02/20/2019
Finalists for the Rabobank-MIT Innovation Prize!
We are beyond excited to announce the eight finalists for the prize. In the 4th year of hosting, we are thrilled to have received nearly 50 submissions, double our number from the previous year, from 11 schools from around the US and the world. Each submission was carefully reviewed by a panel of food experts and rated on impact, viability, and team.
Check out the list of finalists below and on our website: http://food-ag.squarespace.com/finalists
- Bare Bear is making completely edible packaging for instant coffee and tea that dissolves upon water contact.
- Caldo is developing fully-automated, 24-hour vending machines assembling customized fresh ingredient meals for offices, schools, airports, and hospitals using healthy and inexpensive heating technology.
- COZY Nutrition produces hypoallergenic and easy to digest special milk for infants with tummy issues applying genetic based technologies, as well as provides a dairy-free, soy-free baby formula made with human breast milk proteins to mimic human breast milk.
- Gramhal provides end-to-end solution of storage, credit and selling to smallholder farmers, and empower them to access better price through digital platform.
- Haystack leverages recent advances in computer vision, deep learning, and sensing to automate the detection and removal of w**ds on farms, thereby significantly alleviating the labor shortage and reducing herbicide use.
- Iamus is developing robotic and accompanying data analytics technology to transform global poultry production.
- Mosaic Sensors plans to develop an affordable nutrient sensor to manage nitrogen and phosphorous application at the farm level and ultimately mitigate runoff that pollutes downstream waterways.
- Velaron develops state-of-the-art technologies to achieve smart, sustainable aquaculture.
