What excites you about the future of feed & food tech innovation?
It’s about feeding 10 billion people one day. Innovation and technology will be key to a sustainable food future, as well as supply chains efficiency. Stakeholders’ goal shall be to reduce the burden on the environment while creating efficiencies via technology that benefit farmers, the planet and consumers. This leaves a huge space for innovators to find their way and bring breakthrough innovations to the market, building new standards for our future.
Why is this Challenge & the acceleration it can provide important to the future of feed & food tech?
Such events are very important as they are a real showcase for innovators and a source of network bringing top global food, feed and agriculture tech startups together on one stage. Additionally, winning projects that will receive scientific, on-farm validation trials and expert consultations from Nutreco will definitely benefit from a strong and valuable insights from top industrial and scientific experts in the field, thus validating their solution’s relevance and accelerating their development.
What are you looking for in the pitches and business plans that will be presented in this Challenge?
At pitch stage, main points of attention for me will be:
- a clear demonstration of product’s value add
- a strong positioning on the achievable route to market
- the scalability of the business model
- main skills of the management team
What is one piece of advice you would have for participants in the Challenge?
Time is good for entrepreneurs right now in the field so my advice for them would be to be differentiated enough and very accurate regarding the unmet market need they are answering to. Also, they have to choose carefully their lead investor with whom they can build a solid relationship, this will be crucial for companies’ growth.
