Meet our first Thailand-Australia VEP cohort
The inaugural Thailand-Australia VEP cohort is supporting eight Thai and seven Australian companies. Together, they are reimagining the future of food with novel solutions that boost nutrition, advance sustainability and transform how food is produced.
Thai companies
| Team | Product/service description |
|---|---|
| InnoFalcon | InnoFalcon develops sustainable Golden Cordyceps (Cordyceps militaris) biotechnology solutions that transform science-backed natural compounds into innovative functional foods and nutraceuticals. Their dried and concentrated extract products support cognitive wellness, energy, and healthy aging through traceable, cultivated ingredients, providing consumers with safe, effective, and environmentally responsible health solutions. |
| March Mondae | Mellow Puree aims to support dignity, safer food provision and more equal access to convenient nutrition at home and in care settings. The puree provides people requiring IDDSI Level 4 food and their caregivers with a convenient, standardised and ready-to-eat meal that supports consistent texture, easier preparation and better everyday access to enjoyable nutrition. |
| O&P Quality Trade | Nutriflow® is a shelf-stable complete nutrition powder developed for people who need a convenient meal option, including older adults and those with chewing or swallowing difficulties, delivering protein, energy, fibre, vitamins and minerals in one sachet. Its AdaptiveFlow® preparation system uses specified water volumes to provide IDDSI-aligned texture outcomes across Levels 0–3. Nutriflow® is commercially available in Thailand and is currently being explored for potential applications in Australian aged-care, rehabilitation and home-care settings. |
| OMAMi | OMAMi delivers high-protein nutrition in a unique melt-in-the-mouth crispy snack, addressing the gap between low-protein dissolvable baby snacks and unsuitable chewy high-protein products. It offers parents a convenient, nutritious, and child-friendly snack that supports healthy growth and development. |
| Plant Origin Food | Plant Origin enables food manufacturers to create affordable, appealing, and highly digestible nutrition products using upcycled hydrolyzed rice bran protein. Their scalable ingredient platform delivers strong functionality, mild taste, and versatile applications while supporting healthy ageing, reducing agricultural waste, and lowering dependence on animal-derived proteins. |
| Samadul Foods | Samudul Food's SimpleSense Ready-to-Eat Puree is a nutritious plant-based puree designed for people with swallowing difficulties, older adults and health-conscious consumers. Made from germinated low-GI rice, multigrains, pea protein, fibre and fruit, it provides a convenient, ready-to-eat source of energy, protein and nutrition with a soft, smooth texture that supports safe swallowing. |
| TCM Wellnesis | FEELS: Fish Umami Protein Calcium Plus is an upcycled sardine-based powder that adds protein, calcium, amino acids and fibre to everyday meals. With a mild fish aroma and savoury umami flavour, it can be sprinkled or mixed into food to support digestive health, nutrition and appetite, particularly for older adults. |
| Thai Ento Food | Thai Ento Food’s I-SEC technology turns crickets and poultry byproducts into high-quality protein ingredients using a low-waste manufacturing process. By separating protein and oil in a single chemical-free step and converting the remaining material into neutral and highly soluble protein powders - Sixtein and Chixtein - it maximises resource use with minimal process waste. |
Australian companies
| Team | Product/service description |
|---|---|
| Food Recycle International | Food Recycle International licenses technology that converts commercial food waste into safe, high-performance animal feed at scale. Its facilities supply lower-cost feed for poultry, pigs and aquaculture, reducing reliance on conventional crop and diverting food waste from landfill and freeing more crops for human consumption. |
| Future Sea | Harvest Jack gives sustainability-minded consumers the canned tuna experience they already love — the same flake, texture, flavour and convenience — without the fish, made from jackfruit and fortified with protein and omega-3s, so switching to a plant-based alternative no longer means compromising on taste or nutrition. |
