June 2nd, 2025 (Renens, Switzerland) – MassChallenge Switzerland, part of the global MassChallenge network, proudly announces the 103 early-stage startups selected for the 2025 accelerator programme.
This year’s cohort represents the top 8% of global applicants, chosen by nearly 400 independent experts from the MassChallenge Switzerland community. Each startup received tailored feedback from the judging process to strengthen their value proposition.
The selected startups span 34 countries across 5 continents and are united by a strong commitment to delivering impact (emissions removed, lives saved, safety & resilience, etc.). They represent a diverse range of industries and will participate in a 4-month programme structured into four industry-specific tracks.
Since 2016, MassChallenge Switzerland has supported startups across Europe and beyond, with its 950 alumni raising over CHF 2 billion in funding to date and creating over 59,000 direct and indirect jobs.
A Programme Designed for Growth
The 2025 accelerator combines in-person events (bootcamp, mid-programme, and finale) with an online curriculum of expert-led workshops and lectures. Startups will benefit from world-class mentorship, networking with corporates and investors, free co-working space, and tailored support.
Matt Lashmar, Managing Director, MassChallenge Switzerland:
“Congratulations to all the selected startups! You were chosen by our independent judges from the 1,527 that applied to the Swiss and UK programmes. We look forward to welcoming you in person at bootcamp, so we, our corporate partners, our expert mentor and speakers, and our investment partners can help you grow your businesses, so that you can add value to society.”
What’s Next
Experts can join our Mentors community by participating in mentor-matching events, where they’ll have the opportunity to connect with startups and support impactful projects. Read our last article about Mentoring and Join our events here.
The accelerator will culminate in the Awards Ceremonies at the end of October in Lausanne, where top startups will be recognised and awarded. Up to CHF 1M in zero-equity prizes will be distributed across the cohort, along with several in-kind awards.
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Meet the 2025 Cohort
Full Airtable to be added this week on our Switzerland Hub page.
GENERAL
Baobabooks Education Sarl (Switzerland): Baobabooks is a teacher-led, technology-enabled, and business-supported organization dedicated to transforming writing literacy through innovative, inclusive, and engaging digital tools. Through structured writing prompts, supportive tools, and access to over 1.4 million curated images‚ for students’ own artwork‚ learners are empowered to express themselves with confidence and originality.
BTRY AG (Switzerland): ETH spin-off BTRY develops ultra-thin (<0.1 mm), fast-charging all-solid-state batteries that are safe, temperature resistant and solvent-free. Using scalable, resource-efficient semiconductor production methods, BTRY powers next-gen IoT, MedTech, and consumer electronics.
ExtensityAI (Austria): ExtensityAI is a deep-tech startup specializing in neurosymbolic AI. We build systems that combine generative models with logic-based reasoning to automate complex research tasks. Our platform delivers explainable, auditable, and reliable outputs ‚ ideal for regulated, sensitive, or data-scarce environments. Deployable on-premise or in the cloud.
Flushh (Namibia): Flushh addresses the critical challenge of inadequate sanitation and open defecation by building eco-toilets from locally sourced and recycled materials, making them lightweight, portable, and ideal for remote and water-scarce regions.
GlobeDock PLC (Ethiopia): GlobeDock is an AI-powered e-learning platform transforming access to quality education across Ethiopia and Africa. We don’t just deliver content, we ensure measurable learning outcomes through curriculum-aligned, culturally relevant lessons and assessments. With a world-class team and deep local insight, we serve students, schools, and organizations with scalable, impactful digital learning tailored for real results.
JOINER APP (Lithuania): Joiner is a social platform to make real-life friends, discover local activities, and monetize your skills by hosting paid or free events. We help people connect offline through shared experiences while giving hosts tools to earn money or grow communities. With 37,000+ downloads and hundreds of meetups daily, Joiner is redefining how cities socialize (in Vilnius).
Kodu Technology (Ghana): We are making affordable and eco-friendly sanitary pads from banana and plantain waste.
Lobby (Switzerland): Lobby is an AI automation layer for hotels that streamlines complex reservation workflows via email, handling booking requests, RFPs, cancellations, and modifications in seconds. Deeply integrated with hotel reservation systems, it boosts staff productivity, reduces errors, and helps hotels win more deals. Staff remain in control through human-in-the-loop approvals, ensuring reliability and brand consistency.
nureo (Switzerland): Generative tools such as chatGPT enable anyone to create text and images. However, in the world of engineering, design tools have not changed since decades. The 3D design of products is still a manual and very time-consuming process. Our startup noru simplifies the 3D design of products by developing automated design tools for engineering to increase the productivity of engineers and enable more people to design innovative products.
