| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.11.2022 | Vacancy: Jr. Content Marketeer at StartLife |
Is AgriFoodTech your game and building a better world your aim? Come and join StartLife’s mission to accelerate the transition to a sustainable food system. Share the stories of the world’s most promising startups with game-changing techn... |
| 27.10.2022 | Horticoop And StartLife Invest In Emerging Horticulture Technologies | The Dutch investment cooperative Horticoop has partnered up with StartLife to step up its investments in startups and scale-ups with emerging technologies for the horticulture sector. Together we want to give a significant push towards sust... |
| 27.10.2022 | Four Startups Driving Change In Food and Agriculture |
StartLife proudly support startups from all over the world that aim to solve pertinent issues in food and agriculture. We present you four promising agrifoodtech startups that are working hard to make a difference: Solmeyea, Trabotyx, All... |
| 11.10.2022 | Invest-NL and StartLife Spur Growth Of Impact-driven Agrifoodtech Startups |
Dutch impact investor Invest-NL and StartLife announced today a strategic partnership that will facilitate the development and high growth of startups and scale-ups that focus on the transition towards a sustainable, climate-neutral food ... |
| 05.10.2022 | StartLife and NoMilk2Day Connect Talents To Purpose-driven Agrifoodtech Startups |
StartLife welcomes NoMilk2Day Headhunters to its pool of program partners. NoMilk2Day is specialized in recruitment, executive search en interim management services in agrifoodtech. Together, we will connect startups, scale-ups and profes... |
| 22.09.2022 | Kraft Heinz Partners With StartLife To Tap Into Startup Innovation | Today, we welcome The Kraft Heinz Company as the latest strategic partner of StartLife. StartLife will help Kraft Heinz connect with startups and drive innovation to meet consumer expectations for taste, nutrition and the planet. The partne... |
| 08.09.2022 | StartLife Selects 9 Early-stage Startups To Revolutionize Global Food Systems |
We proudly announce the nine early-stage startups selected for our Fall 2022 accelerate program. The startups, from 8 different countries spread over 3 continents, introduce new technologies tackling big challenges in our current food sys... |
| 07.09.2022 | Martin Braun-Gruppe and StartLife Call On Startups To Disrupt The Baking Industry |
Today, we proudly announce that the Martin Braun-Gruppe, the food division of the Geschwister Oetker Beteiligungen KG, has partnered up with StartLife for an injection of innovation from foodtech startups. As one of the leading European b... |
| 03.08.2022 | Agtech startup Muddy Machines Secures €1.8M Seed Funding | Agtech startup Muddy Machines, a StartLife alumn, today announced a new round of series seed funding of 1.8M euro. The new funding will allow the company to enhance the development of its harvesting robots that support zero emissions and so... |
| 01.08.2022 | Vacancy: Innovation & Partnership Manager at StartLife |
Is AgriFoodTech your game and building a better world your aim? Do you want to drive tomorrow’s collaborations between startups and leading Food & Agriculture (F&A) corporates around the world? Do you love working with energetic f... |
| 01.07.2022 | Lidl and StartLife Introduce 10 Future Goods by Sustainable Startups |
For the third time, Lidl and StartLife have collaborated on the Lidl Future Goods. From June 30th, ten sustainable food products from mission-driven startups can be found in Lidl stores across the Netherlands. Lidl provides startups with ... |
| 30.06.2022 | Verdify Bags Another €800K To Scale Up Personalised Recipe Platform | Dutch foodtech company Verdify, a StartLife alumnus, has raised €800,000 on top of the €1.3 million seed funding the company obtained last December. Verdify will use the additional funding to accelerate the market introduction of its platfo... |
| 29.06.2022 | StartLife Arms Next Generation of Agrifoodtech Startups with Crucial Insights | On 23 June, a cohort of nine early-stage startups graduated from StartLife’s latest acceleration program and are now raring up to tackle global issues across the agrifood domain. StartLife also announced the launch of a new program: StartLi... |
| 02.06.2022 | Astanor Ventures Partners With StartLife To Help Scale Up Disruptive Agrifoodtech |
