Foodtech solutions reinforcing the food system

Natural Edu AB

About 13% of all deaths on the planet and a huge number of casualties are caused by high blood pressure. One of the main facilitator of high blood pressure is sodium rich table slat. By replacing the sodium in the table salt with potassium we can witness phenomenal changes in the overall public health.

Indigo Salt is a naturopathic salt as a supplement with more than 70% KCl consistency. It is thought to be the most suitable alternative to replace the regular table salt for daily use. Indigo Salt is 100% organic, unrefined, and yet tastes much more naturally flavourful and smoother than any other regular table salt.

AppFood Technology

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

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.

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.

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.

Swebol Biotech

Swebol develops, produces and sells the Quiny-concept. Swebol is a result of a long-term research collaboration between Sweden, Bolivia and the two universities: Lund University in Lund, Sweden and UMSA, San Andes University in La Paz, Bolivia.

Quiny is a product concept made from Bolivian quinoa grown by farmers from the Chonacota community south of Las Paz in Bolivia. You can find Quiny both as drinks and as instant powder.

O´Broth

With its roots in a traditional food craft, O´broth is a new modern vegetarian drinking broth that can be drunk ”on the go”, or as a complement to a varied diet. A healthy snack with a balanced taste that only contains nutrients.

Maisha deli

Maisha has specialized in plant-based versions of some of our most beloved foods – cheese, butter and other dairy products, inspired by artisan dairy and cheese techniques. We want people to be able to eat vegan, without sacrificing good taste, quality and variety.

The ambition is to help revolutionize plant-based food to become widely available and a natural choice for everyone. In this way we support a healthy, animal-friendly and more sustainable future.

POOW The Food Hero

POOW The Food Hero is the tool which in three easy steps motivates your child to eat more and better food. The application activates and guides the whole family from cooking the food to eating it.

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.

YOGUT ME

YOGUT is the first automatic yogurt machine in the world which will enable you to make your own personalized yogurt at home, full of gut-friendly functional ingredients and free from preservatives or additives. 

BioRaptor

AI enabled data platform for Biotechnology companies. Specifically, enabling companies using precision fermentation and cell culture to supercharge their R&D process speeding up the process from science to product.

WeRefine

SourGo is a new kind of baking ingredient. Refined from food waste such as bread waste, root vegetable peels and brewery cravings, we have turned a major problem into an asset. With our refined mixers, you can produce all kinds of bakery products. The technology is based on a fermentation method we have developed after a lot of research and creative experimentation.

Sustainable Food Waste SFW

Today, the food chain doesn’t know how the shelf life of frozen and chilled food is affected by changes in temperature. To be on the safe side in the event of a temperature deviation, the food is thrown away. The innovative SFW app can, with the help of a secured database, deliver clear and up-to-date information on how a product’s shelf life has been affected by a rise in temperature. Which benefits the various players in the food chain through ensure shelf life, reduced food waste and a reduced environmental impact.

In order to meet the need for food from the global population increase, more food must be produced in the next four decades than in the last 9,000 years! At the same time as global hunger is increasing, a third of all food produced is thrown away, a large part of that fraction arises due to temperature deviations. One problem is very often the uncertainty surrounding remaining shelf life. Sustainable Food Waste SFW is a FoodTech startup that wants to contribute to a responsible and sustainable handling of tempered food with a clear vision: No food waste caused by temperature deviations!

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…

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.

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.

Veg of Lund

Veg of Lund is a Swedish company that was started in 2016 with the vision of creating plant-based climate-smart and tasty food products.

The first product is the potato drink which is now sold in Europe under the DUG® brand. Since 2020, Veg of Lund has been listed on the First North Growth Market (symbol VOLAB).

ConServ Sverige

More than 20Million take-away packages are used by restaurants in Sweden every year. The alternatives to plastic available today require a lot of chemicals in the manufacturing and require chemical barriers to resist hot liquids and greasy sauces. These chemicals can disintegrate and accumulate in our body as we consume take-away foods and get into our soil and water during incineration/ recycling. We propose a natural leaf-based solution with zero added chemicals.

Our vision is to remove chemicals altogether from food packaging. We strive to utilize the natural resources in its purest form to be truly sustainable and circular leaving behind nothing. The idea contributes to 4 of the 17 UN sustainability goals. We pledge to act as responsible producers with minimum resources and high energy efficiency. Through the business, we partner with Indian farmers and employ rural Indian women contributing to the economic development of marginal communities.

Nordic Koji Co.

Nordic Koji is a food-tech company specializing in manufacturing of natural flavoring enhancer through advanced fermentation technology. Nordic Koji’s pastes are innovative food ingredients used in professional kitchens. Our mission is to support the plant-based transition with often-lacking umami flavours.

