Our Venture Exchange Program (VEP) supports entrepreneurs to engage with research and industry partners in both countries with complementary capabilities through first class events, coaching and mentoring.
Applications for the Venture Exchange Program: Future Food 2.0 cohort are now closed
About the VEP
The VEP offers a three-month opportunity for Australian and Singaporean deep-tech start-ups in emerging industries to engage with the innovation ecosystems in both countries and access to complimentary research capabilities to accelerate industry development.
Through intensive coaching, mentoring and market familiarisation visits, participating teams were supported to:
- explore new reciprocal market opportunities
- develop go-to-market strategies
- engage across the value chain in both countries to identify synergies and build partnerships.
Future Foods Cohort
The 2024 VEP cohort focused on Future Foods and supported six Australian teams and three Singapore-based start-up companies to:
- Generate new, world-leading knowledge and technology in novel food that can be translated into marketing insights, business products, new companies and development for the agriculture and food industry.
- Build novel food and future protein scientific capability for both countries to address major challenges for the economy (food security, industry development), environment (food system sustainability), and society (reducing impact of chronic diseases, ageing and food safety threats).
- Bring together complementary capability and capacity to support innovation ecosystem development.
- Facilitate connections between science and technology professionals, entrepreneurs and businesses to drive the development of research and commercial applications for future protein innovations.
- Connect key players across the value chain, for example, to help ensure Australian food ingredients are tailored to match the specific needs of Asian food manufacturers.
Participants benefited from
- Access to world-class R&D facilities and collaboration opportunities with leading scientists both countries.
- Coaching sessions identifying potential research collaboration and value chain opportunities.
- Pitching opportunities at Food and Hotel Asia trade show in Singapore and the Protein Futures Symposium in Australia.
- Networking sessions with cohort peers and key ecosystem stakeholders.
- Specialist consultations with relevant providers of legal, marketing, commercialisation and other services to facilitate know how and connections.
Team | Description |
---|---|
Allium Bio | Allium Bio are creating a platform for better ingredients, for better products, for people and the planet. They bring together the powers of multiple microorganisms, using a proprietary model to discover symbiotic combinations of algae, fungi, and other species to create high-value food ingredients at lower cost. |
Cellular Agriculture Ltd | Cellular Agriculture Ltd revolutionises cultivated protein production with their high-density, low-footprint bioreactors and advanced bioprocess technology. They provide efficient, sustainable solutions that ensure high-quality protein output, bridging the gap to industrial-scale production and transforming the future of food. |
Eclipse Ingredients | Eclipse Ingredients is a cutting-edge biotech ingredients startup incubated in CSIRO making high-value, hard-to-source ingredients important for health from yeast, using precision fermentation. Our first ingredient is human lactoferrin, which is a wonder protein found in breastmilk and immune cells with immune-building and iron-boosting properties important for health and well-being across the lifespan, from infants and children to adults and the elderly. |
Evolve | Evolve's technology reduces the sugar content of fruit and vegetable based products using a natural fermentation process by up to 70 per cent. The company is currently working on commercialising the technology for the manufacture of reduced alcohol wine and low calorie/reduced sugar fruit juices, baby food, snacks and confectionary products. |
Grainstone | Grainstone is developing integrated multi-product biorefining technology to revolutionise the barley value chain, including the ability to recover and upcycle brewers spent grain and support decarbonisation objectives. Building on Australia's major competitive advantages in grains they are working on technologies to produce a range of affordable in-demand ingredients, health supplements, animal feeds and bioproducts in a way that to maximises value and minimises waste. |
Just Meat Co. | Just Meat Co. is turning red meat into a nutrient dense, high protein ingredient with a wide range of applications across the food and beverage market. |
Mobius Farms | Mobius Farms turns waste into value using insects. From hyper local food waste recovery systems to natural substitutes for anti-biotics in animal production; from sustainable protein sources for livestock feed to functional fertilisers for farmers - Mobius Farms aims to build resilience into our food systems through insect derived technologies. |
NutriV | NutriV focus on repurposing surplus vegetables from Australian farms and diverting the 'waste' to create shelf stable products for both consumers and businesses. NutriV aim to create a circular economy through seeing 100 per cent of what is planted and harvested, converted into nutrient dense powders that are then used in food manufacturing and home cooking. |
Seadling | Seadling is a seaweed biotech company, developing functional ingredients that naturally enhance the well-being of animals, plants, and humans with an aim to revolutionize the agri-food sector through the power of seaweed nutrition. |
Our Venture Exchange Program (VEP) supports entrepreneurs to engage with research and industry partners in both countries with complementary capabilities through first class events, coaching and mentoring.
