Foodtech Frontier Challenge 2025 for Startups – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Applications for the Foodtech Frontier Challenge 2025 at the moment are open. The Foodtech Frontier Challenge brings collectively international startups, and answer suppliers from around the globe to collaborate with main meals trade gamers on actual-world innovation challenges.

This problem offers a platform for innovators to co-develop breakthrough options that push the boundaries of style, texture, vitamin, and sustainability — and to speed up their pathway to industrial partnerships and market adoption. The problem statements have been categorised beneath three broad themes: components, processing and sustainability.

Across Asia and past, the meals trade is evolving quickly. Consumers are in search of more healthy, extra sustainable decisions with out compromising on indulgence or sensory expertise. From creating cocoa alternate options and warmth-resilient chocolate to subsequent-era fat, oils, and purposeful components, these problem statements signify the slicing fringe of meals innovation.

If you’re a foodtech startup or SME trying to remodel massive concepts into daring options, be part of the Foodtech Frontier Challenge and form the following frontier of meals!

Funding

• Challenge house owners are providing greater than S$450,000 value of paid pilots to help co-innovation with successful answer suppliers.
• In addition, Enterprise Singapore is augmenting this help with a S$20,000 POC growth grant for eligible startups/SMEs. Foreign startups/SMEs could also be thought-about if developmental actions are primarily based in Singapore and provided that a Singapore workplace is included. The POC Development grant is also awarded to startups/SMEs included in Singapore for tasks with abroad pilot deployment potential.

Eligibility

• Open to foodtech startup or SME trying to remodel massive concepts into daring options.
• Applications could also be from wherever on this planet.

Evaluation Criteria

• Technical Feasibility & Novelty
  • Does the answer reveal modern use of expertise, showcasing technical experience and creativity?
  • Is there a transparent rationalization of how the technical elements of the answer tackle the sustainability problem, emphasising uniqueness and novelty?
• Business Feasibility
  • Is the enterprise mannequin scalable, demonstrating the answer’s potential for market acceptance and development?
• Team Capacity & Expertise
  • Does the staff have diversified abilities, related experience, and a historical past of profitable collaborations, demonstrating their confirmed means to ship the answer?
• Details of POC / MVP
  • Does the Proof of Concept / Minimum Viable Product (MVP) proposal cowl ample particulars regarding implementation, timeline, and value?

Application

Applications will shut on Monday, 30 June 2025, 11.59pm (GMT+8).

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Foodtech Frontier Challenge.