Birka BioStorage

Birka BioStorage holds the largest BioStorage facility in Scandinavia providing pharma and medtech industries a wide range of temperature controlled storage including climate chambers for stability testing and transport services.​

BIRKA produces dry ice in different sizes to be used for transport, freezeing processes, blastering/cleaning and more, in addition to liquid nitrogen supply.​

Nixta Tacos

The current version of TacoFredag does not fulfill some of the consumer preferences. On top of that, a lot of effort is required to access products directly from small-scale farmers in Skåne. We are offering a home delivery box with authentic recipes from Mexico using fresh ingredients from local farms.

Our vision is to bridge the gap between small-scale farmers and consumers. We will accomplish it by reinventing the Tacofredag, from a mass produced product, to a curated experience.

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.

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.

Asta choklad

Asta is a sustainable vegan handmade bean to bar chocolate that is made in Southern Sweden, more precisely Höganäs. The chocolate is a single origin with perfectly fermented cocoa beans from Hacienda San Jose, a family-owned plantation in Ecuador, with a 100-year heritage. We believe in sustainability, transparency, quality and we never compromise on taste!

Our mission is to offer a vegan milk chocolate as an alternative to traditional milk chocolate. We want to create the best vegan milk chocolate without harming either people, animals or the environment. A product that is manufactured under the most ethical and sustainable conditions. Every bite is a step forward to inspire people to more sustainable actions. Empowering farmers, giving you that wow experience and doing the right thing. Let our chocolate change your view of chocolate forever!

KOASTAL

A 60% decrease in employment in the Swedish fishing industry has been identified from 2008 to 2018. Next to this, food production must double by 2050 to meet the demand. This two-folded need can be addressed by the production of seaweed has been proven to be sustainable in all three aspects of the world (economical, ecological and social). However, the current entry barriers are high with a lack of technical knowledge, the complex permit and administrative processes and the site selection.

We believe there is an urgent need for a shift in sea and ocean use. We must reconsider our approach to the sea and start exploiting its resources in a sustainable manner. Hence, we believe that sea farming of seaweed, is the solution to many environmental challenges. Therefore, we want to make sea farming of seaweed accessible to everyone. We want to lower barriers to enter the promising industry of cultivating seaweed, which provides a sustainable solution to many challenges.

DOMO Animals AB

We are experts at developing algorithms based on computer vision and animal behaviors. We offer AI services that can turn dummy cameras into intelligent assistants that look after your animals 24/7 and interpret their body language to insight reports real-timely.

OMG Plantbased food

We offer delicious, organic products made from healthy mung beans – food to excite the taste buds and win the hearts of conscious consumers. We succeed because of our customer-centric approach – ranging from the innovative products and efficient production methods to a distribution with an optimized network of resellers and strategic partners, both in Sweden and abroad. Oh Mungood products are available via grocery and convenience stores as well as restaurants.

We’re your curious explorer of natural and sustainable foods – crafting products of maximum flavour with minimum fuss. At Oh Mungood we believe that this world needs more than alarming statistics and rational arguments to drive the shift towards plant-based foods. And just like you, we’re ordinary people. Trying to juggle everyday life with our desire to eat sustainably, healthy and of course, tasty. All of this is reflected in Oh Mungood and the products we develop.

tracezilla ApS

tracezilla is a modern, digital solution designed to manage core workflows in a food company. tracezilla handles purchase, production, sales, inventory, planning, logistics, finances and quality – all in a food context.

Our mission is to make it easy – also for smaller companies – to run a professional and modern food business.

tracezilla ensures traceability and automates documentation like organic mass balance, food taxes, critical control points and all sorts of certification schemes. This saves a lot of time and reduces the risk of errors.

tracezilla’s inventory management is based on lots and dates to ensure better planning and help reduce food waste!

We want to support a diverse and sustainable food sector by making smaller companies competitive. We do this by providing an alternative to custom made ERP solutions that demand risky engagements and high investments.

Berry Lab

Berry Lab’s R&D team focuses on the inherent healthy properties of wild Nordic berries. The goal is to develop berry-based natural food products and concepts with specific and proven positive health effects on human metabolism.

Siccona

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

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

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.

The Green Dairy Sweden

We are a Swedish food company dedicated to developing tasty and convenient plant-based food products since 1989.

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.

Koepala Packaging

Koepala develop innovative packaging solutions for single portion foods. Our licensed technology helps packaging manufacturers make the shift to sustainable food packaging in an economic and efficient way.

Our team of food tech and business professionals are focused on designing innovative, sustainable and smarter packaging. We specialise in developing, testing, and licensing new food packaging solutions for the circular economy.

Our goal is to make food packaging more sustainable, while making eating out more convenient and fun than it already is.

En God Granne

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

DiaPure

DiaPure filter material is designed for Phosphorus traps in sewage systems. DiaPure is based on a naturally porous material covered in a coating with phosphorus binding properties. The material does not break down, does not clogge and works regardless of the pH level. This results in highly reactive and long lasting material.