Schillings Engineering India Pvt ltd (India): Schillings Air is a retrofit air purification system that transforms HVACs into health and energy performance engines — delivering WHO-grade clean air (PM2.5 < 15) while cutting HVAC energy use by up to 47.7%. Our plug-in system installs inside existing AHUs, requires zero infrastructure changes, and pays for itself through energy savings alone. It improves coil efficiency, reduces fan load, enables higher thermostat setpoints, and accelerates cooling — all while delivering hospital-grade air quality. Backed by IIT Patna as technology partner and investor, incubated by the US Embassy Nexus program, and deployed at institutions like IIT Delhi, Penguin Random House, and leading hotel chains, Schillings Air is redefining indoor air quality as a measurable, revenue-generating asset for commercial buildings.
HEALTHTECH
Actival (Switzerland): Actival has a patented approach of directly manufacturing clear dental aligners with integrated microfluidic channels. These microfluidic channels act as reservoirs that slowly release beneficial antibacterial fluid, calcium and flavor during the aligner use, thus reducing the bacterial build up, creating a strong tooth enamel and a pleasant breath. This neutralizes plaque formation and tooth decay which are hindering the otherwise fast paced 6.3 bn$ aligner market.
Amprologix (United Kingdom): Amprologix is an AI-empowered biotech company, tackling the economic failure at the heart of the growing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis. We employ cutting-edge machine learning tools to identify and optimise new antibiotics in a fraction of the time and cost of conventional approaches. Our goal is to disrupt the pharmaceutical market by significantly driving down the costs of new drug development.
Apersys AG (Switzerland): At Apersys, we are on the mission to overcoming organ shortage. We developed a long-term perfusion platform technology to address the pressing issue of organ shortage. Our device allows for the extended perfusion of livers for up to 7 days, enabling the recovery of otherwise unsuitable organs. Our platform holds promise for future applications, including extending its use to other organs and facilitating pre-clinical and clinical research as well as drug assessment.
Carewell (Switzerland): Carewell helps healthcare institutions fill staff absences faster and more efficiently — by centralizing internal pools and temporary professionals on a single platform. We combine smart software with access to qualified temps, so care teams spend less time firefighting and more time focusing on patients.
Diamens (Austria): 1 in 10 women suffers from endometriosis, a disease causing menstrual pain, pain during sex and infertility. Currently, it takes 7 years until diagnosis, because of large knowledge gaps by doctors and the only option for diagnosis being a surgery. Diamens is developing a self-sampling test using menstrual blood to detect endometriosis. With our pain-free, affordable and empowering test, we aim at reducing the average time to diagnosis to less than one year.
Juvion Life Sciences (Switzerland): Juvion Health Sciences is redefining healthy aging with science-backed therapeutics that target brain-muscle communication‚ a key factor in age-related immobility and diseases like sarcopenia and motor neuropathy. Born at EPFL and backed by a decade of neuroscience, our proprietary platform led to JUV-001, a clinically validated, plant-based supplement that helps people stay active, independent, and thriving longer.
MoleSense (Switzerland): MoleSense advances women’s healthcare with molecular wearables‚ a new class of medical devices that go beyond tracking vital signs to continuously and non-invasively monitor biochemical markers such as proteins and hormones. By integrating personalized molecular data with biology-aware machine intelligence, our wearables provide proactive healthcare for high-risk pregnancies.
MYNERVA (Switzerland): MYNERVA is developing Leia, a smart wearable neuroprosthesis that restores lost foot sensation in people with peripheral neuropathy to improve balance and prevent falls. Unlike traditional treatments, Leia provides real-time, personalized sensory feedback during walking and chronic pain reduction. Our solution is clinically grounded, discreet, and designed for daily life‚ empowering patients to move confidently and safely again.
Rea Diagnostics SA (Switzerland): Preterm birth is the #1 cause of neonatal death, yet risk tests today must be done by doctors in hospitals, limiting timely care. Rea Diagnostics is developing PremaSure: the first self-test women can use at home to detect preterm birth risk early. This unlocks broader access and faster intervention. Now in trials at Swiss university hospitals, we’re exploring go-to-market and reimbursement partnerships.
