Startup Innovation Challenge 2023

2. Most Innovative Nutraceutical Ingredient

This category covers innovative ingredients for nutraceuticals, supplements, or functional food and beverages that can offer scientific substantiation of their efficacy.

Novella

Novella leverages proprietary technology to grow nutritious, cultured botanical ingredients while leaving the whole plant out of the equation.

Kresko RNAtech

Kresko uses RNAs to design dietary supplements that re-educate the body to better cope with stressful and changing conditions.

EKTAH

Ektah develops a molecule, which is a human fat taste receptor’s agonist, that can naturally induce anorectic peptides, resulting in early satiety and weight loss.

Exosomm

Exosomm produces active anti-inflammatory ingredients containing milk exosomes for a variety of medical conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome.

BCD Bioscience

BCD develops highly soluble and easily formulable barley beta-glucan oligosaccharide that can be used by pre- and early-stage diabetics to help manage their blood glucose levels.

Circul’Egg

Circul’Egg upcycles empty eggshells rejected by egg-breaking factories and turns them into high-value ingredients for nutraceuticals