Astanor Ventures, a venture capital fund uniquely focused on supporting and scaling disruptive solutions to some of the most urgent global needs in food and agriculture, has joined the StartLife partner community. Together we will maximiz... |
| 31.05.2022 | StartLife and Box Enter Partnership To Accelerate Transformation To A Sustainable Food System |
We proudly announce our strategic partnership with Blue Ocean Xlerator (BOX). As two startup builders from the Food Valley we aim to accelerate the growth of startups that are developing sustainable innovations for the food supply chain. ... |
| 19.05.2022 | ICL Planet Joins With StartLife For Next Generation Crop and Food Innovation |
ICL, a leading global specialty minerals company, has partnered up with StartLife in its quest to invest in startups focused on new ways to address global challenges in food and agricultural production. These challenges range from increas... |
| 28.03.2022 | StartLife Welcomes Agrifoodtech Community at F&A Next 2022 |
On 18-19 May, StartLife will welcome, once again, hundreds of the world’s leading tech startups, scale-ups, investors and corporates in food & agriculture at the annual F&A Next summit at Wageningen Campus, and online. As co-found... |
| 10.03.2022 | StartLife Selects 9 Early-stage Startups Targeting Global Agrifood Challenges |
StartLife has selected nine new (very) early-stage startups to join its eighth acceleration program this spring. The startups have been selected for their promising technological solutions to tackling global agrifood challenges, including... |
| 08.03.2022 | Signature Partners With StartLife To Advance Precision Farming Tech |
Investment management company Signature has partnered with StartLife to tap into European agricultural innovation, as it aims to optimize natural resources and improve food security in Africa and other regions where the company will expan... |
| 02.03.2022 | CJ CheilJedang and StartLife Unite Korean Nutrition and European Foodtech |
Korea’s No.1 food and bio company CJ CheilJedang has partnered with StartLife to benefit from European innovations for the global market, while also expanding the worldwide presence of Korean cuisine and ingredients. For European startups... |
| 21.02.2022 | Vacancy: Startup Scout at StartLife |
Is foodtech your game and building a better world your aim? Take the next step in your career and become StartLife’s Startup Scout! In this position you will be in the lead for finding and picking Europe’s next heroes in foodtech. And wit... |
| 18.02.2022 | Co-Lab: Build A Circular Tech Startup |
There is a reason why people don’t climb Everest on their own. With a team, you can overcome obstacles that seem impossible just by yourself. Research over the past 4 decades has shown that startups that are co-founded by a team are more ... |
| 27.01.2022 | StartLife Will Again Invest Millions In Agrifoodtech Startups |
In the next few years, innovative tech startups working to make our food chain more sustainable can request subordinated loans from StartLife. The loans will vary from €75,000 to €250,000. Financing is from a new fund, Startup Fund Gelder... |
| 27.01.2022 | Plantcarb Introduces Starch with Superpowers | One in ten adults lives with diabetes and the number is rising fast. With diabetes being the world’s fastest growing chronic condition, we need to lower our sugar consumption. Jan Mousing, CEO of the agbiotech company Plantcarb, believes to... |
| 24.01.2022 | PeakBridge VC Opens Dutch Office At StartLife |
PeakBridge VC is strengthening its European presence by extending its partnership with StartLife, which includes the opening of a Peakbridge office at StartLife on Wageningen Campus. StartLife will assist PeakBridge in building a strong l... |
| 07.01.2022 | Vacature: Secretaresse bij StartLife | - |
| 16.12.2021 | Carbon Farming: A Green Revolution Driven By Satellites? | Startups paving the way for carbon farming
Food production can go hand in hand with removing CO2 from the atmosphere and fixing it in the soil, and if financial incentives are in place farmers can be encouraged to perform this carbon seque... |
| 16.12.2021 | B-Mex New Startup Tenant at Plus Ultra II |
StartLife warmly welcomes B-Mex, a StartLife startup and WUR spin-off, into the startup offices at Plus Ultra II. The company is specialized in making crop models that provide growers and farmers with valuable insights and help optimize t... |
| 13.12.2021 | Verdify Raises €1.3M To Scale Its Swapmeals Platform For Personalized Recipes |
