Celebrating Women TechEU Winners — Spotlight on Agrifood Innovators
In a key milestone for deep-tech and women entrepreneurship, the Women TechEU programme has already selected it's winners: 40 visionary women-led startups from across Europe have each secured €75,000 non-dilutive grants plus high-level mentorship to accelerate their ventures.
EIT Food is proud to have supported the dissemination of the programme within our networks and to explore strategic synergies between these groundbreaking women-led startups and our own agri-food innovation pipelines.
What is Women TechEU?
Women TechEU is an EU-funded initiative aimed at supporting women founders who lead deep tech startups in Europe. Each winning startup receives a grant (non-dilutive financing) and tailored mentoring to help scale their technology and business. Within the 2024-25 call alone, 40 startups were selected across multiple sectors.
The selection covers a broad spectrum of sectors including advanced computing, biotechnology & life sciences, climate tech, agritech, AI, IoT, and more.
By partnering with Women TechEU — through dissemination, outreach to our community, and facilitating connections — EIT Food helps ensure that agrifood innovators led by women are front and centre in Europe’s tech ecosystem.
These winners exemplify how female deep-tech founders are driving impact in agriculture and food systems. Their innovations have the potential to contribute to more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive food chains — goals that align directly with EIT Food’s strategic priorities.
Agrifood & Agritech Standouts
Among the winners, several are innovating directly in the agriculture, food, life sciences and biotech space (“Agritech / Life Sciences” category). These agri-food aligned ventures are particularly exciting because they map closely onto EIT Food’s mission to transform the food system sustainably.
Some of these standout agrifood / biotech winners include:
🌿 Elwira Komon-Janczara – SeaSoil Biopolymers (Poland)
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Sector: Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, Life Sciences & Agritech
SeaSoil transforms agricultural and food waste into a new class of biodegradable materials through biotechnology. The resulting polymers mimic traditional plastics like polypropylene but are fully biodegradable in marine, soil, and forest conditions, leaving behind only compost and natural micronutrients.
Tested for food and cosmetics contact, SeaSoil’s materials offer a sustainable and durable alternative to plastics — a breakthrough that aligns with EIT Food’s focus on circular, bio-based packaging solutions.
🤖 Ana María Molina Olmo – Grodi Agrotech S.L. (Spain)
🌍 groditech.com | LinkedIn
Sector: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Biotechnology, Agritech
GrodiTech is reimagining precision agriculture through robotics and artificial intelligence. The company’s autonomous atomiser robot detects and treats crop diseases and pests in greenhouses, providing 360º health monitoring and targeted treatment.
Operating day and night, the robot enhances crop quality, reduces chemical inputs, and increases profitability for farmers — addressing critical challenges in sustainable food production.
🐝 Aneta Ozieranska – Oligofeed SAS (France)
🌍 oligofeed.com | LinkedIn
Sector: Biotechnology, Life Sciences & Agritech
Oligofeed pioneers micronutrient solutions for animal and pollinator health, with a special focus on bees, which are essential for one-third of global food production. The company’s patented feed ingredient significantly improves bee health and reduces mortality rates, supporting ecosystem stability and agricultural productivity.
Developed over nine years of academic research and validated through more than 1,300 tests with beekeepers across Europe and the U.S., Oligofeed’s innovation represents a major step forward in sustainable livestock and pollinator management.
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Our goal is to replace plastics with something that gives back to nature instead of taking from it.
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We aim to make greenhouses smarter, more efficient, and more resilient — so farmers can produce more with fewer resources.
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Our mission is to protect pollinators — and by extension, global food security.
Synergies: How EIT Food Can Catalyse Impact
Winning Women TechEU grantees can benefit from synergies with EIT Food’s programmes in several ways:
- Access to agrifood networks — Through EIT Food’s innovation communities, startup boosters, and corporate partners, we can help integrate the Women TechEU agritech startups into consortia, pilot projects, and validation environments.
- Follow-on funding and scaling pathways — Some Women TechEU winners might be strong candidates for follow-on support via EIT Food’s scale-up instruments, or co-investment in later development phases.
- Thematic alignment — EIT Food’s workstreams in agri-biotech, sustainable proteins, circular food systems, farm digitization, and regenerative agriculture are fertile ground for collaboration, joint calls, or innovation challenges.
Moving Forward: What’s Next
- We are exploring joint matchmaking events where Women TechEU winners meet EIT Food startups, corporate partners, mentors, and investors in the agrifood domain.
- We invite interested members of the EIT Food community (startups, research groups, corporates) to reach out if they see promising collaboration opportunities with any of the Women TechEU grantees.
We warmly congratulate all the Women TechEU winners — and in particular those advancing innovation in agriculture, life sciences, and food systems. The future of European food innovation looks stronger, more inclusive, and more resilient thanks to their leadership.
Check the full list of Women TechEU winners and browse by sector at the Women TechEU DataHub.