Startupbootcamp FoodTech Rome

Evja is an innovative company focused on transforming agriculture through the integration of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and agronomic models. With a team of professionals experienced in electronic engineering, physics, agronomy, precision farming, machine learning, and international business development, Evja develops agri-climatic intelligence systems that empower farmers to optimize their crop cycles. The company's solutions utilize sensors to gather critical data from fields, which is then processed to assist farmers in monitoring crop health, reducing management costs, and accurately forecasting yields. By enabling farmers to produce healthier crops with a lower environmental impact, Evja is positioning itself as a leader in sustainable agricultural practices.

Babaco Market is a subscription service delivering unique, high-quality fruits and vegetables directly to consumers' homes. These products often don't meet traditional retailers' beauty standards but are perfectly edible, reducing food waste.

Founded in 2016, Mushroom Cups produces organic coffee infused with mushrooms. Its two primary products, Go Sharp and Go Fresh, aim to enhance cognitive function, boost energy levels, and minimize side effects associated with regular coffee consumption.

Hotbox Food, founded in 2016 in Maranello, Italy, addresses the common issue of delivering cold, soggy pizza by utilizing innovative engineering solutions. The company was established by a team of part-time pizzaiolos and aerospace engineers who, motivated by a personal experience, developed a specialized food storage device that maintains food at a temperature of 85°C while ensuring it remains crunchy and steam-free for up to 40 minutes during transport. This device incorporates a constant heating system, air recirculation, and a de-humidifier, which collectively enhance the quality of food delivery. Hotbox Food aims to improve customer satisfaction and elevate the food delivery industry by ensuring that hot and fragrant meals reach customers from restaurants in optimal condition. The team continues to expand and innovate, with plans to make their technology available to restaurants and delivery services globally.

Hireandbuild offers a collaborative online platform designed to streamline bidding and tendering processes. It centralizes communications, shared files, and specifications, enabling users to efficiently manage and respond to RFPs.

TrySome is an innovative online marketplace aimed at health-conscious consumers seeking products that are beneficial for both people and the planet. The platform allows users to discover and sample organic and sustainable products, offering free samples in exchange for valuable feedback. This approach mitigates the risk for consumers by enabling them to try products before making a purchase, ultimately influencing their buying decisions towards more responsibly made options. For manufacturers, TrySome facilitates smart sampling campaigns that yield authentic consumer insights at a low cost and quick turnaround. The company actively tracks conversion trends, revealing the transition from sampling to purchasing. By fostering a community dedicated to ethical brands, TrySome aims to promote responsible consumption and drive positive change in the marketplace for sustainable products.

Serket is a software company that develops recognition technology designed to assist farmers in monitoring and tracing their pigs individually and automatically using standard cameras. Their innovative system addresses animal health and food safety concerns by enabling easy documentation through pictures and videos, thereby reducing the potential for human error. This solution offers a more accessible alternative to traditional smart tagging methods, which are often too expensive for many farmers. By leveraging existing technology from other industries, Serket empowers farmers to manage their livestock more effectively and efficiently, ultimately enhancing food safety and animal welfare.

UNA Smart is a startup focused on transforming the coffee experience for on-the-go consumers. With over 38 million coffee drinkers in the United States alone, who collectively spend significant time and money purchasing coffee outside the home, UNA aims to address both convenience and environmental concerns. The company offers a portable, battery-powered coffee maker that allows users to brew high-quality coffee anywhere, without the need for an external power source. The device is complemented by an app that enables users to customize their coffee's flavor profile, track consumption, manage coffee pod inventory, and set brewing timers. UNA's eco-friendly approach includes the use of compostable coffee pods, helping to mitigate the environmental impact of disposable cups. With a team of skilled professionals and multiple international awards, UNA Smart is poised to launch its beta test as it seeks to revolutionize the coffee market.

Green Banana Food Company is a social enterprise, registered in the Netherlands & Uganda, that uses under-utilized produce and turns it into high nutrient, high value food products. They build new partnerships, and, with innovation and enterprise, they make a positive impact on your favorite meals & on small farmers. They target agro-industry & green technology sectors and provide innovative solutions. They promote the green growth innovations that enable advances in economic transition, human & social capital development, and natural resource sustainability.

Founded in 2017, Cricket One produces cricket protein powder, aiming to feed the world sustainably. It offers edible insects and cricket ingredients with low water and greenhouse gas footprints, enabling consumers to enjoy products consistent in taste, smell, texture, and nutrition.

Orthoponics specializes in sustainable urban farming solutions that empower individuals to grow their own food at home. The company employs an innovative automated farming system that integrates aquaponics, a cultivation method that relies on the symbiotic relationship between plants, microorganisms, and fish. This approach significantly reduces the use of water and fertilizers by up to 90%. Orthoponics' systems are equipped with wireless sensors connected to a mobile application, allowing users to continuously monitor plant health parameters. By combining biotechnologies and Italian design, Orthoponics aims to provide a unique and engaging experience in home food production while promoting a greener world and encouraging the practice of urban farming.

