THE ANIMAL-FREE TRACK

The Animal-Free Track is open to founders building technologies, products, and systems that remove the need for animals anywhere in the supply chain.
 

You heard that right! If that’s your mission too - this is your chance at securing a $100,000 investment!

Animal-free is defined broadly. This competition is not limited to food or consumer products, and it is not constrained to direct replacements for meat or dairy. We are interested in solutions that eliminate animal inputs, testing, labour, or dependency at any stage of production, processing, or distribution.

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Focus

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Eligible approaches include (but are not limited to):

 

Food & Ingredients

• Animal-free proteins, fats, enzymes, flavours, colourants, and functional ingredients

• Precision fermentation, biomass fermentation, cell-free systems, and novel plant or microbial inputs

• Animal-free dairy, eggs, seafood, honey, collagen, gelatin, and nutraceuticals

 

Materials & Manufacturing

• Animal-free leather, silk, wool, fur, feathers, and performance textiles

• Bio-based or synthetic alternatives for adhesives, coatings, foams, and composites

• Industrial materials that remove animal by-products from manufacturing processes

 

Life Sciences & Health

• Animal-free testing, screening, and R&D platforms

• Synthetic or recombinant inputs replacing animal-derived reagents, serums, or growth factors

• Drug discovery, diagnostics, and medical products designed without animal dependency

 

Supply Chain, Infrastructure & Enabling Technologies

• Platforms that redesign or de-risk animal-dependent supply chains

• Manufacturing, bioprocessing, or scale-up technologies that make animal-free systems cost-competitive

• Software, AI, or data systems that accelerate animal-free innovation, compliance, or adoption

 

Other / New Categories
Solutions that remove animals from supply chains in ways not yet well-defined or widely recognised
 

We welcome companies at the frontier - whether you are replacing, bypassing, or making animals obsolete in a given value chain. If your solution materially reduces or eliminates reliance on animals, we want to see it.