Awards & Recognition
Recognized for rethinking food production
Since 2020 we have been building new, innovative products from mycoprotein and plant proteins, using our own 3D structuring technology. Along the way, independent juries in food technology, sustainability and innovation have recognized that work.
Awards won
2024 — Generali SME EnterPRIZE, start-up special award
Generali Österreich · October 2024 · €3,000
Honoured in the start-up special category of Generali’s SME EnterPRIZE for sustainable business, for cutting the environmental footprint of seafood through 3D food printing. Read the announcement
2023 — EIT Food Marketed Innovation Prize, first place
EIT Food · March 2023 · €10,000
First place among the organisations recognised by EIT Food that year, for bringing four plant-based seafood products to market in more than 20 European countries. Read the announcement
2022 — Mercur Innovation Award, Sustainability category
Wirtschaftskammer Wien (Vienna Chamber of Commerce) · June 2022
Winner in the Sustainability category of the Mercur Innovation Award, chosen from 95 entries, for our 3D structuring process for plant proteins. Read the announcement
2020 — S&B Award, I.E.C.T. special prize
Rudolf Sallinger Fonds with I.E.C.T. – Hermann Hauser
Our earliest recognition, in our founding year: the I.E.C.T. special prize of the Science & Business Award, which came with a place at the I.E.C.T. Summer School. Read more
Finalist placements and nominations
2023 — XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion, finalist
XPRIZE Foundation · May 2023
One of six finalist teams in the US$15 million XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion competition, selected from 28 semifinalists in the alternative fish fillet track. Read the announcement
2023 — Plant-Based Taste Awards, finalist in Seafood
FoodBev Media · November 2023
THE FILET was shortlisted as a finalist in the seafood category of the Plant-Based Taste Awards. See the shortlist
2023 — Austrian SDG Award, nominee
Senat der Wirtschaft Österreich · category: small enterprises
Nominated in the small-enterprise category of the Austrian SDG Award, which recognises companies contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. See the nominees
Programmes and networks
Not prizes, but selective programmes that supported us early and still shape how we work.
- EIT Food RisingFoodStars — member of EIT Food’s network of high-potential agrifood scale-ups.
- EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN), 2021 — accelerator programme run through the Helsinki hub.
- EIT Food Global Food Venture Programme, 2020 — early-stage founder programme.
- EIT Food “10 agrifood startups to watch”, 2024 — selected by EIT Food for its annual watchlist.
- Impact Hub Vienna — venture in the Green at Heart programme.