DESAFIA FOODTECH NETHERLANDS 2022

June 13 2022 - June 24 2022

Dec 20 2021

The Most Promising Spanish FoodTech Startups Met Leading Partners in the Dutch Food Ecosystem!

With the Desaﬁa FoodTech Netherlands 2021, ICEX and Unknown Group aim to enable the most promising Spanish startups to scale their solutions to The Netherlands and beyond.

For two weeks, participants met leading partners and stakeholders in the Dutch food ecosystem, to dive deeper into doing business in The Netherlands and prepare their market entrance.

Partnership Development Workshop

Graham Cross is the PhD and director of Innosapiens, a company specialized in innovation management, collaborative innovation and open innovation partnerships. Graham gave an in-depth workshop going over the di erent kinds of partnership models he encountered during his career and the best collaboration strategies. He also highlighted the importance of having very clear partnership terms and gave numerous examples of ways to handle and ﬁnalize a corporate deal. This workshop was very valuable to the startups as they were about to meet potential partners later that week during the Matchmaking Day.

Matchmaking Day with potential partners

To conclude their two-week introduction in the Dutch food ecosystem, the Spanishstartups participated in a hybrid Matchmaking Day organized by Unknown Group. Together with leading corporate partners in the industry, the startups explored potential collaboration opportunities.

Some of the partners came in person to meet the startups and have a 30-min conversation with them, while tasting some of their best products, others attended online.

The companies which attended the Matchmaking Day are the following:

The conversations with the startups were fruitful and some additional meetings will help them ﬁgure out how they could collaborate with these Dutch companies in the future.