based start-ups in Brabant and is eager to collaborate with the innovative minds of the Provincie Noord-Brabant, Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM), REWIN West-Brabant, and the other Brabant partners!  ✳️ For more details, check out their white paper here: https://lnkd.in/eGSFva9D revyve  The Protein Brewery Rival Foods FiberFoods  Monkeys By The Sea #SeafoodInspired #PlantbasedSeafood #SustainableFoodSystems #StartUpToScaleUp

For the past two years, +80 Agri-FoodTech startups have chosen Hectar for their development. 👇 Hectar Accelerator program is Europe's fisrt #AgriFoodTech ecosystem, which aims to accelerate the social and economic transition of regenerative agriculture. 🌾 In partnership with Incubateur HEC Paris, it supports the growth of the most promising AgriTech and #FoodTech startups, which address critical environmental & societal challenges. The goal? Empowering startups to develop and engage in socially fair, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable activities. To achieve this, the program aims to connect startups with clients and investors within a 3-month timeframe! ⏰ Networking with entrepreneurs, attending masterclasses and advisory boards, meeting large corporations and investment funds, as well as experts, farmers, cooperatives, and potential clients! This is the recipe that makes this program a major catalyst to help entrepreneurs understand and tackle their challenges. 🎯 👇 Meet Thibault Boyeux, co-founder of Kheops, one of the startups accelerated by Hectar! Inge Kerkloh-Devif Thiago Penteado Antoine Lepretre Maïa Delcourt Pierre Angot Caroline Poinsignon - Kheops #AgriTech #AgTech #FutureofAgriculture

While these are a bit old news, announced a few weeks ago, we have just received the formal certificate recognising Eatable Adventures as one of the leading european startup-hubs by Financial Times and Statista; and we can't be happier. This is a team effort and we want to thank all our partners, mentors, clients, co-investors, LPs, and many individuals that externally support our activities on a daily basis. And very specially to over 100 Startups that pass through our incubation and acceleration programs programs each year; and the thousands of entrepreneurs and entrepreneur-to-be that attend our Hubs programs. Madrid Food Innovation Hub Eatex Food Innovation Hub Verona Agrifood Innovation Hub Spain Foodtech FoodSeed #agrifood #foodtech #agritech #agtech

✅ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁?    💡 As Synergy Days approaches, it is time to do a retrospective on what has been done within the food-scalEUp project. To do so, we will present each part of the project and its outcomes, starting with 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴!   🔎 The objectives of this first part of the project was to identify key actors, programs and services and to identify the needs of end-users of acceleration services to determine strengths and weaknesses.   1️⃣ The first thing partners had to do was to understand how the acceleration ecosystem works, and who is part of it. Thus, the food-scalEUp partners mapped around 700 key actors of the acceleration ecosystem, giving a first idea of the regional and European environment.    2️⃣ The second step of this first part was to interview acceleration services end users, to determine what improvements could be made to propose new or more innovative services. More than 60 interviews were conducted, and the conclusions highlighted the several axes of improvement that could be brought to acceleration services.   3️⃣ Finally, the last step was to cross-analyze the data gathered during the previous steps, to determine what needs to be addressed during the project and with which intensity. The main problematics highlighted during this analysis were related to the ecosystem approach – building awareness, having a more connected ecosystem – and also having more personalized services. It has also been observed that most of the programs are aimed at startups, being possibly necessary to increase the offer of services in more advanced stages of maturity.   🚀 In the end, all these conclusions led to building and offering new acceleration services to startups, and have contributed significantly to the following steps of the project, 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 and 𝘊𝘰-𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴.    📢 Stay tuned to learn more about the outcomes of the other parts of the project! 𝘍𝘰𝘰𝘥-𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘌𝘜𝘱 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴: Cluster Alimentaire de Galicie, AgriFood Capital, Cein, Central Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency, Food-Processing Initiative e. V., Foodvalley NL, Innov'Alliance - Pôle de compétitivité de la Naturalité et des filières du végétal, Valorial, le réseau innovation agri-agro, Technopole Quimper-Cornouaille & Normandie Incubation. European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) #EUInnovationEcosystems #HorizonEU #SMEs #innovation #startup #SS4AF #agrifood

🛤️Ready to join the journey of Impact Accelerator Sustainable Food Systems? 👏We’re proud to share that in 2023, our accelerator programmes achieved meaningful success by connecting the participating startups with a remarkable 314 partners & 171 investors! 🌟 🤝Fostering strong connections leading to strategic partnerships that propel innovation forward lies at the heart of our work and programmes at Impact Hub Berlin. If collaboration and ecosystem thinking are something you want to excel in this year, Impact Accelerator Sustainable #FoodSystems is for you. 📢Applications are now open for our partnership-focused Impact Accelerator focusing on Sustainable Food Systems. We’re looking for startups dedicated to creating more sustainable food systems from fair value chains, to radically regional processing and distribution, sustainable gastronomy, or AI-based food systems strengthening resilience. Find more details about the programme and our approach to supporting impact and apply here: https://lnkd.in/drAE9Agx  Become part of our #ImpactCommunity and let's accelerate your startup dreams together! ✨ #StartupSuccess #SustainableFood #Accelerator #ImpactStartups #ImpactPartnerships

🙏Thank you to anyone who has joined us and our startups at the Slush2024 for the "Futures of Food through #Biotechnology and #Bioprocessing" side event, hosted by EIT Food and VTT! Investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders came together to explore the future of food through biotechnology and bioprocessing and engage in discussions about food innovation. Event Highlights: 🥗💊 Marja-Liisa Meurice Pihlstrom set the stage with an inspiring message: "Food is health, and the future of food must be sustainable, resilient, and inclusive. We can’t afford to wait – the time to act is now." 🚀  Future Focus: A panel discussion on how bioprocessing is transforming food sustainability. 👥  Startup Showcase: Ten startups from the EIT Food Accelerator Network 2024 Helsinki cohort pitched their groundbreaking innovations! ✨ Featured Startups: Melt&Marble (Sweden), PFx Biotech, Lda (Portugal), Senara GmbH (Germany), New Wave Biotech (UK), Ironic Biotech (Sweden), Esencia Foods (Germany), KIDEMIS (Switzerland) 🛢🌱 EIT Food Accelerator Network alumna Nemailla Bonturi of ÄIO shared her insight: "Biotechnology gives us the tools to turn side streams into valuable resources. By transforming waste into sustainable fats and oils, we’re rethinking what’s possible in food production." 🎉 Mirva Lampinen from VTT closed the event, inspiring everyone with her call to action: "Collaboration is at the heart of progress. If we want to truly revolutionise food systems, we need to combine science, entrepreneurship, and investment to drive change together." 👏 A massive thank you to Ewa Rzeszowska and the entire EIT Food North-East team and Mirva Lampinen, Aino Piirtola and the VTT team for organising the event, for inspiring us all, and for making it such a great success. Let’s keep the momentum going and continue the conversation and collaborations to overcome challenges like regulation, scaling, and consumer adoption together! #Slush2024 #FoodSystemTransformation #startupacceleration #AgriFoodTechInnovation #ImprovingFoodTogether #EITFoodAcceleratorNetwork Ewa Rzeszowska, Mirva Lampinen, Aino Piirtola, Yulia Bodnar, Anastasia Krivoruchko, Thomas Cresswell, Ali Osman, Svenja Dannewitz Prosseda, Zoe Yu Tung Law, Eskil Åhlin, Hendrik Kaye