UNOMR (Switzerland): UNOMR, a techBio startup from ETH Zürich, is pioneering single-molecule protein modification analysis through their innovative serial nanopore sensor, currently with a focus on protein glycosylation. Adressing a US$ 60B market, their patented solution has far-reaching applications across healthcare, pharmaceutical development, and food science, offering a powerful new tool for therapeutic discovery and medical food product innovation.
Virtuosis AI (Switzerland): Virtuosis AI, a spinoff from EPFL awarded Microsoft Startup of the Year 2023, develops AI-based voice biomarkers for mental, cognitive, respiratory, cardiovascular, and metabolic health. Our AI, integrated into telemedicine and available as a standalone app, has the potential to detect over 20 diseases from a 30-second voice recording. We currently collaborate with Swiss, French, Canadian, and Emirati hospitals to support diagnostics and patient monitoring.
SUSTAINABLE & EFFICIENT INDUSTRY
AmpCycle (India): AmpCycle reinvents lithium-ion battery recycling with a highly modular, energy-efficient process that extracts 98% of Li-ion and delivers >99% purity. Our low-cost, eco-friendly solution addresses India’s 70,000 MT annual battery waste, serving major clients and tapping a $23B+ global market. Invest now for scalable, sustainable impact
Anferra (Sweden): Anferra increases circularity across industries by transforming steel waste into water treatment. Our patent pending process converts a commonly landfilled steel waste into high quality iron-based chemicals, replacing virgin iron ore. By licensing our technology to chemical producers, we can increase recycling rates and reduce waste management costs for machining companies, while increasing profitability, circularity and resilience for the chemical producers.
Apheros (Switzerland): Apheros is an ETH Zürich spinoff offering innovative, high surface area metal foams, tackling one of the most critical challenges in high-performance computing: Cooling. Apheros metal foams provide 1000x the surface area of competitors’ products, delivering exceptional heat transfer capabilities.
BlueNose (United Kingdom): BlueNose develops aerodynamic structures that reduce air drag on commercial vessels by up to 5%, offering shipowners a return on investment in under 18 months. Our retrofit-ready solution combines AI-driven shape optimization, advanced materials, and CFD simulation to meet both the economic and environmental demands of maritime decarbonization.
Boreal Bioproducts / Montinutra Oy (Finland): Boreal Bioproducts is a Finnish, forest-based biorefinery. Boreal extracts novel bio-based raw materials (polysaccharides and polyphenols) from wood side streams such as sawdust and bark.
Ceal Minerals (Israel): Ceal, a carbon dioxide removal company, uses circular economy best practices to co-locate with seawater-cooled, thermal power plants increasing their efficiency. In a highly efficient process, Ceal transforms CO2 dissolved in seawater into industry-essential minerals, while providing soft water for the plant’s various uses, enabling substantial new revenues, major cost savings and increased energy efficiency, all while reducing their environmental impact.
Co2Bioclean Gmbh (Germany): CO2BIOCLEAN transforms captured CO‚ÇÇ into biodegradable plastics using advanced biotechnology. The innovative process reduces greenhouse gas emissions and plastic pollution by converting industrial CO‚ÇÇ emissions into high-value, compostable materials. This approach enables sustainable production, supports the circular economy, and contributes to long-term climate protection through carbon utilization.
CyanoMin (Argentina): At CyanoMin, we turn carbon dioxide and industrial wastewater‚ like oil & gas produced water‚ into valuable, carbon-negative minerals. Using cyanobacteria, we produce high-purity calcium carbonate that sequesters CO‚ÇÇ while replacing mined alternatives. Our solution helps reduce emissions by up to 60% in paints, 48% in plastics, and 35% in oil & gas operations‚ without increasing costs or changing existing processes.
Deep Blue Biotech Limited (United Kingdom): Deep Blue Biotech is a synthetic biology company. We are developing a technology platform which makes carbon neutral chemicals for the personal care industry that are better and cheaper than the ones we replace. By leveraging the photosynthetic power of cyanobacteria and genetic engineering we are creating a low capex, scalable manufacturing process that is simultaneously profitable, good for the planet, good for our clients and good for consumers.
Ecoshell (United States): Ecoshell reshapes the sustainability discussion with our patented, eggshell-derived plastic-reduction solution that is market proven and fully eco-certified. Working as a standalone solution or enhancing others, we provide an affordable, effective path for companies to reduce plastic in order to meet reduction mandates or sustainability goals, while cleaning up agricultural waste in the process.
