Plant2Food Pitch: Can we produce Danish Rhizopus starter culture?

Join this Plant2Food pitch if you want to hear more about the project idea, give you inputs or interested in being a partner.

Participate and hear pitches from companies and researchers who have challenges or ideas within plant-based development that would like to become research projects under Plant2Food. Find all the pitches via this link. 

PROGRAM

10.00-10.15: Pitch by Tobias Harboe, Co-founder, Contempehrary

More Danish food producers use Rhizopus (fungal spore) starter culture, but we import them from Indonesia or other places. The idea is to develop and secure a stable and safe production of the starter culture in Denmark. It will be beneficial for the development of mycelium-based foods in general. We need more research in this area, to figure out how it is done in the best, safest and most efficient way.

The exact way to use the starter culture to make tempeh and other fungi based products can vary. This is IP we each develop and often keep secret for reasons of competition. But starter culture(s) is a pre-competitive thing we could all benefit from collaborating on. At CONTEMPEHRARY we believe it would be a great advantage to establish a local production, so we don’t have to rely on import from afar.

10.15-10.30: questions, inputs ect.

NB: The pitch session will be recorded and made available online at Plant2Food on WorldLabs.

Do you want to pitch your idea or challenge?

All pitch sessions are 30 minutes with a 15 minute pitch from a company or researcher followed by 15 minutes for questions and input from the audience.

• Sign up to pitch your idea here or contact Astrid Pryds Hansen at aph@foodbiocluster.dk

Plant2Food

Plant2Food fund pre-competitive open research collaborations between the food industry and academia within the three scopes: 1) Plant raw material, 2) Refinery & processing, 3) Food & health. Read more about Plant2Food here.

The next application deadlines for Plant2Food is 20th March 2024 and 2nd October 2024.

Plant2Food is financed by Novo Nordisk Foundation with 200 mio. DKK from 2023-2027.

Plant2Food is run at Aarhus University with the partners University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark, Wageningen University (Netherlands) and Food & Bio Cluster of Denmark.