10 agrifood startups join the 2nd edition of Bilbao Campus Experience
After a successful first edition, the Bilbao Campus Experience returns, organised by EIT Food with the support of the Basque Government, as a gateway to the Basque entrepreneurial ecosystem and beyond.
20 Oct 2025
EIT Food North & East
The Bilbao Campus Experience is an innovative entrepreneurship programme, which offers to the startups an immersive post-accelerator experience designed to integrate them into the dynamic Basque Entrepreneurship Ecosystem. This initiative is going to provide the selected participants with a transformative three-week journey at the BAT (B Accelerator Tower) in Bilbao, Spain.
Targeted at agrifood entrepreneurs, the Bilbao Campus Experience will facilitate access to key markets in Basque Country, Spain and Europe. With a highly personalised approach, only 20% of the programme will focus on group sessions, while the rest will centre on individualised journeys customised to each startup's specific needs, enabling direct interactions with providers, customers, investors, and industry leaders.
Meet the 10 Startups Driving Change at BCE:
- MiFood Robot (Poland). MiFood builds robot workers for farms to reduce food waste, crop losses by 30%, labor shortages, labor cost by 50%, CO2 emissions, and workplace accidents in every farm.
- Veles Sense (Serbia). Veles Sense is an agri-tech startup developing AI-powered solutions to detect grapevine stress early using multispectral and thermal imaging, drones, and close-range cameras. It helps vineyards identify Esca disease, drought, and nutrient deficiencies before symptoms appear, reducing costs and protecting yields. It enables wineries to grow sustainably with greater efficiency, lower chemical inputs, and higher profits.
- Happeaz (France). A meaningful name blending Happy and Chick Peas, our star ingredient. Our mission: transform everyday eating into a healthy, sustainable model with no compromise on taste. Our solution: drive positive impact through plant-based innovation. We offer veggie burgers, fingers, and nuggets to the organic retail market and wholesalers in commercial and collective catering.
- Food 4 You (Argentina). This biotech startup tackles the 50% loss of microbial diversity by developing unique bacterial combinations for plant-based fermentation. Its technology fuses bioinformatics with traditional fermentation, using unexplored lactic cultures to create advanced starter cultures and probiotics. It has developed exceptional dairy analogues that excel in taste and nutrition, with transformative potential across food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture.
- Food Scales (Sweden). It is a sustainable biotech startup transforming fish scale waste into valuable food ingredients, including collagen. By leveraging advanced biotechnology and upcycling, it reduces environmental impact while creating high-protein, nutrient-rich products. Its mission is to turn overlooked marine byproducts into innovative, eco-friendly solutions that support the circular economy and global food security.
- BeeSage (The Netherlands). Is an Apiculture 4.0 solution providing a modular early warning system to protect honey bee colonies from pests and diseases. Its software and hardware help beekeepers increase yield, mitigate risks, and make informed decisions. Wireless, lightweight smart devices and a real-time data platform empower beekeepers to manage colonies effectively, safeguard ecosystems, and advance food security, scaling from hive alerts to AI-enabled apiary analytics.
- V. G. Freyia Labs Ltd (Cyprus). It helps small and medium fermenters take full control of their craft using F.O.R.S.E.T.I.X., an intelligent system combining a lab, compliance officer, and fermentation scientist in one. It removes guesswork and manual tracking through real-time monitoring, predictive insights, and precision control. Designed for producers of fermented foods and non-alcoholic fermented beverages, it ensures consistent results, better batch quality, and simplified compliance. Freyia Labs empowers producers to grow with confidence without compromising quality or sustainability.
- MycoVibes Biotech (Poland). This biotech startup produces next-generation mycoprotein from shiitake mycelium. Its circular bioprocess upcycles food-industry by-products into a clean-label, allergen-free protein enriched with vitamin B12, iron, and polyunsaturated fatty acids. The ingredient is highly digestible, delivering complete nutrition and enabling food manufacturers to replace animal protein without compromising taste, nutrition, or cost. It partners with manufacturers via a licensing model for fast, cost-efficient scale-up.
- Enthela (Bulgaria). Develop products based on microorganisms that decrease the necessity for chemical inputs for growth and protection for grain producers. Our lead product pairs a root-colonising microbial consortium with a 10-μm microcapsule that protects cells from seed-applied chemistries and environmental swings, keeps them concentrated at the root surface, and releases them gradually when moisture and exudates are present.
- Tetis Biotech (Türkiye). Seanacks is a sustainable food innovation project by Tetis Biotech that upcycles marine side-streams such as fish skin and bones into collagen-enriched functional snacks. Using eco-friendly green extraction methods like high pressure hydrolysis and hybrid systems. Seanacks produces nutritious, high-protein, and antioxidant-rich snacks that align with circular economy principles. The project aims to promote healthy aging, reduce food waste, and support the EU Green Deal through sustainable blue biotechnology.
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