Meet the participants: Food Chain Accelerator 2025

Farm to Home is An app-based marketplace that connects Dutch households directly with local farms and delivers nationwide three days a week (Mon, Wed, Fri).

Customers can choose curated farm boxes or build their own order, with a flat €5 delivery fee, no minimum order, and the option to pay in-app or on delivery.

Partnering with producers such as De Groene Griffioen and Duintuin, FarmToHome uses compostable/biodegradable packaging, short transport routes to lower emissions, and just-in-time pickups to minimize food waste.

Favamole is a flavourful, plant-based alternative to guacamole made from local fava beans, positioned as a sustainable swap you can use across everyday meals (think tacos, sandwiches, salads).

Based in Amsterdam, Favamole highlights local sourcing and invites distribution inquiries, with the brand featuring the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development in its footer.

JUBL Foods makes chocopaste made with 40% chickpeas, 50% less sugar than comparable spreads, and 100% plant-based, palm-oil-free, and fiber-rich. It’s listed as an official “Dagkeuze” by the Voedingscentrum and is free from nuts, peanuts, gluten, sesame, and lactose—aiming to make the healthier choice the easy one. JUBL’s webshop is live, and the team also offers free tastings for Dutch after-school care (BSO).

Mama Habesha — Organic, East African seasoned ghee (Tesmi) for high-heat cooking up to 250°C; lactose-free, casein-low, and made from Dutch organic butter, available in 200/300/500/875 ml sizes. Featured on national TV (BinnensteBuiten) and nominated Top 3 “Bio Product of the Year 2025.” Alongside production, Mama Habesha creates learning workplaces where refugees can build skills and language on the job.

Proeon — Developer of next-gen plant protein ingredients with in-house application know-how. The portfolio includes PROEON MUNG80 (a high-functional isolate for plant-based egg formulations) and PROEON PEANUT80 (a clean-tasting isolate for bars, ready-to-mix drinks, cereals, and peanut butter). Proeon operates across India and the Netherlands (Biotech Campus Delft) and sets clear impact targets, including replacing 1.2 billion eggs and significant water/CO₂ savings.

Sheartex by DST — A continuous shearing and mixing process that structures plant proteins into meat-like fibers and is positioned as a next-gen successor to traditional extrusion.

The system is scalable up to ~1,000 kg/hour, lets manufacturers tune fiber length/strength, and can incorporate wet (fats, emulsions) and dry flavor ingredients in-line—enabling chicken, fish, beef and minced-style textures at industrial volumes.

DST offers user-friendly Sheartex machines engineered for flexibility and low maintenance, designed in the Netherlands.

The Republic of Everyone (by Moyee Coffee) — Launched in 2022 as the world’s first “coffee commons,” The Republic builds a FairChain brand where coffee is grown and roasted in Kenya/East Africa and more value stays with local communities.

They’re scaling operations around factories, farmers, and forests, with a Nairobi roastery already in place and a Republic Café opening in Westlands, Nairobi this summer—aimed at making “quality = equality” more than a slogan.

Tortillería Taiyari — The first authentic Mexican tortillería & molino in the Netherlands, crafting tortillas, tostadas, and totopos the traditional way.

They nixtamalize organic/native corn and grind it on a volcanic-stone molino before pressing and baking in-house, with products shipped to restaurants, local grocers, and homes across Europe. Their mission centers on heritage and sustainability, sourcing native corn from Mexico and certified organic corn from the Netherlands.

Tuintje van Adam — Urban mushroom farm in Amsterdam-Noord (Noordoogst) using circular substrates from local residual streams (e.g., wood pellets and grain by-products) to grow premium varieties like lion’s mane, oyster, and shiitake for restaurants and consumers.

They run farm tours & workshops (every Saturday from 2025), supply horeca with a dedicated order list, and channel spent substrate back as compost—closing the loop in the city.

WOEKER by Harvest Hub — Maastricht-based café and corporate caterer serving Zuid-Limburg, offering next-day delivery for orders placed before 16:00 and free local delivery above €150.

Their menu is built around organic, pesticide-free ingredients, often sourced locally — including produce from their own nature-inclusive family farm. Under the WOEKER label, they develop products made with ingredients from food forests and wild nature to help valorize those harvests and introduce more people to this farming method.

Wonderbot (by Alex in Wonderland) — A 24/7 “meal robot” serving highly nutritious, environmentally sustainable dishes. Meals are cooked daily and delivered fresh to the machines, ordered via an app at convenient locations, and served in recyclable aluminium packaging to cut plastic waste.

Ingredients come from local, chemical-free farms like De Groente Amsterdammer, and the team behind it has catered plant-based meals for clients such as Patagonia, Adidas, Dekmantel, the University of Amsterdam, and Karl Lagerfeld—now piloting at UvA.