What’s new with us?
Dear Foodtech Community,
It’s been over a year since our last acceleration, so we wanted to let you know what we’ve been up to. We also prepared a recap of the most important foodtech news from the last few months.
Grabo is actively supporting the companies in our portfolio and preparing a webinar – you can read more about it in the next section of the newsletter. He’s also working on a new acceleration program that we will run together with a major partner. Announcement on September 1st!
Michał Mądry is focused on commercial projects we are delivering for major players in the food industry.
Misza is doing what he does best – opening up new business paths for us, including getting involved getting involved in mental-health initiatives.
At the beginning of the year, Monika Borowiecka (Tangent Line Ventures, ex‑Mars) joined our team. She’s expanding our partner network, engaging in lobbying and regulatory work related to foodtech in the public sector and co‑creating both the webinar and the new acceleration program.
Meanwhile, Marcel returned to Warsaw after a year on exchange at the London School of Economics and is making sure our webinar reaches as many people as possible who operate in AgriFood startups across Europe.
Finally, we encourage you to make sure #foodtech and #agritech are well represented in the annual Polish Startups 2025 report prepared by Startup Poland. Filling out the survey takes 10-15 minutes and is open until September 2nd.
If you feel like talking to us about anything – we’d love to hear from you.
The foodtech.ac Team
Webinar: Why Poland? Unlocking AgriFood Innovation in Central Europe
📈 Are you an AgriFood startup, accelerator, VC fund or food‑industry company operating outside Poland and thinking about entering the Polish market? Our 90‑minute webinar will show why Poland is an exciting place to grow – from collaboration with retail chains and R&D centers, through access to VC, grants and soft‑landing programs, to real‑world case studies and commercialization pathways.
We primarily invite participants from outside Poland, but if you operate locally and this topic is highly relevant to you – feel free to join!
📅 Date: September 11th, 2025
⏰ Time: 15:00 CET
💻 Where: Online
If this webinar might be interesting to someone in your network, we’d be grateful if you could pass it on. Thank you!
News
🖥️ Embargo – a Polish‑British startup developing a loyalty platform and CRM system for the HoReCa industry raised about 13 million PLN (~3 million EUR) from Polish business angels – Tomasz Woźniak, Paweł Masalski, Adam Radzki and Paweł Fornalski – as well as international investors.
🛒 Salling Seeds – a new VC fund with the capitalization of 67 million EUR established by Denmark’s Salling Group – the owner of the Netto retail chain in Poland. The fund is looking for innovative startups and scale‑ups that can shape the future of retail. Brian Olesen, CEO of Netto Poland, encourages Polish startups to apply. More information can be found on the fund’s official website.
🦗 Proteine Resources – a startup producing insect protein for animal feed announced in July that it raised 9,5 million EUR from the EU’s EIC Accelerator program.
🌱 Listny Cud – one of Poland’s most recognized vertical‑farming startups ended its operations at the end of June. The founder, Matylda Szyrle, explains the reasons and lessons learned.
🍏 Fresh Inset – Poland’s leader in extending the freshness of agricultural products using Vidre+™ technology raised 18 million PLN (~4,2 million EUR) in a Late‑B round led by Radix Ventures, which contributed over 6 million PLN (~1,4 million EUR). New investors also include Fresh Inset team members – Peter Vriends, Tim Malefyt and Juan Llauro, as well as existing shareholders and business angels in a follow‑on.
🍔 Planeat – was accepted into the 13th cohort of the prestigious Berlin‑based ProVeg Incubator in April and will present on September 18th during the demo day, which can be attended both in person and online.
🍲 Choice – a restaurant SaaS platform operating in seven CEE markets raised 1 million EUR from the Polish fund Smartlink Partners to grow both on the Polish market and expand into Romania and Hungary.
🥑 Foodsi – an app fighting food waste with over 2 million users announced a partnership with Żabka in March.
🚚 Restimo – which is developing an application for restaurants and retailers that integrates popular food‑delivery platforms, online ordering systems, courier companies and POS systems closed its third investment round at late‑seed stage for 2 million PLN (~460k EUR) in February, with participation of business angels Mike Korba and Aleksandr Zuza, as well as Iglotex S.A.
🧪 uFraction8 – a biotech startup founded by Monika Tomecka working in the field of microalgae production raised 17 million PLN (~4 million EUR) from foreign investors in February.
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