Food Hub SRL SB
- Type
- Professional Service Provider
- Location
- Cesena, Italy
- Industries
- Supply chain monitoring & traceability, Waste efficiency, Food ingredients & products, Consumer health & consumer effects, Food marketplace
- Domains
- Animal based primary products, Feed, Ingredients, Insect based primary products, Plant based primary products, Processed food products
- Technologies
- Artificial intelligence, Platform as a Service, Gamification, Smart & digital, Platform & Service technologies, Platform technology
About Food Hub SRL SB
Food Hub is an innovative startup and benefit corporation focused on accelerating development in the agrifood sector. It positions itself as a vertical partner for innovation, helping companies, research bodies, and professionals access key information, advanced training, strategic consulting, and connections across the agrifood innovation ecosystem.
The company combines communication, education, and consulting capabilities with a strong sector-specific network. Its work spans visibility and dissemination for innovation providers, training for companies and professionals, and strategic support for large organizations looking to build long-term R&D&I direction and connect with external innovation sources.
Food Hub presents itself as an agrifood innovation hub rather than a traditional consultancy: it works through community-building, open innovation, and ecosystem mapping to turn knowledge into practical business opportunities and collaborative projects.
Core Values
- Innovation: Food Hub is built around bringing new ideas, technologies, and methods into agrifood, from open innovation programs to strategic foresight and ecosystem scouting.
- Collaboration: The company emphasizes co-creation, networking, and matchmaking, helping different actors in the value chain work together on shared opportunities.
- Knowledge transfer: A central theme is translating scientific and technical knowledge into accessible, actionable content, training, and business decisions.
- Sustainability: Food Hub repeatedly links innovation to more sustainable agrifood development, including reduced waste, circularity, and better use of resources.
- Practical impact: Its services are designed to produce concrete outputs such as roadmaps, databases, events, partnerships, and project collaborations rather than only high-level advice.
Unique Aspects
- Vertical agrifood specialization: Food Hub is not a generalist agency or consultancy; it focuses specifically on agrifood innovation, which shapes its content, network, and service design.
- Strong ecosystem network: The company highlights access to a community of more than 40,000 stakeholders and a mapped base of more than 800 innovation providers, giving it a broad scouting and matchmaking reach.
- Institutional and research links: Food Hub says it has an agreement with CNR-UVR, is a member of the Clust-ER Agrifood of Emilia-Romagna, is accredited by the National Council of Food Technologists as an authorized training body, and partners with Foodvalley NL.
- Method ORBIT: Its ORBIT framework structures strategic innovation work into iterative phases that combine internal alignment, external scouting, and strategic synthesis into an actionable roadmap.
- EU project involvement: Food Hub has participated in funded research projects in Europe, reinforcing its role as a bridge between research, industry, and innovation transfer.