The Agrifood Innovation Demo Day brought two entrepreneurship programmes to a close in Nicosia on 6 November. Teams from EWA Growand Ground2Scale+ presented their businesses to juries at the same event. Each programme had its own prizes, which were presented at an awards ceremony after the pitches. The winning four ventures received a combined €17,000.
SocialTech Lab, EIT Food’s country representative in Cyprus, organised the event at the Loft Restaurant at SIX UNIC Residences. Each programme had a cohort of ten.
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EWA Grow Prizes
EWA Grow (Empowering Women in Agrifood) ran in Cyprus for the first time in 2026. The six-month programme gave women-led ventures weekly mentoring and expert training to help them test their ideas and develop their businesses.
BeeVia won first place and €10,000. The venture is developing an app that lets beekeepers record information about their hives. Goodbits took second place and €5,000 for its work on freeze-dried snacks made from local fruit.
Ground2Scale+ Prizes
The EIT Food Challenge Lab: Ground2Scale+ was an eight-week programme that helped teams test their ideas with customers and plan how to bring them to market. Both winning ventures work in fermentation.
Freyia Labs won €1,000 and automatic entry to the agrifood track of SocialTech Lab’s 2027 Venture Builder. The company is developing software that combines batch records with live monitoring to help food and drink producers spot problems earlier in fermentation.
Ella Bacteria received the other €1,000. The Larnaca business produces kombucha, kimchi and other fermented foods.
