Pilot - FoodBytes!

Our Pilot program offers

Startups

Industry validation, accelerated growth and strategic corporate relationships.

Corporates

Test applications of technologies, products and strategies in partnership with startups matched to your innovation objectives.

Learn About Our Structured Pilot
Program

Program Breakdown

Through FoodBytes! Pilot, corporates and startups work together to tackle a specific goal or industry challenge over a 6-9 month period. Pilot offers a low-risk experimentation platform for corporates to validate new technologies and requires C-Suite engagement to ensure swift and meaningful startup collaboration. For startups, the program provides industry validation, and accelerated growth through access to corporate resources. Pilot outcomes include product co-development, commercial partnerships, licensing agreements, new customer relationships and investment.

Facilitated engagement with a structured
pilot approach

Corporate launch
Discovery and innovation objective alignment
Startup matching
Sourcing and onboarding
Pilot Execution
Validation and implementation

Proven results to galvanize change deep within
the organization

The power of this program is the new data points that have myth-busted and added to our data sets. It definitely has input into our portfolio of investments moving forward, and to get that insight in 3-4 months is a powerful tool.

Michael Lee

MLA

FoodBytes! Pilot helped us move our product forward and we’ve [generated] between $2-3M savings to date in one particular optimization for our collaborator GrainCorp.

Anthony Howcraft

Swarm Engineering

Everyone wants to get involved in innovation, but this a place for corporates, VCs and startups to all work together in a collaborative ecosystem and I'm really happy to be a part of it.

Michael Lavin

Germin8