Foodtech solutions reinforcing the food system

Forkcast

Forkcast helps restaurants leverage machine learning to improve their planning. Much like how the weather forecast is used to decide if the outdoor seating should be put out, the sales forecast provided by Forkcast allows restaurants to make accurate decisions for scheduling and inventory planning. The result is a more efficient restaurant – optimized staff utilization, improved employee satisfaction and reduced food waste lead to benefits in terms of profits and sustainability performance.

The tool is easy to use and requires no digital expertise – it’s really as simple as checking the weather. Today, even the small restaurant on the corner can make use of the benefits brought by artificial intelligence. Under the hood, the tool combines data from various sources and applies machine learning algorithms to generate forecasts with optimal accuracy.

Hjälte Food & Drinks

Providing the market with a new type of plant based drink that are both sustainable and nutritious. Most of the plant based drinks on market today are flawed in one of these two regards. Either the nutritional values are quite frankly very poor with high levels of sugars and low levels of proteins and healthy fatty acids, or the have a big negative environmental impact with de-forestation, excessive watering, lenghty transports etc. Our product is both high nutritious and highly sustainable.

Vision

To push the boundries of the next generation of plant based sustainable foods. We want to make the sustainable choice an easy one by providing a product that is both delicious and nutritious. Consumers will no longer have to sacrifice anything when choosing a truly sustainable alternative.

Innoscentia

In most parts of our world, we are using a highly inefficient system to determine food shelf life. Because of the inability to monitor products, producers are forced to assume worst-case scenarios when setting expiry dates, why about 30% of the shelf life is lost and locked up in the system. As the concern for food quality and food safety is growing around the world, the trend among end consumers is leaning towards more conservative interpretations of expiry dates, which emphasizes the need for a systematic shift in shelf-life determination.

Vision

Our vision is to become the category leader within dynamic shelf life indication technologies, and to help producers, retailers and end consumers to drastically reduce food waste around the world. Our vision is essentially to make it possible for all of us to consume the food we produce, and by doing so, to create a sustainable food system.

Go Cirkulär

It is stimates that 1/3 of the food produced globally end up to waste. Many of the food that is wasted, such as fruit and vegetables, has still a lot of bio- compunds with benefitial properties for the skin. At Go Cirkulär, we would like to extend the life of ingredients that otherwise will be discarded to produce high quality sustainable skincare products that are good for the people’s health and the planet.

Vision

My vision for Go Cirkulär is to become the first Swedish Upcycled skincare brand with Stores and a presence all over the world. I see the brand selling all different personal care products that are inspired by a circular economy and more sustainable consumption models. I would love to open multi-spaces where people can shop, but also to do other activities, to learn and share with the community, of course, surrounded by good nordic aesthetics and design. I see Go Cirkulär as a movement and a way of living, perhaps of people like me, who care about their skin but feel we can make better choices every day to protect our planet.

Arvalla AB

Arvalla AB is part of the project Growing State Bazaars, where we participate with project management. One of our challenges is to grow mushrooms, dry them and then pack them. We want to make the packaging as attractive as possible for the end consumer, while at the same time having a long shelf life and providing all the necessary information.

Vision

Our vision is to find alternative ways out to the consumer to increase profitability in primary production. At the same time as we improve Sweden’s degree of self-sufficiency.

& our friends

Step into the world of the natural flavour magicians – where we enrich the world of snacks, treats & delicacies. We live by the faith that you can’t have too many friends! With all their beautiful personalities, friends enrich our lives, just as the abundant flavours we have in this wonderful world. And we love to invite all our friends, regardless of their choice of diet. Therefore, we decided all our products should be natural, and mainly from plants. & our friends as a brand, a belief, and a friend, will display these two defined personality attributes: One. We will only work with natural, organic, and primary focus on plant ingredients. Within our range, there are a few delicacies suitable for vegan friends, other for vegetarian friends, some for friends that exclude gluten or dairy, and almost all for any other friend. Why? Because the future should be honest, real, and heavily focused on what our plants can provide for a better world, oat to hemp and seaweed and beyond. You can say we like land, sea and..bees! Two. They will not contain any stuff that really shouldn’t be there. No artificial flavouring or unnatural preservatives. Neither suspiciously pumped-up ingredients nor phoney colourings. Why? We do not need to stuff our bodies with more things that are good for us – there are too many hidden ingredients that complicate things for us. And real friends do not complicate things in your life – right? So then, natural plant-based delicacies, snacks, and treats? Sounds pretty delicious! Yea, it is!

