Nutreco announces its Feed&Food Tech Challenge Finalists

Nutreco proudly announces the finalists for the Nutreco Feed&Food Tech Challenge (NFTC).
calendar icon 10 April 2020
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Over 110 start-ups from across the globe applied by submitting their breakthrough innovations to address critical challenges in the feed and food value chain.

The competition acknowledges the best breakthrough innovations within livestock farming, aquaculture and NFTC’s new category, alternative food proteins. From the 112 applications submitted, 15 finalists have been selected to advance to the next round of the competition:

Alternative proteins for food

Aquaculture

Livestock farming

The next phase of the competition would involve the finalists joining a three-day final event in The Netherlands, originally planned for 11-13 May 2020. Due to the exceptional global circumstances presented by Covid-19, this final event will be rescheduled to a new date in autumn 2020.

Nutreco’s Director of Venturing and NFTC jury member Joost Matthijssen comments, “We find ourselves in challenging and uncertain times due to the Covid-19 situation. However, it does not impact Nutreco’s commitment to Feeding the Future and as such, we plan to move ahead with our Challenge. Our priority is for all finalists to be able to participate in the next phase of the competition in a safe way. As a result, we have opted to postpone the final event and organise a virtual introduction with the start-ups in May.”

The final event in the Netherlands in autumn 2020 will offer a dynamic "greenhouse and pressure cooker" environment with a pitching competition and plenty of interaction with industry experts, fellow start-ups and an international jury. The new dates for the final event will be communicated in May.

Matthijssen continues, “The NFTC provides a unique opportunity for start-ups to progress their breakthrough innovations to the next stage. Throughout this competition we want to continue providing support and guidance to help finalists to progress their ideas in a safe way and to do so, we will be providing virtual mentors to help them on their journey.”

Depending on the business concept, the winner will be rewarded with a suitable scientific (on-farm) validation trial, including a validation report, and/or consulting through internal or external experts on topics critical for their business.

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