★★★★★ Food Innovation Map Reveals Emerging Technologies & Startups

Food Innovation Map Reveals Emerging Technologies & Startups

Craving a taste of the future? At StartUs Insights, we analyzed 900+ startups to identify key innovation areas and emerging technologies in the food sector:

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The rising demand for nutritious ingredients, product transparency, and environmentally-conscious sourcing have a powerful impact on companies in the food industry. As many are left uncertain by the various investment and innovation options that arise with these demands, we at StartUs Insights took a look at 900+ startups in the industry to identify key innovation areas and emerging technologies.

The findings presented in the Food Innovation Map cover eight areas which we identified using our proprietary AI- and data-driven innovation scouting approach. Let’s go through the results of our Food Innovation Map:

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Artificial Proteins

Not considered affordable in 2013, the price for the production of roughly 140 grams of artificial meat has dropped from 274.366 Euro to 9,59 Euro in 2017. As the global demand for protein increases, lab-grown meat turns out to be the bright alternative. However, innovation does not stop with meat. Companies specialize in the production of algae, insect-based food, and crops consequently opening a new market of animal-based substitute products which will soon become the “new normal” as consumers progressively choose food options that meet their moral principles.

3D Food Printing

By using various types of powdered or liquid food material, 3D food printers bring extra nutritional value to our plates and additional revenue to food companies. Food printers take us one step closer to the era of personalized, precise, and reproducible nutrition as they allow to print the correct percentage of nutrients required for a particular gender, lifestyle, or medical condition. A specialized form of a 3D food printer is the bioprinter, currently in an experimental phase. This variant prints living cells (not exclusively used to produce food) and has the potential to illuminate hunger in areas of the world that need access to fresh foods.

Food Robotics

With an estimated worth of €2.1 billion by 2022, robotics improve quality, increase output and reduce expenses, especially in food and liquid processing. Food companies utilize robotics to advance product consistency and overall efficiency resulting in better tasting and healthier food for the consumer while businesses can apply resources in high-quality and sustainable ingredients.

Personalized Nutrition

The need and demand for therapeutic and lifestyle diets, nutritional value, as well as food preferences vary widely among consumers which is why personalized meals have already made their mark in the industry. However, adding software and hardware solutions such as 3D augmented/virtual reality applications with elements of image recognition or sensor technologies that measure chemicals, gluten etc. into this mix adds a clever twist as they allow to analyze nutritional information, suggests meals, and give advice on what foodstuff to purchase or order. Moreover, at-home (blood) tests connected with wearables and app interfaces enable health monitoring as well as truly personalized nutrition.

 

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Food Waste

A staggering 88 million tonnes of food is wasted annually in the EU alone, with associated costs estimated at €143 billion. Selling food at a lower price or giving it to people in need are ideas already in place, however, they do become increasingly more relevant. As every stakeholder, from farmers to vendors and ultimately consumers, plays a role in strengthening the sustainability of the food system, social impact companies and startups generate viable business models to solve this problem.

Internet of Things (IoT)

Reduced maintenance costs, higher productivity, the transparent tracking of the supply chain as well as predictive maintenance are only a few of the advantages that the Internet of Things offers to the food industry. One example of an application is the smart kitchen, approaching reality at a fast pace. In a smart kitchen, devices and equipment with built-in sensors are grouped into one network of data that continuously exchanges information.

Food Safety

Today’s consumers are more knowledgeable and engaged and demand higher standards due to multiple high-profile incidents (e.g. 2013’s horse meat scandal). Monitoring food from field to fork with smart packaging solutions based on the Internet of Things, NFC & RFID technologies empower consumers as well as producers to monitor food conditions (e.g. freshness, ripeness, etc.) thus addressing this rising challenge.

While robotics also support this process by employing automated sensors and other hardware that regularly collects and sends data regarding the food condition, automation also improves every stage of the food manufacturing process. Through the integration of robotics, some tasks can be automated thus replacing the human workforce and eliminating the risk of human error.

