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5 Disruptive Startups solving challenges of Future of Food
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The food and beverage industry is experiencing rapid changes. Several startups are developing solutions that ensure transparency and tracking of products throughout the food value chain to solve the challenges of food wastage. This article covers five startups and their technologies – artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and sensors responsible for disruption in the industry.
Need for advanced technologies
Consumers demand access to accurate product information and product provenance that can be displayed on product labels. Additionally, supply chain players are demanding resilient and agile supply chains to ensure unit-level traceability and authentication, enabling companies to deal with any future disruptions.
Connected labels or devices coupled with advanced technologies like AI, remote sensing, and biosensors in food manufacturing significantly improve packaging, shelf life, food safety, and food wastage. These technologies automate the process, thus reducing human errors, enhancing hygiene and control, optimizing supply chain tracking, and ultimately solving food security issues. Several startups are developing technologies that help reduce food wastage by ensuring transparency and disruption in the food manufacturing industry.
Significant disruptive technologies by startups
Artificial intelligence and remote sensing technologies play a critical role in the food manufacturing industry. Exhibit 1 illustrates the top five startups that solve the issues that include food wastage, the freshness of the food product, personalized nutrition, and farm-to-fork traceability.
1. Seebo
Seebo provides a predictive quality and yield solution for food manufacturers to prevent waste losses. Seebo’s process-based artificial intelligence helps solve complicated process inefficiencies, reveal hidden causes, and recommend the right actions.
- Analyses inefficiencies in the process
- Uses automated root cause analysis
- Prevention of process inefficiencies
- Uses predictive recommendations
- Proactive alerts
2. Better Origin
Better Origin’s technology is a cost-effective network of AI-powered insect mini-farms that convert excess nutrients into essential nutrients, creating a better future. Better Origin tries to fix the broken link in the food system, i.e., by incorporating insects with patented technology.
The company’s product ‘X1’ bio-conversion unit reduces waste and increases food production simultaneously. The unit is a fully automated insect mini-farm that uses AI to manage the farmers’ behalf and deploy technology to restore nature’s balance.
- Adds value, improves productivity, yield, and animal welfare while delivering 130% ROI
- Produces up to five tonnes of proteins per year, which is the highest protein yield square meter per annum
- Avoids emissions associated with landfills and promotes a circular food system that results in resilience and flexibility
- Produces high-quality protein locally, reducing the deforestation associated with soy farming and emissions from transportation
3. ColorSensing
ColorSensing creates color-correction-based applications for the food and pharmaceutical industry. FoodSensing allows food manufacturers and retailers to monitor the quality of the food as the color-based sensing technology monitors the freshness of the food and reduces food waste.
4. escaVox
Escavox produces a device that can help in location and temperature tracking for the food supply chain. The company produces a device that can automatically collect essential data about the product, starting on-farm and continuing through to the end consumer.
- The company has developed a unique device to be placed into the cartons where harvested products are stored
- The device records the temperature, time, and location at 15-minute intervals until the product displayed on-the-store
- The automated technology creates a unique track
- Companies can add any other data into the platform to give you a more detailed picture to customers
5. Heali AI
Heali AI is a nutrition-technology company promoting personalized nutrition and whole food choices through AI-powered nutrition recommendations via mobile. The mobile app guides users to nutritious recipes, products, and ingredients, all specific to their individual needs. RDs, MDs, food scientists form a team of 70+ experts and engineers to develop an evidence-based tool for healthier product choices. The company has developed a unique device placed into the cartons where harvested products are stored. The solution features are:
- Promoting the power of food as medicine
- Making personalized dieting simple
- Using a suite of technologies to power a unique set of tools for consumers, including
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Machine Learning AI
References
- Biological Biosensors for Monitoring and Diagnosis
- Machine Learning and AI in Food Industry: Solutions and Potential
- Artificial Intelligence: A Real Opportunity in Food Industry
- FutureBridge Internal Database
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