To enter the Nutreco Feed & food Tech Challenge your application needs to answer all of the following questions.

1. Technology & value proposition

What's the proposed technology and solution? How is it innovative and what's the value proposition? 

 2. Market need & business model

What problem is this solving, how is value going to be created, and for whom, who will be the customer and end user (target market)?

3. Operational & technical feasibility

What's the stage of the technology development to date? Which data/proof of concepts have been achieved? What's the roadmap until market launch? 

4. Regulatory feasibility

What's the strategy to get the products approved for (target/globals) market entry? 

5. Competitive advantage & IP

How is this technology or solution competitive to current or other solutions out there and how will this position be protected? 

6. Company & teams

What does the company look like today (year of foundation, team size, location, etc) and how's the team composition? 

7. Fit to Nutreco

What's the fit with Nutreco's business interests? What would you like to get out of your participation to this challenge?

The top 15 Startups are now in the mentoring phase, preparing to pitch to the jury at the end of June. Find out more about the selected Startups below.

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