A community shaping the future of food

Mr Gourmet

Mats Rodenstam runs the catering company Mr Gourmet in Siriushuset in Ystad. Together with his colleagues, he offers catering, either in his own banquet hall or at the customers’ homes.

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.

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.

Purewell

Innovative beverage producer that focuses on functional beverages with a clean label and without added sweeteners.

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.

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.

Hummusson

Hummusson is a green place (literally – it’s full of plants) and a sustainable business. We are Plastic-, cash-, and paper free and we use nothing but 100% recycled and recyclable materials.

We work with the famous chickpea that we make our hummus from, paired with beans and vegetables, and we take special diets and allergies very seriously. We care about animals’ welfare and wellbeing, and are proud to join local and global efforts contributing to a sustainable environment and life on planet Earth.

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

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.

Greenleaf Medical

Greenleaf Medical AB is a Swedish research and development company, which develops and sells natural ingredients with well-documented health benefits on the global nutraceutical market. The safety and efficacy of the products is granted through research at leading international universities and research groups. The products are sold and marketed by leading distribution partners world-wide, both as functional foods/drinks and dietary supplements.

Our vision is to become a leading global supplier of premium nutraceutical products, thereby improving the life of millions of people worldwide.

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.

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.

Mylla Mat

Mylla Mat is linking food producers directly with consumers.

The mission is to, together with like-minded people, drive a local food revolution. We will make it easer for people to eat more locally produced food and recreate the relationship between those who eat the food and those who produce it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

Pettersson & Munthe

We offer creative and innovative products where raw materials, taste and quality are in focus. A product line of tea-based drinks that are suitable for food, mingling and festivities for not only the Swedish, but also the international market.

Yofix Probiotics

Yofix Produces Clean-Label, Waste-Free, Dairy alternatives. They answer 5 UN-defined SDGs., including reduction of Carbon footprint by 75%. It is quite hard to achieve a plant based yogurt or cheese without the chemical additives that mimic Milk unique characteristics. Yofix has managed to find the right technology (IP pending) to work this out!

The company aims to bring affordable solutions for enhancement of our healthy life style, while sustaining a healthier planet for future generations.

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.

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.

Stockeld Dreamery

Stockeld Dreamery was founded in 2019 by entrepreneur Sorosh Tavakoli and food scientist Anja Leissner in Stockholm, Sweden.

Stockeld’s vision is to create a cheese without cow’s dairy that is superior in taste and nutrition, constantly striving to use our planet’s resources wisely, accessible to all yet one of the top preferred cheeses by chefs and restaurants. Simply put, the world’s most ambitious cheese.

The company is backed by investors such as Astanor Ventures, Northzone, Inventure, Creandum, Eurazeo, Gullspång Re:food, and Norrsken VC.

Good Idea

Good Idea is a functional wellness drink made to taste great while helping you harness your natural energy so you can feel good all day without any sugar or caffeine.

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.

AppFood Technology

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

Aloba Foods

Aloba is a plant based food concept that combines both taste and health with selected Nordic ingredients as a base, including algae, oats and barley.

Sustainable and healthy, Nordic ingredients from land and sea – and above all a dining experience beyond the ordinary.

Melzer scandinavia

In a world dominated by beverages born in a lab from chemical compounds and sold off as ”natural flavors”, we have chosen a different path. Our heart lies in true natural flavors and going beyond norms and rules to create a unique and personal experience.
Our journey has just begone and there’s a world of flavors to explore. 

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).

Casheury

Casheury are a small vegan creamery based in the south of Sweden with the dream of creating a valid alternative to cheese able to contribute positively to the change in the food habits and the food production that our planet urges us to make.

All our cheezes are free from dairy, lactose, gluten or soy and without any thickeners, gums or artificial preservatives.

Re:meat

We’re Re:meat – Sweden’s first cultivated meat company. We’re on a mission to help save our planet by redefining how meat ends up on our plates. Why? Because food holds many of the most powerful solutions to the climate crisis. Cultivated meat has the potential to lower climate footprint compared to conventional meat with 92%. Cultivated meat is real meat – just made in a different way.