Delivery

Industries such as logistics already benefit from innovations in the delivery process through application areas such as last-mile delivery and line-haul transportation. As food delivery accounts for the biggest share in the last-mile delivery market, it not only benefits from models based on shared mobility, courier and inner-city delivery (think Uber Eats, Foodora, etc.) but also promotes new models with focus on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions paired with automation strategies such as automated guided vehicles (AGVs).

Slow moving pavement droids that can travel up to 4 mph for roughly 10 miles to deliver food, and use a GPS signal as well as cameras to navigate and avoid obstacles are already being tested to streamline processes and harness data to make user experience (UX) a priority.

Disruptive Startups In The Food Industry Include:

• Impossible Foods creates the plant-based Impossible Burger, described by some as “the game changer in the food industry”. Made with soy leghemoglobin, a protein that carries heme, it mimics the taste of actual meat.
• Natural Machines develops the 3D food printer Foodini and promotes cooking with fresh ingredients. The printer uses open capsules that users load up with foodstuffs of their choice to create savory or sweet cuisine.
• Momentum Machines develops a fully autonomous burger-bot that can slice toppings, grill a patty, assemble and bag a burger without any human interaction. The burgers are fresh-ground, grilled to order and accented by a custom variety of produce, seasonings, and sauces.
• London startup Nutrifix recommends meals to cook, buy, or have delivered, tailored to consumers’ nutritional needs. Their app takes age, height, weight and health goals into consideration to calculate a personal recommended daily allowance and guides users toward their body’s needs.
• UK-based anti-food waste startup Too Good To Go acts as a link between eateries with excess food and customers who can place orders via an app to collect it at a discounted price.
• Innit introduces a universal platform for all kitchen devices capable of analyzing the number of items in a refrigerator, monitoring their expiration-date, suggesting recipes and even preparing meals.
• TellSpec develops a comprehensive solution for cloud-based spectroscopy. The patented AI-based real-time cloud analysis engine helps monitor events of food fraud as well as of food contamination locally and in specific regions.
• Dispatch creates a platform for local delivery powered by a fleet of autonomous vehicles designed for sidewalks and pedestrian spaces. The startup plans on mitigating the cost of delivery due to savings in labor costs by bringing packages right to a customer’s door and making their service available to the masses.

New perspectives and emerging technologies are the driving forces behind the transformation of the food industry. Estimated to reach a staggering value of €7.2 billion by 2020, the global food retail market continues to thrive as new competitors enter the market.

The innovation areas we outline in this Food Innovation Map are but a few of the emerging technologies we identified during our research. Dehydrated and low-processed food, augmented transparency and biological techniques to decrease the number of greenhouse gases emitted from food production begin to extend their influence on the industry – companies that partner with emerging startups to innovate will experience a clear-cut competitive advantage.

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인공 단백질
2013 년에는 저렴한 것으로 간주되지 않았지만 약 140 그램의 인공 육류 생산 가격이 2017 년 274.366 유로에서 9,59 유로로 떨어졌습니다. 단백질에 대한 전 세계 수요가 증가함에 따라 실험실에서 재배 된 육류는 밝은 대안으로 판명되었습니다 . 그러나 혁신은 육식으로 끝나지 않습니다. 회사는 조류, 곤충 기반 식품 및 농작물 생산을 전문으로하며, 결과적으로 소비자가 도덕적 원칙에 맞는 식품 옵션을 점진적으로 선택함에 따라 곧“새로운 표준”이 될 새로운 동물 기반 대체 제품 시장을 열게됩니다.

3D 식품 인쇄
3D 식품 프린터는 다양한 유형의 분말 또는 액체 식품 재료를 사용하여 판에 영양가를 높이고 식품 회사에 추가 수입을 가져옵니다. 푸드 프린터는 특정 성별, 라이프 스타일 또는 의학적 상태에 필요한 정확한 양의 영양소를 인쇄 할 수 있기 때문에 개인화되고 정확하며 재현 가능한 영양 시대에 한 걸음 더 다가갑니다. 3D 식품 프린터의 특수 형태는 현재 실험 단계에있는 바이오 프린터입니다. 이 변형은 살아있는 세포 (식품 생산에 독점적으로 사용되지는 않음)를 인쇄하고 신선한 음식에 접근해야하는 세계의 지역에서 기아를 조명 할 가능성이 있습니다.

