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SEEDBED INCUBATOR
THE KEY FOCUS AREAS
SustainableAgriculture
SustainableAquaculture
AlternativeProteins
DigitalTraceability
CircularFood
Systems
Targeted Nutrition
WORKING TO MAKETHE FOOD SYSTEM
MORE SUSTAINABLE,HEALTHY & TRUSTED
High-tech plant growth chambers are usuallyexpensive to rent and access is limited. Growcab is an open-source plant growthchamber that features speed breedingcapabilities for researchers and plant breedersto discover optimum crop parameters morequickly, and more cost-efficiently. With thistechnology, crop improvements can be achievedmuch faster than ever.The company also offers consultancy andknowledge sharing to help others develop andoptimise appropriate speed breeding protocols.
grow.cab
Marcela Mendoza Suárez
Ricardo Ramírez-González
An affordable,flat-packed
plant growthchamber to
improve cropquality
SustainableAgriculture
SEEDBED PIONEERS
AARHUSHUB
SEEDBED PIONEERS
BioEffect brings modern molecular microbiologyand biotechnology techniques to the agriculturesector to offer real-time methods that identifybiologicals directly in soils and plants.
This technology saves companies millions bydisqualifying irrelevant products. Ensuring theright biological products are on the marketprovides farmers with reliable alternatives todisplace chemical products, reducing chemicalresidues from land, soil, and food.
Sabrina M Pittroff
Enablingsuperior next-
generationbiological
products toremove the
need forchemical usage
CONTACT
BIOEFFECT
SustainableAgriculture
AARHUSHUB
Daniela Vega Sampedro
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Almost three-quarters of global agricultural produce iscontaminated by at least one kind of mycotoxin, posing asignificant risk to both animal and human health. CataLeela Nutrition is developing a nanotech-based mycotoxinelimination system that can selectively ‘pick & eliminate’ differentmycotoxins from animal feed mixtures. This proprietary nanotechoffers a safer, cheaper, recyclable approach for effective mycotoxinelimination without compromising the nutritional value of the feed,which subsequently improves long-term animal health.
Priyank Shyam
Eliminatingextremely toxic
Mycotoxinsproduced byfilamentous
fungi
CONTACT [email protected]
AARHUSHUB
SustainableAgriculture
making-the-ground-invisible.uk
Andrea Izquierdo
Diego CoronaSustainableAgriculture
Smart toolsthat enable
indoor farmersto producehigh-quality
cropsconsistently
Plant root monitoring technology is shapingthe future of farming. Hai has developed AIsensors that create a precise image of a plant'sroot bundle, to detect root clogging issueswithin a growing tray. The diagnostics ensurethe best harvest possible and they enableoptimisation of growing inputs through 24/7real-time tray monitoring. This enhancesoperational efficiency, akin to having a plantscientist monitoring a crop all-day round.
SEEDBED PIONEERS
BELFASTHUB
Niskus Biotec works with agrifoodcompanies to provide onsiteautomated fermentation solutionsto convert their biomass side-streams into high value products,such as proteins & enzymes.
This also helps to build a circulareconomy.
Alejandra Omarini
Vincent FarrellySustainableAgriculture
Mobilefermenters
transformingagriwaste
streams intohigh valueproducts
SEEDBED PIONEERS
BELFASTHUB
CONTACT [email protected]
Traditional crop breeding processes use harmfulchemicals and they are too slow to meet thegrowing demands for better crop varieties thatcan feed10 billion people by the year 2050. EvoPlant provides pioneering self-ownedgenetic technology solutions that sustainablyproduce plant cytoplasmic genomes at anextremely rapid rate. This new process mimicsthe natural evolution process but enormouslyshortens the time scale for crop breeding - tomillions of years faster.
Junwei Ji
Geneticsolutions to
meet theincreasing
demands offood
production
Jia YuSustainableAgriculture
SEEDBED PIONEERS
BELFASTHUB
CONTACT [email protected]
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Carbon Harvesters is an agritech that aims to increase theresilience of rural communities by tackling the issue of cattlefarming pollution. It helps dairy groups achieve their climate goalsby monitoring the carbon footprint of their farms on a weekly basis,to recommend farm-specific climate mitigation strategies that areeconomically feasible. These strategies certify their emissionreductions and monetise the verified emissions reductions outsideof the farms as market premiums or carbon credits.