Our goal is that as many people as possible should purify their waste water from phosphorus regardless of whether you live in areas with a high protection area or not, because it protects nature and forms a natural cycle; what previously was waste, can be of use again.

Roots of Malmö

Organic kombucha produced from whole botanical ingredients in Malmö, Sweden.

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.

Kastbergs Gourmet Ice-Cream

Kastbergs manufactures ice-cream and sorbet is gourmet quality. The finished products is sold to professional chefs in hotels, restaurants, cafées and ice-cream stores. The Kastbergs products is preferred due to its high quality, that helps the chefs keep a high quality menu.

Kastbergs is an ambitious food company, that wants to become the leading partner of ice-cream products to the food-service industry. We believe in solid craftmanship, using the best ingredients, local if possible. Moreover, do we believe in sustainability, we have an obligation to supply as much as possible locally, reduce food waste and packing in such a way, that we come a source of inspiration for others.

Nothing F!SHY

An evolution in vegetarian food. Nothing F!SHY manufacture the market’s best frozen, vegan fish substitutes.

Torsebrew Kombucha

Torsebrew kombucha is looking to change the way people drink alcohol-free with a tasty, powerful and healthy drink made from carefully selected ingredients

Gnista Spirits

Swedish Gnista was born out of the sense that these people deserve something better. Our take is dark, intense and complex – liquids that have the ability to replace alcohol when mixed in drinks. Making it possible to shake non-alcoholic cocktails that taste and look just like alcoholic ones. For real. We like to call it the next generation non-alco spirit, at all means it’s no doubt different from the rest of the subtle products on the market. Gnista is hand-made only an hour’s drive from the HQ in Malmo, and has been made possible using a unique combination of gastronomy, state-of-the-art technology and classic spirit making techniques (where distillation, brewing and barrel ageing are central).

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!

Gasporox AB

Gasporox has a highly skilled team most from the Division of Atomic Physics at Lund University, and since 2005 Gasporox has developed and commercialized the tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy technology for a number of applications in food and pharma.

The Gasporox laser based sensors can be integrated into inspection- and/or production lines for 100% fast, reliable and accurate gas measurements of the gas content inside the package or for leak testing.

Laava Tech

The most energy efficient and productive solution for indoor farming. Smart lamps, sensors, and IoT controllers manage growing process. AI powered.

Our AI solution is trained to monitor types and states of crops, to adjust physical surrounding parameters automatically such as light wavelength, pulsation, temperature, humidity, CO2 level.

ConCellae

ConCellae is a deep tech company, that promotes a unique combination of thirteen different co-working beneficial bacteria, the H13microbiome, originating in honeybees and was founded by researchers A. Vásquez and T. Olofsson from a discovery made at Lund University. ConCellae has the exclusive proprietary rights of this microbiome that possess health promoting abilities and can treat infections. Therefore, ConCellae works in three different sectors; functional food, veterinary products, and medical applications, in which this unique microbiome is the core of all ConCellae’s innovations.

ConCellaes is situated in Gantofta and it produces functional food-, beverages and veterinary products and market them through its web shop at www.doktorhonung.se. Besides this, ConCellae performs consulting services in microbiology, food hygiene and safety (as HACCP plans) and gives lectures.

Selcis BioPharma

Short Chain Fatty Acids (SCFA) are bacterial metabolites produced from fermentation products of dietary fibers and they are major mediators of differentiation, maturation, and activation of intestinal tissue and exerts potent effects on colonic mucosal functions through inhibition of inflammation.

An intestinal dysbiosis can be caused by antibiotics or poor diets, and can lead to decreased levels of SCFA´s in the gut. By improving the nutritional condition of the colon mucosa it may be possible to prevent or even alleviate some diseases. Of the biological active substances formed, the most important is butyric acid which stimulates mucosal cell proliferation, blood flow and oxygen uptake, resulting in a reduced gut permeability and influx of toxic/inflammatory substances to the circulation and may therefore decrease the risk for endotoxemia (low-grade inflammation) and associated diseases.

Selcis BioPharma is developing a technology where SCFA´s can be delivered to the colon and potentially prevent or restore gut homeostasis.

Rawstraw

Rawstraw produces 100% natural and environmental-friendly straws made of Swedish rye. Compostable, tasteless and durable– perfect for your drink and kind to the planet.

Nuts Fabriken Lund

Nuts Fabriken is a Swedish company from Lund that makes healthy vegan nut butters – for the many. Their nut butters have short ingredients lists and consists of mainly NUTS and a flavor, like the Hazelnut butter with cacao & dates or the pure Pistachio butter with Himalayan salt. They are challenging the traditional spreads and are focusing on providing healthy and tasty options of nut butters.

The vision of Nuts Fabriken is to promote health by creating modern and healthy alternatives to traditional spreads. They aim to become a big player in the food industry sector.