EIT Food announced the 15 winners of the EIT Food Accelerator Network Tech Validation Awards in Rome.

EIT Food, backed by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), named the winners during its new flagship event, Next Bite, with innovations ranging from ‘alternative protein innovations to technology reducing food waste’.

Viktoria de Bourbon de Parme, Chief Partnership Officer, EIT Food, said: “We have the passion and dedication to transform our food system. Each and one of us has a unique role to play.”

€50,000 was awarded to the following European startups: 

• AgroGrIN Tech – collects and transforms the by-products produced by farmers, post-harvest and processing industries, into bio-based, clean-label ingredients, which are fulfilling the food, nutraceutical and cosmetic industries. 
• Esencia Foods – is pioneering the way for sustainable and healthy food options in Europe by developing whole-cut, mycelium-based fish and seafood alternatives. 
• NOOVI – offers a globally unique line of marking pheromones “Pheromark” that prevent pests from laying eggs on crops, without using any toxins. 
• Pack2Earth – offers biobased circular economy materials for the packaging industry. 
• Primogene – produces bioactive ingredients unique to human breast milk and proven to be crucial for infant development for safe and tailored nutrition to optimally support the growth and development of premature infants. 

€30,000 was awarded to: 

• Clean Food Group – brings together pioneering scientific research and partnerships with the world’s leading food and cosmetic manufacturers, to provide healthier, sustainable product choices that have a positive impact on the health of the planet. 
• Quest Meat – is developing ingredients that will make cultivated meat affordable, scalable and sustainable. 
• CinSOIL – offers solutions to enable the agri-food sector to effectively meet its sustainability goals through carbon emissions insetting. 
• Senoptica Technologies – offers sensor technology to reduce global food waste by non-invasively monitoring modified atmosphere packaging in real time. 
• BOB FoodTech – offers scalable and selective toxin removal solutions for the food and biotech industry. 

And €20,000 was awarded to: 

• New Wave Biotech – offers proprietary technology to empower SynBio innovators with the tools to get to market quicker, better and at low cost. 
• Elaniti – establishes the condition of the soil microbiome, identifying helpful and unhelpful microbes relative to crop performance. 
• MarinaTex – offers a home compostable alternative to plastic film. 
• Kokomodo – crafts real, controlled, climate-resilient cacao, accessible globally all year round, using cellular agriculture technology. 
• as well as the Brazilian Tech Validation Award winners:  
• Gran Moar – transforms malt bagasse, a waste product from beer production, into a new food product, special malt flour;  
• Typcal – works with mycelium fermentation to create new ingredients for the food industry. 
• Vaca Roxa, wmanufactures an IoT digital device capable of identifying the degree of bovine mastitis infection. 

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