Startlife alumnus Verdify has raised €1.3 million financing from Brightlands Venture Partners, Joles and the company’s founders. The investment will be used by Verdify to scale up its Swapmeals recipe platform that enables consumers to ge... |
| 10.12.2021 | StartLife Launches Job Portal for Agrifoodtech Startups |
At StartLife, we continuously explore new opportunities that will help our agrifoodtech startups accelerate their business. To help our growing startups attract new talents, StartLife has launched a job portal for all our portfolio compan... |
| 06.12.2021 | Hudson River Biotechnology Partners Up To Optimize Plant Breeding With CRISPR |
Hudson River Biotechnology (HRB), a Wageningen-based agricultural biotechnology company, and Computomics, a Tübingen-based bioinformatics company, announced to start offering an end-to-end solution using CRISPR-based gene editing for nove... |
| 03.12.2021 | Online Graduation of StartLife’s Fall 2021 Cohort |
On December 9th, nine early-stage agrifoodtech startups will conclude the StartLife Accelerate Fall 2021 program with an online presentation to a wide and global audience of investors, corporates, partners and other agrifood enthusiasts. ... |
| 18.11.2021 | Bioventure Sundew Acquires MicroSynbiotiX And Completes €1.4M Funding |
Sundew, a Dutch-Danish biotech startup focused on combating aquatic pests, diseases and invasive species, announced today the acquisition of MicroSynbiotiX in an all-share transaction. The addition of the algal RNA platform and pipeline a... |
| 08.11.2021 | Biotech startup Scope Biosciences Attracts €1M Funding For CRISPR-diagnostic Platform |
Scope Biosciences, a Wageningen University & Research spin-off and a StartLife portfolio company, announced to have raised an investment of €1M. The funding is provided by GenDx, a global leader in molecular diagnostic laboratory solu... |
| 28.10.2021 | Microalgae Milk Pioneer Sophie’s Bionutrients Sets Ground in Wageningen |
Singapore-based Sophie’s Bionutrients introduced the world’s first milk alternative made from protein-rich microalgae earlier this year. With the support of StartLife, CEO and co-founder Eugene Wang now aims to shift the business to the N... |
| 28.10.2021 | These Foodtech Startups Successfully Recruited Their Seasoned Mentors |
It’s widely known that startups benefit from advice and guidance by experienced entrepreneurs and professionals. Sometimes the spark between a mentor and his mentee light up to such extent that the mentor ends up being recruited by the st... |
| 27.10.2021 | 4 Tips To Obtain A Patent For Your Agrifood Startup At Minimum Cost |
You may have developed a new harvesting technology, or an improved production method. Or maybe a synergistic combination of ingredients, or a better packaging. Filing a patent application appears the way to go, in order to add value to yo... |
| 18.10.2021 | Muddy Machines Demonstrates Green Asparagus Harvesting Robot |
Today, Muddy Machines, a UK agtech startup, announced that they have successfully developed a prototype robotic harvester for green asparagus, which they’ve named “Sprout”. Working closely with Cobrey Farms, the largest asparagus grower i... |
| 14.10.2021 | Plant-E Receives €2.5M EU Grant for Development of Plant-powered Sensors |
Wageningen-based company Plant-e was awarded a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC). The grant was awarded for the further development of sensor applications that are powered by living plants. The EIC grant is the... |
| 14.10.2021 | Orbisk Secures €2.4M In European Grant Funding |
Today, food waste fighter Orbisk announced to be have received €2.4 million from the European Commission’s European Innovation Council (EIC). The company will use the funding for scaling up their business internationally and further enhan... |
| 13.10.2021 | StartLife’s New Neighbors: Fuji Oil Global Innovation Center Europe |
StartLife welcomes Fuji Oil Global Innovation Center Europe to Plus Ultra II, the multi-tenant complex and incubator on Wageningen Campus. It’s Fuji Oil’s first research center to open in Europe and will promote open innovation.
The Fuji... |
| 12.10.2021 | InsectSense Wins Topsector Horticulture Innovation Prize 2021 |
Last week, Aria Samimi and his InsectSense team won the Topsector Horticulture Innovation Prize 2021. InsectSense received the award for its biosensor that integrates the smelling abilities of bees to detect plant diseases.