ELASTIC ENERGY (Colombia): Elastic Energy drives the clean energy transition toward a more sustainable future with our patented bio-based energy storage solution. We deliver a sustainable technology that lasts longer, costs less, and reduces environmental harm compared to current solutions: making clean, accessible energy a reality for all, including the world’s most vulnerable communities.
FARADAIC SENSORS (Germany): Faradaic.io is revolutionizing food safety with the world’s first oxygen (O‚ÇÇ) gas sensor on a chip‚ compact, low-cost, and highly precise. Designed for seamless integration into food packaging and IoT systems, our technology enables real-time O‚ÇÇ monitoring to ensure freshness, extend shelf life, and reduce waste. Faradaic empowers smarter, data-driven decisions for a safer, more sustainable food ecosystem.
Flux Polymers GmbH (Germany): Multilayered food packaging, commonly used today, is difficult to recycle and faces regulatory phase-out under the EU Green Deal. Our patented solution involves a UV-reactive polymer coating used as a primer layer on challenging materials such as polypropylene (PP). This primer enhances AlOx deposition, creating high-barrier food packaging that remains fully recyclable due to minimal material usage and avoidance of multilayered foils.
Fungi Life (Colombia & Argentina): Fungi Life uses the power of fungi to replace oil-based chemicals, which are toxic and non-biodegradable. Surfactants are a chemical group with a wide application range, from detergents and soaps to lubricants and firefighting foam, but 96% are petroleum derived. Fungi Life uses the unique capabilities of fungi with a circular economic approach in a low-cost, scalable process. Fungi Life is part of Uplink and HCL Group’s Aquapreneur initiative.
Gekko Photonics (Poland): Gekko Photonics offers an Industry 4.0 system that helps reduce chemical production costs through real-time optical process monitoring. Our patented technology provides precise process data every few seconds, resulting in reduced raw material consumption, reduced waste and elimination of production errors.
Gota Energy (Switzerland): Gota Energy aims to reduce fossil gasoline consumption worldwide. We achieve this by providing a synthetic alternative that delivers impactful reduction of CO2 emmissions. Our fossil-free gasoline works in existing engines and infrastructure, enabling instant replacement of fossil fuels.
Gyre Energy (United Kingdom): Gyre Energy cuts costs for cooling intensive operators. Cooling is 20% of global energy demand, accounting for up to 40% of electricity costs for data center operators, and up to 90% of electricity costs for cold storage operators. Gyre’s platform technology leverages advanced AI and low-cost thermal storage to reduce energy use and enable large-scale distributed flexibility for cooling assets.
Ionic Wind AG (Switzerland): We solve the issue of overheating in modern electronics by replacing cooling fans with our proprietary energy-efficient solid-state airflow technology. By having better cooling in place, modern high-performance electroncis experience less thermal stress and material degradation which prolongs their lifetime, saving raw material resources and energy during operation.
Kolbev (Switzerland): Kolbev develops autonomous mobile robots with built-in energy storage that deliver EV charging directly to parked cars. Unlike fixed chargers, Kolbev requires no infrastructure, operates within the vehicle envelope without blocking pedestrian space, and adapts to real-time demand. Our solution is ideal for large parking operators seeking scalable, flexible, and renewable EV charging.
Komp-Act SA (Switzerland): We develop and sell patented electromagnetic linear motors to replace pneumatic actuators. They are basic elements used in industrial machines to produce our daily goods we consume. They are widely consumed across automation industry. We address a 9 billion CHF market.
Kuafu (Switzerland): Kuafu offers an AI- and automation-based energy management platform for electrical grid operators to smartly manage congestion by leveraging local resources from e-mobility and smart buildings. Serving as a tailored orchestration hub, it coordinates resources like electric vehicles and heat pumps managed by energy management system providers to support grid needs and reduce costs for grid reinforcement and energy portfolio balancing.
N&E INNOVATIONS PTE LTD (Singapore): Vikang is a patented, food-safe antimicrobial technology upcycled from food waste that powers antimicrobial coatings, post-harvest washes and sustainable packaging. It extends shelf life, reduces spoilage, and replaces toxic waxes and plastic wraps. Already commercialised in Asia with strong traction, Vikang is scaling globally to fight food waste and plastic pollution across fresh food supply chains.
Neptune Nanotechnologies Inc. (Canada): We transform fishing waste into advanced bio-nanocrystals to solve performance and sustainability challenges of the materials industry.
Omnisent (Germany): Omnisent revolutionizes industrial efficiency with IoT-powered compressed air leak detection. Our ultra-low power sensors and ML algorithms help manufacturing facilities save €100,000-1.5M annually while reducing CO₂ emissions. With our outcome-based pricing, customers only pay for verified savings. We combine acoustic engineering and AI for 24/7 monitoring and precise leak detection.
