Kitocoat is excited to be awarded 1st place at Rosewood Seeds 2025🎉 A big thank you to Rosewood Foundation and Brinc for shining a light on solutions that can make the food system more sustainable. We also want to thank the coaches, judges and Castor for all their support throughout the program🙏 Congratulations to all the finalists for the impressive work you’re driving forward🫶🏻 This recognition strengthens our mission to extend shelf life, reduce food waste and ensure more food reaches people instead of being lost. 💚
We are delighted to announce the awardees of this year’s Rosewood Seeds, a global platform supported by Rosewood Hotel Group that fosters market innovations addressing sustainability challenges. Led by Rosewood Foundation in partnership with Brinc, this third year of the program focused on startups offering innovative solutions to reduce waste across the food ecosystem—from production to distribution and consumption. Over 100 brilliant startups from 37 countries competed for the top three positions this year. Eight finalists received coaching from experts in venture capital and hospitality. Top three awardees: KITOCOAT (1st Place): Developers of a natural, edible, and biodegradable coating made from seafood by-products and fungi that extends the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. Dapibuset (2nd Place): Offers an advanced fermentation technological solution that transforms excess agricultural crops and factory by-products into high-value protein. Jaikla (3rd Place): A sustainable pet brand that upcycles food waste into natural and nutritious pet food products using Black Soldier Flies larvae as bio-converters. Finalists: nibs etc. Ltd, NAT4Bio, Mottainai Food Tech, Green Connect, and Gaia Software Congratulations to the awardees and finalists, and our heartfelt appreciation to the judges—Luca De Negri, Stephan Tschuppik, Manav Gupta, Alexandra Clunies-Ross, Mehvesh Mumtaz Ahmed —and the coaches—Shibani Mone, Jan van Dyk, Richard Hilton, and Francisco Sanabria. Let’s keep pushing boundaries and building a more sustainable world together. #RosewoodFoundation #RosewoodSeeds #Sustainability #Innovation #Circularity #Startups