StartLife has selected nine new (very) early-stage startups to join its eighth acceleration program this spring. The startups have been selected for their promising technological solutions to tackling global agrifood challenges, including sustainable farming, food waste prevention and the protein transition.
The startups selected will enter StartLife’s 3-month acceleration program, which is entirely dedicated to guiding foodtech and agtech startups in validating their business, raising funding and accelerating their impact. Loet Rammelsberg, StartLife’s program director, is excited to start StartLife’s eighth cohort, which will have some extra challenges.
Rammelsberg, “Though StartLife’s acceleration program is already fully tailored to early-stage agrifoodtech startups, this cohort includes numerous very early-stage startups. The companies and their technologies are, so to speak, yet to be born. However, considering their highly promising solutions and the great teams, we are confident as to the potential impact and their chances for success.”
Smart, sustainable food and ag technologies
For its spring 2022 program, StartLife received a record number of applications from startups all over the world. For the first time ever, even from five continents. Rammelsberg, “This underlines the fact that worldwide a growing number of entrepreneurial talents are dedicated to providing novel solutions that tackle our global challenges in food and agriculture.”
The following startups, including StartLife’s very first Latin-American startup, are fortunate to be accepted into the acceleration program. And StartLife is proud to have them onboard and to be working with them.
Foodtech
- Naturannova (Chile)– plant protein discovery platform for the design of tailor-made ingredients
- NoA Biosciences (Netherlands)– Fermentation of woody biomass into alternative protein for feed and food
- Upstream Foods (Netherlands) – Animal-free, cell-based fish fat to improve plant-based protein
Agtech
- Gaia Tech (Switzerland) – Valorization of high-value food, feed and pharmaceutical ingredients from olive oil by-products
- Organifarms (Germany) – farming robots for indoor farms, starting with a strawberry harvester
- Lite+Fog (Germany)– Novel vertical farming setup using fogponics and textile-based technology
Agbio & Biobased tech
- Groam (Switzerland)– Provider of sustainable foamed biomaterials
- InsectSense (Netherlands) – Insect-behavioral based technological solutions
- Next Probiotics (Israel) – Technology enabling the growing of vegetables and fruits rich in probiotics
