20 Startups Pitch at FoodBytes! Boulder: Airbnb for Commercial Kitchens, Animal Feed Made from Bugs + More

FoodBytes! Boulder is a month away, and things are heating up! We’re thrilled to announce our incredible roster of demo companies.

From an Airbnb-approach to commercial kitchen space, to animal feed made from insects that are fed on food waste, to affordable real-time sensors that track perishable food from farm to grocer, our 10 demo finalists are the crème de la crème of global food and ag game-changers. Each startup will give a five-minute pitch to the audience of 200+ investors, executives and media, as well as our panel of expert judges, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Learn more about our 10 demo companies below!

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Meet the FoodBytes! Boulder Demo Companies

• Biotech Services Senegal – Biotech Services Senegal produces local, organic fertilizer that allows Senegalese farmers to produce more yield using less space, and at lower costs.
• ReGrained – ReGrained “harvests” supergrain from urban craft breweries as a delicious, healthy, and sustainable ingredient.
• FreshSurety – FreshSurety, Inc. is focused on solving the produce industry’s $200 billion waste problem, using technology that measures and reports the real-time shelf life of fresh food cartons anywhere in the world.
• The Food Corridor – The Food Corridor is an online marketplace for food businesses to connect with available commercial food assets, allowing them to find and book commercial kitchens, equipment, commissaries, processors, co-packers, and food storage spaces.
• Phenospex – Phenospex aims to provide fully automated and integrated plant phenotyping platforms that deliver high quality data and analysis tools in order to extract knowledge to answer scientific questions.
• ProveIt – ProveIt is an R&D company innovating food processing and packaging to make the clean label foods of the future. Provelt designs pasteurization systems using magnetic induction (MI) to replace steam-generated heat to process food products.
• Mad Agriculture – Mad Agriculture harnesses the nutrient recycling abilities of insects to turn food waste into a protein rich feed supplement, lessening dependence on unsustainable ingredients like fishmeal and soy.
• N-CHROMA – N-CHROMA uses state of the art biotechnological methods to develop and commercially produce healthy, sustainable and high quality colors for use in the food, textile and color cosmetic industries.
• One Hop Kitchen – One Hop Kitchen is the world’s first and only insect based Bolognese sauce, an incredibly sustainable source of protein.
• The Honest Stand – The Honest Stand is a gourmet food company that uses whole foods that are non-genetically modified to produce gourmet products that are Vegan, Gluten Free, Paleo, Soy Free, Yeast Free and Cholesterol Free.

Meet The 60-Second Pitch Companies

In addition to the 10 finalist companies, we’ve selected 10 runner-up companies from around the world to give 60-second pitches to kick off FoodBytes! Boulder. From FitBit for cows, to the first palm oil-free vegan frosting, to a healthy food school fundraiser platform, these innovators are pioneering a more sustainable food future. They include: FROST’D, Good Spread, Vive Organic,Alpine Start Foods, Algama, FarmRaiser, Urban Organic Veggie, Cowlar, Anti-grain Foods and Alfrea.

Mix and mingle with all of these innovators, leading investors, executives and media at FoodBytes! Boulder on October 26. Save 20% on your ticket with the code “foodbytes” now. 

FoodBytes! Is Going Down Under!

Calling all food, food tech and agtech innovators! Apply to demo at FoodBytes! Sydney. The first international FoodBytes! pitch competition-meets-networking event is part of the international Farm2Fork Summit and will take place on Thursday, November 3. Startups from around the world are encouraged to apply. Applications are due by 11:59 PM AEST on October 10.