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Report】Foodtech Grand Prix 2024: Grand Prize Won by DigiTaste

2024/10/07

The Food Tech Grand Prix 2024 was held on Saturday, October 5, 2024 at the Center of Garage to select the winning teams for the Grand Prize and the Corporate Award.

Since 2020, Tech Planter has been promoting the concept of "Deep Issue & Deep Tech Explorer," in which unsolved issues (deep issues) are solved through the collective use of science and technology (deep tech). On the day of the event, the 12 finalist teams of the Food Tech Grand Prix, selected from among the 336 teams that applied for the Tech Planter 2024, passionately presented their ideas for developing fundamental technologies that could lead to solutions to various social issues through the use of technology.

The winner of the prestigious Grand Prize is DigiTaste, a personal taste sensor that digitizes and shares taste. Since the taste can be instantly digitized at a very low cost, we aim to create a world where each person can have a taste sensor to measure food quality, manage their health, and share their food experiences.

DigiTaste is a science and technology that can build a new food culture while inheriting Japan's rich food culture, and it is expected that all stakeholders in the food tech field can work together on this project. DigiTaste was selected as the Grand Prize winner because it is a science and technology that can build a new food culture while inheriting Japan's rich food culture.

DigiTaste, along with the Tech Planter Grand Prize winning teams in six other areas,The Japan Society for Hyperdifferentiation 2025 Tokyo-Kanto Conference(March 7 and 8, 2025) to participate in a special pitch session. Furthermore, the two teams that excel in this session will participate in the TECH PLANTER Asia Final 2025. Through these initiatives, we aim to unite Japanese and Southeast Asian ventures, large and medium-sized companies to develop solutions to deep issues in Southeast Asia.

DigiTaste and the entire jury for the Grand Prize

List of Company Awards and Grand Prizes

Team Name	theme	winning (a prize)
Ethical Products Co.	Granular compositions utilizing osmotic liquid conversion technology
Kinish Corporation	Milk from Rice - Revolutionizing Dairy Products through Plant Molecular Agriculture	Real Tech Fund Award
FERMECTES Corporation	Creating a Sustainable Food Culture with Bacillus natto Protein	Kirin Group Award
Sawyer Corporation	UP 0 TECH® Challenge to a Circular Economy
DigiTaste	Personal taste sensor to digitize and share tastes	UnlocX Award Grand Prize
LipiDream	Development of a compact distillation column that refines and recycles waste oil on site
Shokei Living Labo	Health from the outside in! Development of hair growth supplements
aminoCheck	Development of Amino Acid Sensor Contributing to Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Fields	JOYL Award
Tomo Food	Visualizing Food Manufacturing Processes with Electrical Measurement
neutrifusion	Development of foods that improve the absorption of nutrients and functional ingredients	Yoshinoya Prize
view age	Breakthrough freshness evaluation technology to improve food loss around the world
Circulatory Failure Laboratory	eliminate swelling from the world	Nipun Award JT Prize

Demo Day Implementation Overview
Name of the Grand Prix: Foodtech Grand Prix 2024
Location: Center of Garage (1-16-3 Yokogawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0003, Japan)
Date: Saturday, October 5, 2024, 13:00-20:00
Participation: Closed, pre-registration required (entry teams, partner companies, Super Factory Group Professional Supporters)
Related:Food Tech Grand Prix

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