Porelio GmbH (Germany): Porelio develops advanced adsorbent materials to remove PFAS‚ “forever chemicals”‚ from water. Our patented silica technology captures even the most mobile PFAS like TFA, where others fail. We don’t build water plants‚ we supply the core material that makes them work. Backed by ‚Ǩ2.5M in public funding, our pilot plant is running. Now we’re scaling‚ cleaning water, one molecule at a time.
RarEarth S.r.l. (Italy): RarEarth recycles rare earth magnets from e-waste‚ like EVs and electronics‚ into high-quality, sustainable magnets. Our patented, eco-friendly tech delivers performance equal to virgin materials while cutting CO‚ÇÇ by 75%. We’re building Europe’s circular supply chain for critical raw materials.
Re:Notch Energy AB (Sweden): Re:notch provides Solar heating on the rocks. Our solution boosts solar 10x by storing it in a seasonal thermal battery in the ground. PV has a huge problem with solar peaks lowering profitability and overloading the grid. We call the solution Solarity Living and it enables a self-sufficient local energy community to store, share and balance clean energy. It lower cost for heat & cooling with 30%, cut solar and winter peaks, and increases property value.
Sandcatch Solutions AS (Norway): Sandcatch Solutions has developed a solution that allows biogas plants to empty their reactors of sand, without taking them off stream during operation. This allows for continuous production, reduction in maintenance cost of 15% and reduces volumes sent to landfill with 50%.
TRI-LOCKER LIMITED (United Kingdom): Cold sealing technology to remove single use plastic film in tray packaging also offering cost and efficiency benefits. This core innovation, combined with its focus on recyclability and the growing market demand for sustainable tray packaging, positions Tri-Locker as a promising alternative.
Turnover Labs (United States): Turnover Labs builds compact, durable electrolyzers that convert dirty CO‚ÇÇ emissions into high-purity chemical feedstocks‚ helping industrial sites turn waste into a stable supply of feeds without the need for pipelines, purification, or new infrastructure.
SUSTAINABLE FOOD
AB Mareld Technologies (Sweden): Mareld has developed a plug-and-play solution designed based on these standards, which automates and streamlines the process using a camera system and our software. This technology can deliver results in approximately 8 hours, potentially saving producers millions in resources, man-hours, and product waste. And since it is designed to be in compliance with the strict regulatory landscape of microbial analysis, it can actually be used for this purpose.
Abrinca Genomics (Switzerland): The analysis of microbial genomes is vital for food, healthcare, agriculture, biotech and pathogen research, but bioinformatics is a crippling bottleneck. Abrinca’s software arx empowers biologists to analyze microbial genomes in minutes, not days. We slash R&D times, boost discovery & capture the fast-growing microbial genomics market.
Agrovisio (Turkey): Agrovisio is an AI-powered precision-ag platform that provides agricultural players comprehensive crop classification and monitoring analytics based on satellite and drones observations. Revenues grew 6.1x since 2021. Last year 300,000 users relied on our software for decision making.
Animeta (India): We support healthy dairy farming with affordable and antibiotic-free ethnoveterinary care. Our vision is to empower 2 crore small and marginal dairy farmers with 24/7 quick veterinary access and validated natural ethnoveterinary products and enable 100 million litres of milk free from antibiotic contamination.
Another Food (Singapore): Another Food is a Plant Cell Culture (PCC) technology platform that unleashes the power of plant cells to revolutionize food and bioactive ingredient production, without the need to grow whole plants. Starting with coffee, we produce a nature-identical coffee with consistent flavour profile and enhanced nutritional benefits.
Bettafish (Germany): We are pioneering seaweed-based food ingredients that offer superior functionality, nutrition, and sustainability. Our proprietary processing technology extracts proteins, fibers, and bioactives from seaweed, making it an affordable and scalable alternative to land-based ingredients. Unlike traditional seaweed processing, our method enhances taste, texture, and nutritional properties, making it seamlessly integrable into mainstream food production.
BioDairy Labs (Poland): BioDairy Labs makes plant-based fats that replicate the taste, texture, and performance of dairy fats without the health or environmental downsides. We use our unique chemical lipid engineering tech to deliver clean-label, trans-fat-free structured fats for food makers in dairy, bakery, and confectionery. Our scalable, sustainable solution meets the growing demand for healthy, high-performance ingredients.
