Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley

Valley partner Upgrain has inaugurated Europe’s largest upcycling facility — right here in Switzerland! 🎉 🇨🇭Last week upgrain, together with their strategic partner Brauerei Locher AG, celebrated the grand opening of Europe’s largest food upcycling facility in Appenzell. 🔃 The new facility will enable the team to upcycle byproducts from breweries into high-quality, nutritious ingredients — helping to create a circular economy 👏 🤩 Every year, the facility will transform 25,000 tonnes of spent grain into valuable protein and fibre ingredients. 🎤 Commenting on the development, Upgrain CEO Vincent Vida said: "We aim to establish spent grain as a valuable resource in global food production, making a positive contribution to reducing CO₂ emissions and conserving our natural resources. Thanks to the industrial scalability of our upcycling technology, our facility can be immediately implemented anywhere in the world." Congratulations to Vincent Vida, William Pyndt Beiskjær, Pia von Lepel, Lara Stojanovic and the whole Upgrain team! #Upcycling #Sustainability #FoodInnovation #CircularEconomy #FoodWaste IMCD Group Ceresal GmbH IMPAG Group DKSH ABS FOOD Kreglinger Europe NV BLACK FOREST GRAIN GmbH Nestlé

Valley partner revyve has opened their first commercial production plant 🎉🚀 🤩 The plant in Dinteloord has the capacity to produce 300 tonnes of yeast protein annually - an output equivalent to that of 80,000 laying hens!    🏭 To celebrate this milestone, the team invited partners, customers, investors and policymakers to take a tour of the facility.   👨🍳 Attendees were treated to an unforgettable eight-course culinary experience led by renowned chef Wim Ballieu, showcasing the versatility of revyve's ingredients — from plant-based meatballs and a mushroom burger to a cinnamon roll and a classic pesto sauce with a twist.    🌍 revyve is now ready to supply food manufacturers across Europe, North America, and beyond with clean-label, animal-free functional ingredients!    A huge congrats to Cedric Verstraeten, Jordania Valentim, Andrea Brillembourg and the whole revyve team! 👏👏👏 #Yeast #Plantbased #Sustainablefood #FoodInnovation #Foodmanufacturing Wim Ballieu 📸 Photo credits: Hilde Lenaerts

Valley partner Planted will open another production site to meet growing European demand 🇪🇺🎉 🥩🔥 The new state-of-the-art site in Stadt Memmingen in southern Germany will respond to 'unprecedented demand' for their recently launched planted.steak. 🚀 Opening in early 2025, the site will produce over 20 tonnes of plant-based meat daily in the medium term and set a new standard in green technology by using only renewable sources 👏👏👏 🎤 Commenting on the development, Planted Co-founder Lukas Böni said: “We are proud to be one of the few innovators of plant-based meat who covers as many steps as possible in the value chain - from research and development to industrial production. This depth of value creation allows us to develop our vision of better proteins even more strongly” We’re thrilled to see one of our Swiss startup stars expanding and scaling their impact across Europe so rapidly! 🇨🇭⭐️ Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/e6_HesJr #scaleup #betterproteins #innovation #europe #futureoffood

Let us give you a flavour of the Wonders of Taste and Valley After Hours event hosted at Valley partner Givaudan this week... Ecosystem friends from near and far came together to network, learn and get inspired 💡 🔮 The event's keynote speaker, Sara Diaz, Global Marketing Manager for Culinary at Givaudan, reminded us that we will shape the future of food through the opportunities we spot today. 🍽 Her presentation shared some of the learnings spotted through Givaudan's AI-driven Customer Foresight futurescaping platform, exploring the signals and drivers of change that will define what we eat and drink in years to come. 🚀 The panel discussion with investors unpacked valuable insight into how startups can prepare to get maximum value out of an acceleration programme and flagged the importance of jumping regulatory hurdles early on. Thank you to... 🙌 our Valley Partners MassChallenge Switzerland and Givaudan - Taste & Wellbeing for teaming up with us to co-host the second successful edition of this popular event 😋 new Valley partners Saya Suka - Synbiotic Water and Foodflows for letting us taste their delicious beverages 🎤 fellow partners Actidot and CleanGreens Solutions SA for sharing the latest on their innovations in the pitching sessions. Matthew Lashmar Nicolas Meneses Alexandre Bastos Fabio Campanile Christina Senn-Jakobsen Bruno Cheval Jordania Valentim Katarzyna (Kash) Winek, MBA

📣 SFNV has partnered with the Igeho to accelerate foodtech innovation in the food service sector 📣 The Igeho - Internationale Plattform für Hotellerie, Gastronomie, Take-away und Care is a leading biennial Swiss trade show that brings together colleagues from across the catering, hotel, take-away and care sectors. 🏆 In 2023, the Igeho team launched the Rising Star Award to celebrate founders and start-ups driving innovation — and Valley partner EggField won the Jury prize. 👏 ⭐️ In 2025, we'll be teaming up with the Igeho team to enable a focus on the role of food tech in the future of the food services sector - including supporting the 2025 edition of the Rising Star Award. 🍽 As our CEO, Christina Senn-Jakobsen set out in her recent Edition Salz & Pfeffer AG article (https://lnkd.in/eAieAdDp), we believe that the food service sector has a vital role to play in making healthier and more sustainable diets more accessible and enjoyable... 🇨🇭...so we're thrilled to announce this collaboration that will further strengthen Switzerland's contribution in this important space. More to come...! 👀 Marie-France Watson, CED, DES Pascal Bieri Christine Schäfer

