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14 Feb 2023
78 Start-Ups To Meet At Future Food-Tech San Francisco
78 featured start-ups trailblazing their way in the field of food-tech will present ground-breaking solutions live at Future Food-Tech in San Francisco on March 16-17.
The summit has become a global hub, connecting 1500 international food brands, ingredient providers, investors, start-ups and technology leaders, and digging deep into the most critical issues facing the food industry now and in the future. Callum Alexander-Lindsay, Start-Up Partnerships Manager across the Future Food-Tech series comments: “With rising food prices, insufficient access to nutritious foods, climate change, and consumer adoption of alternatives to farm-based meats, our food system is in need of innovative solutions at scale. This is why it is so hope-inspiring to bring this dynamic group of start-ups together in San Francisco; we have the changemakers needed to solve the challenges for a more sustainable and healthier food system.”
START-UP ARENA
NEW for 2023, the Start-Up Arena will showcase even more ground-breaking innovator action, with a dedicated pitching stage, start-up exhibition, and investor lounge.- Ani Biome is an age tech start-up offering a personalized approach to metabolic health and longevity through gut health.
- Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative protein ingredients for food.
- Bactolife is an industrial biotech company in the field of gut microbiome health in the food and feed industry.
- Biolumen is the only GRAS approved natural material able to decrease sugar, carbohydrate and fat adsorption while feeding the microbiota and increasing healthy short chain fatty acids.
- Cellva painlessly collects animal tissue, using the cells with the highest nutritional performance as a source for application in nutrient solutions for cell culture.
- Clean Crop Technologies’ novel cold plasma technology uses electricity to remove contaminants and boost seed and food performance, increasing yields, improving food safety, and reducing food waste.
- Clear Meat is India’s first ISO certified cell based meat initiative organization.
- Edge has developed cell factories capable of self-supplying and reliably producing the most expensive inputs in cultivated meat production – the growth factors.
- Ergo Bioscience is a biotech-based startup focused on the production of complex animal proteins by Plant Cell Precision Fermentation.
- Filtricine is a clinical stage biotechnology company that develops food to treat cancer and metabolic diseases.
- Forte Protein uses molecular farming and its proprietary replicating technology platform to produce non-GMO animal proteins for alternative meat, dairy and seafood products.
- Hyfé Foods enables regional production of low cost, alternative protein that is shielded from supply chain disruptions and resilient to climate change.
- ImpacFat develops omega-3 rich cell-based fish fat as a novel ingredient to supplement plant-based products and improve the taste, texture, aroma and nutrition.
- Index uses baker’s yeast to create agricultural supply chains that are measurable, verifiable and sustainable.
- Kyomei is a molecular farming company engineering optimal crop species to express valuable protein ingredients and molecules at low cost.
- LiVA extends fresh produce shelf-life by more than 100% during logistics, using a pre-biotic blend to reduce microbial spoilage naturally and safely, while preserving great flavor.
- Liven Proteins creates sustainable, animal-free and functional ingredients, manufactured through upcycling and precision fermentation.
- Lypid is creating a line of fats made from vegan oils that can be tuned to precise textures and melting points.
- MAOLAC combines proteomics & bioinformatics to create precision proteins inspired by breast milk that enable impact nutrition.
- Mewery is the first European cell-based food tech start-up developing cultivated pork on a microalgae base.
- Michroma creates fungal biofactories to produce natural ingredients using cutting-edge synbio and precision fermentation technology.
- Micro Meat's cell encapsulation technology improves product yields, decreases production costs and creates product consistency for cultivated meat producers.
- Mimio Health is a nutritechnology company creating cutting-edge biomimetic supplements designed from human biology to recreate our bodies’ innate regenerative systems.
- Miruku is applying its molecular farming process to program climate resilient crops to be mini factories for producing proteins and other molecules traditionally made by animals.
- MOA Foodtech combines biotechnology and artificial intelligence to transform waste and by-products of the agri-food industry into a ''next generation protein''
- The Mushroom Meat Co. transform gourmet mushrooms and upcycled plant proteins into mushroom-based meats and whole-food ingredients.
- NoPalm Ingredients produces oils and fats by fermenting agri-food sidestreams to provide an alternative to the use of palm and other tropical oils in food, cosmetics and detergents.
- nth Bio by Perfect Day offers enterprise biology services to allow its partners to grow their projects from beginning to end.
- Rainfed uses its unique proprietary technology platform to create nutritionally dense ingredients and clean label solutions for alternative proteins.
- Fresh Start, a food-tech incubator investing in early-stage Israeli food-tech companies introduces its cohort to San Francisco:
- Blue Tree enables the production of natural beverages with reduced sugar content.
- Eggmented Reality uses its bioinformatics and precision-fermentation technology platform to identify and produce improved protein functionality over industry alternatives.
- Sea 2 Cell is developing a ground-breaking GF technology and proprietary cell lines for the commercial scale manufacturing of its cultivated fish products.
- Natural Products Canada helps Canadian early-stage companies and researchers bring their sustainable solutions to life. Accompanying NPC to the summit are:
- Cell Ag Tech grows cells to make seafood, instead of catching and growing whole fish.
- Crush Dynamics is focused on transformation of grape derivatives and other agricultural side streams using patent-pending targeted fermentation into high performance food ingredients.
- Genuine Taste supplies alternative meat companies with customizable fat.