CarbonZero (Switzerland): We have developed a precise, staged, patented pyrolysis technology that produces both biochar and a condensate called pyroligneous acid that is very effective at economically increasing agricultural productivity via epigenetic signalling. Our condensate could be a very effective means to support the transition to regenerative agriculture, and our technology has the potential to economically sequester many gigatonnes of carbon.
Dapibuset (Sweden): Dapibuset is a modular bio-manufacturing platform that transforms agricultural and industrial by-products into high-value protein. Built like a scalable microbrewery, it replaces soy in concentrate feed, cutting costs, CO2e and deforestation risk. The same system enables new value streams in food and functional ingredients. One platform. Multiple markets. Circular, local, and built to scale.
Delight Food Inc. (South Korea): At Delight Food, we believe in ‘Food for Everyone’. As a food-tech startup, we develop delicious and affordable plant-based meat using advanced fibre technologies that replicate the texture of real meat. Our scalable solutions deliver a satisfying eating experience and is also four times more resource-efficient than animal meat. Making it a better choice for both people and the planet. We’re building a future where good food is accessible and sustainable.
Elucid GmbH (Germany): Elucid empowers companies to build resilient, sustainable supply chains by providing health coverage and services to cocoa and coffee farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Our digital platform enables supply chain transparency, collects compliance-ready impact data, and improves farmer livelihoods, productivity, and retention, aligning business growth with real social impact.
EntoCellular (United States): EntoCellular is creating nutritious, sustainable, and ethical pet food ingredients. We use cultivated meat technology, growing animal cells in a controlled environment. Instead of growing conventional livestock cells like most cultivated meat companies, we use insect cells. Insect cells are more resilient, adaptable, and scalable. We are an ingredient company, providing a sustainable and stable protein source to our partners.
FarmAid (Switzerland): The global food supply chain is threatened by climate change, international conflicts and growing demand. We are an awarded start-up offering a patented IoT modular device for deploying a protecting cover over crops in seconds coupled with agrivoltaics. We built a prototype and are working on POCs. Year 5 goals: >100M revenue, 10% (conservative) EBIT. To be ready for industrial-scale production, we need 600k for final software dev, small production, and marketing.
Fluvion (Germany): Fluvion enables the sustainable production of nature-identical secretions‚ replacing animal derived products and harmful chemicals. Using our proprietary bioreactor technology, we first target the $16B+ fragrance market with ethical, high-performance ingredients that meet rising regulatory and consumer demands.
FRESHPACK TECHNOLOGIES (Tanzania): Freshpack Technologies is revolutionizing post-harvest cooling with affordable, electricity-free smart boxes that extend vegetable shelf life from 2 to 10 days. Designed for off-grid farmers and vendors, our patented solution reduces food waste, boosts incomes, and cuts CO‚ÇÇ emissions empowering communities while protecting the planet.
Kokomodo Ltd. (Israel): Kokomodo is an Agri-Food startup that crafts real, controlled, climate-resilient cacao using innovative cellular agriculture technology, grown anywhere, year-round. Our cacao is rich in bioactives that support mood, energy, and longevity. With a clean-label, deforestation-free supply chain, Kokomodo ensures consistency, wellness benefits, and a better future for people and the planet.
Kybele’s Garden (Turkey): We develop climate-friendly, circular and beyond sustainable regenerative solutions for the agrifood and natural cosmetics industries with “algae biotechnology”
Kyomei (United Kingdom): Kyomei is a Biotech startup using molecular biology and biochemistry to valorize crop waste and transform crops into plant bio-factories, creating multiple streams of functional and specialty natural ingredients for the food industry. We seek to fundamentally transform agriculture from a “one seed, one crop” model to a “one seed, multiple product” model.
LayerLogic AB (Sweden): We devlop and manufacture a testkit to find dangerous bacteria in the food industry.
Lembas Bio Ltd (Israel): Lembas Bio is developing functional, natural peptides for weight management and metabolic health. Using a proprietary AI-driven discovery platform, we identify and optimize GLP-1-like peptides derived from food sources. Our mission is to create accessible, effective alternatives to current obesity drugs, delivered through everyday food and supplement products.
Magic Valley (Australia): Magic Valley is tackling the environmental and ethical issues of traditional meat production, which contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, resource depletion, and animal welfare concerns. Our solution is cultivated meat: real animal meat grown from cells, eliminating the need for farming and slaughter.