| Just Meat Protein | Just Meat Protein transforms low-value chicken meat into protein powder ingredients. ProPepta is a 90%-protein powder with neutral flavour, that is highly soluble with clarity in solution. ProMami is a natural chicken flavour ingredient - giving food and sports nutrition manufacturers clean-label, functional, sustainably-upcycled alternatives to whey and synthetic flavourings, backed by exclusive CSIRO-licensed technology. |
| Novolo | Novolo’s MADS™ technology improves the stability, dispersibility, and effectiveness of active compounds while supporting extended freshness, reduced spoilage, and enhanced fresh produce or food product quality. Producers can use it through existing spray, dip, wash and processing lines without investing in new equipment or infrastructure. |
| River Stone Aquaculture Innovations | Swift Grow delivers a certified-organic oderless liquid biofertiliser concentrate that once applied restores depleted soil microbiomes to break chemical dependency viscous cycle, slash water usage by 40%, permanently lift crop yields, restore nutritional density, promote natural plant immunity to pests for Thai farmers seeking premium, climate-resilient agriculture. |
| The Roe Australia | The RŌE Australia is an Australian food innovation company focused on creating high-value applications for Australian sea urchin (uni). The company transforms locally sourced sea urchin into innovative, commercially scalable products, including its signature shelf-stable uni sauce, developed for foodservice, retail and international markets. Through RŌE Lab, The RŌE continues to advance product development, commercialisation and new market applications, with a focus on increasing the value and accessibility of Australian marine resources. |
| Uthrive | Uthrive Hydration is an Australian beverage brand delivering premium, natural electrolyte hydration for active, health-conscious communities. Focused on ultra hydration and gut health, Uthrive combines a clean-label formulation with real functional benefit, using natural Australian salt and prebiotic fibre, with no added sugar or artificial ingredients. |
Our collaborators
Applications for the Thailand-Australia Venture Exchange Program are OPEN
Interested organisations are invited to apply for Round 2 or Round 3, to be delivered in 2027.
To be notified about program news, call for applications and upcoming rounds, please subscribe to our mailing list
Meet our first Thailand-Australia VEP cohort
The inaugural Thailand-Australia VEP cohort is supporting eight Thai and seven Australian companies. Together, they are reimagining the future of food with novel solutions that boost nutrition, advance sustainability and transform how food is produced.
Thai companies
| Team | Product/service description |
|---|---|
| InnoFalcon | InnoFalcon develops sustainable Golden Cordyceps (Cordyceps militaris) biotechnology solutions that transform science-backed natural compounds into innovative functional foods and nutraceuticals. Their dried and concentrated extract products support cognitive wellness, energy, and healthy aging through traceable, cultivated ingredients, providing consumers with safe, effective, and environmentally responsible health solutions. |
| March Mondae | Mellow Puree aims to support dignity, safer food provision and more equal access to convenient nutrition at home and in care settings. The puree provides people requiring IDDSI Level 4 food and their caregivers with a convenient, standardised and ready-to-eat meal that supports consistent texture, easier preparation and better everyday access to enjoyable nutrition. |
| O&P Quality Trade | Nutriflow® is a shelf-stable complete nutrition powder developed for people who need a convenient meal option, including older adults and those with chewing or swallowing difficulties, delivering protein, energy, fibre, vitamins and minerals in one sachet. Its AdaptiveFlow® preparation system uses specified water volumes to provide IDDSI-aligned texture outcomes across Levels 0–3. Nutriflow® is commercially available in Thailand and is currently being explored for potential applications in Australian aged-care, rehabilitation and home-care settings. |
| OMAMi | OMAMi delivers high-protein nutrition in a unique melt-in-the-mouth crispy snack, addressing the gap between low-protein dissolvable baby snacks and unsuitable chewy high-protein products. It offers parents a convenient, nutritious, and child-friendly snack that supports healthy growth and development. |