The jury said... |
| 11.10.2021 | StartLife Joins FoodTech 500 By Forward Fooding |
StartLife proudly supports the 2021 edition of FoodTech 500, the ‘Fortune 500’ of the FoodTech sector, an initiative by Forward Fooding. Together we will uncover the most promising and positive FoodTech disruptors of 2021. AgriFoodtech co... |
| 06.10.2021 | NIZO And StartLife Join Forces: Innovating Together For Better Food And Health |
Today, NIZO, a Contract Research Organization in Food and Health, and StartLife announced that they have entered into a strategic and operational partnership to support food and agtech startups shaping a sustainable food system. Thanks to... |
| 09.09.2021 | StartLife Picks 9 Startups Building Toward Sustainable Agriculture |
StartLife has selected nine new early-stage startups to join its seventh acceleration program this fall. The startups have been selected for their promising technological solutions that are designed to fix issues like food waste, pollutio... |
| 09.09.2021 | StartLife Welcomes FUMI Ingredients To Startup Office |
StartLife, Kadans Science Partner and Wageningen Campus are excited to welcome FUMI Ingredients to the startup community located in Plus Ultra II, the newest multi-tenant building on Wageningen Campus. FUMI Ingredient is moving into one o... |
| 08.09.2021 | Future Food Fund and StartLife: Elevating Game-changing Agrifood Startups |
Future Food Fund, a Dutch seed capital fund with a focus on innovative agricultural and food technologies, announced today that they have joined forces with StartLife. The partners will utilize each other’s expertise and global network to... |
| 25.08.2021 | Food Waste Monitor Orbisk Raises €1.05M Seed Funding |
StartLife alumnus Orbisk has successfully raised €1.05M seed funding for its fully automated food waste monitor for hospitality organizations. Orbisk will use the funding to further its R&D and go-to-market efforts and advance towards... |
| 24.08.2021 | WUR Remains Best Agricultural University Worldwide | For the fifth time in a row, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is ranked as the best agricultural university worldwide, according to the 2021 edition of the Shanghai Ranking. In addition to the number one position in agricultural s... |
| 17.08.2021 | Vacancy: Foodtech Startup Scout at StartLife |
Is foodtech your game and building a better world your aim? Take the next step in your career and become StartLife’s Foodtech Startup Scout! In this position you will be in the lead for finding and picking Europe’s next heroes in foodtech... |
| 17.08.2021 | Vacancy: Program Coordinator at StartLife | Do you love startups and want to contribute to building a sustainable food system? Moreover, is multitasking your second nature? Then join the StartLife team as a program coordinator and be our spider in the web.
As program coordinator, yo... |
| 06.08.2021 | Crop CRISPR Startup Hudson River Biotechnology Raises €5M Series A Funding | The Dutch agricultural biotech company Hudson River Biotechnology (HRB), a StartLife alumnus, has raised 5 million euro in Series A funding. The company focuses on CRISPR-based genome editing in plants. The raised investment – which consist... |
| 06.07.2021 | Time-travelling Milkman Receives €550K Investment For Plant-based Dairy Fat |
Time-travelling Milkman (TTM), a spin-off of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and StartLife alumnus, develops creamy, healthy and sustainable fat ingredients for improving the texture and acceptability of dairy alternatives. Wit... |
| 01.07.2021 | Call For Startups That Accelerate Sustainable Innovations In Horticulture |
Is your startup working on a game-changing technology that will accelerate circular agriculture, climate-neutral horticulture, improve the health & safety of food or sustainable water consumption in horticulture? Then you are an ideal... |
| 01.07.2021 | Future Of Food Texture Challenge: Givaudan’s Call For Startups |
Givaudan, global leader in flavors and natural food ingredients and one of StartLife’s corporate partners, is committed to fast-track market access and innovation for foodtech startups. Together with StartLife, Givaudan is calling for sta... |
| 30.06.2021 | Anterra Capital Announces Initial Closing of Second Agrifoodtech Fund at $175M |
Anterra Capital , the international agrifood VC firm and investor partner of StartLife, announced the initial closing of its second food and agriculture technology fund, Anterra F&A Ventures II. With $175 million they exceeded the tar... |
