Tag: food
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Clean Food Group raises £4.5M to scale yeast-derived oils and fats from food waste
UK biotech manufacturer Clean Food Group (CFG) has raised £4.5 million in investment led by Clean Growth Fund and New Agrarian. CFG has also successfully secured a £700,000 non-dilutive grant from Innovate UK, which further improves the Company’s financial position. Clean Food Group enables a more sustainable and resilient global food system by producing essential read more
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New Belgian AI platform Backbone aims to cut costly quality failures in food production
Former managers at Belgian legaltech scale-up Henchman are launching Backbone, an AI platform for real-time quality and compliance management in the food industry, with Seed funding from 100IN. Backbone consolidates fragmented data, from supplier documents to lab results, giving quality managers the tools to detect risks before they reach production. A recipe change at a read more
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Afreshed acquires etepetete as food waste startups consolidate in DACH
Afreshed, an Austrian organic fruit-and-vegetable rescue-box company, has acquired the German competitor etepetete. Fresh fruit and vegetables account for 35 per cent. of all avoidable food waste in private households. Fruit and vegetables that do not meet the required standard sometimes do not make it onto the shelves and are, in some cases, destroyed directly read more
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Mondra and inoqo merge to build a product intelligence platform for the food sector
Mondra, a Scope 3 SaaS company serving the retail sector, and inoqo, a European sustainability intelligence platform, have announced a strategic merger that will combine their operations into a single global organisation focused on decarbonisation and resilience in the food system. The merger strengthens the combined company’s operational presence in mainland Europe and is intended read more
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ÄIO wins €1.2M grant to scale fermentation-based flavoured fats for food
Tallinn-based ÄIO, a biotechnology company developing sustainable, non-animal fats and oils through fermentation, has been awarded a €1.2 million grant from Enterprise Estonia to advance its FERM-OIL project. The total project budget is €2.3 million. Founded in 2022 as a spin-off from TalTech (Tallinn University of Technology), ÄIO produces food-grade fats and oils by using read more
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The pickup counter Is food delivery’s blind spot — Pickpad is fixing it
As digital ordering reshapes how people buy food, one of the biggest operational bottlenecks in restaurants isn’t the kitchen — it’s the pickup counter. Off-premises orders now dominate in many markets, yet the moment where digital orders meet the physical world remains largely manual, inefficient, and data-blind. Startup Pickpad was founded in 2024 with a read more
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Empowering women to shape the future of food: inside EIT Food’s EWA programme
Women across Europe are building innovative solutions in agrifood — yet many still lack access to the support, visibility and networks needed to scale. The EWA — Empowering Women in Agrifood program from EIT Food was designed to change that. It is open to women from selected European and neighbouring countries (in 2025, 13 countries read more
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Noahs raises €1.9M to power its expansion to 600 digitised food locations by 2026
Noahs, a Copenhagen-based food-tech company that transforms the service stations, convenience stores (c-stores), supermarkets, and travel hubs into modern food destinations, has raised €1.9 million in new funding at a €6.5 million pre-money valuation. Founded in 2020, Noahs has redefined how food integrates into retail — building a platform that enables global retailers to enter read more
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Josef Brunner’s NutriUnited secures €8.5M Seed to champion family-owned food producers
Corporate food companies group NutriUnited has raised €8.5 million Seed financing. Founded by Josef Brunner, NutriUnited builds, connects and develops artisan-oriented food companies. It aims tocreate a home for family-run businesses in the product categories meat, meat alternatives and ready-made meals. Josef Brunner is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and investor with over two decades of read more
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