Mission 2
Net Zero Food System
Location: Italy
Newly formed company
b-Kapz solves the instability and low adoption of agrifood microbial products by enabling their integration with traditional inputs, boosting crop yields and soil health for farmers, and value for ag-input companies.
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Location: Germany
Entrepreneurial academics
TUM - Technical University Munich
We help organic greenhouse growers boost yields, save water, and fight root diseases using our fast-acting microbial biostimulant tailored for high-efficiency cultivation.
RWTH Aachen University
Ceres FieldCheck helps small farmers to keep their fields healthy with affordable robots by removing harmful weeds and inspecting crop health.
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Greenhouses inject fossil CO2 to boost crop yields. fortyfour develops an innovative Direct Air Capture technology to capture CO2 directly from the air, replacing fossil sources and enabling greenhouses to become sustainable and self-sufficient.
Location: Portugal
GreenUPorto research center at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto
EucaBio is a natural, eucalyptus-based bactericide that helps farmers control bacterial diseases effectively, offering a sustainable alternative to copper-based solutions.
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Location: United Kingdom
We utilise abundant proteins to fix the problems with peat-free growing media to enable professional horticulture to transition away from peat.
Team: Tom O'Haire CEO, Dante Coulton, Process Engineer
Location: Ireland
Aspiring entrepreneurs
We make simple, affordable farming tools for cacao and coffee growers to increase their yields and improve their quality.
Modular flow through machines to convert biowaste into vermicompost, a premium organic fertilizer, creating local circular economies.
University of Hamburg
Small and medium-sized plant breeders lack access to the most advanced genetic tools. We want to empower them to rapidly develop resilient, high-yield crop varieties by using our Genetic Pen to re-write crop DNA as a service, giving them a competitive edge in adapting to the effects of climate change.
MagFu solves the problems of soil contamination, high treatment costs, and low crop yields. They do this for farmers and agricultural producers who are seeking sustainable and effective solutions.
Location: Denmark
Revolutionizing agriculture with mycelium-based peptide technology to protect crops and ensure a sustainable future.
Location: Greece
University of Thessaly
We aim to support farmers during the Green Deal transition when many chemicals will be withdrawn from agriculture, with a novel biological multi-action product for sustainable plant protection and nutrition.
Location: Switzerland
University of Western Switzerland
mylivestalk enhances animal welfare in pig farming by using AI-driven sound and video analysis to non-intrusively detect stress and disease, enabling early intervention and improving farm efficiency.
Queen's University Belfast
Rumitract is a bioactive compound that has a duel effect on reducing the environmental impact of ruminants through methane and ammonia reductions.
Kiel University
Currently, necessary soil nutrient time-series are economically unfeasable. SOILMONITOR makes this possible for the first time, which is highly relevant for farmers, environmental protection & research.
Viridian Seeds develops and commercialises climate smart crop varieties (Super-Crops) for sustainable transitions of agriculture and food systems using a proprietary genomics-AI assisted gene discovery platform for accelerated product development.
Location: France
Our iron-fortified coffee helps women maintain healthy iron levels by seamlessly integrating gentle, effective support into their existing morning ritual—no pills, side effects, or extra effort required.
Bio-product innovators across the globe are held back by a shortage of bioreactor capacity, high costs, and outdated bioreactor designs. ChainReactor is revolutionizing biomanufacturing with AI-powered, 3D-printed bioreactors that are up to 100 times faster and ten times cheaper than traditional systems.
We upcycle brewer's spent grain – the nutrient-rich malt residue from beer production – into a high-quality, climate-friendly milk alternative "Tremi".
Agroparistech and Avignon University
We extract ingredients from spent coffee grounds for the cosmetic and nutraceutical markets.
Location: Finland
University of Helsinki
Myocopia is a pioneer in stem cells and metabolic technology taking cultivated meat industry to scale.
Team members: Olga - Commercial Lead, Swetha - Scientific Lead, Pekka - Academic Lead, Fanny - Research Assistant
PhycoFerm provides affordable, high-quality, functional and sustainable microalgae-based nutrition through innovative regenerative fermentation technology, addressing traditional barriers like odor, flavor, and cost.
University of Oulu
We help food and beverage companies reduce or eliminate added sugar, addressing the health crisis caused by excess sugar consumption—benefiting consumers, public health systems, and brands.
