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Greencovery develops food ingredients from food-industry side streams, using separation processes to turn materials that would otherwise be discarded into functional ingredients for manufacturers.

Loads combines cross-border food commerce, logistics and working-capital finance for agricultural businesses, buyers and suppliers.

Ferm Labs develops fermentation-based flavour ingredients for food manufacturers, using fermentation science to deepen savoury taste and help reformulate products with less salt and fewer additives.

Popo Global operates The Pizza Bakery, Paris Panini and Smash Guys through company-owned restaurants in India.

Delivers prepared meals through neighborhood kitchens, targeting delivery in around ten minutes.

Biorsaf provides digital compliance software for food safety and related workplace and water-safety procedures across food businesses and consultants.

Gaia Tech develops upcycled functional ingredients for cosmetics, food and nutraceutical manufacturers. It analyzes agricultural side streams such as olive pomace, rapeseed meal and spent coffee grounds, extracts valuable compounds, then formulates and validates standardized ingredients that can be incorporated into customer products.

A beverage brand selling monk-fruit-sweetened coffee mixes and café drinks with no added sugar.

An Indian pet-nutrition brand selling food, treats and supplements for dogs and cats to pet owners through its online store and retail channels.

MOA Foodtech uses AI-guided fermentation to turn agricultural and food-processing byproducts into functional protein and ingredient products for food and pet-food manufacturers. Its models help select suitable microorganisms and process conditions for each feedstock; the company also offers custom development and modular systems for valorising starch-rich side streams.