Get ready for a bite-sized showcase of bold ideas!
We’re serving up standout innovations from EIT Food’s Test Farms programme. In this special pitching session, 10 startups, selected from over 30 field-tested agritech solutions, take the stage to share scalable innovations in biostimulants, soil monitoring, crop sensors, and more.
With real-world results and future-ready thinking, these founders are bridging high-tech with hands-on agriculture.
The three best pitches will be awarded financial prizes, giving an extra boost to startups ready to scale their impact. Join us to discover the next big bite in agrifood innovation.
Pitching Startups
Aeroponix Robotics SRL – The first company in Romania to develop vertical farming systems using root spray technology, Aeroponics, we reduce water consumption in agriculture by 95% and plants grow 45% faster, the system can be powered by alternative energy.
Agri Solutions – Agri Solutions connects agri-business with technology, supporting all stakeholders in the agri-food industry to achieve better economic results. We increase yields while minimising negative environmental and social impacts, and increase industry transparency and consumer awareness.
Atfield Technologies doo – ATFIELD is an agro-data-science start-up with a vision to develop tools for autonomous agriculture. We have built and commercially deployed a system for viticulture that reveals microclimate conditions of every vineyard plot. As of 2025. we’re servicing more than 150 customers in 8 states. Our major strength is great link between our data science team and agro-experts.
Fokus Applicator (by Fokus Europe sp. z o.o.) – Fokus Europe sp. z o.o. was established in 2024 with the aim of developing and manufacturing innovative applicators and dispensers for microbiological products and fertilisers used in agriculture. The company bases its operations on direct cooperation with farms, striving to provide them with a new type of equipment designed for the efficient in-soil application of modern microbiological products and precision fertilisers. We are at the start-up level and our solution is planned to go commercialisation stage by the end of 2025 after completion of the trials. "
Immunoregulator MIR – The startup Immunoregulator MIR is a family business for the production and sale of the MIR product line. We started this startup 10 years ago. It all started in Kherson, in the south of Ukraine, where there were many fields for growing grain and oilseed crops. We had many successful cases of testing the immunoregulator in real conditions, including in the fields of the Nibulon enterprise. The full-scale invasion suspended our activities for almost 3 years, but now we have relocated to the western part of Ukraine, to the city of Chernivtsi, and are reviving our activities, including thanks to the Test Farms project.
Mealprot Ltd – Mealprot is a low emission, circular farm that raises Mealworms – approved eatable insects. Our work is to rear and process the larvae, from which we are developing products for Feed, Food and Agri sectors.
Our mission is to recycle and reuse agricultural by-products to produce organic fertilisers and insecticide for the argi sector. "
NPHarvest – NPHarvest recovers 90% of nitrogen and phosphorus from concentrated wastewaters in a form reusable as fertilizers — turning problem into a desperately needed replacement for Russian fertilizer imports. The unique combination of low opex, high-quality end product, and industrial reliability of our technology enables wastewater treatment to switch from nutrient removal to recovery at scale. Our technology was developed as part of research in Aalto University, we spun out in 2023 and raised a pre-seed round in 2024. Now the technology is EPO patent pending (coverage already in place), our first commercial Mini unit is at our first client (a farm in the Netherlands), and our mobile industrial Demo unit is being commissioned at a biogas plant in Turkey.
Paul-Tech OU – Paul-Tech offers unique AI insights based on the only proven real-time NO3 sensor.
PreservaShield – Innovative microbiological solution for pre- and post-harvest protection.
SMAGRY Soil Alayzer (by SafePAS OU) – We enable laboratory testing with portable devices that deliver lab-grade accuracy in minutes, allowing critical, on-the-spot decisions at a fraction of the cost. This technology has broad applications, from agriculture and forensics to military and medical fields, where timely, cost-effective testing is essential. The heart of our technology is Capillary Electrophoresis combined with Ultrasensitive detection methods and empowered by machine learning algorithms.
Smart irrigation (by dFarm Solutions Ltd.) – dFarm Solutions Ltd. is a precision agriculture company based in Hungary, providing IoT-based soil and weather monitoring systems. Our platform collects real-time data from smart sensors (soil probes, weather stations, irrigation monitors) to optimise water use, increase yields, and support sustainable farming. We enable data-driven decisions for farmers with easy-to-use mobile and web applications, supporting the EU’s green and digital transition goals.
SoilyWorld OÜ – Soily.World is developing digital bio data analytical platform enabling inclusive farmers’ access to Predictive Actionable Field Intelligence from Living Soil Ecosystems for profitable, sustainable, circular farming, ensuring EU and world’s leap to resilient food supply, helping to leave the global problem of hunger far behind forever.
