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Orbisk is a developer of fully automated food waste monitoring equipment aimed at enhancing sustainability within the food service industry. The company's innovative solution includes a smart camera equipped with an artificial intelligence image recognition algorithm that identifies food ingredients from images. By integrating this technology into waste bins, Orbisk enables hospitality organizations to gain comprehensive insights into their food waste, quantifying large volumes of discarded food. This data-driven approach allows restaurants to identify inefficiencies in their food-providing processes, facilitating significant reductions in food waste and contributing to improved sustainability and profitability.

Bitewell is a pioneering startup dedicated to enhancing global health through personalized nutrition. It has developed the FoodHealth Score, an innovative metric that assesses food's impact on health, aiming to reach over 20 million Americans by Q1 of next year. This score will be visible in major grocery stores, restaurant chains, and healthcare providers, making informed dietary choices more accessible.

CarobWay specializes in the cultivation, production, storage, delivery, trading, and extraction of carob fruit for food industries. The company operates in food tech and agritech with a focus on sustainable, advanced agriculture and fair-trade returns to growers. It cultivates locally grown carob trees to support product development, leveraging know-how to grow trees intensively and efficiently and to optimize the cultivation process from seedling to harvest. By employing refined irrigation and mechanical harvesting, CarobWay aims to reduce labor requirements and provide conventional carob-based products to customers along the supply chain.

The Mediterranean Food Lab specializes in producing natural flavor bases for plant-based meat products using solid-state fermentation. Their flavors are derived from healthful raw materials like grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, which are rich in amino acids, minerals, antioxidants, and anti-inflammatory compounds.

Kern Tec specializes in transforming stone fruit pits from cherries, apricots, and plums into high-quality products. Their refined kernels are used as sustainable ingredients in baking, cosmetics, fertilizers, biomass, and food supplements industries.

The Mediterranean Food Lab specializes in producing natural flavor bases for plant-based meat products using solid-state fermentation. Their flavors are derived from healthful raw materials like grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, which are rich in amino acids, minerals, antioxidants, and anti-inflammatory compounds.

Orbisk is a developer of fully automated food waste monitoring equipment aimed at enhancing sustainability within the food service industry. The company's innovative solution includes a smart camera equipped with an artificial intelligence image recognition algorithm that identifies food ingredients from images. By integrating this technology into waste bins, Orbisk enables hospitality organizations to gain comprehensive insights into their food waste, quantifying large volumes of discarded food. This data-driven approach allows restaurants to identify inefficiencies in their food-providing processes, facilitating significant reductions in food waste and contributing to improved sustainability and profitability.

Myconeos Limited is a fungal biotechnology company focused on breeding and applying natural fungal strains for food fermentation, bioremediation, bio-fermentation and production of enzymes and colours. The company has mapped the sexual cycle of Penicillium roqueforti and identified optimal conditions for its reproduction, enabling the creation of more than 120 new strains. Working with cheese producers, it has selected strains optimized for cheese production and launched a natural, novel range of starter cultures. Its Mycoforti blue cheese cultures are marketed for blue cheese production and are positioned as industry firsts to market globally. In addition to blue cheese cultures, the company isolates, develops, sells and licenses fungal strains intended for traditional and plant-based protein applications, enabling differentiated fermented products with improved consistency, reduced waste, and greater innovation potential. The pipeline includes further fungal food cultures and related applications.

Rival Foods specializes in producing plant-based alternatives to traditional protein sources like meat and fish. Their culinary whole-cuts are designed to maintain the taste, texture, and experience of animal-based products without compromising on values.

Tastewise is an AI-driven MarTech solution serving the food & beverage industry. It empowers global brands like PepsiCo and Nestlé to accelerate decision-making from months to hours, enabling efficient execution through deep research and marketing workflows.

Vanilla Vida develops vanilla cultivation and processing solutions, aiming to address supply constraints in conventional vanilla production. The company describes end-to-end control from seed to client, including growing and curing steps, to ensure consistent quality. It promotes a proprietary cultivation process intended to enhance natural vanilla ingredients and flavors, and reportedly employs techniques described as genetic modification to alter vanilla bean metabolism in ways that increase flavor. The firm also uses image processing technology for disease detection, quality control, and plant behavior pattern identification, supporting farmers with oversight across the value chain. By focusing on natural flavor beans and efficient production, Vanilla Vida seeks to offer farmers affordable beans and reduce dependence on synthetic materials used by the broader food industry. The approach emphasizes quality, traceability, and innovative methods to improve vanilla supply while supporting growers.

Kern Tec specializes in transforming stone fruit pits from cherries, apricots, and plums into high-quality products. Their refined kernels are used as sustainable ingredients in baking, cosmetics, fertilizers, biomass, and food supplements industries.

NICK’S is a food tech company that manufactures keto diet-friendly ice cream, snack bars, and ice cream sandwiches. The company creates food products with the goal of revolutionizing the market for healthy snacks and sweets.

Supernutural is a food and beverage manufacturing company that specializes in the development of a nut-grinding device tailored for supermarkets, delicatessen stores, and hotels. This innovative device grinds nuts to produce a creamy pulp and is offered through a leasing model that includes a subscription service. Subscribers receive regular shipments of roasted nuts, ensuring a continuous supply of fresh nut products that provide energy and protein-rich nutrition. Through this approach, Supernutural combines equipment leasing with a convenient nut subscription, catering to the needs of various clients in the food industry.

The Mediterranean Food Lab specializes in producing natural flavor bases for plant-based meat products using solid-state fermentation. Their flavors are derived from healthful raw materials like grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, which are rich in amino acids, minerals, antioxidants, and anti-inflammatory compounds.

Orbisk is a developer of fully automated food waste monitoring equipment aimed at enhancing sustainability within the food service industry. The company's innovative solution includes a smart camera equipped with an artificial intelligence image recognition algorithm that identifies food ingredients from images. By integrating this technology into waste bins, Orbisk enables hospitality organizations to gain comprehensive insights into their food waste, quantifying large volumes of discarded food. This data-driven approach allows restaurants to identify inefficiencies in their food-providing processes, facilitating significant reductions in food waste and contributing to improved sustainability and profitability.

Vanilla Vida develops vanilla cultivation and processing solutions, aiming to address supply constraints in conventional vanilla production. The company describes end-to-end control from seed to client, including growing and curing steps, to ensure consistent quality. It promotes a proprietary cultivation process intended to enhance natural vanilla ingredients and flavors, and reportedly employs techniques described as genetic modification to alter vanilla bean metabolism in ways that increase flavor. The firm also uses image processing technology for disease detection, quality control, and plant behavior pattern identification, supporting farmers with oversight across the value chain. By focusing on natural flavor beans and efficient production, Vanilla Vida seeks to offer farmers affordable beans and reduce dependence on synthetic materials used by the broader food industry. The approach emphasizes quality, traceability, and innovative methods to improve vanilla supply while supporting growers.

Tastewise is an AI-driven MarTech solution serving the food & beverage industry. It empowers global brands like PepsiCo and Nestlé to accelerate decision-making from months to hours, enabling efficient execution through deep research and marketing workflows.

NICK’S is a food tech company that manufactures keto diet-friendly ice cream, snack bars, and ice cream sandwiches. The company creates food products with the goal of revolutionizing the market for healthy snacks and sweets.