The final day of the IFT FIRST Annual Event and Expo included The Pitch, a pitch competition at the Startup Pavilion. Representatives from 26 startups around the world gave their sixty-second pitch and competed for the title of Best Startup of IFT FIRST 2022.
The winner of the competition was Equinom, a food-tech company based in the United States and Israel. Equinom supplies plant-based ingredients to a variety of manufacturers with nutrition built into the seeds of the ingredient. Galit Fenrei…
Obtaining research funding has always been a challenge in the food sciences, and the next generation of researchers must contend with shifting priorities and resources.
Julie Smolyansky of Lifeway Foods offers advice for startups and other entrepreneurial ventures.
Energy, insight, cutting-edge science, and lots of networking characterized IFT’s Annual Event and Expo.
Manna Tree’s Steve Young discusses the private equity firm’s focus on companies whose products improve human health.
Paul Shapiro offers an update on efforts to ban cultivated meat sales and reflects on its negative impact on product innovation and consumer choice.