Thanks Givaudan and Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley for the great event.
Two weeks ago, we were back at the Givaudan offices near Zürich for The Wonders of Taste event showcasing future consumer and technology trends, co-hosted by Givaudan and Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley. Our selected #finalists delivered outstanding pitches, highlighting key issues across the entire food value chain. 👇 AlgaeforFood: harvests functional #ingredients for the food industry out of #microalgae. Angry Camel: #egg white replacement with superior emulsification & foaming for food applications from chickpea protein. #altproteins CellX Biosolutions: develops innovative #bacteria-based products to tackle industrial #chemical pollution. EcoBean: transforms #coffee #waste into sustainable chemicals used by various industries. Fotortec: produces low-sodium #flavor enhancers by #upcycling vegetable side-streams with a patentable solid-state fermentation. #sidestreams Change Bio: upcycles waste #methane into #proteins. Myriad Optics: develops new #bacterial pathogen identification technologies to speed up #testing. Noovi Ag: develops first-of-a-kind marking #pheromones that prevent #pests from laying eggs on crops that are non-toxic, zero-residue, pose no #health risk to farmers, public or environment. Reify Nutrition: delivers new plant-based #sports #nutrition products. #plantbased Rosalind Bioculture: #biotech firm disrupting the $100B precision fermentation industry. #precisionfermentation Seaqure labs: upcycling industry by-products into high-quality proteins from #fungi, suitable as #feeds in the #aquaculture sector. Syngens: #DNA design platform which combines #AI with biological (-'omics) data to make engineering microorganism predictable. Spectacular Labs: builds portable #pathogen-testing devices and reduces the traditional food #testing timelines from days to 8 hours. Nhat Vuong for Veritas (NetZero Pallet): offers eco-friendly pallets from #coconut husk to businesses worldwide. Yeastime S.r.l.: innovative solution that leverages #ultrasound technologies, to help producers in the field of #cell culturing to accelerate their #fermentation process by up to 30% 🚀 Each of these high-impact solutions tackles a unique #challenge within the #food value chain and beyond, all in a #sustainable way. Explore them, plus 100 other #startups here: https://lnkd.in/eCQPppr2 🙏 Thank you to Givaudan - Taste & Wellbeing Givaudan Alexandre Bastos Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley Christina Senn-Jakobsen Nicolas Meneses #GivaudanFoodExperiences #FutureOfFood #TheWondersofTaste #innovation