These are the 16 projects featured in the 7th edition in acceleration and consolidation

Business Factory Food (BFFood), the leading accelerator in the Galician food sector, once again positions itself at the center of innovation with the selection of 16 entrepreneurial projects that will be part of its 7th edition. Following the Pitch Day, held on September 19 at the FEUGA auditorium, the Evaluation Committee decided which initiatives would advance to the acceleration and consolidation phases, thus giving new momentum to ideas destined to transform the food industry.

Acceleration: the boost to grow

Ten projects have successfully completed incubation and now advance to the acceleration phase, where they will receive specialized support to validate their business models and scale in the market. Among them we find proposals as diverse as an agricultural prediction platform with artificial intelligence (Agro4Data), a solution to revalue sea urchin roe through freeze-drying (INNOCOSTA), or a system to recover nutrients from wastewater and transform them into fertilizers (FLOC Ammonia Solutions).

Innovation also reaches the consumer’s table with initiatives such as Rumbo Norte, which combines canning tradition and digital technology through QR codes; TOLA, a natural and sustainable Galician energy drink; or Untables Vanetta, which reinvents sobrasada and pâté in a 100% plant-based and healthy version.

Other projects, such as Fishnet Expo, seek to improve the sustainability of the fishing sector through an online channel for marketing surplus, while Optimuu Nutrición applies artificial intelligence to optimize dairy farm feeding. Robotics also has its place with Troo4Food (Binarial Automatización), a robot adapted to food factory environments, and the baking tradition is modernized with Lévedo, which develops liquid and dehydrated sourdough with Galician ingredients.

Consolidation: maturity and expansion

Alongside them, six more projects advance to the consolidation phase, aimed at startups with greater maturity and market traction. Here stand out proposals that provide high-impact technological solutions, such as AInwater, artificial intelligence-based software to optimize water treatment plants, or BRAINR, the first cloud-native MES software for the food industry, which connects all production processes in real time.

Sustainability once again takes center stage with Agrikola, which replaces chemical fungicides with autonomous robots using UVC technology, and with FreeShakes, a range of fermented plant-based beverages with less sugar but high nutritional value. Alongside them, Masel works to transform hospitality management through digitalization and traceability, while Mareterra Postres proposes an innovative line of canned desserts, without additives or gluten, capable of maintaining their quality for up to four years.

An ecosystem that drives innovation

Beyond funding—which includes participatory loans and non-refundable grants from the Xunta de Galicia through Igape and XesGalicia—the selected projects will have access to comprehensive support. This means having personalized mentoring from leading companies, high-level training, coaching, technical services, and resources adapted to the challenges of the food sector. The combination of entrepreneurial talent with industry experience is what makes BFFood a unique platform. In this way, startups not only find support to grow, but also real business and collaboration opportunities with leading companies in the sector.

With this seventh edition, Galicia strengthens its role as a food innovation hub in Europe. The selected projects address the major strategic challenges of the sector: digitalization, automation, traceability, sustainability, logistics, and development of new products and processes. BFFood is not just an accelerator: it is a meeting point between entrepreneurs, industry, and institutions, working together to drive a more competitive, sustainable, and internationalized food future.

Congratulations to the 16 selected teams. With their talent and vision, the future of food continues to be written from Galicia.