OrganizEat develops mobile applications for recipes and cooking. The company creates apps that let users save recipes from their photo gallery and from the internet, organize them in a personal recipe box, and manage a kitchen-friendly cookbook collection. The apps are designed for ease of use and are extensively tested at home to ensure a smooth user experience. The platform enables sharing, planning, exploring, and saving favorites by capturing a photo of a recipe, with the goal of helping users prepare healthy meals and reduce reliance on traditional cookbooks.

FruitsApp, SRL is an online marketplace founded in 2015 and based in Rome, Italy, designed to improve the trading process within the fruits and vegetable sector. As the first bidirectional marketplace tailored to the fresh produce industry, FruitsApp utilizes artificial intelligence to connect producers and wholesalers efficiently. The platform allows wholesalers to create accounts, list their products, and set prices, thereby enabling producers to engage with reliable buyers globally. This innovative approach addresses inefficiencies in the market, facilitating smoother transactions and enhancing accessibility for all participants in the fruits and vegetables trade.

Kiwibot develops autonomous sidewalk delivery robots designed for on-demand deliveries, including food, to operate in urban environments. The robots are designed to function completely autonomously with high efficiency and precision, enabling faster and potentially more hygienic deliveries at affordable prices. The company aims to build a sustainable robotic delivery infrastructure that can navigate closed and complex urban settings, offering dependable service for businesses and exploring applications such as advertising, mapping, and inspection.

TrakBar Inc., established in 2016 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, specializes in providing business intelligence solutions tailored for the hospitality industry, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The company's platform offers a range of tools including live data insights, weekly and monthly predictions, reports and analytics, inventory management, smart order suggestions, staff performance monitoring, and custom alerts. These features are designed to help businesses optimize their operations, make informed decisions, and enhance overall efficiency through the use of artificial intelligence and big data insights.

Founded in 2015, BiteBack Insect Oil Co. is headquartered in Malang, Indonesia. The company produces cooking oil using edible insects as a sustainable and healthy alternative to traditional oils.

Phytoponics is a company that designs and manufactures Deep Water Culture (DWC) hydroponic growing systems aimed at commercial produce growers. Its innovative systems facilitate soilless, substrate-less cultivation of nutrient-intensive vine crops, soft and exotic fruits, and high-value crops such as medical-grade cannabis. By promoting sustainable hydroponic agriculture, Phytoponics enables growers to leverage the efficiency and environmental benefits of its technology, allowing them to compete effectively with traditional growing methods in terms of cost and productivity. The company is committed to advancing sustainable agricultural practices through the global adoption of its hydroponic solutions.

Elaisian is a precision farming service dedicated to the preservation of olive trees. Utilizing a sophisticated system of algorithms informed by a comprehensive database of agronomic studies, the company monitors the health of olive farms and provides actionable insights to olive oil producers. This technology enables producers to effectively combat diseases and optimize essential cultivation processes such as irrigation and fertilization. By enhancing the life of olive trees and improving farming practices, Elaisian aims to support olive oil producers in achieving greater efficiency and productivity in their operations.

Neofarms is an aeroponic appliance, that grows your favorite greens from seed to harvest. In other words, a fully automated mini-greenhouse for private households. Our product creates a constant availability of the freshest greens, vegetables and fruits possible right in one’s own home regardless of one’s surroundings and without the need of a green thumb. The costumer can adjust the variety of food depending on his individual needs. Due to the perfect growing conditions and the possibility of harvesting right before consumption the plants are richer in vitamins and more nutritious. With Neofarms we enable our costumers to be their own farmers without getting their hands dirty. Our mission is to provide a plug & play appliance that is productive enough to enable an average family to cover its demand for salads or herbs during the whole year. We want to make homefarming as simple and common as vegetable shopping is today.

Milis Bio Limited is a biotechnology company based in Ballincollig, Ireland, that specializes in developing protein-based food additives. Founded in 2016, the company focuses on creating a sugar substitute derived from protein, aiming to provide a health-conscious alternative that satisfies sweet cravings without adverse health effects. This innovative approach addresses the demand for sweeteners that do not carry the health concerns often associated with traditional options. In addition to its sugar substitute, Milis Bio plans to expand its technology to develop other flavored proteins, including alternatives for saltiness and bitter taste blockers for pharmaceuticals.

WallFarm specializes in advanced cultivation technology for hydroponic and aeroponic systems designed to automate vertical farming. The company's flagship product, LIA, is a compact control unit that facilitates self-sufficient plant growth from seeding to harvest, accommodating a wide range of scales from small to large operations. With minimal setup—requiring only a quick connection of cables—LIA provides farmers with a user-friendly solution that eliminates the need for complex installations. The device collects vital data on air and water conditions, including temperature, pH, and irrigation metrics, enabling precise environmental control. WallFarm's technology allows for the cultivation of various crops, including durum wheat and various types of basil, even in challenging settings such as refugee homes and camps.

Evja is an innovative company focused on transforming agriculture through the integration of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and agronomic models. With a team of professionals experienced in electronic engineering, physics, agronomy, precision farming, machine learning, and international business development, Evja develops agri-climatic intelligence systems that empower farmers to optimize their crop cycles. The company's solutions utilize sensors to gather critical data from fields, which is then processed to assist farmers in monitoring crop health, reducing management costs, and accurately forecasting yields. By enabling farmers to produce healthier crops with a lower environmental impact, Evja is positioning itself as a leader in sustainable agricultural practices.