| 24.06.2021 | StartLife Links Agrifirm To Innovative Agrifoodtech Startups |
Today, at the biannual graduation day of StartLife, it was announced that the agrifoodtech startup accelerator teams up with Royal Agrifirm Group. The Wageningen University & Research (WUR) affiliated startup accelerator will support ... |
| 21.06.2021 | Discover Why These Agrifoodtech Startups Will Change The Future Of Food |
On June 24th, major players in the agrifood industry are directing their eyes on seven early phase startups that will showcase their novel agrifood technologies on the closing of StartLife’s acceleration program. The startups serve the fo... |
| 17.06.2021 | Asian Dairy Giant Yili Partners Up With StartLife To Connect To Visionary Ag & Food Startups |
Yili, Asia’s biggest and fast-growing dairy company, is now officially partnering with the agrifoodtech accelerator StartLife. Through the partnership Yili strengthens its access to a very large ecosystem of innovative agriculture and hea... |
| 08.06.2021 | Pymwymic And WUR Join Forces In Healthy Food Systems Impact Fund II | - |
| 01.06.2021 | Inside The Mind Of A Venture Capitalist: A Quick Guide To Raising Smart Capital Effectively |
Many early-stage startup founders, especially first-timers, have very limited experience in interacting with venture capital investors (VCs). Consequently, venture capital is seen as a “black box”, largely due to a lack of insight into ho... |
| 01.06.2021 | Nutrileads: How One Health Ingredients Innovator Navigated The Investor Landscape |
Hitting the sweet spot between pharma and nutrition isn’t easy. How did the health ingredients innovator Nutrileads successfully navigate its way through the fundraising labyrinth? We’ll take you through the highs and lows of NutriLeads’ ... |
| 31.05.2021 | Yield Lab Europe Expands Agrifood Fund And Partners Up With StartLife |
The Yield Lab Europe has announced almost €50 million at second close for its sustainable agrifoodtech venture capital fund, investing in seed- to Series A-stage companies in Europe. They will also open an office on Wageningen Campus as p... |
| 26.05.2021 | Surfix’s Biophotonic Diagnostic Platform Attracts €8.5M Investment |
Surfix announces an investment of €8.5M by a Dutch consortium consisting of Lionix International, Qurin Diagnostics, Photondelta and Oost NL. Surfix will use the investment to accelerate the development of its plug-and-play diagnostics pl... |
| 21.05.2021 | PHYSEE (Par+) Closes Series A With €8M Total |
PHYSEE concluded its Series A investment round by raising another 4 million euro. The company has now raised in total 8 million euro in growth capital to fund the European roll-out of its smart and sustainable building platform SENSE and ... |
| 17.05.2021 | Free Research Capacity: Wageningen Student Projects |
Innovative ideas do not always lead to completely developed projects, due to lack of time and / or creative energy. Students of Wageningen University & Research may offer a solution to this problem. In different courses, BSc and MSc s... |
| 29.04.2021 | Döhler Ventures and StartLife Boosting Healthy Nutrition Innovation |
Early-stage venture capital firm Döhler Ventures and StartLife announced today that they extend their running strategic partnership for another three years. The partnership is aimed at supporting startups that apply innovative technologie... |
| 29.04.2021 | How Do Agrifoodtech Startups Measure Their Impact? |
As one of Europe’s leading agrifoodtech accelerators, StartLife supports startups shaping a sustainable food system. Loet Rammelsberg, StartLife’s Program Director, did a quick study and analysis of what the Sustainable Development Goals ... |
| 28.04.2021 | StartLife Welcomes Time-travelling Milkman And Innogusto In Startup Offices |
StartLife alumnus Time-travelling Milkman and Innogusto have joined the startup community located in Plus Ultra II, the newest multi-tenant building on Wageningen Campus. The two startups recently moved into one of the spaces dedicated to... |
| 26.04.2021 | StartLife Partners With Leading Agricultural Manufacturer, Kubota |
Kubota, the world’s leading agricultural manufacturer, has partnered with StartLife. By joining forces, the two organizations will work to identify challenges facing the agriculture sector, brainstorm new ideas and facilitate the exchange... |
| 22.04.2021 | Icos Capital and StartLife Unite Forces In Building Agrifood Scale-ups |
Icos Capital, a market-leading collaborative venture capital firm, has joined StartLife as investor partner. The partnership will see Icos Capital tap into StartLife’s sizable ecosystem while addressing the needs of agrifoodtech startups ... |