Delicacies should be for everyone – all over the world!

Vision

Delicacies should be for everyone – all over the world!. We envisage & our friends to be enjoyed anywhere globally, as having friends all over the world is the ever best!

Nära & Naturlig

Nära & Naturlig has developed a new innovative fish farming technology that reuses all farming water and residual product back into the internal production again. The fish get natural feed in the form of aquatic microbes and through the systems microbial-metabolism food by-products can be reused. In addition, the production cost is significantly decreased, superior fish health is observed and the final product of fish gets a more natural “wild” taste.

Vision

to become a big player in the global food sector, to be able to create social impact towards a future with sustainable and healthy food production. In addition, Nära & Naturlig will offer an alternative to wild caught fish, which enables recovery of the marine ecosystems, and the system reuses food by-products into a product with higher biological value in the form of nutritious fish compared to biogas. The final goal is to develop a sustainable fish farming method in Sweden, which can be established internationally and above all help developing nations to get access towards safe and nutritious food produced in a sustainable way.

Bioextrax AB

The need for cost-effective and sustainable proteins – our processes: 1. turn poultry feathers into highly digestible protein hydrolysates for feed applications and 2. generates hydrolyzed single cell protein as a co-product from production of the biobased and biodegradable polymer PHA.

Vision

To provide companies generating organic waste/by-products the opportunity to upcycle their materials, thereby contributing to a more resource efficient and sustainable value chains.

OptiCept

With our game-changing technology, we enable forward-leaning companies all around the globe to be as efficient as possible all while ensuring a sustainable, eco-friendly, and low-carbon footprint treatment. Oh – and you’ll never have to compromise quality over quantity again. The food and plant tech of the future is here now!

Mossagården Eko

We want to accelerate the process of starting an organic hemp center at Mossagården in Veberöd and kick-start the large hemp factory for innovation and research; a future-proof, time-adapted and smart factory.

Our vision and mission is to work close to the university in collaborative environments and work for the advancement of hemp in harmony with Sweden’s organic farmers. Our ambition is for the organic hemp in Sweden to make the “big leap” and in this respect we want to take advantage of the capacity from the entire plant.

Vision

Our long-term ambition with Mossagården is to, with the help of healthy, nutritious quality products in the protein shift and also environmentally oriented services, climb the “sustainability steps” and achieve the goal of serving people and connecting them to nature with the same keywords as the EU’s major investment: “From farm to fork “. We strive to protect and preserve our environment and the planet with our actions.

Arwa FoodTech

Inadequate intake of dietary iron and fibres intake, mainly in young and middle-aged women. Quest for more nutritious vegan products. According to a survey published in 2019 (Statista, Ridder, 2019) most of the vegan or vegetarians in Sweden are women, with reported iron deficiencies. Based on a recent survey, 1 in 10 Swedes are vegan/vegetarian (Djurens Rätt, 2014), why there is an increased demand of plant-based foods. According to Coad and Conlon 2011 iron deficiency is the most common nutritional disorder affecting about 20-25% of the world’s population, predominantly children and women. Furthermore, according O’keefe 2019 there is the evidence that suggests that increasing dietary fibre intake is likely to increase lifespan, improve the quality of life during the added years, and substantially reduce health-care costs. There an enamours market need for dairy alternative drinks that fulfil nutritional needs among vulnerable consumer groups as well as more health products that are vegan adapted.

