Innovation & Growth
Business development, market validation and sector-smart capital
Three connected platforms move a company from diagnostic to market validation and, when the fit is right, to investment.
The F&B Business Accelerator develops companies across the full year. Food & Beverages Innovation Camp tests solutions with the market. FoodAngels Hub connects qualified opportunities with investors who understand the sector.
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F&B Business Accelerator
Year-round support for stronger, clearer and more scalable businesses.
The Accelerator operates as a year-round development platform with three intensive cohorts annually. Founders enter through a diagnostic and continue with the services their stage requires.
- Registrations
- 1,500+
- Ventures analysed
- 950+
- Companies accelerated
- 135+
- Hours of training and mentoring
- 80+
- Intensive cohorts annually
- 3
Coverage and geography
- Coverage
- Food, hospitality, retail and technology.
- Geography
- Romania and Central and Eastern Europe.
Services
- Business diagnostic
- One-to-one mentoring
- Route-to-market
- Operations and pricing
- Product and menu development
- Commercial validation and pilots
- Investor readiness
- Alumni and ecosystem access
Start with a diagnostic
Share your venture and the growth objective you hold.
Route: F&B Business Accelerator
Apply for a business diagnostic
Share your venture. The Accelerator team runs a structured diagnostic and proposes the development route that fits your stage.
Reply within five working days.
Food & Beverages Innovation Camp
Insight, experience and solutions meet the market in a three-day field lab.
Innovation Camp is HCI's annual field lab and industry convergence platform. Operators, founders, investors, chefs and partners spend three days testing ideas in real conditions.
Upcoming edition
- Dates
- 24–26 May 2027
- Venue
- Alma Health & Spa Retreat, Lacu Sărat
- Participants
- 150+
Hospitality Outlook 2027
Launching September 2026, developed from the 2026 Innovation Camp at Teleferic Grand Hotel.
FoodAngels Hub
Sector-smart capital for operational food businesses in South-Eastern Europe.
FoodAngels Hub is an institutional platform associated with the HCI ecosystem.
HCI acts as scouting partner and supplies sector intelligence and qualified dealflow. Florin Maxim serves as Managing Director and investor.
Governance
- Private investor hub
- 12 founding members evaluate opportunities collectively
- Each investor makes an individual participation decision
- HCI acts as scouting partner and supplies sector intelligence and qualified dealflow
- Florin Maxim serves as Managing Director and investor
Eligible companies
- Food production, services or technology
- Operational
- At least one filed annual financial statement
- Regional scaling potential
Geography and investment
- Geography
- South-Eastern Europe
- Minimum individual investor ticket
- EUR 10,000
- Hub or syndicated investment
- Starts at EUR 30,000, subject to final FoodAngels copy approval.
Founding members
The FoodAngels website remains the source of record for the full member directory.
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Florin Maxim
Managing Director & investor
Hospitality, food culture and sector intelligence
Enter the FoodAngels process
Investors and companies each have their own route.
Route: FoodAngels Hub
Join FoodAngels as an investor
FoodAngels Hub gathers private investors who evaluate opportunities collectively and decide individually. Share your investment profile.
Reply within five working days.
Route: FoodAngels dealflow
Submit a company to FoodAngels
FoodAngels reviews operational food businesses with at least one filed annual financial statement and regional scaling potential.
Reply within ten working days.