Transforma Alimentos

About Transforma Alimentos

Transforma Alimentos is a Chilean food-innovation platform dedicated to articulating and promoting a more sustainable, innovative, collaborative, and future-oriented food system. It works to position Chile and Latin America as global references for high-value food solutions that contribute to greater prosperity, human well-being, and ecosystem care.

The organization serves companies, startups, entrepreneurs, public institutions, academia, and other ecosystem actors that need connection, visibility, and support to develop and scale food innovation. Its role is primarily that of an ecosystem builder: it convenes stakeholders, identifies strategic opportunities, and helps turn innovation into market-ready solutions with stronger commercial and territorial impact.

Core Values

• Sustainability: The organization consistently frames food innovation as a way to reduce environmental impact, improve resource use, and support a more sustainable food system.
• Collaboration: It emphasizes public-private-academic coordination and cross-sector linkage as the basis for scaling innovation and avoiding duplication of effort.
• Innovation with market impact: Its work focuses on turning ideas into concrete products, services, and business opportunities that can reach buyers and consumers.
• Future orientation: Transforma Alimentos promotes solutions designed for long-term competitiveness, resilience, and value creation in Chile and Latin America.

Unique Aspects

• More than 10 years of ecosystem-building experience: The organization highlights over a decade of combined experience in articulating and promoting strategic initiatives for the food sector.
• Broad public-private network: It has built an extensive network of public and private actors for food innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling large-scale coordination across the ecosystem.
• Proven sectoral execution: The site emphasizes strong execution of sector programs aimed at global industry challenges, including repeated editions of the Chilean Food Innovation Catalog and major sector events.
• Strategic partnership with Nutrisco: News on the site states that Nutrisco became the first strategic partner of the future Transforma Alimentos nonprofit corporation, supporting a new institutional phase from 2026.
• Long track record under Corfo: The organization reports that it completed 10 years as a Corfo strategic program, during which it promoted more than 200 strategic initiatives, mobilized over US$70 million in public-private investment, and connected more than 2,000 entities.