FoodSeed 2026 Unveils 7 New Startups to Accelerate Italian Agrifood Innovation
With an initial investment that this year reaches €250,000 per startup, the selected projects bring concrete solutions to market to support the digital and sustainable transition of agrifoodtech. Milan, 28 October 2026 – The fourth edition of FoodSeed, the foodtech accelerator of CDP Venture Capital SGR’s National Accelerator Network, promoted and co-invested by Fondazione Cariverona, […]
Which circularity projects belong in your 2027 budget
Finding uses for a side stream is the easy part of upcycling. Deciding which ones to drop is harder. In 2024, Europe’s largest food upcycling plant opened in Appenzell, Switzerland. Built by the startup Upgrain together with Brauerei Locher, it is designed to process around 25,000 metric tons of brewer’s spent grain a year into […]
Where AI fits in your agrifood startup: a map across the value chain
Nearly half of Spain’s agrifood startups now build on AI, according to The State of Agrifoodtech in Spain 2025, the annual report by Eatable Adventures.⁴ In Colombia the share is smaller, 23%, but it more than doubled in a single year.⁵ The question founders bring us has changed with it: not whether to use AI […]
Founder of the Month: PeelPack turns potato peels into compostable packaging that runs on existing lines
Plastic must go, but performance must stay. That is the idea behind PeelPack, a startup that turns potato peels, a side-stream of the food industry, into Materra®, a high-performance, compostable material designed to replace conventional fossil-based plastics. Its approach is simple. Instead of asking manufacturers to invest in new machines and processes, PeelPack created a […]