Food Tech Challengers 2024 highlights
Showcase your business, gain visibility, and build new partnerships
At Food Tech Challengers, we are on a mission to pinpoint the most game-changing solutions that will transform the way we produce and consume food. If your company creates disruptive solutions, this is your chance to put your product or service in the spotlight.
Food Tech Challengers provides startups from all over the globe a unique opportunity to take center stage, gain global media exposure, and showcase their solutions to a distinctive panel of 100+ investors, industry leaders and experts.
To enter, startups must be innovators in one of the six tracks fostering the food tech innovation – New Proteins, Enhancing well-being via nutrition, Food transparency, safety & security, Fighting food waste battle, Digital from farm to fork, and Regenerative agriculture.
60 finalists. 1 Winner
TOP-60 companies (10 in each track) are shortlisted by a distinguished panel of industry experts from global corporations, venture capitals, ecosystem builders and media partners.
All finalists are invited to pitch live at Food Tech Congress 2024, the leading industry conference of the year. Taking place on May 28 – 29, 2024 in Warsaw, Poland, the event offers invaluable networking opportunities and media exposure.
One company is announced the Ultimate Winner of Food Tech Challengers 2024.
Timeline
1
Application
deadline
March 1, 2024
2
Top 60
announced
March 13, 2024
Timeline
1
Application
deadline
March 1, 2024
2
Top 60
announced
March 13, 2024
3
Top 60
pitches
May 28 – 29, 2024 @ Food Tech Congress
4
Top 6 pitches & Winner
announced
May 28 – 29, 2024 @ Food Tech Congress
Why join Food Tech Challengers?
Unparalleled
Networking
All finalists are granted a complimentary ticket to Food Tech Congress 2024, taking place in Warsaw, Poland on May 28 – 29, 2024. Over 800 industry visionaries will gather to share disruptive ideas and network with a group of peers. This is your perfect chance to network and hold 1:1 meetings with the key players in food and agri tech.
Remarkable
Jury Members
Present your ground-breaking solution in front of a remarkable jury comprising the representatives of top notch venture capitals and corporations. This annual competition is designed to empower entrepreneurs and help them build new partnerships that will lead to future industry breakthroughs.
Brand
Exposure
Do not miss out on the opportunity to share your brand’s story with a global audience of over 800 attendees. Food Tech Challengers also welcomes journalists from the world’s leading media companies to give your company unparalleled reach.
Startup applications are now closed
Application to the FTC is entirely free and each finalist company (60 in total/10 per track) are granted 1 complimentary ticket to Food Tech Congress 2024. May the odds be in your favour!
Winners of 2024
Ultimate
Challenger
Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative long-term storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design. It can function as a refrigerator or as a freezer, depending on the preference of the user.
TOP 6 Challengers
Perfat and their technology allows food producers to incorporate a healthier fat in applications where solid fats are needed. Low on saturated fats, fewer calories, loads of gut friendly dietary fiber, their solution is built on local plant oil-based sustainability.
EXOSOMM is a biotech-foodtech company, inspired by the virtues of mother milk and its unique health properties. It develops a variety of nutritional solutions based on natural milk derived exosomes.
inoqo is an innovative SaaS platform designed to help grocery retailers assess and manage the impact of their thousands of products across various dimensions in a scalable way.
Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative long-term storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design. It can function as a refrigerator or as a freezer, depending on the preference of the user.
RootWave kills weeds using electricity to give better weed control at a lower cost than chemical herbicides whilst protecting health and helping nature restore its soils, water and biodiversity.
Meet the jury
Gil Horsky
Marta Laorden
Alexandre Bastos
Anne Marie Butler
Sneha Srikrishnan
Rachel Resek
Jelena Erker
Xin MA
Nityen Lal
Giancarlo Addario
Nadine Geiser
Piotr Grabowski
Andrew D Ive
David Brandes
Bart Van Hooland
Inbar Maymon-Pomeranchik
Michela Petronio
Dr. Roger Wyse
Mathilde Do Chi
Mika Kukkurainen
Patricia Larráyoz Lorea
Arik Kaufman
Marika King
Markus Linder
Shari Rana
Myriam Rouis
James Wilde
Peter Kruger
Kim Odhner
Zbigniew Lewicki
Adam Adamek
Martin Davalos
Robert Dupree
Diana Rucinschi
Peter Dorfner
Marcos Botta
Julia Martin
Katharina Burdorf
Antonio Iannone
Francesca Pedri
Eugene Wang
Robert Walker
Helen Lin
Conan Condon
Harley Green
Christian Gonzalez
Pawel Szczepaniak
Arnout Dijkhuizen
Jérôme Raudin
Andres Anton
Tilmann Petersen
Jonny Mauland
Brian P. Sylvester
Mridul Pareek
Nadim El Khazen
Peter Schmetz
Gabriela Alcat de Lima
Magdalena Olczak - Nowicka
Alex Shandrovsky
Bar Rubin
Elena Gascón Villacampa
Uwe Schröder
Grzegorz Kozieja
Charles Pontvianne
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