AgrifoodIndustry 2 of 11
Food and nutrition
15 EIC Accelerator winners have Food and nutrition as their main industry, 17% of Agrifood. 2 more work in it as their second industry.
15
Companies
+2
Also active here
5
Sub-industries
6
Technologies used
7%
Exits
27%
Show signs of scaling
Sub-industries
Companies per year of first award
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
- Food and nutrition
Show the numbers
| Companies | Food and nutrition | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4 |
What happened to them (15 of 15 checked)
- Active12 (80%)
- Exit1 (7%)
- Failed2 (13%)
- Other0 (0%)
Signs of scaling
- Scaling4 (27%)
- Not scaling3 (20%)
- Scaling unclear8 (53%)
Often combined with
Main and second industry of the same company
Keywords
- Almond alternative
- Alternative protein
- Angelica
- Animal-free fats
- Animal-free ingredients
- Apricot kernels
- Baked goods
- Barley
- Bird flu
- Brewers' spent grain
- Carbon dioxide utilisation
- Chlorella
- Clinical trials
- Cocoa alternatives
- Compostable materials
- Cosmetic lipids
- Cultivated meat
- Egg protein
- Egg replacement
- Endurance sports
- Energy gels
- Engineered yeast
- Food extrusion
- Food formulation
- Food ingredients
- Food service
- Food side-streams
- Fruit pits
- Gluten replacement
- Growth factors
- Herbal medicines
- Heterotrophic algae
- Honey
- Hybrid meat
- Light-assisted fermentation
- Mycelium
- Natural colourants
- Novel food
- Oats
- Oilseed side-streams
All 15 companies in Food and nutrition
| Company | Project | Country | Cut-off | Funding | Status | Rasph |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MELT&MARBLE AB | Melt and MarbleHarnessing the immense potential of precision fermentation to produce animal fats for the next generation of meat and dairy alternatives | Sweden | March 2024 | Blended finance | Active | Deep dive |
| NoPalm Ingredients BV | NoPalm OilA unique fermentation platform for the production of a local, circular, and sustainable alternative to palm oil from bio-waste streams | Netherlands | March 2024 | Blended finance | Active | Deep dive |
| Onego Bio Ltd | BioalbumenNovel precision fermentation process to produce animal-free bioidentical ovalbumin | Finland | March 2024 | Blended finance | Active | Deep dive |
| Solmeyea | C - 2C - ProteinInspiring CO2 circularity by introducing carbon transformation to our plates | Greece | March 2024 | Blended finance | Active | Deep dive |
| Millow AB | MEATLOWInnovative patented dry fermentation technology for cost-effective and highly nutritious production of hybrid mycelium-plant meat analogues | Sweden | November 2023 | Blended finance | Active | Deep dive |
| Kern Tec GmbH | Cyanide Extraction TechnologyTechnology to detoxify oilseeds / fruit seeds that contain cyanogenic glycosides to upcycle and making them edible and usable in the food industry for the first time | Austria | October 2022 | Blended finance | Active | Deep dive |
| Mushlabs GmbH | MushlabsUsing biotechnology to create the next generation of sustainable foods from the roots of mushrooms | Germany | March 2022 | Blended finance | Active | Deep dive |
| Green Spot Technologies | Fl'Our PlanetValorisation of food production side-streams as multifunctional ingredients by an innovative fermentation process. | France | October 2021 | Blended finance | Active | Deep dive |
| Novameat Tech, S.L. | NewMEATNew Micro-extrusion Advanced Technology for plant-based whole-cut meat substitutes | Spain | October 2021 | Grant only | Active | Deep dive |
| Arboreabiofoods LDA | Biosolar LeafDisrupting the food ingredient and protein markets: a breakthrough technology for large-scale microalgae cultivation. | Portugal | June 2021 | Grant first | Active | Deep dive |
| ORF Líftækni hf. (ORF Genetics hf.) | CCMeatBarley Biofarmed Growth Factors to Make Cell Cultured Meat an Affordable Reality | Iceland | May 2020 | Grant only | Active | Deep dive |
| BREVEL LTD | BREVELIndustrial scale-up of a novel and disruptive microalgae photobioreactor | Israel | October 2019 | Blended finance | Active | Deep dive |
| Food Sourcing Specialists SL | METAMORFOSISDisrupting the sports nutrition market with a healthy, high-performance, bee product-based energy gel in highly innovative compostable packaging | Spain | April 2019 | Grant only | Closed | Deep dive |
| NapiFeryn BioTech sp. z o.o. | ALSEOSTechnology to turn waste from rapeseed oil production into valuable food protein. | Poland | January 2019 | Grant only | Insolvent | Deep dive |
| SagaNatura ehf. | NO-GONO-GO: UNVEILING THE POWER OF C-08 FOR THE TREATMENT OF OVER ACTIVE BLADDER | Iceland | January 2019 | Grant only | Merged | Deep dive |
Also active in Food and nutrition
Companies with another main industry and this one as their second.
| Company | Project | Industry | Country | Cut-off | Funding | Status | Rasph |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaffe Bueno ApS | KB-BIOREFINERYA biorefinery for upcycling coffee waste into sustainable, healthy, high-value ingredients | Personal care ingredients | Denmark | June 2021 | Grant first | Active | Deep dive |
| Perseus Biomics BV | Perseus MAPMicrobiome Abundance Profiling: Precision microbiome profiling for insights into human health & research | Life science tools | Belgium | June 2021 | Blended finance | Active | Deep dive |
Other industries in Agrifood: Crop inputs · Agricultural machinery · Food processing technology · Aquaculture and fisheries · Controlled environment agriculture · Digital agriculture · Animal feed · Livestock · Food supply chain · Forestry