| 20.04.2021 | F&A Next 2021: Impact of Innovation |
On 26 May, StartLife and partners welcome the world’s leading tech startups, scale-ups, investors and corporates in food & agriculture at the annual F&A Next summit. In addition to the opportunity to virtually meet and greet all t... |
| 16.03.2021 | Cricket and Grasshopper Meat Producer Burgs Foods Is Served Funding |
Burgs Foods, a young Dutch insect-based food producer, has raised funding from early-stage venture capitalist Unknown Group. The funding is to aid Burgs Foods in its goal for every European to eat at least one meal per week made of insect... |
| 11.03.2021 | Meet These 8 New Impact-driven Agrifoodtech Startups |
In April, StartLife welcomes its sixth cohort of startups that help build a future-proof food ecosystem. The selected startups introduce novel technologies and solutions including 3D food printing, computational designed enzymes, botanica... |
| 11.03.2021 | Meet These 7 New Impact-driven Agrifoodtech Startups |
In April, StartLife welcomes its sixth cohort of startups that help build a future-proof food ecosystem. The selected startups introduce novel technologies and solutions including computational designed enzymes, botanical biopesticide and... |
| 10.03.2021 | 6 Do’s And Don’ts In Startup Mentorship |
Behind every successful entrepreneur, you can be sure to find one, if not many, invaluable business mentors who shepherded them along the way. Mentors can do wonders for you and your startup, but there are rules of engagement to be taken ... |
| 09.03.2021 | Meet Your Mentor – Matchmaking Event |
On Tuesday 20 April, we are organizing a virtual matchmaking event for StartLife’s affiliated agrifood startups that are interested in a mentorship with one, or more, of our startup mentors. Seats are limited, so make sure to sign up fast... |
| 24.02.2021 | Ellipsis Drive Raises €1.9M For Its Spatial Data-Sharing Platform |
Ellipsis Drive, a provider of a plug-and-play solution for using, sharing, and selling spatial data, announced today its seed round funding of €1.9 million. This funding round was led by Promus Ventures, through its Luxembourg based space... |
| 10.02.2021 | Rival Foods Partners Up to Develop Juicy Whole-cut Plant-based Chicken |
Rival Foods, a Dutch gastronomy startup that produces whole-cuts of plant-based meat, announced a partnership with LIVEKINDLY Collective that aims to fasten the development of a perfect plant-based chicken, bringing a tasty and sustainabl... |
| 28.01.2021 | Trends in The Agrifoodtech Startup Climate |
Joar Nilssen is StartLife’s startup analyst. He is responsible for scouting and analyzing agtech and biotech startups. Each year, he meets hundreds of innovative startups and quickly discovers changing patterns and movements in the agrifo... |
| 27.01.2021 | StartLife And Pymwymic Facilitating Growth Of Disruptive Agrifoodtech Startups |
Worldwide the food supply chain is in dire need of innovations that aid the transition to a healthier and sustainable food system. Agrifoodtech startups with high potential solutions are now given an extra hand to get from pre-revenue sta... |
| 29.12.2020 | Startups Rescue Food In Times Of Corona | Agrifoodtech accelerator StartLife helps helps food startups turning food waste into new business with Robin Food project.
Annual revenues in the food service market are expected to plummet to 50% this year. At the same time food surpluses... |
| 17.12.2020 | Highlights of StartLife’s Jubilee Graduation Day | On 9 December we welcomed hundreds of members of our global F&A community to our Jubilee Graduation Day. We celebrated the graduation of nine startups of the StartLife Accelerate Fall 2020 cohort as well as 10-years of StartLife. In cas... |
| 09.11.2020 | Anterra Capital Strengthens Ties with StartLife As Investor Partner |
Anterra Capital, one of largest dedicated agrifoodtech venture capital firms in the world and a pioneer in the sector, has entered into an investor partnership with StartLife. Together we will back entrepreneurs who are building a healthi... |
| 29.10.2020 | Join StartLife’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration |
On 9 December we will celebrate StartLife’s 10 year anniversary in combination with the graduation of the fifth group of startups of our renowned acceleration program. We cordially invite our entire F&A community to join our virtual J... |
| 29.10.2020 | StartLife Alumni Updates – October 2020 | Brief updates from StartLife Alumni and Community members.