Luis Alejandro Vergara
Implementingeconomic
climatemitigationstrategies
carbonharvesters.com
BELFASTHUB
SustainableAgriculture
Chris Creevey
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Ben Thomas
AMPLY Discovery aims to become a keyantimicrobial drug discovery and licencing partnerfor animal health companies around the world. The company employs machine learning and AItechniques to mine digital biological data in thesearch for new biopharmaceutical drug productsthat target hard-to-treat infectious diseases.Focused initially on topical treatments for animalhealth, the vision is to develop intellectual propertyacross multiple delivery methods and treatments.
amply.life
Dermot Tierney
BELFASTHUB
SustainableAgriculture
Carlos Mano
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Raspberry Harvesters have created anautomated system that operates without theneed for manual labour to harvest the crops.
The design employs machine learning,computer vision, robotics, soft robotics, anddata science. This facilitates crop andresource management, enabling a costreduction of higher quality fruits forconsumers to enjoy.
Afonso Santos
Pioneers offruit harvesting
machine technology,
to removelaborious
chores
SustainableAgriculture
BILBAOHUB
CONTACT [email protected]
terroirfromspace.comManuel Torres
Climate change is currently threatening thequality and yield consistency of wine production.
Terroir from Space has a unique, proprietary AI-powered solution, primarily reliant on earthobservation data, to help winemakers optimiseplantings, and identify new quality-drivenparcels.
This process minimises costs and ensures ahigher quality output of wine, allowing newviticultural ecosystems to flourish.
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Alessandro Saetta
SustainableAgriculture
Helpingwinemakers tomake the most
out of their terroirin the face of
climate change
BILBAOHUB
azollaprojects.comAntonio Giménez Lorang
SEEDBED PIONEERS
SustainableAgriculture
The current agriculture system is both causing, and beingaffected by climate change.
Azolla projects brings carbon markets to European agriculturethrough AI analysis, with technologies that monitor the increasein organic soil carbon. This provides a good education to farmersand finacially rewards them to capture CO2 in their soils.
Orson Acosta
Educating and rewardingfarmers to create food with anegative carbon footprint.
Jerónimo PellicerHummelsheim
BILBAOHUB
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Agronomic practices with high capacity for sequesteringcarbon dioxide are often discarded because they are not thecheapest option available to farmers.Spherico2 is developing an innovative system to measureand verify farming activities capable of generating carboncredits, and a blockchain based carbon offsettingmarketplace to make carbon removals activities profitablefor farmers and accessible for buyers.
Jose Antonio García
Oliver Simon
spherico2.com
Tristano Bacchetti De Gregoris
Carlos Marco RiderSustainableAgriculture
BILBAOHUB
A blockchain based carboncompensation marketplace toincentivise farmers undertakingregenerative agriculture practices.
Jens Varnskuehler
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Established quality control methods of seed germinability arelengthy, time-consuming, unreliable, destroy the seeds, and donot capture seed dormancy.
Seedalive is developing a fast, non-destructive, and inexpensivemethod that reliably assesses dormant seeds.
The patent for this method based on biochemical colour changeis currently in the application process.
Klaus Mummenhoff
Advancedquality control
of seedgerminability
seedalive.de
SustainableAgriculture
DILHUB
Paltech Robotics is facilitating agriculturalprocesses to grow food without the need touse chemical herbicides
One such process is weed control ingrassland. If no herbicides are used, theeffort is ten to forty times higher. To makethe process of weed control easier and moresustainable for the farmer, the company isdeveloping an autonomous herbicide-freesolution for tap-rooted weeds in grassland.
paltech-robotics.eu
Felix Schiegg
Florian Schiegg
Autonomousrobotics for sustainableagricultureprocesses
SustainableAgriculture
SEEDBED PIONEERS
DILHUB
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Robotec offers fully autonomous, no-till, chemical-free, farming based on artificial intelligence.
Using a high-density precision microwave module, autonomousmobile robots analyse and eradicate weeds at an early stage oftheir growth. This reduces up to 99% of a farm’s use ofherbicides and pesticides, increases yields by up to 40%, and itsaves up to 50% in treatment costs.
Ruslan Bredun
robotec.ua
SustainableAgriculture
Alex Reznichenko
Alex PoddiachniySustainableAgriculture
WARSAWHUB
Katona Attila
SEEDBED PIONEERS
CONTACT
With current production methods, by the year2050 arable land per capita is set to decrease by30%, and crop production by 40%.
SpaceCrop's Agritech tool helps small tomedium-scale farmers to forecast soil waterrequirements, by sending them an irrigationschedule using machine learning, satellite data,and artificial intelligence. This target forecastinglead takes 5-7 days. The technology is cheaper,and more reliable, with its accurate forecastingservices helping farmers lacking technical skillsto work more efficiently on their farms.