Mangolade (Germany): Mangolade develops a functional fat from upcycled mango seeds, offering a 1:1 cocoa butter alternative with a similar structure but better shelf life, oxidation stability and nutrional value. By leveraging underutilized side streams, we minimize land use, mitigate Scope 3 emissions, and address price volatility in confectionery supply chains enabling brands to reformulate more sustainably without compromising quality or performance.
Mara Bio Limited (New Zealand): MARA BIO is unleashing a new era of food sustainability by unlocking high-margin, scalable opportunities at the intersection of biotechnology and waste reduction. Leveraging a proprietary biomass fermentation platform, MARA transforms food industry waste into nutrient-rich, versatile ingredients. These innovations not only reduce emissions and enhance food security but also respond to the global demand for healthier, low-impact food.
Mechro Limited (United States): Mechro Limited empowers smallholder farmers with low-cost, locally manufactured Chameleon soil moisture sensors. Using a simple colour-coded system, farmers know exactly when to irrigate‚ saving water, boosting yields, and building climate resilience. With 4,000+ sensors deployed and partnerships across Malawi, we’re scaling sustainable irrigation across Africa.
Microendo (Mexico): Microendo is the first supplier and developer specialized in biofertilizers for specific crops. We use the plant’s microbiota to create organic crop-specific biofertilizers that provide better results than conventional biofertilizers. These products improve plant health, reduce the use of chemical fertilizers by up to 70%, increase yields by up to 30%, sequester CO2 in the soil and restore the original microbiota of the crops.
Mothership Materials (United States): Mothership Materials is unlocking biomanufacturing’s $4T market potential. Our TRACE technology sorts food, agricultural and seaweed residues into critical molecules like sugar, cellulose and proteins that fuel textiles, alt proteins, and more‚ at the source, and with unmatched efficiency. We lower input costs, slash carbon, and enable the next-gen materials economy to scale.
Munakyalo Agrofresh (Uganda): Munakyalo Agrofresh is a climate-smart agritech company helping smallholder farmers reduce post-harvest losses and increase their income through mobile, solar-powered cold storage hubs and MunaFresh, a plant-based edible coating that preserves produce without refrigeration. Our affordable, off-grid solution extends shelf life, cuts food waste, and improves market access for underserved farming communities across Africa.
Nada (Sweden): At Nada, we upcycle fruit waste from smallholder farmers and packing houses into high-performance, traceable oils that replace petrochemicals in cosmetics. Using green extraction technologies, we reduce Scope 3 emissions while unlocking new income streams in countries of origin. We’re building a fossil-free, circular beauty supply chain that empowers local producers and meets global sustainability demands.
Omma (United Kingdom): Omma enables horticulture growers to produce beneficial insects directly on farms for instant access to sustainable pest management at half the cost.
OnlyPlants Food (Kenya): OnlyPlants is an alternative protein startup harnessing indigenous African crops to drive protein intake and empower smallholder farmers. Our products include plant-based sauces and nut & seed butters, available at local retailers in Kenya. We are now diversifying into high-potential categories incl. our novel Bambara milk made from Bambara groundnuts, a local legume that is high in protein, drought-resistant, and sourced from women smallholder farmers.
Opalia (Canada): Opalia makes real milk without cows using bovine mammary cells. Opalia developed a patent-pending technology allowing for the continuous production of whole milk (all components) that will be used as a B2B ingredient for the production of food and dairy products. As the demand for protein rises and natural resources dwindle due to climate change, Opalia’s technology will offer reliable and safe access to milk in a resource efficient manner for generations to come.
P-Vita (Egypt): P-Vita transforms agri-waste and algae into high-value biofertilizers and food ingredients using AI- and IoT-powered bioprocessing. Our tech reduces import dependency and chemical overuse while enabling localized, sustainable production. With $300K+ in grants and two signed license deals, we’re scaling across MENA to power a regenerative, clean-label bioeconomy.
Pewman Innovation (Chile): Pewman Innovation pioneers sustainable biotech for agriculture, drawing inspiration from Earth’s extreme environments like Antarctic and Atacama desert. We combat crop frost and drought, which cause billions in losses, with unique bacteria-based solutions. Our products, CRIOPROTECT and NANOFORTE, enhance plant resilience and improve yields. Partnering with universities and agritech companies, we’re expanding globally to protect food security from climate change.
PFx Biotech (Portugal): PFx Biotech is revolutionizing advanced nutrition with precision fermentation. We produce high-value bioactive proteins that enhance health, performance, and well-being‚ sustainably and at scale. Our platform unlocks next-gen, animal-free functional ingredients for infant and elderly nutrition, nutraceuticals, food, supplements, and medical nutrition‚ meeting the growing demand for science-backed solutions.
