The following companies won this year's competition for the next generation of most promising food startups:
These are the FoodNextGens 2024:
❇️ Nootz : Tassilo Schwendtke brings the tropical feeling to us with his delicious coconut smoothies. Made from high-quality organic ingredients in Sri Lanka, the smoothies are available in mango 🥭, papaya, and pineapple 🍍 flavors. All smoothies are organic, vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, and free of artificial additives.
❇️ Viva la Faba : Founders Ariana Alva Ferrari and Jan Haberzettl have developed an innovative plant-based cheese made from legumes. Their revolutionary protein platform, based on organic fabo beans, aims to transform the food industry and offer consumers high-quality, sustainable, and healthy cheese alternatives.
❇️ QISU : Javier Manrique presents a crispy snack and crouton made exclusively from 100% cheese – without any additives! This cheese-to-go is high in protein, gluten-free, and comes in 100% recyclable packaging.
❇️ RECHARGE with JUMA : The SPORTS DRINK from Carlos Lopez Granado combines the natural caffeine boost from the Guayusa leaf with electrolytes and vitamins. He has also developed a unique can with a screw cap.
❇️ Kooray : Founders Yael Hornik and Kevin Hornik make spicy curries easy with their natural, organic, 100% plant-based instant curry sauce powder. Simply add water and conjure up a delicious, restaurant-quality curry sauce in 3 minutes.
❇️ eleven ferments : Adam Mandoki launches his product portfolio of fermented foods with his Black Butter, where the nutty aroma of ghee meets the umami bombs of black garlic, shoyu and tamari sauce.
❇️ Ve: love food : Andreas Reck from Lake Constance offers modern flavors with traditional recipes. The organic products are based on local cuisine and contain only a few ingredients.
❇️ Foodasis : Ahmed El Gafarawi brings innovation to sustainable oriental cuisine. His vegan Garantita, a savory chickpea pastry, is gluten-free and made without artificial additives.
❇️ My Makery : Birgit Tantner has reimagined crispbread. Her chestnut crispbreads, made with 20% high-quality organic chestnut flour and 100% natural organic ingredients, are gluten-free, vegan, high in protein and fiber, and low in carbohydrates.
Congratulations to the nominees! We're really looking forward to the pitches! 👏 Thank you to all the startups that applied to pitch. You're all amazing! 🫶
Thanks to @seldamorina and @startup_nik , who, representing the jury, made the selection together with our partner @StartinFood . 💛 We're currently planning the FoodNextGen Pitch as part of the Foodstartup Campus on September 27, 2024, in Freising near Munich. Join us, we're looking forward to seeing you! 🤗 You can find registration and tickets HERE!
You can find more information about the participants and speakers at this year's Food Startup Campus on our Instagram channel.
(By: Philipp Schmalhofer)