식품 로봇
2022 년까지 21 억 유로의 추정 가치를 가진 로봇 공학은 특히 식품 및 액체 가공에서 품질을 개선하고 생산량을 늘리며 비용을 줄입니다. 식품 회사는 로봇을 사용하여 제품 일관성과 전반적인 효율성을 향상시켜 소비자에게 더 맛있고 건강에 좋은 음식을 제공하는 한편 기업은 고품질의 지속 가능한 재료에 자원을 적용 할 수 있습니다.

개인 영양
치료 및 라이프 스타일 다이어트, 영양 가치 및 음식 선호도에 대한 수요와 수요는 소비자마다 크게 다르기 때문에 개인 맞춤형 식사가 이미 업계에서 유명해졌습니다. 그러나 3D 증강 / 가상 현실 응용 프로그램과 같은 소프트웨어 및 하드웨어 솔루션을 이미지 인식 요소 또는 화학 물질, 글루텐 등을 측정하는 센서 기술 요소와 함께 추가하면 영양 정보를 분석하고 식사를 제안하며 구매하거나 주문할 식료품에 대한 조언. 또한 웨어러블 및 앱 인터페이스와 연결된 재택 (혈액) 검사를 통해 건강에 대한 모니터링은 물론 개인화 된 영양 섭취가 가능합니다.

 

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음식물 쓰레기
EU에서만 매년 880 만 톤의 음식이 낭비되고 관련 비용은 1,400 억 유로에이를 것으로 추정됩니다. 저렴한 가격으로 음식을 팔거나 도움이 필요한 사람들에게 음식을 제공하는 것은 이미 자리 잡은 아이디어이지만 점점 더 관련성이 높아지고 있습니다. 농민부터 벤더, 궁극적으로 소비자에 이르기까지 모든 이해 관계자가 식품 시스템의 지속 가능성을 강화하는 역할을 수행함에 따라 사회적 영향 회사와 신생 기업은이 문제를 해결하기 위해 실행 가능한 비즈니스 모델을 생성합니다.

사물 인터넷 (IoT)
유지 보수 비용 절감, 생산성 향상, 공급망의 투명한 추적 및 예측 유지 보수는 사물 인터넷이 식품 산업에 제공하는 장점 중 일부에 불과합니다. 응용의 한 예는 빠른 속도로 현실에 접근하는 스마트 키친입니다. 스마트 키친에서 센서가 내장 된 장치 및 장비는 정보를 지속적으로 교환하는 하나의 데이터 네트워크로 그룹화됩니다.

식품 안전
오늘날의 소비자는 여러 가지 주요 사건 (예 : 2013 년 말고기 스캔들)으로 인해 지식이 풍부하고 참여도가 높으며 더 높은 표준을 요구합니다. 사물 인터넷, NFC 및 RFID 기술을 기반으로하는 스마트 패키징 솔루션으로 현장에서 포크로 음식을 모니터링하면 소비자와 생산자는 식품 상태 (예 : 신선도, 숙성 등)를 모니터링 할 수 있으므로 이러한 난제를 해결합니다.

로봇 공학은 또한 식품 상태와 관련된 데이터를 정기적으로 수집하고 전송하는 자동화 된 센서 및 기타 하드웨어를 사용하여이 프로세스를 지원하지만 자동화는 식품 제조 프로세스의 모든 단계를 개선합니다. 로봇 공학의 통합을 통해 일부 작업을 자동화하여 인력을 대체하고 인적 오류의 위험을 제거 할 수 있습니다.