Gasco Mary Grace
SustainableAgriculture
Helping farms tosave water andincrease theircrop yields &
crop resilience
WARSAWHUB
PlattenBaum implements Urban Agriculture on a mass scale.
The company develops, installs, and operates infrastructure forUrban Agriculture in residential buildings.
The system is dedicated to commercial production and resident’suse, fostering communities, while creating new revenue streams,and contributing to improving the aesthetics of cities.
plattenbaum.de
Maayan Strauss
Kerem Halbrecht
Tackling thechallenges offood security,
social resilience,and sustainable
urban living
SEEDBED PIONEERS
WARSAWHUB
SustainableAgriculture
Algonomi cultivates microalgae biomass to produce a variety ofbioactive ingredients for commercial use.
CO2 from manufacturing industrial processes is used for thecultivation process to reduce CO2 from the atmosphere.
The output of algae biomass and its various bioactive extracts toB2B customers is sold to different industries, e.g. cosmetics,garments, and the food industry.
algonomi.fi
Robert Nyberg
Leon MercierSustainableAquaculture
Commercialisingnature’s oldest
and most potentorganism: Algae
SEEDBED PIONEERS
AARHUSHUB
Cheese production requires 10 litres of milk to produce1kg ofcheese. On a global scale, 45% of all milk production goes intocheesemaking, which is having a detrimental effect on theenvironment.
Cirkulär AB has developed a process to produce a pure protein thatis identical to the one found in milk, which the dairy industry can useto complement milk in dairy processing.
cirkular.org
Eric Öste
Stefano Sacchetto
Making cheeseproduction
more cost &environmentally
beneficial
SEEDBED PIONEERS
AARHUSHUB
AlternativeProteins
This game-changing manufacturing system is sustainable, free ofanimal pathogens and bacterial endotoxins, and highly scalable.
Suitable for the recombinant protein contract manufacturing anddevelopment market. Bright Biotech is currently producingrecombinant proteins, which aid cell growth to promote regenerativemedicine practices, and also industry processes such as clean meatproduction.
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Mohammad El Hajj
AlternativeProteins
High quality &affordable
recombinantproteins for themedical & life
sciencesR&D sectors
A proprietary light-driven, protein expressiontechnology that uses chloroplasts to makeextraordinarily high yields of plant proteins.
CONTACT
BELFASTHUB
SEEDBED PIONEERS
EFS Engineering Solutions is launching a new'Plant Jerky' product made from sunflowerseeds, pumpkin seeds, and pea protein. Itresembles beef jerky with a meat-like structureand has a taste similar to the original product.
With knowledge and access to state-of-the-artequipment & facilities, EFS has the expertise toproduce a range of different plant-based meatsnacks in the future.
Volker Lammers
Dörthe LammersAlternative
Proteins
E
F
S
Smartengineeringsolutions to
produce qualityplant-basedmeat snacks
DILHUB
CONTACT [email protected]
Adam Glen
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Unicorn Biotechnologies is developingcultivated (lab-grown) meat by developing afully automated, modular bioreactor systemto produce animal cells at industrial scales.
Through leveraging proven cell culturetechnologies it slashes product developmenttimelines from 18+ months to just weeks,radically reducing production costs, andscaling cell-based manufacturing outputsfrom grams to tonnes.
unicornbiotechnologies.com
Jack Reid
AlternativeProteins
Next-generationbioreactors to
massively scalecell-based
manufacturing
DILHUB
Thorsten Bæk
SEEDBED PIONEERS
There are currently different standards and regulatoryrequirements demanding companies to manufacture, process andmaintain products to a certain quality level.
GLAZE develops hardware products supporting automated andcontinuous QA of industrial procedures by inspecting layers of amultitude of material types. The hardware is compact and portableallowing usage off-line (handheld devices), at-line (at tracks next toconveyor belts) or in-line (directly on samples on conveyor belts).
Nicklas Werge Svendsen
GLAZE is
addressing theneed for non-
destructivetesting/
inspection (NDT)
DigitalTraceability
AARHUSHUB
CONTACT [email protected]
Pinar Frank
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Holloid offers 3D imaging and measuresbacteria, algae, yeast, microplastics, andother particles. These in-depth insightsenable process control in food, biotech, andother industrial facilities. Production managers can see in real-time iftheir bioreactors are operating as theyshould be. This improves food safety,reduces food waste, prevents downtimes,and increases efficiency in the dairy,beverage, algae, meat, and many other foodprocessing categories.
