Biotech & Agrifood Afternoon @ Michroma — Rosario 🧬
A private afternoon for the investors and ecosystem builders attending the Santa Fe Business Forum who back biotech, agrifoodtech, and deep tech in LATAM and beyond.
Hosted by Michroma and GRIDX at Michroma's R&D facility in Rosario, where filamentous fungi are fermented into the natural food colorants now being adopted by global food companies. The lightning round features biotech startups from the Gridx portfolio.
The afternoon:
3:45 PM — Doors, registration, coffee & merienda (Full Program guests)
4:00 PM — Welcome (10 min)
4:10 PM — Guided tour of the Michroma facility (20 min, two groups)
4:30 PM — GRIDX: The LATAM Bio Ecosystem — a data-driven look at the next 10 years (7 min)
4:40 PM — Lightning round: GRIDX portfolio biotech startups, 1 minute (45 min)
5:30 PM — Open networking with drinks (Networking guests welcome from 5:30 PM)
7:00 PM — Close
Pitching startups (confirmed so far):
🍅Agri·food·land use: Kresko RNAtech (RNA-based functional ingredients) · BioBlends (gas-based bio-preservatives for shelf-life extension) · Qumir Nano (bio-nano crop protection) · Arakion (AI-designed peptide bioinsecticides) · Nat4Bio (natural coatings against food spoilage) · Zavia Bio (designer biomolecules for crop resilience)
💊 Human Health: Fecundis (fertility treatments) · Gisens Biotech (point-of-care diagnostics) · BioClé (gut-targeted delivery via bacterial vesicles) · PreGen (cancer prognostic tests) · Tesabio.ai (AI-driven microRNA therapeutics) · SphereBio (training the immune system to fight cancer)
🏭 Bio·Industry: Protiva (bio-based textile dyes) · CyanoMin (biological treatment of hypersaline brines)
🧬Deep·Biotech: ArgenTag (single-cell long-read sequencing) · Mavios (AI digital twins for fermentation scale-up)
Curated, capacity-limited, approval required. Coffee, merienda and closing drinks on us, sponsored by the hosts — gluten-free and vegetarian options guaranteed.
Hosted & sponsored by
🧬 GRIDX — Latin America's leading science venture builder and investment fund, turning world-class research into global biotech startups.
🥑 We Are Palta — Branding, marketing & growth agency for science-based companies, amplifying the impact of biotech and deep-tech teams across LATAM and beyond.
🔴 Michroma — Biotech company producing vibrant, stable natural colorants for the food industry through fungal fermentation, from its R&D facility in Rosario to global CPG shelves.
📰 Media Partner: FoodTech Weekly — the leading global foodtech newsletter will be covering the event, with Luz Gorostiaga reporting on-site. Photos and video will be taken throughout for FTW's coverage and the hosts' social media — by attending, you're happy to appear in them.