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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One year later: Insights from Scale-up frontrunners | Robyn Eijlander (NIZO)
Robyn Eijlander, Science Innovation Manager and Program Manager at NIZO and BFF, shares last year’s improvements and shows off a nice bracelet.
Expanding our community: Meet the newest Planet B.io residents
After the summer break, Planet B.io welcomed several new residents. Each brings valuable expertise and innovation, further strengthening our growing ecosystem. Below, you will find a short introduction to the companies that have recently joined us at the Biotech Campus Delft.
Building the Future of Protein Together
Europe has the talent and ideas to lead the protein transition, but turning these into economic impact remains a challenge. On October 8–9, Planet B.io joined partners across Europe at NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam to kick off the EU-funded APROVALS program, launch the Invest-NL framework on Novel Foods and hear the latest updates from Cellular Agriculture Netherlands and other players from the Dutch future food ecosystem.