10 April 2025
On Tuesday, April 8, the Vitagora association celebrated its 20th anniversary at its annual general meeting. This symbolic moment was marked by a change in leadership: Oisin Morrin, CEO of Tippagral, succeeded Pierre Guez, who had been president since 2006. It was an opportunity to look back on two decades dedicated to innovation and excellence in the agri-food industry, in figures and images. Proposal documents for the Vitagora cluster in 2005The story of Vitagora began in 2005, on the initiative of Greater Dijon and a group of business leaders led by Thomas Derville, former CEO of Amora-Maille and executive at Unilever: the young association obtained its certification as a “competitiveness cluster” with the unique strategic focus…
19 April 2018
Funded by the COSME* program (Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), in 2016 Vitagora and its partners launched the New Frontiers in Food initiative to accompany European SMEs with their international development. In…
23 February 2018
On Tuesday, February 20th, a delegation of representatives of the Algerdian Ministry of Industries and Mines and the Mitidja Entrepreneurs Club came to Dijon for a meeting with the French clusters Vitagora, Terralia and Céréales Vallée. The goal was…
15 February 2018
With a score of 96%, the European Cluster Excellence Intitiative (ECEI) has reawarded the Gold Label to Vitagora. During the audit, the cluster management policy, the positive mindset and the healthy level of private funding were identified as part…
31 January 2018
Vitagora has partnered with Digital Food Lab, along with Sopexa, to publish the first report on French FoodTech. This report is based on the study of the 400 FoodTech startups founded in France since 2013. They have raised €317 million in funding s…
11 July 2017
Today, eleven FoodTech and Agtech startups pitched for the AcceleRise jury. The acceleration program's founding members were able to select 6 candidates to join the second cohort, to begin their intensive acceleration phase on September 14th. Who…
28 April 2017
The first session of AcceleRise came to an end on April 20 & 27 with the alumni startups pitching for investors worth more than 1 billion euros. The session #2 is already underway with applications open until June 12th, 2017. Pitching for more t…
04 April 2017
Three new innovation projects under the theme of FoodTech were added to Vitagora's project portfolio in 2016: Store Connect, Wise, et Foodintech. STORE CONNECT Data used to optimise client in-store experience The project Store Connect has…
19 January 2017
70 candidates, 7 startups on the starting blocks! The jury of AcceleRise, composed of its founding members, were audience to the pitches of the finalists seeking to join the first session of the acceleration program. Congratulations to the winners,…