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.
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Meet the newest Planet B.io residents
Over the past few months, the Planet B.io community on the Biotech Campus Delft welcomed several new members who each bring unique expertise to our ecosystem - ranging from high-containment bioprocessing technologies to circular biomaterials and plastic-free disposables. Meet Roylinx, Hecht Technology and Plastilose
Food Innovation Center renovation: ready for the next generation of food & biotech scale-ups
A major renovation is underway at the Biotech Campus Delft to prepare the Food Innovation Center for its next chapter. In collaboration with a.s.r. real estate, Planet B.io is transforming the building into a future-proof, multi-tenant hub designed specifically for the needs of growing food and biotech scale-ups.
From Sound to Scale | Hypesound innovates in Planet B.io’s Flexible Bio Lab
How can sound waves make microorganisms grow faster? In this interview, Hypesound CSO Ilia Vialshin, he explains how optimized sound stimulation can accelerate algae, yeast, and bacterial growth, without chemicals or major energy input, and why Planet B.io’s Flexible Bio Lab was the crucial missing link to move from theory to proof of concept.