Marcus Lebesmühlbacher
An inline datamonitoring solution for
food production - providing biginsights on tiny
particles
holloid.com
DigitalTraceability
DILHUB
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Serino is building the future of high-tech infrared sensor hardware,enabling humans and machines tocapture and understand hidden andinvisible ingredients. This pocket-sized sensor technology can beused to analyze food quality, or as adiagnostic tool for breast cancerdetection.
Rico Holfeuer
Marcella Günther
serino.eu
Amir Yousefi
Tracy BaiDigital
Traceability
DILHUB
goeconut.com
Sophie Saget
Umut Kartal
GoEconut offers an easy-to-use food trackingsoftware for food manufacturers to quantify,improve, and communicate the environmentalimpact and nutritional performance of theirproducts - faster, cheaper, and more easily. GoEconut identifies hotspots along the valuechain to assist in continuous improvementsand investment decisions. Their softwaresolution is 20 times cheaper, 90% faster, and10 times more complete than the currenttraditional consultancy solution on the market.
SEEDBED PIONEERS
DigitalTraceability
WARSAWHUB
Clara Loran
Scott Mighall
SEEDBED PIONEERS
MarinaTex is designed to help solve thegrowing concern of single-use plastics andthe ocean plastic crisis. MarinaTex is a high-quality home-compostable material developed for thepackaging industry as a planet-consciousalternative to translucent plastic film. Thenew bio-based material has been shown tobiodegrade in 4-6 weeks. It does not leachharmful chemicals and it has a higher tensilestrength than LDPE at the same thickness.
Lucy Hughes
Qualitysustainable
packaging toreplace
translucentplastic film
marinatex.co.uk
CircularFood
Systems
AARHUSHUB
rewow.euIlaria Lorusso
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Antonino Biundo
Upcycling organic waste
products toproduce circular
bio-basedpolymer
materials
CircularFood
Systems
Popular bioplastics are currently producedfrom biomass, that's cultivated for polymerproduction, which is disrupting the food valuechain. REWOW produces circular bio-basedpolymers out of waste products, e.g usedcooking oils, which if not collected, causespollution and sewage system issues. Longterm the company intends to create aportfolio of different products for variousapplications, such as ingredients for cosmeticformulations.
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BILBAOHUB
biotico-tech.comElif Nur Avcı
The annual coffee consumption in the world isapproximately 10 million tonnes.
Due to its rich oil content, coffee waste whennot used as compost pollutes the groundwater,and its disposal costs are high.
Biotico converts coffee waste into enzymeswhich reduces disposal costs by 29%. Theenzymes produced also offer a wide range ofuses for the textile, detergent, cosmetics, animalfeed, food and pharmaceutical industries.
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Tuğçe Korkmaz
Helping coffeemakers to savecosts and reuse
their coffeewaste for other
product uses
CircularFood
Systems
BILBAOHUB
Taner Yıldız
SEEDBED PIONEERS
In line with the common fisheries policy "Landingobligation", which ensures that all fishermen do notdiscard any fish species in the Mediterranean sea,Tetis Biotech has found a cost-effective method toproduce high-quality marine collagen from thesemarine species that would otherwise be consideredwaste. The company uses green-tech methods toensure the marine collagen is disease-free andproduces eco-labels to assure its quality and safety.
Emre Yemișken
Innovativehealth
solutions forfish wasteproducts
tetisbiotech.com
BILBAOHUB
CircularFood
Systems
Soul Bites upcycles fruits at an agricultural and post-harvestlevel that would normally be discarded due to their cosmeticappearance. It uses applied processes that maintain real fruitcolours, flavours, and they enhance the fruit's nutritional values. The company also upcycles protein-rich byproducts usingcutting-edge technology that produces an upcycled plant proteinsource with superior biological properties.
Robert Schreiber
soulbites.chGommaar D’Hulst
Lukas Böcker
CircularFood
Systems
Upcycled food sources that are of high quality,have proven health benefits and can be used as araw material for human consumption.
SEEDBED PIONEERS
DILHUB
Aleksandra Walińska
SEEDBED PIONEERS
According to a recently implemented law,disposable plastic materials, such as platesand cups can no longer be sold in the EU. Due to the current pandemic, there ishowever an increasing demand for theseproducts to cater for takeaway orders fromrestaurants.
Linum's solution recycles waste to createdisposable, biodegradable products made offlaxseed, hence the name “Linum”.
