Foodtech Frontier Challenge 2025 for Startups (grants available)

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About Foodtech Frontier Challenge

This challenge provides a platform for innovators to co-develop breakthrough solutions that push the boundaries of taste, texture, nutrition, and sustainability - and to accelerate their pathway to commercial partnerships and market adoption. The challenge statements have been categorised under three broad themes: ingredients, processing and sustainability.

Across Asia and beyond, the food industry is evolving rapidly. Consumers are seeking healthier, more sustainable choices without compromising on indulgence or sensory experience. From developing cocoa alternatives and heat-resilient chocolate to next-generation fats, oils, and functional ingredients, these challenge statements represent the cutting edge of food innovation.

If you're a foodtech startup or SME looking to transform big ideas into bold solutions, join the Foodtech Frontier Challenge and shape the next frontier of food!

• Sponsor Organisation: Enterprise Singapore

Benefits of Foodtech Frontier Challenge

Successful participants of the Foodtech Frontier Challenge will gain access to a range of exciting opportunities:

• Paid pilot and trials with corporate partners to test and validate your solution in real-world settings;
• Co-innovation opportunities with challenge owners, tapping into their expertise, infrastructure, and networks;
• Mentorship and industry networking to sharpen your value proposition and open doors for collaboration; and
• Potential grant support to accelerate development and deployment.

Challenge owners are offering more than S$450,000 worth of paid pilots to support co-innovation with winning solution providers.

Enterprise Singapore is augmenting this support with a S$30,000 Proof of Concept (POC) development grant for eligible startups/SMEs. Foreign startups/SMEs may be considered if developmental activities are based in Singapore and only if a Singapore office is incorporated. The POC development grant could also be awarded to startups/SMEs incorporated in Singapore for projects with overseas pilot deployment potential.

Foodtech Frontier Challenge Requirements

• Open to foodtech startup or SME looking to transform big ideas into bold solutions.
• Applications may be from anywhere in the world.

Evaluation Criteria

- Technical Feasibility & Novelty

• Does the solution demonstrate innovative use of technology, showcasing technical expertise and creativity?
• Is there a clear explanation of how the technical aspects of the solution address the sustainability challenge, emphasising uniqueness and novelty?

- Business Feasibility

• Is the business model scalable, demonstrating the solution's potential for market acceptance and growth?

- Team Capacity & Expertise

• Does the team have varied skills, relevant expertise, and a history of successful collaborations, demonstrating their proven ability to deliver the solution?

- Details of POC / MVP

• Does the Proof of Concept / Minimum Viable Product (MVP) proposal cover sufficient details relating to implementation, timeline, and cost?

Application Date and Process

• Click on the link to the application website to apply. For more information, see FAQs.

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

Application Deadline

30 June, 2025

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