Sufresca develops edible coatings for fruits and vegetables that prolong shelf life and help create a plastic-free world, where costly food loss and waste is a thing of the past. Sufresca, a young Agri-tech startup (Jan 2020), developing a few types of innovative edible coatings, particularly those that are notoriously challenging to coat (pepper, tomato, and cucumber), for postharvest extended shelf-life of fresh fruits & vegetables, and bulbs like garlic and onion. Sufresca is commercialising a technology that wasdeveloped at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for the past 10 years.

The alternative meat industry is urgently looking for new technologies to go beyond plant-based burgers, and to achieve the generation of plant-based whole-muscle cuts. After releasing the world's most realistic plant-based beef steak and pork fibrous meat in 2020, NOVAMEAT is currently scaling up the technology to provide plant-based meat manufacturers with superior tools to mimic several types of meat and seafood, achieving different textures from a wide variety of ingredients.

Legendary Vish develop plant-based seafood with 3D Food Printing, producing sustainable and tasty salmon fillets without destruction of the marine ecosystem.

Tebrito develop premium plug and play protein ingredients for the food industry – from insects. Refined products mean increased customer acceptance. Tebrito’s unique extraction process is market leading with regards to both the white colour over time, as well as the unique high protein content. They’ve also solved the usual issues experienced with regards to powder browning.

Kiinns – a food-safety startup – is developing a unique technology that, for the first time, eliminates the need to clean food processing equipment in industrial kitchens and food production lines by isolating the equipment surface from getting in contact with the processed food. This unique solution has extreme implications on food safety -a critical issue for food producers worldwide. In the US alone, costs for foodborne illnesses are estimated at 94 billion dollars annually. Kiinns’ solution is environmentally friendly, minimises environmental impact and substantially reduces operational costs for food producers.

Innoscentia enable the paradigm shift of food labelling by showing the food’s status in real time, throughout the entire value chain. The actual food status is measured with smart labels based on their patented, reactive ink. Innoscentia’s smart labels indicate the real time food status, both visually to consumers and digitally to blockchain systems. Food waste is a global issue. Labelling the problem, is the solution.

Spoontainable developed the first edible ice cream spoon made of residuals of the food industry. The edible spoon is the first product and consists of the shells of the cocoa bean, it can be eaten afterwards and provide a circular economy for customers and users.

FlavorWiki is a unique consumer insights and data management solution designed specifically for the food and beverage industry. Using digital technology to capture individual consumer insights at scale with a focus on taste perception and preference, FlavorWiki’s goal is to accelerate the food industry by offering an affordable solution that delivers insights with 10X the reach of existing methods. Since launching their technology, they have unlocked applications for taste data across the food value chain which were never possible before.

Enyzmit's technological platform allows for dramatic improvement upon existing enzymes on multiple parameters including thermal-stability, expression, specificity and activity, which they are able to provide in extremely short time frames, of typically under one month. Enzymit is currently offering this capability as a service to different strategic industry partners. However, more exciting, using their technology, they are able to design novel enzymes currently unattainable by their competitors. Presently, their company focus is on the development of enzymes capable of generating novel sweetener molecules which they plan to license to specific strategic industry partners.