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 […]
Pilots that scale: the formula leading corporates are using
A corporate-startup pilot starts with two calendars that never talk to each other. The startup counts in weeks: how long it has until it needs to show enough traction for its next funding round. The corporation counts in committees: Security waits on Legal, Finance waits on Security, each one waiting on the last. By the […]
Three FoodSeed startups close €4.6M in Seed funding as Italy bucks Europe’s investment slowdown
Eatable Adventures co-leads three seed rounds in Italy worth over €4.6 million Europe’s agrifoodtech investment contracted 3.7% in 2025. Italy grew 18%, reaching €121.6 million, according to The State of Agrifoodtech in Italy 2025, the report published by Eatable Adventures. Three startups from FoodSeed, the national accelerator program run with CDP Venture Capital, just closed […]
Eatable Adventures co-leads €2.3M seed round in Nous to accelerate global commercialization of functional ingredient Koncentra
Investment reinforces Eatable Adventures’ role as the infrastructure that turns agrifoodtech into market-ready innovation, backing Nous’ international scale-up through Accelera Ventures alongside dsm-firmenich Ventures and CDP Venture Capital. Nous, an Italian ingredient company developing functional ingredients for the food, beverage and nutraceutical industries, has closed a €2.3 million Seed round to accelerate the commercialization of […]
Does speaking Spanish mean receiving less investment? Eatable Adventures launches Raíces to reduce the investment gap affecting Spanish-speaking startups
The Spanish-speaking world accounts for nearly 20% of global agrifood exports, yet receives just 3% of global Agrifoodtech investment. Raíces, the agrifoodtech startup acceleration program by Eatable Adventures, aims to close that gap — supporting startups in Spain and Latin America with up to €1M in investment, corporate pilots and access to international markets. Eatable […]