As a team we are deeply impact-driven and love food. Our core values are sustainability, affordability, and great taste – guiding us in every decision we make. We have the vision to build up local large scale production of cultivated minced meat for food businesses to significantly reduce their climate footprint.

Comfoo

Comfoo simplifies your everyday life with complete nutritious meals – wherever and whenever you want. Comfoo is a healthy and easy alternative for you who want to be able to cook & eat quickly.

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.

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

Vaquita Technologies

We are developing a new sustainable technology that measures the levels of toxicity and pollution of water reservoirs in all areas around you, 24/7. Our goal is to make the planet, better for everyone, starting from today.

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.

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.

WellBeMed

We develop and sell functional food products consisting of a herbal mix that can help people relax and fall asleep easier.

WellBeMed was founded based on an idea for developing healthy and well documented products that can help against lifestyle-related health problems. We are active in the area of sleep, and we develop and sell food products with lemon balm that can help people fall asleep easier. Under the brand WellBeSleep, we sell bars and shots for evening use, and we are present in Sweden and the UK.

We saw a gap in the market for tasty, healthy food products that can facilitate more sleep and a more sustainable lifestyle.

Standing behind WellBeMed is a group of acclaimed experts from the Swedish food industry and academia.

Vision

• Increase quality of life for people by contributing to solutions that relieve lifestyle-related health problems.
• Healthy and available products for all to use and that are sustainable.
• Remain a responsible business.

Stacky’s

Stacky’s is a reaction to the fact that the food industry seems to be stuck in a never-ending loop to create fake meat. Which is why much of the available plant-based food has become too pricy, filled with additives and doesn’t taste like meat nor good. 

Stacky’s is smarter food, made from Swedish produce without any additives. Choose from Hot & Spicy, Smokey BBQ or our well balanced Stacky’s Original.

Oddbird international

Oddbird produce quality wines, made with traditional methods and matured for up to 12 months, and then gently liberated from alcohol in order to preserve the flavors nature intended. But liberated from alcohol does not only describe the removal of the substance. It also describes the liberation from our drinking culture. Liberation from norms and the preconceived notion that alcohol is an integral part of celebratory occasions. Liberation is the ability to chose between with or without alcohol. Liberation is a desired outcome of democratization which is exactly what we intend to do with the dinner table.

Agrodit

IO-dit provides an innovative and sustainable solution with which by capturing variables from soil and environment, customers can take decisions more easily for their crops in relation to irrigation, fertilization and sowing, among others. This saves up to 50% water consumption and increases crop productivity up to 40%, promoting sustainable food production.

SHI – Svensk hampaindustri AB

CO2-emissions, conventional plantbased protein not good for the soil. A gap between farmers and the industry in Sweden regarding hemp, ie the industry choose Chinese Hemp Seeds before Swedish. None existing foodtech for hemp, The industry prefers to set up deals and buy from ONE distributor and ONE adress. The farmers needs secured contracts. Conventional farmers faced with looming pesticide prices. Hemp: rotation crop who does not require pesticides nor irrigation, absorbing up to 20 tonnes CO2/ha.

SHI HEMP-FOODTECH-FACTORY is one of the lead players on the emerging Swedish hemp market. We position ourselfes like noone else in the industry – between the farmers and the industry. We aim to be the ”to go to company” regarding B2B sales of high quality, pesticide free EU-certified industrial hemp seeds and its fractions: raw seeds, de hulled seeds, colpressed hemp seed oil, presscake & protein powder. We enable for food innovators- and functional food brands who are highly driven by sustainability.

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.

En God Granne

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

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!

Yelte

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.

Our vision is 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.

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.

MoveByBike

Precision is key. By operating in double infrastructure, we are able to get as close to your customer as fast as possible. By streamlining the delivery flow, we push costs down giving you the possibility to cut the price at checkout and leave your customer with a feeling of satisfaction from making a sustainable choice. A classic win win.

Plate Impact

Plate Impact is a Gothenburg-based SaaS company that works to help the hotel and restaurant industry in its green transformation.

We use emissions data from leading data providers in every market where we are active, and focus on building the best applications possible.