Futures of Food through Biotechnology and Bioprocessing

The event, brought to you by EIT Food and VTT, is also an opportunity to meet industry leaders, startup founders, and investors. 

Future Focus:  Explore the latest trends in foodtech and engage in a dynamic panel discussion highlighting how bioprocessing is revolutionising the sustainability of food.

Startup Showcase:  Discover the future of food through pitches from ten EIT FAN Helsinki cohort startups, each bringing groundbreaking innovations in bioprocessing to the table.

Meet & Greet:  Forge meaningful connections with key figures in the food industry, including investors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders.

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During the event, ten selected startups from this year’s EIT FAN Helsinki acceleration programme, will pitch their innovative solutions. These startups are developing plant-based and animal-free food alternatives, as well as sustainable bioprocessing technologies for cultivating animal-based products at the cellular or molecular level. Below are brief descriptions of the startups that will be participating in the pitch:

Melt&Marble (Sweden):
Produces sustainable designer fats and oils using precision fermentation, focusing on meat and dairy alternatives as well as personal care applications. Their technology aims to reduce reliance on animal agriculture and environmentally harmful sources like palm oil.
LinkedIn: Melt&Marble

ExSeed (Bulgaria):
Specializes in isolating sunflower protein using a novel three-layer extraction process. Their innovative technology allows the creation of sunflower protein isolates for commercial use, optimizing each stage of the process for better results.
LinkedIn: ExSeed

PFx Biotech (Portugal):
Utilizes precision fermentation to produce highly bioactive human milk proteins for the advanced nutrition market. They have already developed a proof-of-concept for several proteins and are scaling their production processes.
Website: PFx Biotech

Senara (Germany):
Develops cell-cultivated dairy products that maintain nutritional value while reducing production costs. Their innovative bioreactor system grows high-quality milk cells to offer a sustainable solution for dairy alternatives.
LinkedIn: Senara

New Wave Biotech (United Kingdom):
Creates AI-powered bioprocess optimization software for alternative protein production. Their system simulates and tests thousands of bioprocess scenarios, optimizing costs, quality, and sustainability, while continuously learning from customer data.
LinkedIn: New Wave Biotech

Ironic Biotech (Sweden):
Produces plant-based iron using precision fermentation, creating proteins that are bioavailable, stable, and easy to add to food products. Their iron-rich proteins offer a meat-like absorption rate without the environmental impact of meat production.
LinkedIn: Ironic Biotech

Esencia Foods (Germany):
Uses mycelium to recreate seafood alternatives, particularly white fish, through a proprietary fermentation process. They aim to expand their product range to other types of meat alternatives in the future.
LinkedIn: Esencia Foods

Quest (United Kingdom):
Produces low-cost, sustainable raw materials for cultivated meat production, including cells, scaffolding, and serum replacements, supporting the scalable production of lab-grown meat.
LinkedIn: Quest

KIDEMIS (Switzerland):
Upcycles agricultural side streams using solid-state fermentation (SSF) to produce mycoprotein for aquafeed and animal feed. Their zero-waste bioprocessing technology offers an innovative solution to converting low-value streams into high-quality proteins.
LinkedIn: KIDEMIS

Ittinsect (Italy):
Creates sustainable aquafeed using biotechnological protein extraction from agricultural by-products and insects. Their patent-pending technology increases protein bioavailability and eliminates anti-nutritional factors, aiming to replace fishmeal in aquaculture.
LinkedIn: Ittinsect