- Konscious Foods develops dishes with no GMOs, clean label, and short ingredient lists.
- New School Foods creates whole-cut seafood, made from plants.
- Opalia is developing technology to make milk with mammary cells.
- Proveg Incubator is an incubator for plant-based, fermentation, and cultured-food startups. Meet its cohort in San Francisco:
- Bosque Foods rapidly grows mycelium in a matter of days using food-safe and edible strains, through its unique biomass fermentation process.
- Cultimate creates a game-changing alternative fat ingredient that brings the authentic meaty taste and texture to plant-based meat products.
- Cultivated Biosciences is developing an ingredient from GMO-free yeast, which offers the creaminess needed for plant-based dairy to appeal to flexitarian consumers.
- Fotortec is a biotech company dedicated to sustainable protein production.
- Plug & Play connects entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors worldwide on its global innovation platform. Meet the following start-ups from its cohort:
- New Wave Foods is a developer of plant-based seafood products.
- Oobli is the first end-to-end technology platform and consumer products company to leverage through precision fermentation to unlock the power of sweet plant proteins in foods.
- Aanika Biosciences leverages the power of biology to develop tools that enhance traceability and safety within the food system.
- Journey Foods is an AI-powered portfolio management software for food and beverage companies.
ON THE MAIN STAGE
Look out for these pioneering start-ups and scale-ups joining the main stage discussions and presentations!- SuperMeat grows high quality meat directly from animal cells.
- Perfect Day uses precision fermentation to create animal-free milk protein.
- Onego Bio produces egg white without chickens, using precision fermentation.
- Umiami is a tech company developing a unique and proprietary technology to texturize plant proteins.
- New Culture combines traditional cheesemaking methods with modern fermentation technology to make animal-free dairy products that stretch, melt, and taste like the real deal.
- Arborea is unlocking the potential of photosynthesis, its technology facilitating the growth of microscopic plants to produce nutritional ingredients and proteins.
- Sundial Foods’ proprietary technology turns eight clean ingredients into whole cuts of plant-based meat complete with skin, meat, and bone.
- The EVERY Company engineers, manufactures and formulates animal-free, animal proteins as ingredients for the global food and beverage industry.
- Nulixir develops, manufactures, and licenses encapsulated functional ingredients with its patented Nutrition Precision Technology to other F&B businesses.
- Helaina is the first company to bring the immunity properties of breast milk to food for all stages of life – bridging the gap between food and medicine.
- Sun Genomics aims to change the way probiotics are chosen, by making the best custom formulated probiotics.
- Mush Foods is growing the next generation of great-tasting, sustainable protein using mushroom mycelium as an ingredient for food companies and the foodservice industry.
- Upside Foods cultivates meat from animal cells. It is the first company in the world to receive U.S. FDA approval for cultivated meat.
- AI Palette’s platform collects millions of data points from various sources such as social media, searches and user-generated content to provide deep insights into consumer needs.
- Epogee strives to improve the health of society by dramatically reducing calories in food and no tradeoffs with taste or texture.
- COMET is an award-winning food ingredients company with the IP and expertise needed to perfect nature’s best fiber, arabinoxylan, an FDA-recognized fiber with superior tolerance in the gut and clinically proven health benefits.
- ProFuse Technology develops supplements for cultivated meat media that reduces the cultivated meat cost by 40%, by increasing the produced meat mass and shortening the production time.
- Finless Foods creates delicious, healthy, and accessible cell-cultured and plant-based seafood alternatives, offering options for all palates and dietary preferences.
- Wildtype is pioneering cellular agriculture to grow delicious cuts of seafood, starting with sushi-grade salmon.
- Cana Technology is building the world’s first molecular beverage printer to bring the beverage aisle to your countertop.
- Optimized Foods harnesses its proprietary mycelium scaffold and cell biology to creare cell-cultured caviar.
- Ummino’s patented technology unlocks natural compounds to optimize taste & nutrition and transform commodity ingredients into high value functional foods delivering gut health.
- Cauldron Production uses hyper-fermentation to unlock an alternative manufacturing capability for food, feed and fibre.
- Demolish Foods is creating whole-cut plant meats.
- Novameat is developing no-compromise plant-based whole-cuts that are delicious, nutritious and mimic the texture of animal meat.
- Current Foods uses biotechnology to create next generation plant-based seafood.
- Kuvu Bio Solutions is a biological herbicide technology platform.
- Green Spot Technologies has developed a fermentation platform that allows the production of the first range of fermented & upcycled flours.
- ANiNA creates unique ready-to-cook vegan meal pods: 100% natural, rich in vegetables & nutrients, easy to cook, and made from fresh, delicious, and nutritious ugly produce which is molded to create the beautiful, edible pod.
- Aqua Cultured Foods is on a mission to offer nutrient-rich foods in the form of fungi-based seafood alternatives, creating the first “whole cut” fermentation-derived seafood alternative.
- The Supplant Company turns renewable resources and sidestreams into ingredient replacements, and building an ingredient platform.
- Trendi is a robotics company that helps the farm and food industry rescue misfit and unused food to be upcycled it into shelf-stable ingredients.
Join all these featured start-ups and many more among the delegate audience at Future Food-Tech San Francisco on March 16-17, to spotlight the new technologies and partnerships that are strengthening sustainable and nutritious food systems. See the full program at www.futurefoodtechsf.com/agenda and register now at www.futurefoodtechsf.com/register.
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