Axfoundation
- Type
- Research, Education & Health Organisation
- Location
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Food ingredients & products, Arable farming, Crop / plant science, Food waste tech, Waste efficiency, Farm management & precision farming, Supply chain monitoring & traceability, Sustainable packaging & plastic alternatives, Regenerative farming
- Domains
- Seaweed, Plant based primary products, Bakery, Processed food products
- Technologies
- Blockchain, Platform technology, Smart & digital, Platform & Service technologies, Food-waste technology, Circular & resource technologies
About Axfoundation
Axfoundation is an independent, non-profit organization that develops practical solutions to complex sustainability challenges. It works from the idea that business can be a driving force for change, and it collaborates with a broad range of actors across society to turn ideas into concrete, scalable solutions.
The organization focuses on issues linked to the things people buy, the food people eat, and the resources people use. Its work spans sustainable production and consumption, circular economy, future food, and social sustainability, with an emphasis on testing solutions in practice and then handing them over for wider use when they are ready.
Axfoundation positions itself as a practical “do-tank” rather than a think tank. It brings together companies, researchers, public actors, and civil society to accelerate sustainability transitions in food systems, supply chains, and material flows.
Core Values
- Practical impact: Axfoundation emphasizes concrete solutions that can be tested, improved, and scaled in real-world settings.
- Collaboration: The organization consistently works through broad partnerships across sectors, using shared problem-solving as a core method.
- Sustainability transition: Its projects are aimed at reducing climate, environmental, and social impacts while supporting long-term system change.
- Knowledge sharing: Axfoundation places strong value on spreading lessons learned and making results useful to others.
Unique Aspects
- Torsåker Farm as a test center: The organization operates Torsåker Farm north of Stockholm as a practical center for sustainable food systems, with fields, an experimental garden, test kitchens, a restaurant kitchen, and a bakery.
- Track record of scaling ideas: Axfoundation has developed projects that moved from testing to market or wider use, such as Swedish legume mince and minced bream.
- Broad partner network: The organization works with more than 200 partners in its own materials and over 300 partners in supplementary news, giving it unusual reach across sectors.
- Named cross-sector initiatives: It has helped found or host initiatives such as ETI Sweden, Sojadialogen, ProPare, and the Swedish Wool Initiative, showing a strong role in convening industry-wide change.
- Parent-company connection: Several initiatives have been linked to the Axel Johnson group, including the transfer of ÖppnaDörren to Axel Johnson’s Axelerate platform.