The Food Foundry
- Type
- Professional Service Provider
- Location
- Netherlands
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Food reformulation
- Domains
- Processed food products, Beverages
About The Food Foundry
The Food Foundry is a food innovation consultancy that helps companies and innovators turn ideas into market-ready concepts. Based in the Netherlands, it combines strategy, marketing, culinary expertise, concept development, and process scale-up to support projects from early opportunity spotting through to execution.
The company positions itself as a practical innovation partner for the food industry, with a focus on new business development and on themes such as the protein transition, functional and healthy food, and circularity. Its approach is grounded in connecting business, consumer, and technology perspectives so that innovations are commercially viable, consumer-relevant, and technically feasible.
Core Values
- Innovation with purpose: The company focuses on turning ideas into outcomes that are commercially meaningful and relevant to real market needs.
- Consumer focus: Its work starts from consumer desires, eating occasions, and product experience, not just technical feasibility.
- Practical execution: The Food Foundry emphasizes moving from concept to production, with attention to scale-up, consistency, and quality.
- Sustainability and circularity: It explicitly works on solutions that support the protein transition, functional and healthy food, and circular approaches to food innovation.
Unique Aspects
- Broad innovation lens: The company combines business, consumer, and technology perspectives in one innovation ecosystem, helping bridge creativity and execution.
- Founder-led expertise: Co-founders Arjan Siemerink and Joris Leferink bring complementary backgrounds in culinary arts, hospitality, marketing, and innovation leadership.
- Specialist culinary network: Through EdSomeMore and a chef panel, the company can draw on external culinary expertise for ideation, validation, and sensory optimization.
- International ecosystem work: It has been tasked with spearheading a European food innovation ecosystem for The Canadian Food Island Partnership, including EU strategy and matchmaking.
- Circular food-waste project experience: The founders also created The Good Shit Company, a separate circular business producing premium vodka and gin from food waste.