TDC Expands Its Food Innovation Ecosystem
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At Technology Driven Concepts, our focus has always been on helping food businesses move from concept to commercial product through practical product development, formulation expertise, technical application support and ingredient solutions.
As the food industry continues to evolve, innovation is no longer driven by formulation alone. Food businesses need smarter development tools, stronger technical support, better knowledge management, specialist ingredient expertise and partners who can help turn ideas into practical, market-ready products.
That is why we are excited to introduce our strategic partners, AKA Foods and Bioprox Cultures, who will be joining us at the African Food Show at Stand M59.
Together, we are building a stronger innovation ecosystem for food businesses across Africa.
Why Partnerships Matter in Food Innovation
Successful food development requires more than one area of expertise.
A new product may need formulation support, technical testing, ingredient functionality, culture selection, process alignment, cost optimisation, sensory evaluation, documentation and commercial thinking. Increasingly, companies also need better digital tools to manage their product development knowledge and improve how R&D teams work.
Through our partnerships with AKA Foods and Bioprox Cultures, TDC is strengthening the way we support clients by combining:
practical food product development
in-house ingredient and application expertise
AI-enabled NPD technology
formulation knowledge management
culture and fermentation support
and technical application guidance.
This means clients can access a more complete support model through one connected partner ecosystem
Introducing AKA Foods
AKA Foods is the company behind AKA Studio AI Platform, an AI-enabled platform designed for food product development and R&D teams.
For many food businesses, product development knowledge is spread across spreadsheets, emails, old formulation files, lab notes and individual team members. This makes it difficult to search, reuse, compare and build on previous work.
AKA Foods helps food R&D teams bring formulation, sensory and knowledge data into a more structured and collaborative environment. AKA Foods positions the platform as a secure AI tool for food R&D, designed to unify formulation, sensory and knowledge data.
Through TDC’s partnership with AKA Foods, we are able to introduce clients to smarter ways of managing product development workflows, capturing formulation knowledge and supporting innovation teams with digital tools designed specifically for the food industry.
AKA Studio can support food businesses with:
formulation management
prototype development workflows
R&D knowledge capture
sensory and analytical data organisation
historical formulation searchability
product development traceability
AI-supported innovation processes
and improved collaboration across development teams.
For TDC, this partnership is especially important because it supports our vision of combining practical food development expertise with modern innovation tools.
Discover more about AKA Foods product offering: https://aka-food.com/
Introducing Bioprox Cultures
Bioprox Cultures strengthens our ability to support clients working with freeze dried starter cultures, dairy-related and vegan alternative applications. These areas require specialist technical understanding, as the correct culture selection and application approach can influence product performance, consistency, quality, flavour, acidity and process behaviour.
In food production, microbial food cultures are widely used to carry out fermentation and can contribute to preservation, taste, aroma, texture and other product qualities. Lactic acid bacteria are also closely linked with food fermentations because acidification can help inhibit spoilage organisms, while fermentation metabolites can contribute to flavour and texture.
Through our partnership with Bioprox Cultures, TDC can offer clients a stronger support model for culture and fermentation-related projects, particularly where product consistency, technical application and process performance are important.
Discover Bioprox Cultures: the French specialist in the production of freeze-dried lactic cultures https://www.bioprox.com/en/homepage
The Bioprox Cultures partnership can support areas such as:
freeze-dried lactic starter cultures
vegan alternatives applications
dairy cultures
fermented product applications
culture selection support
fermentation performance
product consistency
quality and stability support
and application-led technical guidance.
This partnership allows TDC to connect our product development and application expertise with specialist culture support, giving clients a more complete technical solution.
What This Means for TDC Clients
The addition of AKA Foods and Bioprox Cultures strengthens TDC’s ability to support clients across the full product development journey.
Our expanded offering now brings together:
TDC for product development, formulation, ingredient solutions, application testing and technical support
AKA Foods for AI-enabled NPD Software, formulation knowledge management and digital innovation workflows
Bioprox Cultures for its 50+ years of expertise in fermentation process for high-performant dairy cultures
This creates a more connected approach to innovation, helping clients develop products that are not only creative, but also practical, technically supported and commercially relevant.
Visit Us at the African Food Show
TDC will be exhibiting at the African Food Show, and we invite you to visit us at Stand M59.
At the stand, you will be able to meet the TDC team and learn more about how our partnerships with AKA Foods and Bioprox Cultures expand the way we support the food industry.
Whether you are developing a new product, improving an existing formulation, exploring AI-enabled NPD tools, or looking for culture and fermentation support, we would be happy to connect.
Visit TDC and our partners at Stand M59.
Together, we are helping food businesses move from concept to commercial product with greater confidence.
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