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Investment in Spanish foodtech reaches 268 million euros by 2022

Investment in Spanish foodtech reaches 268 million euros by 2022, a 9.38% increase since the previous year, not considering investment round reached by Glovo Eatable Adventures, one of the world’s leading agrifood accelerators, has presented the data from its annual study “The State of Foodtech in Spain 2022”. A report gathering key information on the characterization and investment evolution of the […]

2023 noteworthy foodtech events

With the worldwide foodtech community growing in an exponential manner, 2023 arrives full of noteworthy foodtech events that bring the opportunity for leaders, and entrepreneurs to connect, create and learn about new disruptive projects that will change the foodtech industry for good, in a sustainable way.  January January 31- February 2 Fermentation-Enabled Alt.Pro Summit 🇺🇸 The […]

Spain Foodtech Partners: Sigma

Sigma operates in 18 countries throughout North and South America and Europe. With more than 65 plants and 184 distribution centers, the company produces, markets and distributes quality foods including packaged meats, cheese, yogurt and other refrigerated and frozen foods. TASTECH BY SIGMA Sigma has launched the third edition of its Tastech by Sigma accelerator […]

Spain Foodtech Partners: Alianza Team

Alianza Team® is a Colombian company with expertise in lipids and fats and a leader in the food sector. With operational presence in Colombia, Chile and Mexico, the company develops high-tech food solutions. In 2019, it launches its venture capital albora® with the purpose of accelerating knowledge capture and enabling the organization to generate greater […]

Spain Foodtech Partners: Mahou San Miguel

Mahou San Miguel, a family-owned beverage company, 100% Spanish and leader in the beer sector in our country. It produces more than 70% of the Spanish beer consumed outside Spain and is present in more than 70 countries. In 2022 it launches BarLab Ventures, its open innovation platform for entrepreneurial projects that drive the Food […]

Spain Foodtech Partners: Pascual

Founded in 1969, Pascual, a leader in the food sector, has a range of more than 200 products, 6 factories, 27 local offices and more than 2,000 employees in the 63 countries in which it operates. Pascual advocates from the outset the creation of the Corporate Venturing branch of the company: Pascual Innoventures. In 2020, […]

Eatex Food Innovation Hub, the new collaborative innovation hub for the transfer and implementation of technology in the agri-food industry

  A project promoted by CNTA (the Spanish National Centre for Food Technology and Safety) with the support of the Government of Navarra and collaboration of more than 10  R&D&I centers of the Navarre R&D&I System (SINAI)   Among the activities that will be developed in the hub there is the detection of needs between […]

Alianza Team® launches it’s new Open Innovation Portal

A new platform to address the challenges in the food industry  Alianza Team® is one of the leading innovation companies in Colombia, thanks to the development of 21 patent families and the confidence placed in global startup investments in the foodtech sector for 3M USD. Alianza Team®, a Colombian-based corporate group, expert in lipids and […]

The second edition of Baking the Future kicks off with four new startups

 After the success of the first edition, Cereal, the Innovation Center of Europastry welcomes again four startups with revolutionary projects that will change the bakery sector.  The Israeli startup DouxMatok offers nutrition improvements through sugar reduction solutions; Spanish AgroSingularity develops vegetal-origin sustainable fibers that prolong the useful life of bread. Belgian Ajinomatrix digitizes the measurement […]

Pascual Innoventures announces 2022 Mylkcubator’s cohort to develop the milk of the future

With just one year of operations, Pascual Innoventures, founded in 2021 to promote the food of the future, has already made its first significant capital investment demonstrating its clear commitment to innovation and fulfilling its goal to help to develop the milk of the future. Specifically, it has invested in De Novo Dairy and Zero […]

Webinar: New ingredients- shaping the future of food from Spain

WEBINAR 25/10/2022. Online  Free entry, registration required.  9:00AM CET 18:00PM  CET   ICEX Spain Trade & Investment is hosting a webinar on “New ingredients: shaping the future of food from Spain” featuring five Spanish startups, and one of the leading technological centers, that are disrupting the food industry by using the most innovative technologies to […]

Mycelium: The super ingredient of the food industry

One of the great wonders in nature is also one of the most unnoticed. Under the ground, regardless where you are there’s a large network of filaments that branch out and unify all the organic matter that surrounds them called mycelium. Its total length in the upper 10 cm of the ground has been estimated […]