World Food Convention Start-Up Pitch

Cup is an Agri-tech and Waste Management startup based in Egypt that builds a waste collection system to collect the spent coffee ground” SCG”, to maximize value out of it by reusing it to develop and empower solutions for the Agri-sector. We developed a highly efficient Agri-solution to cultivate mushrooms using the spent coffee ground as the main soil. In the meantime, we are working on the Research and development vertical, and horizontal which means we are developing new mushroom strains to offer to the market and developing new Agri-solutions out of the spent coffee ground to the Agri-sector in Egypt and the MENA region. Website

iPoP Africa is an agribusiness initiative under the Nutritious Agriculture Network LLC reclaiming the sovereignty of indigenous grains in shaping the future of snacking fulling the quest of a healthy population seeking healthier, plant-forward, on-the-go snack bringing robust ethnic flavors without giving up their moments of indulgence. We promote ecofriendly purchase of snacks by offering sustainable reusable packaging bags and making our customers tree heroes through our one snack one tree initiative as we create jobs for the youth and women. Website

Kitovu enables smallholder farmers to cut down input costs ,increase yields and sales by providing them with precise inputs, personalized soil and crop health insights, and market linkages. Website

We are a Agritech startup based in Pune, Maharashtra, India and have developed a Patent Granted, AI Driven and IoT ready Farmer Obedient Motor Controller for electric water pumps on agriculture farms used for irrigation with an ability to cover up the lost time. This can be used by individual farmers and its precision operations save a lot of water, power and eliminate the need for manual intervention to operate the pumps. Provides precise water to the fields based on timing provided by the farmer. Needless to say that precise operation results in huge savings of water and electricity. Farmers can make the daily activity of attending to pump operations redundant. Website

FoodChain is a blockchain platform developed for the Shared Food Economy, which allows both food businesses and customers to benefit from reducing food waste. In order to establish a sustainable environment, FoodChain will create a gamified ecosystem that will cater for the needs of both businesses and customers. Customers have access to food at reduced rates, exclusive deals, peer-to-peer food sharing, and are rewarded for actively participating in sharing knowledge and ideas on reducing food waste at home. Businesses can increase their revenue by selling food that they would otherwise throw away, improve their marketing campaigns by tapping into data that had never been previously available, and consolidate their CSR initiatives by promoting food waste reduction. Close connection between companies can be established at the platform. The integrated Supply/Demand system can help Food Producers to be in-fast connection with Food Venues. This will help both to use exact economic values like particular needs, prices, times, etc. Website

Cyamonia's vision is to disrupt the current organic food market by introducing an innovative cutting edge technology for producing a high nitrogen fertilizer from the atmosphere using nitrogen fixing Cyanobacteria. Our automated photo-bioreactors operate on-site and produce ammonia from the air using the sun as an energy source. This will increase tremendously the availability of precision organic fertilizer for food growers worldwide, and drastically reduce the huge carbon footprint of fertilizers originating in the Haber Bosch process. Website

About Vauttech India Pvt. Ltd.: Vauttech India is an Indian IoT & Supply Chain Agribusiness Development Organization. Where we support farmers to sell and purchase their products through the help of a digital platform or separately through the help of our outlet. We have associated with Marginal Poultry Farmers, Dairy Farmers, and F&V Farmers, where they do their farming regularly as it is with a very small investment. Also, we support farmers to get funds from NABARD, Loans with minimum Interest Rate and within our group of farmers support each other. Our Basic motto is to help villages to generate fixed income to survive, Generate employment within the society, and create communication transparency within the organization and FPOs.We also support small and medium stakeholders, suppliers, and other manufacturers to introduces their products through our channel, where our farmers and stakeholders get direct benefits with less cost of wastage. Vauttech constant endeavor to deliver high-quality products has resulted in it becoming a household name to the farmer. This success has only inspired us to seek out more quality partnerships. With the intent to offer the best products to a large network of farmers, build lasting relationships with us. Our vision is to develop a sustainable ecosystem for poultry, dairy, and F&V sectors within the village. Also, we care about our environment where we focus to build Biogas Plant. Our main focus area on social development within the society where Remove Farmer distress and reduces suicide cases within the farmers and youths. Vauttech India Pvt. Ltd. is certified by STARTUP INDIA and Recognised & Supported by BIHAR AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY SABOUR Website

Hearthy aims to contribute to the vision of a society with no waste. Noticing human hair’s disposal and learning about their slow decomposing rates and potential uses, we came up with the idea of using it combined with compost as an organic plant fertilizer. Embracing sustainability and innovation, we have created a product that has many benefits to offer. Hearthy is an eco-friendly start-up that utilizes human hair waste into natural fertilizer through composting.