Welcome to Our Community

EIT Food aims to make your startup journey an exciting and rewarding one

In this community we support each other through the challenging times, and we celebrate each other’s achievements when all our hard work starts to pay off!

In addition to our programmes and EIT Food’s investment opportunities, here are the types of startup training and events you can expect to get involved in:

Interviews, panels and reviews

Hear what our industry experts have to say

Alumni spotlight

Stories, tips and advice from our startup alumni

Startup training challenges

A taster of what goes on at our bootcamps

Live pitch presentations

Prepare to pitch to real investors and potential clients

Community socials & awards

Meet like-minded entrepreneurs to enjoy the ride with

Tailored networking

Data driven matchmaking to build power teams

Business mindset mentorship

Develop a positive mindset for business growth

Leadership skills

Learn what makes an effective leader to pivot and scale

News & Events

Danone Pack Challenge

Danone Pack Challenge

EIT Food is committed to supporting the growth and development of agrifood innovations that are helping to make the entire food system more sustainable, healthy, and trusted. We believe startups and corporations together play a major role in this transformation process towards a better food system for all. Thus, EIT Food is on a ...
Open call for Mentors & Evaluators

Open call for Mentors & Evaluators

Credits: Nick MorrisonEIT Food RisingFoodStars (RFS) is looking for experts with the objective of establishing a database of mentors to our scaleups (members of the RFS programme in 2023) and evaluators to the 2023 applications for RisingFoodStars programme.If you are interested in:Accessing a pan-European agrifood ...
Häagen-Dazs Start-Up Innovation Challenge

Häagen-Dazs Start-Up Innovation Challenge

EIT Food is committed to supporting the growth and development of agrifood innovations that are helping to make the entire food system more sustainable, healthy, and trusted. We believe startups and corporations together play a major role in this transformation process towards a better food system for all. Thus, EIT Food is on a ...
EIT Food Programme Information Webinars 2023

EIT Food Programme Information Webinars 2023

Applications are now OPEN!We are hosting a series of online webinars across Europe to provide information about EIT Food Entrepreneurship programmes:Learn about our entrepreneurship programmes and what they have to offerFind out more about each programme’s eligibility criteria and the application process Gain ...
Seedbed Incubator Testimonials

Seedbed Incubator Testimonials

Happy New Year! We have just received all the feedback from the Seedbed 2022 cohort and we were thrilled to hear how much each team has benefited from the programme, and more importantly how they are continuing to develop their business which will have a HUGE impact in transforming our food system. Take a look here, it might even ...
EIT Food host aquaculture webinar to inspire innovations to transform the sector

EIT Food host aquaculture webinar to inspire innovations to transform the sector

In light of the launch of EIT Food’s open innovation call in August 2022, EIT Food North-West will host an aquaculture-themed webinar, to encourage the submission of aquaculture project proposals.About EIT Food's aquaculture webinarEIT Food North-West presents a webinar to explore how to submit an aquaculture project ...

Open call for Mentors & Evaluators

Credits: Nick Morrison EIT Food RisingFoodStars (RFS) is looking for experts with the objective of establishing a database of mentors to our scaleups (members of the RFS programme in 2023) and evaluators to the 2023 applications for RisingFoodStars programme. If you...

EIT Food Programme Information Webinars 2023

Applications are now OPEN! We are hosting a series of online webinars across Europe to provide information about EIT Food Entrepreneurship programmes: Learn about our entrepreneurship programmes and what they have to offerFind out more about each programme’s...

Join the EU X LATAM Food Protein Challenge

EIT Food is committed to supporting the growth and development of agrifood innovations that are helping to make the entire food system more sustainable, healthy, and trusted. Thus, EIT Food and Food Tech Hub Latam have joined forces to help disruptive European...

A new cohort of impactful startups join EIT Food entrepreneurship programmes and the EIT Food North-West community

EIT Food North-West is delighted to announce 15 innovative agrifood startups that have joined EIT Food’s 3 flagship entrepreneurship programmes to launch, accelerate and scale their businesses, and its regional community. EIT Food is supported by the European...

Tech commersialisation solutions to drive food system change

Last week the Seedbed team travelled to Lisbon, Portugal as the co-sponsor for the ASTP conference, that was attended by 345 people from 32 countries. We met with our TTO friends to find out how we can help encourage more scientists to commercialise innovations that...

EIT FAN Alumni Mycorena collaborates with Lantmännen 💫

This week we are sharing some fantastic news from EIT FAN 2021 alumni Mycorena, who recently announced their collaboration with Lantmännen! 👏 Together, the organisations are working to develop a portfolio of food products based on sustainable produced Mvcoprotein....

Expand to new agrifood markets in Europe – apply for EIT Food Sales Booster! 

APPLICATIONS CLOSED In 2022, EIT Food launched Sales Booster – a programme that helps innovative startups explore and enter new agrifood markets in Europe The programme supports startups with training, coaching, expert advice, and network to prepare for their...

