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Do you have an innovative project that rethinks our food system in a more sustainable, healthy, and inclusive way?
The DSR Foundation, in partnership with the Eldora Group, launches the DSR Award - Innovation for a Sustainable Food System - this first edition will reward and scale up Swiss startups engaged in the transformation of the food system.
This prize is offered by DSR, a non-profit organization based in Switzerland. Eldora serves as the implementing partner for the prize, while MassChallenge supports the overall management of the competition.
The DSR Foundation, in partnership with the Eldora Group, launches the DSR Award - Innovation for a Sustainable Food System - this first edition will reward and scale up Swiss startups engaged in the transformation of the food system.
This prize is offered by DSR, a non-profit organization based in Switzerland. Eldora serves as the implementing partner for the prize, while MassChallenge supports the overall management of the competition.
End Date15 Oct 2025 Funding AmountUpto USD 50k Funding Resource TypeInnovation Award
Funding ProviderFondation DSR,Groupe Eldora,MassChallenge Switzerland
Innovation Award
Fondation DSR,Groupe Eldora,MassChallenge Switzerland
The DSR Foundation, in partnership with the Eldora Group, launches the DSR Award - Innovation for a Sustainable Food System - this first edition will reward and scale up Swiss startups engaged in the transformation of the food system.
This prize is offered by DSR, a non-profit organization based in Switzerland. Eldora serves as the implementing partner for the prize, while MassChallenge supports the overall management of the competition.
The DSR Foundation seeks to reward a Swiss project that is innovative, viable, and has a social and/or environmental impact, such as:
• Promoting health through better nutrition
• Reducing the ecological footprint of food
• Access to quality food
• Reducing food waste
• Strengthening the social bond through food
What are the eligibility criteria?
1. Be a Swiss-based startup active in Switzerland
2. Created less than 3 years ago
3. For-profit or not-for-profit
4. Proposing a concrete solution (MVP) that can potentially be tested and developed within the Eldora Group. This could be any solution involved in food production and consumption, from farm to waste, that the Eldora Group could help scale
5. With less than CHF 2 million of equity financing from professional investors
