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TeamUp 2024 | Meet the teams

Discover the 16 innovative startups driving change and sustainability in the agricultural and food industries. Our Team Up Programme features 32 talented entrepreneurs and technologists, each working on groundbreaking solutions to some of the most pressing challenges in their fields.

08 Aug 2024
EIT Food South

BARBELO

Barbelo is an innovative bio-mimicry based agricultural machinery to be applied for regenerating damaged soil preparing seedbed in one step meanwhile shortening regeneration time of the soil to be healthy again. It helps Farmers increasing profit. It helps Consumers both eating healthy nutritious food and obtain more and better medicinal and aromatics plants. It helps our Planet to increase yields without using more agricultural land and significantly improve the environmental footprint of current agricultural practises

Behavix

Behavix is an Italian startup and benefit company whose goal is reducing leftovers by engaging consumers in collective catering contexts. A SaaS platform with innovative AI algorithms will help catering companies understand and tackle specific food waste causes while optimizing demand planning and fostering virtuous behavior among people.

Gojenie

Gojenie is on a mission to innovate better-for-you lollipops and gummy candies made with beneficial ingredients like fibers, prebiotics, and real fruit extracts. They don't use glucose syrup, refined sugar, or artificial sweeteners.

KelpEat

KelpEat: is a pioneering company offering nutrient-rich seaweed-based foods and snacks. Improving health with essential vitamins and minerals, aiming to regenerate ocean ecosystems and reduce the food industry's carbon footprint.

Bionova

Bionova revolutionises the food industry's approach to waste management, turning challenges into profitable opportunities. Our cutting-edge technology converts food wastes into clean energy and valuable bioproducts, including enzymes and pectin. By doing so, we contribute to a sustainable and circular economy, reducing waste and promoting resource utilisation.

BizToys Ltd

Accelerated automation of trees planting process" aims to present a project for a machine, adaptable to all soils, that automates the classical tree planting process and that can be moved and transported everywhere. Our team strives to offer a solution that is adaptable for small and big farms, small or big forests, parks, urban areas, private and even school gardens, everywhere trees are needed by customer categories varying from big agribusiness to private sector, state, and public authorities, individual customers, NGOs in natural preservation.

Earthfarms Collective

Earthfarms Collective is an innovative initiative committed to advancing sustainable farming practices by connecting farmers, scientists, agronomists, and enthusiasts to foster a community dedicated to responsible agricultural management. Focused on achieving EU Green Deal targets, Earthfarms leverages expertise in research to empower farmers in overcoming various challenges, enhancing both sustainability and productivity in agriculture.

FutureFastFood

Offering eco and gut-friendly, pouch meals for on-the-go lifestyles. Pouch is their important uniqueness.

Lyophilised Organic Donkey Milk

Lyophilized Donkey Milk is a healthy and nutritious food that promotes sustainability and conserves cultural agro-heritage. It addresses donkey milk's limited availability and short shelf life by offering a lyophilized instant powder product with a longer shelf life and retains nutrients, making it beneficial for all ages and reintegrating donkeys into a sustainable commercial model.

Nexodify

Nexodify aims to revolutionize food safety compliance with AI-driven automation system AVA, ensuring businesses stay ahead of evolving regulations while minimizing risks and operational inefficiencies. Our platform transforms the compliance landscape, delivering unparalleled accuracy, efficiency, and peace of mind.

NutrisAvIng Advisor

An AI-powered SaaS solution integrated into grocery retailers' customer card apps, offering personalized guidance on pantry management to reduce household food waste while supporting healthy and sustainable eating habits. NutrisAvIng Advisor also aims to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty by enhancing their shopping experience.

RegenFarm

RegenFarm is a proposed AI-driven platform designed to address the growing challenges in the agricultural sector (including global food security and environmental sustainability). By providing farmers with data-driven insights, access to a sustainable resource marketplace, and a transparent regenerative farming certification system, RegenFarm aims to empower farmers to adopt regenerative practices and enhance food system sustainability.

The Green Float

GreenFloat addresses the pressing issue of unsustainable and costly protein production by focusing on Azolla, a highly efficient, rapidly growing, and cost-effective proteaginous plant. Azolla, an aquatic fern, is suitable for both animal and human consumption. With its high protein content and exceptional nutritional value, Azolla offers profound potential for integration as a versatile protein source in the agrifood sector.

TropicStream

TropicStream uses innovative biotech processing, leveraging food microorganisms to create value from waste byproducts by enhancing their nutritional content and functionality, turning the waste byproducts into versatile, nutritious, and sustainable functional food materials.

Vevibal

Vevibal is a device that integrates a microalgae bioreactor with lighting systems, leveraging microalgae's photosynthetic process for carbon capture and promoting sustainable plant growth. This system reduces indoor CO2 levels while enhancing nutrient-rich plant cultivation, contributing to sustainable agricultural practices.

Yield Hunter

Yield Hunter: AR application working on smart-glasses that's specifically developed to increase the productivity of fruit harvesters. Using advanced Computer Vision methods, Yield Hunter detects the correct fruits to be harvested considering their level of ripeness and provides real-time data for stakeholders while reducing the need for experienced labor.

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