ProSeed (Switzerland): ProSeed’s vision is to drive a more resilient food system. We develop processing solutions that preserve the value of wet biomass, reducing the negative impact of the food industry. By unlocking the use of microwave technology for drying wet by-products into raw materials, we create a circular and value-driven supply chain.
Rongbient Biotech (Vietnam): Rongbient is a team of 3 serial founders & 5 PhD scientists solving 1 problem: feed & farming additives accounted to >50% the cost & >50% the emission in animal farming. We started with Vietnam’s shrimp farming sector. We’ve run pilots in the last year with 5% yield improvement, 8% cost deduction, $500,000 in annual pre-order value and pilot agreement with the largest shrimp exporter & 4th shrimp hatchery in the country.
Searo Labs (United Kingdom): Searo Labs is a Cambridge-based company addressing the >$600bn plastics industry with its natural polymer materials. We are uniquely poised to revolutionise multiple global markets in packaging and beyond via our patented technology and products which amplify properties such as shelf-life extension. Searo material is fully biodegradable within 28 days and is the first natural-polymer material to function on existing packing lines allowing for easy adoption.
Senara GmbH (Germany): Senara makes real milk‚ with no cows‚ using cell cultivation.
Sentra (Nigeria): Sentra is a solar-powered, AI-driven device that helps smallholder farmers detect crop pests, diseases, and soil deficiencies early before visible damage occurs. It delivers real-time, SMS-based recommendations in local languages, enabling timely and sustainable interventions. With a pay-as-you-go model and offline capability, Sentra is affordable, accessible, and helps farmers reduce losses, increase yields, and protect the environment.
SmartCloudFarming (Germany): We are a machine-learning geospatial startup that creates soil intelligence to revolutionize crop yield forecasting for the agribusiness and food sector.
Spatialise (Netherlands): Spatialise monitors the soil beneath our feed. The soil feeds us, is the basis for all biodiversity and mitigates climate change. But 50% of the soil is degrading and there is no adequate way to monitor soil health. Spatialise has created an RS/AI based model to monitor soil health at scale, low cost and a high level of granularity. Our model for Soil Organic Carbon is proven best in class, with additional indicators such as pH and NPK to follow shortly.
Sweet Atoms (Australia): Sweet Atoms creates technologically advanced, frontier carbon materials utilising food, beverage and agricultural processing waste. We transform environmentally damaging and unsequestered biomass, using green, proprietary processes into advanced materials that power the industries of tomorrow.
SYMBIAGRO SRL (Italy): Growing population, Climate change and chemicals used for farming in last years have reduced agriculture yield and quality , impacting food security. In Symbiagro we are transforming agriculture through our innovative R&D platform for biologicals to fast prototyping high-quality products that naturally improve soil health and optimize crops yield.
Synature (Switzerland): Synature builds AI-powered sound systems that monitor animal health and presence in real-time across agriculture, aquaculture, and conservation. Our end-to-end platform cuts manual labor and provides insights 24/7. From pig disease to shrimp feed optimization and biodiversity tracking, we’re creating the global nervous system for animal monitoring.
Tender Bio (United Kingdom): Tender Bio is unlocking the global commercial potential of cultivated meat.
Tint Biotech (Chile): We create a blue food colorant stable to pH & temperature changes approved by the FDA & EFSA for use in USA & Europe. We started in January 2025 and thanks to our co-founders combined experience in biotechnology, chemical engineering and material sciences we already developed the first samples and are piloting them with 7 companies in Chile, USA, France & Spain.
ucrop.it (United States): Ucrop.it empowers agrifood companies to make verified sustainability claims at scale by transforming fragmented, unverifiable field data into auditable, blockchain-backed land use changes and crop traceability metrics. Unlike platforms relying on modeling or estimations, our system connects real farmer input, land use change detection, and crop cycle evidence into a single, automated MRV solution that ensures compliance with relevant regulatory frameworks.
Vortex srl SB (Italy): Vortex aims at recovering and valorise by-products of the food industry. We obtain flours or extracts from side streams of the agri-food industry; these ingredients can then be implemented in pet food, food or cosmetic formulations. Our solution enables us to reduce the costs of the ingredients proposed linked to the use of a by-product rather then the whole fruit, furthermore, by recovering a side stream we are able to achieve a saving in CO2 emissions.