Vision

AFT presents an efficient path towards creation of novel nutritious foods. Our vision is to utilize Baobab fruit and sustainable technologies to promote health. The company specialised in developing novel food products with health-promoting properties that are enhanced by natural raw materials. The by-product of the food production line, the seeds, will be upscaled to recover oil that could be used as valuable ingredient in other health products.

SAVEGGY

Globally, about 45% of fruits and vegetables get wasted. Extension of shelf-life reduces carbon emissions and pollutions, increases the energy saving, educes inventory and ensures more food reaches consumers. To extend shelf life, primarily, plastic wrapping is used that will be eliminated with our solution. Our bio-based edible vegan coating extends the shelf-life of fruits and vegetables which is easily applied on the selected ones by using dipping or spraying methods after harvest.

Vision

Helping the world to waste less.

Bärta

Bärta is a 100% naturally fermented Swedish organic pea. Bärta is easy to digest, full of plant-based protein and high in fiber. Good food today, for our tomorrow.

Our starting point when developing Bärta is to create a climate-smart food that will be enough to go around for all people on earth – today as well as in a millenium.

Gårdsfisk

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector and has been for 50 years. The challenge is that the majority of production contributes to overfishing, destroyed ecosystems and has a negative impact on wild fish. At the same time, the demand for seafood is expected to increase by 100 million tonnes to 2050. Market for fish can with can with good conscience be described as a jungle for consumers. There are several different fishing methods, several different farming methods and lots of different labels that very few know what they mean or if they really do any good. The challenge is to develop a sustainable fishfood chain.

Vision

The vision of Gårdsfisk is to integrate aquaculture with agriculture and raise robust, herbivorous and fantastically delicate fish on land, manure can end up on arable land, the water is used twice, first in fish farming and then as irrigation, we avoid eutrophication, overfishing, destroyed ecosystems and do not risk infect wild fish. So we could raise the world’s most sustainable fish.Gårdsfisk strives to be able to achieve a complete circular model in order to be able to raise fish with the absolute least possible environmental and climate impact.

Edgy Veggie

We’re using wheat to produce plant based meat analogues. These are excellent in taste and texture. We’re using wheat which is locally produced and there’s a lot of. Very sustainable.

Vision

To make a long term impact on eating habits, health and environment

En God Granne

En God Granne develops and sell business concept for locally produced food to grocery stores.

SunFeeds

Hunger is the world’s greatest solvable health problem. There are 17 million children who are living on the edge between life and death due to hunger. In Sweden alone 60% of the population over 65 years are at risk of being malnourished. Hunger can take on many forms and affect different people but the devastation remains great. In order to reach the UNs sustainable development goals number #2 Zero Hunger there is a need for more innovative solutions to the problem.

Vision

SunFeeds aim is to create new nutritional energy food that could fill the existing gaps in the market and facilitate it in the right way. Today there are two different SunFeeds. SunFeeds-cream is developed to meet the needs of elderly cared for in the healthcare- system. SunFeeds RUTF is aimed for children who suffer from severe malnutrition. Both products are easily packaged in a portion sized sachet with long shelf life which makes it easy to distribute and for care-personal to serve.

Watersprint

The United Nations is predicting a 40 % shortfall in freshwater resources by 2030, coupled with a rising world population.To contribute in handling this challenge, we at Watersprint provide a cost efficient UV LED purification system reducing up to 99,99 % of virus, bacteria, protozoa, cysts and other pathogens. We use cutting edge technology to change the game of water purification, undertaking continuous research to maximize inactivation of DNA/RNA. We do this by optimizing water flow, light reflection in reactor, geometry of reactor, LED control, flexible emission patterns, and wavelength. Our solution is flexible enough for any application, both as stand alone and as part of other manufacturers applications. The disinfection performance of our solutions is validated through a vast program of microbial tests in our lab and in cooperation with Lund University’s facilities, as well as independent validation by third party labs such as VA Syd, RISE and Synlab in Sweden and IWW in Germany. Trust us as your water experts in helping you find water purification solutions of superior and affordable quality!

Vision

To offer people around the world safe water, in a sustainable way.