🏆 The TOP 100 Swiss Startups 🏆 The results are in! 👇 Big congrats to the Valley partner winners... 💡 The startups Planted (4) Voltiris (6) Luya (26) Food Brewer (36) Cultivated Biosciences (61) sallea (79) 🚀 The scaleups Ecorobotix 💚 Public vote - FoodTech KIDEMIS ...and all startups and scaleups that are working so tirelessly to create future-proof food systems, each and every day. 👏👏👏👏 Thanks Stefan Steiner and Jordi Montserrat from Venturelab for another great edition! 🙏 #TOP100SSU Innovaud Vaud Promotion Gebert Rüf Stiftung Walder Wyss Ltd. HANDELSZEITUNG PME Startupticker.ch Venturelab Venture Kick IFJ - Startup Support Raphaël Conz Carole A.

How can Switzerland continue to adapt to an increasingly competitive global environment and maintain its innovation momentum? 🇨🇭🌍 Last week, our friends at Invest in Switzerland / Switzerland Global Enterprise brought together Switzerland’s Investment Promotion community at their annual Investment Summit 2024 at CAMPUS SURSEE to explore possible answers to this question. The event connected S-GE’s Global Network of Swiss Business Hubs with cantonal and regional investment promotion agencies. Discussions covered a broad range of topics, including how success stories can help to make Switzerland’s credentials as a top location for business and innovation tangible. 📣 Congratulations to the whole S-GE team for uniting #TeamSwitzerland  and enabling collaboration across the ecosystem in such a positive way! 👏 We’re most definitely #strongertogether! #WhySwitzerland Fribourg Development Agency FDA Innovaud Jerry Krattiger Frederic Reymond Patrik Wermelinger Liv Minder Sirpa Tsimal Greater Geneva Bern area (GGBa) Switzerland Innovation Bern Economic Development Agency Innovaud 📷 Photos: Eduard Meltzer

From micro-algae and fermentation to upcycling and sustainable materials — what does the future of food hold? 🤔🔮 Join us at an event we're co-hosting with Valley partners Givaudan and Masschallenge on 9 September to find out! 🙌 Cheer on 13 MassChallenge Switzerland startups as they dive into the shark tank 🎤 Listen to panelists share their take on how to accelerate foodtech successes 💡 Get inspired by Givaudan's Sara Diaz as she shares insights from their AI-driven futurescaping platform 🤫 Get an sneak peak behind the innovation curtains on a tour through Givaudan's Zurich Innovation Center. 🤝 Network with startups, accelerators, investors and fellow innovators over nibbles and power pitches from Valley partners Actidot and CleanGreens Solutions SA. 🎟 Grab your tickets here: https://lnkd.in/eUsyfSir Valley partners 👉 Want to pitch your business or project too? Or maybe showcase your samples in the apero? Reach out to Marie-France Watson, CED, DES and she'll make it happen! Givaudan - Taste & Wellbeing Givaudan Christina Senn-Jakobsen Alexandre Bastos, EMBA AlgaeforFood Angry Camel CellX Biosolutions EcoBean Fotortec Change Bio Seaqure labs Myriad Optics Reify Nutrition Rosalind Bioculture Updairy Yeastime S.r.l.

When it comes to food innovation, the food service industry is a key part of the solution 💡🍽 The Valley’s CEO, Christina Senn-Jakobsen recently sat down with Sarah Kohler from Edition Salz & Pfeffer AG to chat about the Valley’s journey so far, the vital role of food service colleagues in driving transformation - and share a sneak peek at a new project driven by Valley partner ZFV-Unternehmungen that will make it easier for start-ups, large enterprises and academic institutions to test their sustainable innovations. 🤩 Read the full story here 👉 https://lnkd.in/d26A2zZ6 (DE) #foodservice #foodinnovation #switzerland #partnership Christian Gerber

⭐️ Exciting news ⭐️ FAO and SFNV have strengthened their partnership to foster innovation in agrifood systems 🤝🚀 ✍️ On Friday, the FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu, the President of the SFNV Steering Committee Marie-France Tschudin and CEO Christina Senn-Jakobsen signed a Letter of Intent to create mechanisms to develop solutions that address the root causes of agrifood systems challenges. The collaboration will focus on four key areas: 💡Identifying, developing and refining innovative solutions 🍎 Addressing healthy diets and nutrition and tackling food loss and waste. 🇨🇭 Drawing on Switzerland's strengths in science, technology, innovation business and sustainability to cultivate scalable solutions 🌍 Promoting inclusivity through solutions that can be implemented in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. The Letter was signed at Valley partner Agropôle Switzerland, where Qu Dongyu, the FAO delegation and colleagues from Switzerland’s Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft BLW chatted to fellow Valley partners CleanGreens Solutions SA, Vivent Biosignals and Ecorobotix and experienced their innovative solutions first-hand. We're now looking forward to working alongside the Valley community to turn the words on the page into concrete actions to accelerate progress towards more future-proof food systems. 🚀 Read the full story here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5kMzNY7 #Switzerland #partnerships #healthydiets #nutrition #SDGs #foodwaste FAO Krisztina Bende Christian Hofer Alwin Kopse Isabelle Fragniere Carrol Plummer Bruno Cheval Geir Ulle Dominique Burgeon Viorel Gutu Corinna Hawkes Damien Kelly Shen Hong Dominique Mégret Mélissa Fankhauser Stéphane Fankhauser Charles Karlen Urs Schenker Kai Valkama