Nutreco held the third edition of the Feed & Food Tech Challenge in 2020 as a three-day virtual event, due to the challenges of COVID-19. We saw 112 startups participate from around the globe, from 57 nationalities, and the winning innovations were eniferBio, Poultrix and Bond Pet Foods.
Finland-based biotech startup, eniferBio, has been crowned the winner of the aquaculture category for NFTC2020. eniferBio’s idea to reinvent the Pekilo process to use it to provide a sustainable new feed ingredient to the aquaculture industry impressed the jury.
In the livestock category for the NFTC2020, the jury was wowed by the data management and analytics platform showcased by Israeli startup, Poultrix. The platform aims to make livestock production more efficient, sustainable, and responsible through remote and real-time monitoring for immediate control.
The jury chose Colorado-based pet food company Bond Pet Foods to be the winner of the new NFTC2020 category alternative proteins. This startup produces high-quality cultured animal proteins through fermentation and harvests them to better meet the nutritional requirements of companion animals.
“We were impressed by the standard of breakthrough innovations throughout this competition. As the 15 finalists put their best foot forward during the pitch sessions to the jury and Nutreco colleagues around the world, we have added an audience award for the NFTC2020 Best Pitch. This award for the startup that gave the best pitch in terms of message delivery, presentation style and engagement was decided by Nutreco employees based.”
