Food industry in Chile relies on BigData and AI

Through exten­sive invest­ments and pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ships, Chile’s agribusi­ness indus­try has been able to lever­age its expe­ri­ence in inter­na­tion­al mar­kets, its mod­ern infra­struc­ture and its logis­tics capa­bil­i­ties to pave the way for the devel­op­ment of new inno­v­a­tive projects. With its sup­port for Big Data and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, the coun­try aims to main­tain its inter­na­tion­al lead­er­ship and con­tribute to the food sup­ply of the future.

As part of ProChile Glob­al X, the Chilean gov­ern­men­t’s new accel­er­a­tor pro­gram for star­tups and scale-ups, ProChile is high­light­ing the most ground­break­ing agribusi­ness projects reach­ing the Euro­pean market.

The Not Company

With its arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence-based algo­rithm called Giuseppe, The Not Com­pa­ny dis­sects the mol­e­c­u­lar char­ac­ter­is­tics of foods of ani­mal ori­gin and iden­ti­fies equiv­a­lent mol­e­cules to repro­duce their tex­ture, aro­ma, taste and their func­tion­al prop­er­ties from pure­ly plant-based ingre­di­ents. Thanks to this tech­nol­o­gy, the start-up is cur­rent­ly pro­duc­ing a range of veg­an alter­na­tives for milk, sauces, ice cream and meat, and is work­ing on the design of hun­dreds of oth­er products.

The Not Com­pa­ny was rec­og­nized as part of the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Tech­no­log­i­cal Pio­neers 2020 pro­gram and was the first Chilean com­pa­ny to be includ­ed in the top 10 of For­ward Food­ing’s FoodTech500 index.

The Live Green Co

Using a sim­i­lar mol­e­c­u­lar analy­sis mod­el, Chara­ka, The Live Green Co’s algo­rithm, devel­ops recipes for ready-to-eat mix­es of pan­cakes or ham­burg­ers made from pure­ly plant-based ingre­di­ents that can be pre­pared by adding a lit­tle water. How­ev­er, the com­pa­ny’s busi­ness mod­el is not to mar­ket such prod­ucts, but to license its soft­ware to large man­u­fac­tur­ers of processed foods. With this tech­nol­o­gy, play­ers in the agribusi­ness indus­try can find plant-based alter­na­tives to effort­less­ly replace the syn­thet­ic or ani­mal addi­tives they tra­di­tion­al­ly use to make their products.

As part of ProChile Glob­al X, the start-up has just been accept­ed into the Ger­man accel­er­a­tor pro­gram RESPOND 2021 of the BMW Foun­da­tion Her­bert Quand.

ProteraBio

By com­bin­ing biotech­nol­o­gy and food engi­neer­ing, Pro­ter­aBio has man­aged to devel­op a pre­dic­tive algo­rithm that cal­cu­lates mil­lions of amino acid com­bi­na­tions and sim­u­lates pat­terns for the pro­duc­tion of new, pro­tein-rich plant-based ingre­di­ents that are safer, more eco­nom­i­cal, sus­tain­able and health­i­er. Thanks to this tech­nol­o­gy, which Pro­ter­aBio hopes will rev­o­lu­tion­ize the glob­al pro­tein mar­ket, the com­pa­ny has just closed a $15.6 mil­lion invest­ment round led by Euro­pean ven­ture cap­i­tal firm Sofinno­va Part­ners, which spe­cial­izes in health and sustainability.

The Chilean agri-food sec­tor is one of the most dynam­ic sec­tors of the Chilean econ­o­my, sec­ond only to cop­per in exports. With this com­mit­ment to tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion, the Chilean gov­ern­ment aims to ush­er in a new era in its inter­na­tion­al strat­e­gy that goes beyond the export and import of prod­ucts and ser­vices and aims to cre­ate syn­er­gies that can pro­vide solu­tions to glob­al problems.