Małgorzata Sobieralska
Using wasteto produce
biodegradableflaxseedproducts
CircularFood
Systems
WARSAWHUB
CONTACT [email protected]
Torben Nielsen
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Around fifty percent of the population in Europe is overweightand in need of help to improve their health and lifestyles.
IsoFirms Isosteviol is a patent-protected ingredient providingmore nutrition to the muscles. It increases muscle mass throughprotein synthesis, and reduces body fat percentage.
IsoFirms Isosteviol is currently pending a novel food application.
Randi Søndergaard
A healthynatural
ingredient tohelp people
controlweight gain
isofirms.com
TargetedNutrition
AARHUSHUB
Niels Wicke
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Excess sugar consumption is a big issue - people are consuming up to three times the recommended amount in the UK, which isleading to higher BMI's, and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
To combat this, Inulox Ltd has developed an enzyme technology'Sugar2Fibre' capable of turning ingested sucrose from foods into avegetable fibre called inulin. This enzyme is being developed as atherapeutic and will be licensed to food/supplement manufacturers.
Josh Sauer
Turningunhealthy
sugars intohealthy fibers
inulox.com
BELFASTHUB
TargetedNutrition
Aqua Lub is a novel, highly lubricatingsalivary substitute technology withlong-lasting hydration properties,performing strikingly better thancommercial aqueous lubricants andthe naturally lubricating human saliva.
To be used as a saliva substitute tohelp dry mouth sufferers. This productwill also offer savings to the NHS.
Amy Contreras
Olivia PaboisTargetedNutrition
Prof Anwesha Sarkar
SEEDBED PIONEERS
BELFASTHUB
Dr Sarah Jarmin
CONTACT [email protected]
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Bioprospectum focuses in silico and in vitro developments,with an emphasis on science applications in theantioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer areas. The company researches new bioactivepeptides with antioxidant properties for use in health foodproducts. The latest food product launch is FoodOx, a newtechnology to fight free radicals and promote cellregeneration, reducing fatigue and increasing immunity,anti-aging, and neuroprotection.
Rúben Fernandes
Lohayne Almeida
bioprospectum.com
João Relvas
Alexandra Patrícia
Innovations to benefit thepharmaceutical, functional &nutraceutical food industries.
TargetedNutrition
BILBAOHUB
Alberto Masetti Niccolai
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Cano-ela removes refined ingredients from the food supplychain and replaces them with natural seed structures, e.g.oleosomes, protein bodies, cell-wall fractions, obtained fromcanola, and other oil-rich seeds.
These seed fractions are delivered to food companies as naturalingredient mixtures, to help them produce healthier plant-basedproduct formulations.
Juliana Romero Guzmán
cano-ela.com
Natural seedingredients
with higher bio-functionality
values
TargetedNutrition
DILHUB
Henryk Nicpon
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Functional food natural fruit extracts.
FortiFruits aims to be the premier producerof naturally enriched fruit extracts containinga high content of bioactive substances aka,enhanced antioxidants.
These extracts can be added to natural foodproducts and dietary supplements toenhance their flavours and colours.
Maciej Balawejder
TargetedNutrition
Leslaw Slisz
FF
WARSAWHUB
CONTACT [email protected]
Maciej Majewski
SEEDBED PIONEERS
The digestive system becomes impairedwith age as a result of reduced secretion ofdigestive enzymes, decreased salivaproduction, and missing teeth.
MeGenzyme's fruit and vegetable-basedproducts & supplements contain activeenzymes to help digestion, and reduce thedemineralization of bone tissue. They alsoemphasise the natural flavours in dishesand are an excellent source of vitamins,fiber, and antioxidants.
Małgorzata Zakłos-Szyda
Adressing the digestive &nutritionalneeds of a
growing seniorpopulation
TargetedNutrition
WARSAWHUB
CONTACT [email protected]
Studies show we only consume up to 5% of ourbody's required amount of collagen protein, andmost collagen supplements on the market arehydrolysed (chemically processed).
Furthermore, the EU's current agriculturepractices result in over 20 million tonnes ofanimal origin waste per year. MB Kulagenasuses this waste to produce a natural 'dry broth'product with multiple applications and collagenprotein health benefits - to your bones, joints,skin, nails, and gut.
Jonas Viškelis
SEEDBED PIONEERS
Paulina Štreimikytė
TargetedNutrition
Milda Savickaite
WARSAWHUB
CONTACT [email protected]
eitfood.eu
For more detailed information on theEIT Food Seedbed Incubator cohort, pleaseget in touch with our co-ordinator:
Michaela Fox [email protected]
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