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EIT Food Region West Startup Q&A Series

Many ground-breaking startups are making impactful change within the food system. This series aims to highlight a selection of our EIT Food West's startups innovations.

2024

About EIT Food's Startup Q&A Series

We know that collaboration and support is key to transforming our food system. Therefore, this series highlights a collection of our Region West's startups, featuring 3 questions and answers each. We will gain a simple understanding of the following:

  • - Who are the startup and what is their idea? 
  • - Where can we find their products?
  • - How has EIT Food helped them on their journey?

Vini Mini

Meet Vini Mini, an EIT Food startup from The Netherlands. Vini Mini offers nutritional supplements for babies made from different nuts which offer an easy, healthy and reliable way to prevent food allergies, based upon the risk profile of the baby.

Prozymi Biolabs

Meet Prozymi Biolabs, an EIT Food startup from the UK who aims to enzymatically remove immunogenic parts of gluten to enable production of gluten-free bread made from wheat, simplifying the process for the bread producers and preserving the bread's traditional texture and flavour for the consumers.

Bon Vivant

Meet Bon Vivant, an EIT Food startup based in France who specialise in precision fermentation methods to produce dairy proteins without animals.

Quas

Meet Quas, an EIT Food startup from Edinburgh who offer the UK’s most concentrated and diverse probiotic beverage, a sour-dough fermented kvass with over 500 billion probiotics per serving.

Gourmey

Meet Gourmey, an EIT Food startup from France who are a cultivated meat company. They are creating sustainable, cultivated meat from cell cultivation for a conscious generation.

Quest

Meet Quest, an EIT Food startup from the UK. Quest is developing ingredients that will make cultivated meat affordable, scalable and sustainable, producing low-cost, environmental cell culture raw materials, the building blocks for cultivated meat production.

CropHound

Meet CropHound, an EIT Food startup from the UK who use sensors to monitor crops such as potatoes in real time. This helps to reduce costs and carbon footprint, while increasing quality and yield, overall helping to control produce.

MyEasyFarm

Meet MyEasyFarm, an EIT Food startup from France that provides a platforming managing agricultural data from different sources, such as fields and satellites, to reduce product usage and enhance crop cycles.

Kidemis

Meet Kidemis, an EIT Food startup based in Switzerland who are a sustainable biotech company that applies mycelium-based fermentation to upcycle low-value side streams into high value protein for various industries.

MarinaTex

Meet MarinaTex, an EIT Food startup based in the United Kingdom who are developing new films and coatings that are a more planet conscious alternative to regular plastic packaging films and coatings.

Vytal

Meet VYTAL, an EIT Food startup from Germany who operates a digital reusable packaging system with premium, 100%-leak proof bowls for take-out and delivery food. Their vision is a world where food and beverage packaging waste are a thing of the past.

Sweethoven Biotech

Meet Sweethoven Biotech, an EIT Food startup from Germany that have created a sustainable dietary fiber that combines sweet taste and prebiotic properties. This is a healthy and sustainable alternative to normal sugar.

NuKoKo

Meet Nukoko an EIT Food startup from the UK, who are using faba beans instead of cocoa beans to naturally create a new type of healthy and sustainable chocolate.

Mangolade

Meet Mangolade, an EIT Food startup from Germany who are helping to cut food waste by upcycling organic mango seeds that would usually go to waste. These are then turned into sustainable and functional ingredients.

Time-Travelling Milkman

Meet the Time-Travelling Milkman, an EIT Food startup from the Netherlands who are producing and selling stable plant-based fat ingredients for sustainable and appetizing dairy alternatives.

Kern Tec

Meet Kern Tec, an EIT Food startup based in Austria who are an upcycling and food tech company.

Freundeskreis

Meet Freundeskreis, an EIT Food startup based in Vienna that creates plant based cheese alternatives made from apricot kernels.

Neggst

Meet Neggst, an EIT Food startup from Germany who develops plant-based whole egg alternatives that consists of a white yold and a biodegradable shell.

BettaF!sh

Meet BettaF!sh, an EIT Food startup based in Germany that creates plant-based “TU-NAH” from seaweed and fava beans.

Revo Foods

Meet Revo Foods, an EIT Food startup that provides 100% plant-based seafood made from premium products with great nutritional value.

Koralo

Meet Koralo, an EIT Food startup based in Germany that creates sustainable, carbon-neutral, plant-based f!sh from microalgae and mycelium.

Project lead

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Beckie Bold EIT Food West

Communications (Contractor)

Alicia 2
Denita Ahmetspahic EIT Food West

Communications Intern

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