Heja Havre

Heja havre simplifies the stressful everyday with a useful and tasty instant porridge. Perfect for the conscious on-the-go individual. Made on scanian oats. Just add water and we’ll fix the rest!

Problem: Havré is 22 years old, studies OATology at university and dances ballOAT in his spare time. In short, Havré has a lot of things to do and is constantly on-the-go. Havré is sitting on campus studying, he is tired and broke. He suddenly becomes very hungry, what should he do now?

He only has time for something fast, as he will soon have to take the bus to his ballOAT lesson. But at the university café only there are only sweets and cakes, which unfortunately are not vegan. Havré needs a snack that gives him long-lasting energy so he can study longer and go to his dance training. What is he going to do?

Hi Havré! We have got a solution for you! Unhealthy snacks should not limit anyone’s everyday life. We offer a snack that is both good, nutritious and filling. Above all, its fast and you can eat it on-the-go … It’s a vegan instant porridge!

Vision

Heja Havre will, at first, mainly be sold in Skåne (south of Sweden). This is because the company has Skåne as a starting point, but also because we care about the local aspect of our company. We think it is important that a locally produced product is also sold locally. This is to minimize transport and make it as sustainable as possible! Despite this, we at Heja Havre see an opportunity to achieve sales nationally and within Scandinavia in a sustainable way in the future.

Heja Havre’s ambition is to grow large on the oat market and thus Heja Havre is under development and working to scale up production. After carrying out a hand-scaled production, we have learned an incredible amount. Now it’s time for us to become more large-scale, so that we can offer our customers larger volumes and more mushy snacks! We are looking for a contract manufacturer that meets Heja Havre’s requirements as well as our customers’ requirements for durability, packaging, ingredients etc. There for Heja Havre 2.0 will be launched in fall. We are working hard to reach this goal while keeping our standards and product quality.

Within 1 year from launch, our goal is to be available at at least 10 local ICA retailers in Skåne. As well as establishing a collaboration with a large online retailer, eg Mathem, Apotea, Meds etc. We also want to grow in the gym/workout industry, which we hope to be able to do by starting by being present at 3 sports facilities (gyms or similar). We also want to be available at at least 5 cafés in Skåne. Also establish 10 regular corporate customers, who subscribe to a “porridge box” that they receive every month. Finally our goal is to have a functioning E-commerce that can represent Heja Havre and what we stand for!

Within 5 years, we want to develop our range of oat-based products and be able to offer even more good vegan snacks filled with oats. Imagine small oat balls with the natural sweetness from oats, rolled in vegan chocolate. The perfect snack on-the-go and as a Saturday treat! And launch a larger family pack of instant porridge!

The possibilities are endless with oats;)

We also aim to be in 3 chains in the Swedish grocery trade. In addition to this, an on-the-go product must of course be available where people are most on the go. Thus, a goal to establish dealers such as Pressbyrån, 7/11, Statoil etc, is highly relevant. Heja Havre also wants to be available where you travel and thus wishes to be able to enjoy a hotel chain’s breakfast buffet.

Mycorena

There is a huge gap between market potential and current market value of alternative protein. Manufacturers cannot bridge the gap utilizing available plant-based alternatives, due to poor product quality, limited efficiency & scalability, and an unacceptable climate footprint. We solve the problem of the alternative protein gap by providing food manufacturers with Promyc, a unique fungi-based protein source with massive benefits over ingredients in the status quo.

Vision

Our vision is to be the global leader in fungi-based food technologies, and the disruption of alternative protein is just a starting point. Our long-term ambition is to provide a comprehensive industrial solutions, ranging from functional ingredients to nutritional supplements & nutraceuticals, specialty compounds, biomaterials, biomass post-processing, and valorization of byproducts & sidestreams.

AppFood Technology

We are helping conscious parents provide their babies with food, manufactured as you would have done it at home.

Vision

We baby food category defined as the glass-jar product by introducing modern recepies, production processes, marketing and distribution.