배달
물류와 같은 산업은 라스트 마일 배송 및 노선 운송과 같은 응용 분야를 통해 배송 프로세스의 혁신을 통해 이미 혜택을 받고 있습니다. 음식 배달은 마지막 마일 배달 시장에서 가장 큰 점유율을 차지하기 때문에 공유 이동성, 택배 및 도심 내 배달 (Uber Eats, Foodora 등)을 기반으로 한 모델의 이점을 얻을뿐만 아니라 초점을 맞춘 새로운 모델을 촉진합니다. 자동 유도 차량 (AGV)과 같은 자동화 전략과 결합 된 인공 지능 (AI) 솔루션.

음식을 전달하기 위해 약 10 마일 동안 최대 4 마일을 주행 할 수있는 느리게 이동하는 포장 도로 드로이드는 GPS 신호와 카메라를 사용하여 장애물을 탐색하고 피하는 과정을 이미 진행하고 있습니다. 우선 순위.

식품 산업의 파괴적인 신생 기업은 다음과 같습니다.
Impossible Foods는 "식품 산업의 게임 체인저"라고 설명하는 식물 기반 Impossible Burger를 만듭니다. 헴을 운반하는 단백질 인 콩 레그 헤모글로빈으로 만들어져 실제 고기 맛을 모방합니다.
Natural Machines는 3D 식품 프린터 Foodini를 개발하고 신선한 재료로 요리를 촉진합니다. 이 프린터는 개방형 캡슐을 사용하여 사용자가 선택한 식품을 가득 담아 풍미 있거나 달콤한 요리를 만듭니다.
Momentum Machines는 인간의 상호 작용없이 토핑을 슬라이스하고 패티를 굽고 버거를 조립하고 포장 할 수있는 완전 자율 버거 로봇을 개발합니다. 버거는 신선하게 갈아서 주문에 따라 구워지며 다양한 종류의 농산물, 조미료 및 소스로 강조됩니다.
London 스타트 업 Nutrifix는 소비자의 영양 요구에 맞춘 요리, 구매 또는 배달을위한 식사를 권장합니다. 그들의 앱은 연령, 키, 몸무게 및 건강 목표를 고려하여 개인 권장 일일 수당을 계산하고 사용자를 신체의 필요로 안내합니다.
영국의 반 식품 폐기물 스타트 업 Too Good To Go는 음식이 많은 식당과 할인 된 가격으로 앱을 통해 주문할 수있는 고객 간의 연결 고리 역할을합니다.
Innit은 냉장고의 품목 수를 분석하고 유통 기한을 모니터링하고 조리법을 제안하고 식사를 준비 할 수있는 모든 주방 기기를위한 범용 플랫폼을 소개합니다.
TellSpec은 클라우드 기반 분광법을위한 포괄적 인 솔루션을 개발합니다. 특허를받은 AI 기반 실시간 클라우드 분석 엔진은 식품 사기 사건은 물론 현지 및 특정 지역의 식품 오염 사건을 모니터링 할 수 있습니다.
Dispatch는 인도 및 보행자 공간을 위해 설계된 자율 차량으로 구동되는 현지 배송 플랫폼을 만듭니다. 스타트 업은 패키지를 고객에게 직접 제공하고 대중에게 서비스를 제공함으로써 인건비 절감으로 인한 배송 비용을 절감 할 계획입니다.
새로운 관점과 새로운 기술은 식품 산업의 변화를 이끄는 원동력입니다. 2020 년까지 72 억 유로의 놀라운 가치에 도달 할 것으로 예상되는 세계 식품 소매 시장은 새로운 경쟁자가 시장에 진입하면서 계속 번창하고 있습니다.

이 식품 혁신지도에서 우리가 요약 한 혁신 영역은 연구 중에 식별 한 몇 가지 신기술입니다. 식품 생산에서 배출되는 온실 가스의 수를 줄이기위한 탈수 및 저 처리 식품, 증강 된 투명성 및 생물학적 기술은 산업에 대한 영향력을 확대하기 시작합니다. 신흥 스타트 업과 협력하여 혁신을하는 기업은 경쟁 우위를 분명히 경험하게됩니다.

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