| Plant Origin Food | Plant Origin enables food manufacturers to create affordable, appealing, and highly digestible nutrition products using upcycled hydrolyzed rice bran protein. Their scalable ingredient platform delivers strong functionality, mild taste, and versatile applications while supporting healthy ageing, reducing agricultural waste, and lowering dependence on animal-derived proteins. |
| Samadul Foods | Samudul Food's SimpleSense Ready-to-Eat Puree is a nutritious plant-based puree designed for people with swallowing difficulties, older adults and health-conscious consumers. Made from germinated low-GI rice, multigrains, pea protein, fibre and fruit, it provides a convenient, ready-to-eat source of energy, protein and nutrition with a soft, smooth texture that supports safe swallowing. |
| TCM Wellnesis | FEELS: Fish Umami Protein Calcium Plus is an upcycled sardine-based powder that adds protein, calcium, amino acids and fibre to everyday meals. With a mild fish aroma and savoury umami flavour, it can be sprinkled or mixed into food to support digestive health, nutrition and appetite, particularly for older adults. |
| Thai Ento Food | Thai Ento Food’s I-SEC technology turns crickets and poultry byproducts into high-quality protein ingredients using a low-waste manufacturing process. By separating protein and oil in a single chemical-free step and converting the remaining material into neutral and highly soluble protein powders - Sixtein and Chixtein - it maximises resource use with minimal process waste. |
Australian companies
| Team | Product/service description |
|---|---|
| Food Recycle International | Food Recycle International licenses technology that converts commercial food waste into safe, high-performance animal feed at scale. Its facilities supply lower-cost feed for poultry, pigs and aquaculture, reducing reliance on conventional crop and diverting food waste from landfill and freeing more crops for human consumption. |
| Future Sea | Harvest Jack gives sustainability-minded consumers the canned tuna experience they already love — the same flake, texture, flavour and convenience — without the fish, made from jackfruit and fortified with protein and omega-3s, so switching to a plant-based alternative no longer means compromising on taste or nutrition. |
| Just Meat Protein | Just Meat Protein transforms low-value chicken meat into protein powder ingredients. ProPepta is a 90%-protein powder with neutral flavour, that is highly soluble with clarity in solution. ProMami is a natural chicken flavour ingredient - giving food and sports nutrition manufacturers clean-label, functional, sustainably-upcycled alternatives to whey and synthetic flavourings, backed by exclusive CSIRO-licensed technology. |
| Novolo | Novolo’s MADS™ technology improves the stability, dispersibility, and effectiveness of active compounds while supporting extended freshness, reduced spoilage, and enhanced fresh produce or food product quality. Producers can use it through existing spray, dip, wash and processing lines without investing in new equipment or infrastructure. |
| River Stone Aquaculture Innovations | Swift Grow delivers a certified-organic oderless liquid biofertiliser concentrate that once applied restores depleted soil microbiomes to break chemical dependency viscous cycle, slash water usage by 40%, permanently lift crop yields, restore nutritional density, promote natural plant immunity to pests for Thai farmers seeking premium, climate-resilient agriculture. |
| The Roe Australia | The RŌE Australia is an Australian food innovation company focused on creating high-value applications for Australian sea urchin (uni). The company transforms locally sourced sea urchin into innovative, commercially scalable products, including its signature shelf-stable uni sauce, developed for foodservice, retail and international markets. Through RŌE Lab, The RŌE continues to advance product development, commercialisation and new market applications, with a focus on increasing the value and accessibility of Australian marine resources. |
| Uthrive | Uthrive Hydration is an Australian beverage brand delivering premium, natural electrolyte hydration for active, health-conscious communities. Focused on ultra hydration and gut health, Uthrive combines a clean-label formulation with real functional benefit, using natural Australian salt and prebiotic fibre, with no added sugar or artificial ingredients. |
Our collaborators
Applications for the Thailand-Australia Venture Exchange Program are OPEN
Interested organisations are invited to apply for Round 2 or Round 3, to be delivered in 2027.
To be notified about program news, call for applications and upcoming rounds, please subscribe to our mailing list