Tröskarehus

We are working to build a business that will process the crops from the cultivation to the customers both private individuals and entrepreneurs, through a hydrothermal process of the grain. In the next step we grind it and then we pack the flour or we crush the grain and make muesli. After the hydrothermal treatment, the body can more easily assimilate the seeds’ nutrients as minerals. The treatment also helps to make flours and groats easy to use in porridge, gruels, waffles, pancakes, pastries, soups, smoothies, bread etc.

Vision

Our vision is to increase the value of the grain by refining it locally and providing an increased nutritional content to the end user.

Maisha deli

Maisha Deli offers plant-based delicacies that promote a healthy, animal-friendly and more sustainable future. The goal to offer the tastiest and most attractive herbal products on the market.

We want to revolutionize plant-based food to become widely available and a natural and obvious choice for everyone.

Ooble Innovations

Over 1 Billion plastic straws are used every single day, globally. Single use plastic is going to get banned globally in 2021, and there is a growing need for a functional and sustainable alternative. Ooble develops 100% plant-based, edible straws that are available in different flavors and nutrition profiles. So, you can sip, gulp and munch while being kind to our planet. Ooble straws make sipping into a beverage hygienic, convenient and sustainable whenever you need a straw! We are tackling this small entity that has a big impact.

Vision

Ooble aims at bridging sustainability and innovation within the food packaging industry starting with edible packaging that is desirable and viable for consumers. Using a human centric design thinking approach we are developing products that solve single-use plastic problems with an inexpensive and value-added alternative. Ooble straws are our flag ship product where you can sip on your beverage, gulp it down and munch into your straw. Our vision is to design products that are edible, sustainable and makes you go Ooooo…

Birka BioStorage

With a strong feeling of responsibility and a relation of trust to our clients, we shall provide a wide range of controlled storage and transport services, from research to market, to drug developers and manufacturers.

Our mission is to give our customers, the continuous off-site storage support they need, in order to be able to focus on their core business. We shall offer cost efficient climatic storage and transport at various customized conditions, such as ambient, cold, freezing

Seatrients

Seatrients is a company unlocking the health secrets of the sea, starting our journey with the traditions of the Caribbean algae farming culture. The secret ingredient, sea moss algae, has been known throughout the islands as an immune booster, fertility enhancer, and a symbol of health and strength. These benefits have always been passed down from the elder generations, but modern research has shown that the range of benefits are far more immense. This resource is an excellent source of iron, zinc, omega-fatty acids, and B vitamins; nutrients that are commonly needed to enrich the diets of hundreds of millions of undernourished people today.

Siccona

Building a bridge between research and business. Knowledge about health turned into consumer friendly products.

Vision

We are trying to make the world a little healthier, a little greener and a little more social responsible.

Funky Flavour

Funky Flavor aims to offer fermented products, kits, and accessories. We want to make a healthy diet exciting and fun for everyone. We don’t follow fleeting trends or use fancy technologies, we create superfoods through an 8000-year-old tradition that uses nothing but the power of nature. Our promise is tasty, natural, and nutritious products that are local, vegan, and mostly rescued.

Lupinta

Lupinta produces tasty, healthy and environmentally friendly meat-substitutes based on locally farmed lupin beans. Lupin is a native European legume, high in plant-protein content, high in fibre and low in fat, that can be farmed in the Nordic countries, being a perfect alternative with a lower carbon footprint to both meat and imported soy-based options.

Vision

We want to position Lupin as the natural European alternative for imported soy. We want to create an industry around Lupin in Europe and cut down the importation of 32 million tons of soy annually to the EU.

Glucanova

High fiber foods and whole grains provide well known healthy and preventive properties and can reduce risk factors for lifestyle related diseases. Frequently, those products are not tasty/attractive enough and thus failing to reach consumers. Glucanova develops tasty, nutritious, consumer-friendly and convenient high fiber liquid food concepts by careful selection of raw materials, in combination with unique proprietary bio-processing methods.

