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What the food industry can learn from GDI’s Major Shifts model
What the food industry can learn from GDI’s Major Shifts model

The future is coming faster than many companies can keep pace with. This is especially true for actors in the food industry, as developments in STEM and climate change continue at speed. And nobody knows that better than the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI). This...

Meet the finalists of the Igeho Rising Star Award for 2025 
Meet the finalists of the Igeho Rising Star Award for 2025 

Many startups applied. 15 made it to the public vote. Now just five remain. The 2025 Igeho Rising Star Award is designed to provide emerging companies in hospitality with an opportunity to showcase their businesses, raise awareness of their innovations, and connect...

Bühler Scale-Up Day accelerates industry and start-up collaboration
Bühler Scale-Up Day accelerates industry and start-up collaboration

Valley partner Bühler is making strides in bridging industrial challenges with innovation through Scale-Up Day, held during the company’s Networking Days. On June 25 in Uzwil, the Scale-Up Day brought together 21 carefully selected, high-impact scale-ups – mature...

Impact Digest | Nutrition & Mental Health
Impact Digest | Nutrition & Mental Health

As the global population ages, the role of nutrition in promoting longer, healthier lives has never been more vital. And yet it’s not just our physical health that is impacted by what we eat: increasingly, the role of diet and its links to mental wellbeing are coming...

Plating up something new with Luya
Plating up something new with Luya

Want an example of successful collaboration between Valley Partners? Look no further than Luya and the ZFV Group. Find out why the ZFV Group selected Luya as an ingredient for their vegan dishes, how the partnership is progressing, and what makes this foodtech...

Bühler launches state-of-the-art Milling Academy
Bühler launches state-of-the-art Milling Academy

Valley partner Bühler has opened a new, state-of-the-art Milling Academy – a 1,800-square-meter training center for food and feed millers – at the heart of its headquarters in Switzerland. Designed to meet the evolving needs of the industry, the facility combines...

Igeho Rising Star 2025: five finalists announced
Igeho Rising Star 2025: five finalists announced

The results are in: The Swiss food and hospitality ecosystem has made its selection of the five start-ups for the final of the Igeho Rising Star Award 2025. Catchfree, Circunis, Foodflows, GoNina, and Yumame Foods are the five innovators selected to showcase their...

New Roots founders launch a new plant-based protein, Yellow Sunshine 
New Roots founders launch a new plant-based protein, Yellow Sunshine 

The cofounders of Valley partner New Roots, Alice Fauconnet and Freddy Hunziker, have developed a new plant-based brand integrating fermented functional proteins based on the versatile lupin legume. Leading with lupin Announcing the launch of Yellow Sunshine - named...

5 questions for Anna – the Valley’s new COO
5 questions for Anna – the Valley’s new COO

We’re thrilled to welcome Anna Mucha to the Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley team as our new Chief Operating Officer. With deep roots in both corporate supply chains and agile entrepreneurship, Anna brings a rare blend of operational depth, systems thinking and...

Impact Digest | Sustainable Packaging 
Impact Digest | Sustainable Packaging 

Well designed and well implemented packaging solutions have a crucial role to play in shaping more sustainable food systems. From reducing food loss and waste to ensuring that 10 billion people have access to safe and nutritious food, how we transport and store our...

House of Lab Science launches food and biotech hub in the Valley
House of Lab Science launches food and biotech hub in the Valley

House of Lab Science has launched its newest location at The Valley in Kemptthal, strengthening its mission to deliver flexible, affordable and fully serviced lab spaces to Switzerland’s thriving biotech, foodtech and life sciences communities. Dynamic and promising...

Igeho Rising Star 2025: Public voting opens 
Igeho Rising Star 2025: Public voting opens 

Fifteen startups have been invited to present their innovations at Igeho 2025 in November in Basel. A public vote will now determine which five advance to the final, where they will face questions from the panel and audience, competing for the 2025 Igeho Rising Star...

Christina Senn-Jakobsen: Taking a bite out of food system myths
Christina Senn-Jakobsen: Taking a bite out of food system myths

Taking a bite out of food system mythsBy Christina Senn-Jakobsen, CEO, Swiss Food & Nutrition ValleyOn April Fools’ Day, we’re prepared for the hoaxes that weave their way into our favourite programmes and news platforms. But what about the myths that persist in...

Valley partner Upgrain wins the Swiss Sustainability Impact Award
Valley partner Upgrain wins the Swiss Sustainability Impact Award

Valley partner and Appenzell-based startup UpGrain has been honored with the Swiss Sustainability Impact Award at this year’s START Summit in St. Gallen for its achievements in food upcycling. The award ceremony took place at Olma Messen St. Gallen. As Europe’s...

Will the future of farming be soil-free?
Will the future of farming be soil-free?

In the lead-up to our next Impact Forum on Controlled Environment Agriculture on 11 March, Bruno Cheval from cultivation technology specialists CleanGreens Solutions SA gave us a flavour of what’ll be on the menu during the event – from the way technology is...

Eggfield Co-Founder Silvan Leibacher on growing eggs in a field
Eggfield Co-Founder Silvan Leibacher on growing eggs in a field

The Igeho Rising Star Award celebrates innovation and excellence in the hospitality and food sectors. In 2023, EggField, a Swiss startup specializing in plant-based egg alternatives for B2B customers, emerged as one of the award’s standout winners.   We spoke with...

Impact Digest | Cultured foods: How can we drive impact at scale?
Impact Digest | Cultured foods: How can we drive impact at scale?

With the global population projected to reach 10 billion by 2050, scaling innovative protein solutions is essential to meeting both demand and climate targets. Cultured food could provide protein products that taste and feel like the animal-based original, but with a...

The Igeho Rising Star Award 2025 focuses on FoodTech innovations
The Igeho Rising Star Award 2025 focuses on FoodTech innovations

In 2023, Igeho launched the Igeho Rising Star Award to support founders and start-ups in the hospitality sector. Its second edition is now inviting all FoodTech startups to submit their applications by January 31, 2025. Fifteen start-ups will have the chance to...

2024: Taking a big step towards a more future-proof food system
2024: Taking a big step towards a more future-proof food system

2024 Taking a big step towards a more future-proof food systemAs 2024 draws to a close, we wanted to take a moment to look back at some of our key highlights - both as individual innovators and as an ecosystem. In the year that Switzerland was ranked leading...

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