Applications for the Venture Exchange Program: Future Food 2.0 cohort are now closed
About the VEP
The VEP offers a three-month opportunity for Australian and Singaporean deep-tech start-ups in emerging industries to engage with the innovation ecosystems in both countries and access to complimentary research capabilities to accelerate industry development.
Through intensive coaching, mentoring and market familiarisation visits, participating teams were supported to:
- explore new reciprocal market opportunities
- develop go-to-market strategies
- engage across the value chain in both countries to identify synergies and build partnerships.
Future Foods Cohort
The 2024 VEP cohort focused on Future Foods and supported six Australian teams and three Singapore-based start-up companies to:
- Generate new, world-leading knowledge and technology in novel food that can be translated into marketing insights, business products, new companies and development for the agriculture and food industry.
- Build novel food and future protein scientific capability for both countries to address major challenges for the economy (food security, industry development), environment (food system sustainability), and society (reducing impact of chronic diseases, ageing and food safety threats).
- Bring together complementary capability and capacity to support innovation ecosystem development.
- Facilitate connections between science and technology professionals, entrepreneurs and businesses to drive the development of research and commercial applications for future protein innovations.
- Connect key players across the value chain, for example, to help ensure Australian food ingredients are tailored to match the specific needs of Asian food manufacturers.
Participants benefited from
- Access to world-class R&D facilities and collaboration opportunities with leading scientists both countries.
- Coaching sessions identifying potential research collaboration and value chain opportunities.
- Pitching opportunities at Food and Hotel Asia trade show in Singapore and the Protein Futures Symposium in Australia.
- Networking sessions with cohort peers and key ecosystem stakeholders.
- Specialist consultations with relevant providers of legal, marketing, commercialisation and other services to facilitate know how and connections.
Team | Description |
---|---|
Allium Bio | Allium Bio are creating a platform for better ingredients, for better products, for people and the planet. They bring together the powers of multiple microorganisms, using a proprietary model to discover symbiotic combinations of algae, fungi, and other species to create high-value food ingredients at lower cost. |
Cellular Agriculture Ltd | Cellular Agriculture Ltd revolutionises cultivated protein production with their high-density, low-footprint bioreactors and advanced bioprocess technology. They provide efficient, sustainable solutions that ensure high-quality protein output, bridging the gap to industrial-scale production and transforming the future of food. |
Eclipse Ingredients | Eclipse Ingredients is a cutting-edge biotech ingredients startup incubated in CSIRO making high-value, hard-to-source ingredients important for health from yeast, using precision fermentation. Our first ingredient is human lactoferrin, which is a wonder protein found in breastmilk and immune cells with immune-building and iron-boosting properties important for health and well-being across the lifespan, from infants and children to adults and the elderly. |
Evolve | Evolve's technology reduces the sugar content of fruit and vegetable based products using a natural fermentation process by up to 70 per cent. The company is currently working on commercialising the technology for the manufacture of reduced alcohol wine and low calorie/reduced sugar fruit juices, baby food, snacks and confectionary products. |
Grainstone | Grainstone is developing integrated multi-product biorefining technology to revolutionise the barley value chain, including the ability to recover and upcycle brewers spent grain and support decarbonisation objectives. Building on Australia's major competitive advantages in grains they are working on technologies to produce a range of affordable in-demand ingredients, health supplements, animal feeds and bioproducts in a way that to maximises value and minimises waste. |
Just Meat Co. | Just Meat Co. is turning red meat into a nutrient dense, high protein ingredient with a wide range of applications across the food and beverage market. |
Mobius Farms | Mobius Farms turns waste into value using insects. From hyper local food waste recovery systems to natural substitutes for anti-biotics in animal production; from sustainable protein sources for livestock feed to functional fertilisers for farmers - Mobius Farms aims to build resilience into our food systems through insect derived technologies. |
NutriV | NutriV focus on repurposing surplus vegetables from Australian farms and diverting the 'waste' to create shelf stable products for both consumers and businesses. NutriV aim to create a circular economy through seeing 100 per cent of what is planted and harvested, converted into nutrient dense powders that are then used in food manufacturing and home cooking. |
Seadling | Seadling is a seaweed biotech company, developing functional ingredients that naturally enhance the well-being of animals, plants, and humans with an aim to revolutionize the agri-food sector through the power of seaweed nutrition. |