6 Food-Tech Startup that you have to watch in 2023

There’s no doubt that 2022 has been a busy period for food start-ups, several companies have achieved some important milestones which are bound to help them grow further in 2023.

FoodTech startups have become increasingly popular in recent years, as they offer unique solutions to improve the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed.

Amoung this large industry,?there is 6 startup that you have to follow in 2023:

• Notpla:?Sustainable, compostable and even consumable packaging derived from algae.

Founded in 2014 by?Pierre-Yves Paslier?and Rodrigo Garcia, Notpla develops a brown seaweed-based plastic packaging alternative which biodegrades naturally in 4-6 weeks without releasing any microplastics.?

In 2019, the company first tested its innovation at the London Marathon. Runners were offered a kind of water or juice bubble,?the Ooho. The liquid was encapsulated in a notpla film, which was biodegradable or even edible. The concept has since been adapted for other liquids (sauces, oil, shampoo). In 2022, the group also announced its successful partnership with Just Eat, which saw it make over a million food boxes using the Notpla coating.?

• Vow?– in six week a tasty steak in your plates

Recently raised $49.2 M in Serie A funding, Vow is working to improve the quality of life for people, animals and planetary health, by reinventing food from the ground up.

The cornerstone of biology is a cell, and by starting here any requirements can be met. “By taking a new approach, we can now bypass raising animals and find tastes, flavors and textures completely new to us.”

Vow creates an authentic and tasty meat from cells, instead of breeding and killing animals. Six weeks is all it takes from a handful of cells to plating the finished meal. This is a logical and thoughtful alternative from which more people enjoy the highest quality meat.

• Umaro Foods?-?Delicious, crunchy, meaty bacon, made with protein from red seaweed.

An exclusive?formula of red algae, chickpeas, coconut and sunflower oil, Umaro’s protein has the same texture and umami flavor of conventional pork bacon, the company says. The brand’s patented extracted algae protein, UMARO?, also serves as a natural replacement for heme, the molecule that provides plant-based meat with a red color and meaty flavor.?Already available in Few restaurant in US.?

• Solynta | hybrid potato breeding

Solynta is a hybrid potato breeding company based in the Netherlands. Solynta’s Team is developing hybrid potato varieties with superior?characteristics and performance at a faster speed than traditional breeding can achieve.

The successful application of hybrid breeding allows for the use of Hybrid True Potato Seeds or HTPS. This revolution in breeding not only greatly improves the speed of product development but also offers enormous logistical and phytosanitary advantages.

• Ordinary Seafood (YC S22)?- Delicious and?healthy seafood alternatives.

“We are consumer facing biotech company using the power of plant protein and biotechnology to deliver the next generation of sustainable seafood. Their mission is to bring balance back into our food system by empowering people to make greener choices one bite at a time.”

• Solar Foods?- Less use of the earth for the same amount of food?

In September, the Finnish startup Solar Foods was selected to be a part of the European Commission's ‘strategic hydrogen economy core’ for his?Solein?protein out of thin air. It’s not a plant nor an animal, it comes from an unmodified natural, single-cell organism. It is nonetheless a completely natural protein, even though it is not grown traditionally. Solein offers infinite opportunities?for tommorrow’s nutritious, tasty and sustainable food.?Land use in the production of Solein is 20 times more efficient than in plant production and 200 times more efficient than in beef production.