Brussels, 16 December 2024 - EuropaBio is delighted to announce that ShakeUp Factory, a Paris-based organisation dedicated to accelerating European agri-foodtech innovation, has joined its membership.

Founded in 2015, ShakeUp Factory is dedicated to supporting agri-foodtech champions through strategic synergies between startups, corporations, research organisations, investors, and other key stakeholders. Recognising biotechnologies as the future frontier of food innovation, Shakeup Factory is a leading accelerator supporting European pioneers in this space. Through collaborations, open innovation, and synergy-building initiatives, Shakeup Factory fosters a unique ecosystem of 500+ European agrifood actors to create the most scalable, sustainable, and impactful food solutions.

Shakeup Factory has already laid the groundwork for this vision, recently initiating an EIT Food-supported ecosystem to establish key recommendations and actionable roadmaps that will drive the growth of biotech applications in food. As a EuropaBio member, Shakeup Factory is committed to bringing thought leadership, influential partnerships, R&D expertise, industrialisation capabilities, and entrepreneurial support to contribute to EuropaBio's objectives and to elevate Europe as a global hub for biotech food innovation.

“ShakeUp Factory represents the ambition and potential of Europe to achieve global innovation and resilience for supply chains and sustainable agri-food production. Benefits will be felt by all, from farmers through to consumers and enable Europe to continue its world-leading stance of healthy and accessible food from a diverse industrial value chain.” says Dr. Claire Skentelbery, Director General of EuropaBio.

Kevin Camphuis, CoFounder of ShakeUp Factory adds ‘’We’re thrilled to join and build on such a strong and recognized organization as EuropaBio as we share the same ambition to accelerate the deployment of biotechnologies to food and agriculture, a still nascent but so promising matter with geostrategic opportunities to seize for Europe’’.

For more information on Shakeup Factory, please visit shakeupfactory.com