Vision

Our vision is to conduct world leading R&D of nutritious and high fiber liquid foods focusing in keeping, and ideally improving, the inherent healthy and preventive properties of the food raw material. Our innovative technological methods aid in the development of tasty and convenient consumer food concepts in a sustainable way. The health effects and/or preventive properties of our food concepts are evaluated in clinical trials, in collaboration with academic and clinical partners.

AgVital

Food is humanity’s biggest single challenge – the single biggest cause of ill health in the world, climate change but also the loss of biodiversity. 50% of the world’s population suffers from malnutrition. Obesity costs 2.8% of GDP while food accounts for 25% of CO2. The answer is HBB, Hjext Balanced Behavior, a scalable, digital behavioral system that creates conscious experiences and develops a globally demand-driven healthy and sustainable digital food system. Optimal well-being for the individual, the environment and society. Today’s ultra processed food chain is unsustainable.

Eat:em

Cricket flour is rich in iron, zink, vitamin b12, magnesium and calcium. These are essential minerals and vitamins that you need to stay healthy and build muscles. Cricket flour contains TWICE the amount of iron compared to spinach. You better eat:em.

Mylla Mat

Linking food producers directly with consumers.

Vision

To create an alternative food chain connecting producers directly with the market without middle men.

Trash to gold

Trash to gold is here to accomplish one thing: to replace today’s single-use to-go products with upcycled alternatives that are better for the user and better for the environment. We do this by collecting operational biowaste from service-sector businesses and turn it into unique and good-looking products that can be (re)used instead.

Imagine a reusable to-go cup for coffee made from coffee grounds, a reusable lunchbox for sushi made from leftover rice, or a cutlery set made from old popsicle sticks or leftover food. The possibilities are endless.

LuFu

LuFu provides sustainable locally grown lupin products to help our customers make good, healthy and sustainable choices by providing locally produced alternatives to meat and soy products. We use locally grown lupin beans to reduce the dependency of imported soybeans, decrease carbon footprint and fulfill Sweden’s goal of becoming self-sufficient in food consumption. Our first products include Lupin Tofu and Lupin Bites, that are delicious and offer superior protein and other nutritional content.

Vision

We want LuFu to be a pioneering brand for delicious Lupin products across Sweden and Europe. We see LuFu as a major player in the future plant based food market. We want to inspire a community to join us on our mission in creating a more sustainable society and bring you the food of tomorrow.

Lilla Kafferosteriet Produktioner

Growing mushrooms on coffee waste and sparkling soda with left overs from the coffee cherry.

Vision

Our vision is to create a holistic coffee roastery.

Simply NoWaste

Simply is a FoodTech company with a focus on upcycling residue products to contribute to reduce food waste.

Vision

Our vision is to contribute positively to community’s health with the products that have been overlooked and to use our resources as efficient as possible and reduce food waste so there will be still a green future for our children and the genrations to come.

Cirkulär

Cheese production is tremendously resource-inefficient. For every kilogram of cheese produced, the cheesemaker must process 10 liters of milk. The reason for this is that cheese is effectively a milk concentrate, whereby liquids are removed, and milk protein and fat is concentrated and formed into a curd. Consider then the fact that around 45% of all milk produced globally is used for cheese production and the massive impact of cheese on the environment becomes obvious.

Vision

Cirkulär AB will be a new player in the value chain of the dairy industry, providing a complementary raw material for dairy processing – microbially produced milk proteins for a more resource-efficient industry. Cirkulär AB and similar companies will be the new producers of milk components for the production dairy products, which will ease the pressure of current milk production on the environment.

MR Gourmet Consult

V Heads

Helios Innovation

Swebol Biotech

Roots of Malmö

Sodalicious

Aloba Foods

DiaPure

Green Banana

We will manufacture good and tasty food that easily can compete with equivalent non-plant based products. We will also distribute plant based products, our own and others, in new ways to enable rural consumers to get the latest from within the plant based market.

Vision

This company will initially work within two business units, development and manufacturing of plant based food, and, distribution of plant based products to rural towns and villages.

Our motto is “We have a mission – plant based food should be tasty, nutritional and available to all”.

O´Broth