StartLife
Growing Food & Agri Startups into Leading Enterprises
StartLife is Europe's longest running and leading Food and Agri Tech startup accelerator, whose mission is to shape a sustainable food system.
StartLife strongly believes that startups hold the key to the big changes needed in our food system. In order for promising early-stage startups to succeed, we help them find their way to success and build an impactful company.
Disruptive innovation in itself is not enough; it also needs to be implemented and transformed into tangible applications. At StartLife we strongly believe that entrepreneurs are needed for their drive, investors for their belief and corporates for their mass impact. Hence, StartLife builds bridges between these groups to jointly accelerate to a sustainable food system. We do this is on a individual basis, but also through our internationally renowned F&A Next summit.
StartLife was founded in 2010, among other by Wageningen University & Research, to support agrifood startups shaping a sustainable food system with breakthrough technologies. Today, StartLife is Europe's longest-running and leading agrifoodtech accelerator. To date we have built, funded and supported 400+ innovative foodtech and agtech startups.
Each year, StartLife accepts up to 40 new startups into its startups support program. Up to 20 startups enter our 12-week full service acceleration program, with starting dates in spring and fall. In addition, we provide tailored support to about 10 to 20 individual startups throughout the year.
Latest news
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€1 million subsidy for sustainable egg alternative: Kick-off of project EGGcellent at Planet B.io
During a celebratory event on Friday, April 11, at Planet B.io in Delft, Meindert Stolk, Regional Minister for Economy and Innovation of the Province of South Holland, awarded a ~€1 million subsidy cheque to the EGGcellent project. This regional innovation initiative brings together the innovative companies Vivici, Proeon and Applikon, along with Planet B.io, which will focus on developing a sustainable, vegan alternative to chicken eggs, specifically for use in the bakery industry. The funding comes from the “Kansen voor West III” program, supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Meet the new faces of Planet B.io
The Planet B.io team is growing! We’re excited to welcome three new colleagues who will strengthen our biotech innovation ecosystem: Mohammed Iaallala (Senior Manager Strategic Relations), Natascha Keijzer (Lab Manager), and Katri Kaunismaa (Subsidy Manager). Each of them brings valuable expertise to help our community grow, whether through strategic partnerships, lab management, or funding opportunities.
Planet B.io welcomes GenScript and Lesaffre
Planet B.io and ASR Dutch Science Park Fund are very happy to announce that two new companies have joined the Planet B.io community on the Biotech Campus Delft from April 1st on.