ConstellR launches their first agricultural water monitoring system into orbit

German NewSpace company ConstellR have successfully launched their first thermal infrared earth observation system into space for global water monitoring. The novel payload, LisR (Longwave Infrared Sensing demonstratoR), is the first of its kind to be launched by...

What makes a winning Seedbed pitch?

Would you like to know more about the decision making factors driving our panel's selection for our latest Seedbed Incubator cohort? Throughout an intense four day bootcamp, our partners mentored the various project teams to deliver some high quality pitch...

Alumni Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight – Hai

Alumni Spotlight – Hai

Hai have received a Star Alumni award for the amount of positive progress they made during the course of the Seedbed Incubator programme!Hai operates in Vertical Farming, CEA and Phenotyping. Vertical farming is one of the emerging technologies paving the way to solve our current food security challenges. However, as ...
Alumni Spotlight – Paltech Robotics

Alumni Spotlight – Paltech Robotics

Paltech have received a Star Alumni award for the amount of positive progress they made during the course of the Seedbed Incubator programme!Paltech is a recently established AgTech startup based in Freising, Germany. They are 2021 Seedbed hub alumni and won the award for best pitch. The company was founded by the ...
Alumni Spotlight – FortiFruits

Alumni Spotlight – FortiFruits

FortiFruits produces natural dry fruit extracts to improve the taste of natural food. The products are chemical and sugar free, with a 50 to 100% stronger taste profile than other standard fruits extracts. They also have a much longer shelf life, and they don’t contain any nasty 'e' numbers. Target clients include ...
Alumni Spotlight – PlattenBaum

Alumni Spotlight – PlattenBaum

PlattenBaum operates in the Urban Agriculture sector, to offer housing companies and municipalities healthy and well designed environments to grow and consume their own fresh fruit and vegetables.What is your innovation, and who does this help? We are creating synergy between commercial urban agriculture and ...
Alumni Spotlight – Carbon Harvesters

Alumni Spotlight – Carbon Harvesters

Carbon Harvesters focuses on climate mitigation in the Dairy, Beef, and Swine sectors, which account for 90% of EU agricultural emissions. It is a platform that helps farmers to monitor their farm emissions. On a fortnightly basis using this platform, farmers are able to identify ‘farm specific’ techno-economical climate mitigation ...
Alumni Spotlight – Aqua Lub

Alumni Spotlight – Aqua Lub

Team Aqua Lub is developing a superior lubrication technology with long-lasting hydration properties, to launch a new water based lubricant product. The current product line includes a range of clean formulations that have been developed, using environmentally friendly plant-based materials, which perform strikingly better than ...

Training

Seedbed Incubator Testimonials

Seedbed Incubator Testimonials

Happy New Year! We have just received all the feedback from the Seedbed 2022 cohort and we were thrilled to hear how much each team has benefited from the programme, and more importantly how they are continuing to develop their business which will have a HUGE impact in transforming our food system. Take a look here, it might even ...
Tips for creating the perfect pitch deck

Tips for creating the perfect pitch deck

A pitch deck is a brief presentation which showcases key aspects of your business plan and is used to pitch to investors (or other parties you may want something from like when you apply to our programmes, or certain customers, for example). Ensure your pitch deck is concise and clearYou won’t have much time to ...
A guide to startup funding

A guide to startup funding

Raising money is a key part of being an entrepreneur. Agrifood has some specific challenges around finance given the typically slower growth rates, the seasonality of cash flow and time needed for a return on investment. Whilst some businesses can grow organically and don’t require any external funding, the majority need cash ...
Why market research is key to startup success

Why market research is key to startup success

Problem - solution fit - tick. Now let’s find out if you have a viable startup business…You have a brilliant idea for changing the food system. But how do you go about proving to yourself and others that your idea is worthy of all the blood, sweat and tears that go into it for the months or years to come? Is there a ...
Do I go at it solo or should I have a co-founder?

Do I go at it solo or should I have a co-founder?

If you are unsure whether you should manage a startup business alone or with (a) co-founder(s), first consider the benefits and disadvantages of both sides:SoloPotential for less startup costs (fewer salaries, fewer people to support)Allows you to set your vision by yourself, and you make all the decisionsLess potential ...
Best advice to avoid startup failure

Best advice to avoid startup failure

1. LOVE is a MUST!Running your own business is not an easy ride. Chances are it will be a lot harder (and more rewarding) than you ever could have imagined so make sure you’re working on something you love and care about. Instead of going after any old market opportunity, try to solve a problem close to your heart. If you’re ...

Education Courses

If you are just getting started, or maybe you aren’t quite ready to apply to a programme, why don’t you try one of our introductory food system courses

Regional Support

We also organise many different regional schemes to support local innovation and entrepreneurship activities. Find out what innovation is available in your location here

LIVE Q&A

Whilst our 2023 programme applications are open, we host online webinars to provide more guidance on the application process, and how you can stand out above the rest!

Join a programme webinar

Programmes

Application deadline extended ONLY for Seedbed until April 10 23:59 CET

Launch - Seedbed Incubator

Accelerate - EIT Food Accelerator Network

Scale - RisingFoodStars

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