A malaria-free world? The chances of pulling off this immense mission have taken a great leap forward. The Wageningen-based company InCare Trading company has developed and teste... |
| 28.10.2020 | Shift Invest and StartLife Prolong Impact-driven Investment Partnership |
Tech startups which help make the agrifood value chain more sustainable can rely another three years on the strategic partnership between StartLife and SHIFT Invest, the largest seed and early-stage impact investor for agrifood, biobased ... |
| 15.10.2020 | Citrosuco And StartLife On Joint Quest To Make Juice Industry Fully Sustainable | Today, the Brazilian juice giant Citrosuco announces a strategic partnership with StartLife. The company has teamed up with the StartLife to gain better access to European startups, in particular those with new technologies that can help th... |
| 14.10.2020 | Viroteq Attracts Funding To Build Smart Stacking and Packaging Robot Software |
Efficiently stack packages and objects of different sizes? With the intelligent on-the-fly mixed palletizer software that can make robots deal with flexible situations in a smarter way, this becomes a breeze. Viroteq makes grateful and ef... |
| 13.10.2020 | CES Unveiled Conference: Tech Solutions for Global Challenges |
How do we provide technology solutions to global challenges? Think along and participate in the online event CES Unveiled Conference: ‘Tech Solutions for Global Challenges’ on 15 October.
The conference is about ‘The Power of Technology ... |
| 13.10.2020 | Verdify Raises €750k To Create First AI-powered Platform For Personalized Nutrition |
The Dutch Foodtech company Verdify, a StartLife alumni, has raised a seed investment of €750.000. Two private investors and AI-investment company Genzai enable the development of the world’s first AI-powered platform for fully personalize... |
| 23.09.2020 | Grain Improvers Settles In Wageningen | With support of StartLife and Oost NL the Grain Improvers company has settled in Wageningen. The founders of Grain Improvers have many years of experience in the flour and baking market and have developed patented natural enzymes based grai... |
| 23.09.2020 | Russian Grain Improvers Spinning Out To Wageningen | With support of StartLife and Oost NL the Russian company Grain Improvers has settled in Wageningen. The founders of Grain Improvers have many years of experience in the Russian flour and baking market and have developed patented natural en... |
| 22.09.2020 | Bioventure Sundew Raises €1.4M In Seed Financing | Sundew, an innovative bioventure targeting aquatic pests and diseases, has received €1.34 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s BioInnovation Institute, bringing its total funding raised to date to €1.4M. This funding will allow Sundew... |
| 10.09.2020 | StartLife Alumni Updates – September 2020 | Brief updates from StartLife Alumni and Community members.
On a global scale, a mind-boggling amount of 1.3 billion tons (1.300.000.000.000 kgs) of food goes to waste, every single year. Food waste fighter Orbisk has just secured a EUR 1... |
| 10.09.2020 | StartLife Selects 9 European Startups That Help Reshape The Food Industry |
We have selected nine European startups for our Fall 2020 cohort. The startups are introducing new technologies that tackle global challenges such as diminishing food waste, boosting sustainable production and enhancing productivity. In t... |
| 10.09.2020 | Interview: Why Every Startup Needs A Mentor | The success of a startup depends on a mixture of skills, hard work, perseverance, a bit of luck and the right support. At StartLife we believe that startup mentors are truly an invaluable resource to help getting your dreams off the ground.... |
| 09.09.2020 | StartLife Takes Startup Branding To Next Level With HLO Branding Agency |
StartLife is excited to announce a new partnership with HLO Branding Agency aimed at helping young agrifood brands to grow and stand out from the crowd.
Startups have loads of great ideas for innovative products and services, but it can ... |
| 09.09.2020 | Normec Foodcare Joins StartLife for Aiding FoodTech Startups | StartLife and Normec Foodcare have joined forces to help innovative food(tech) startups get their impactful food products and technologies faster to market. By making highly specialized food compliance knowledge and services more and more e... |
| 08.09.2020 | What Lidl And Food Startups Learned From Second Future Goods Week |
Last July Lidl and StartLife jointly organized the second Future Goods Week. Six sustainable food products from promising startups were made available in all Lidl stores in the Netherlands. What are the lessons learned? Are consumers trul... |
