Global Food Venture Programme

Project Haltrack - Building a marking block chain practical simulation or model for improving halal traceability.

Nurhayati Nurhayati Experience: "Thank you abundantly for the opportunity given by this program. I learnt how to develop a scalable and sustainable business plan with sound financial projection. The support given by mentors gave me and hence HALTRACK team challenging and constructive feedback. My team and I were so excited to explore business opportunities starting from ideas to amplify the concept of Halal lifestyle by utilizing blockchain technology and involving various stakeholders in the food industry and how the solution benefits the society. Working in two time zones, Indonesia and Central Europe was not easy but with trust and smart teamwork in doing this project, we could finish it. The experience in the program was fruitful, HALTRACK team and I are now encouraged to make it happen and be sustainable. In short, two thumbs up for the program."

Project Choose Eat - An innovative interface web service for personalized Menus based on dietary restrictions for the global catering service markets. Our machine learning software will serve a new food option to those people suffering different kind of food reactions to find the correct menu by matching his/her food profile with the caterer available menus and change some dishes/ingredients creating a new personalized menu for them (according to their dietary restrictions) Thus each personalized Menu can be part in our web Multi-personalized platform to serve other users/caterers that may have similar requirements and may need those menus to be shared among them.

Claudia Capello Experience: "When I found out about the chance to join the GFVP I started seeing the great opportunity to improve my entrepreneurial skills and finally realize the idea in the food field I had in mind already for a few years. I really couldn’t have imagined that this programme would have helped me to validate my idea and bring it to the next level. It allowed me to learn new skills, meet expert mentors and colleagues with the same interest in the agri-food and food fields. It is not an easy programme in which you just sit in front of the pc listening to their suggestions, but there is a lot of hard work behind: training bootcamps, group projects, workshops, networking events with people from all around the world, coaching and guidance from experts, homework, and much more. This programme is exactly what you need to get out of your comfort zone, find yourself in the fascinating world of business and finally turn your idea into a real startup."

Jose Luis Antezana Experience: "It was really an incredible experience knowing a lot different peers with different backgrounds from so many countries, working neck to neck day by day, meeting after meeting, sometimes even I had to work from midnight till very early morning because at that time I was living in another time schedule in Taiwan (Asia time Zone) nevertheless I felt really motivated to do my best to bring our idea together with my colleague from Italy Claudia Capello to reality. Since the beginning it was not an easy task, since I had different time schedules it was hard to have the meetings with Claudia and also with our mentors, happily we got the meetings with them and got and amazing feedbacks with them making us putting our feet back to the ground again and again till our project can be better. Thus we got a lot amazing couching and inspirational sharing’s during the program about financial projections, IP, branding, etc, as I said they really gave us the wings to fly to make our project true. Basically in summary what we are looking for with our project is to create a new food platform that can connect Guest food restrictions with the complete services HORECA (Hotel, Restaurants & Catering) with our app both parties will get personalized menus created by our revolutionary algorithm for multi-personalized menus, speeding up the services, and having those users profiles ready to use into other apps from the HORECA industry. On this way we will simplify the service for the ones with food restrictions and avoid them any involuntary food-cross contamination that happened sometimes in this niche market."

Project Insects4All - Insects4all offers a package for insect farming consisting of a technologically controlled and fully automated portable insect farm together with black fly soldier (BFS) larvae for the production of insect-based feed. By simply adding manure/food waste/vegetable by-products to our package, animal producers would easily produce BFS insects that can then be immediately used to feed pigs and poultry.

Niculina-Iudita Sampalean Experience - "I see the GFVP a unique chance, and I am happy that I took it. During the programme I had the opportunity to interact with so many real experts and learned how to build up a start-up from my business idea. The best points of this programme are, in my opinion, the mobility grant, the one to one coaching and the mentoring activities. I am saying this, as based on the continuous feedback I had from my mentors and coaches I manage to continuously test different aspects of my business. As sometimes I had discovered unfavourable aspects I managed to adapt and reinvent, thanks to their help. This programme’s best assets are all the people you meet, from Chryssa and Maximiliane who were always available and ready to help us on anything and the programme’s participants, my adventure companions, that are the future start-uppers with whom I hope to stay in contact for as long as possible."