Two Winners at Data transparency from farm to plate - BioBoosters Hackathon powered by Neste – Collaboration Key to Data Transparency

The jury of the Bioboosters Hackathon, consisting of six Neste Marketing & Service business area experts, announced two winners: Agri Solutions, with its FarmCloud platform and ImpactOS, an open ESG data platform connecting e.g. farmers, food processors and big retailers. 

Agri Solutions’ FarmCloud is a multi-sensor, multi-actor platform that connects stakeholders in agri-food production. It collects data from sensors and external sources to help agri-businesses operate more efficiently by providing granular insights of the different activities at the farm level.

ImpactOS's platform is designed for small and medium-sized enterprises, helping them to collect data from suppliers and support them with ESG reporting towards their customers for example larger organisations.

“The BioBoosters Hackathon was an exciting opportunity to look into solutions advancing data transparency across the agri-food value chain. I want to thank all the applicants and participants that joined the hackathon” says Noora Nousiainen, sustainability manager from Neste Marketing & Services. 

“Agri Solutions can capture granular data of the greenhouse gas emissions at the farm level, whereas ImpactOS transfers that data further downstream, connecting food processors, big retailers, and eventually even consumers. Combined, these solutions together responded well to the Hackathon’s challenge”, justified Jury member, Sven Lanens, manager, Strategy and PMO, Neste Marketing & Services, the decision.

The shared victory was a delight for both winning teams, who had already recognised their solutions reinforcing each other. “Agri Solutions is especially strong at the farm level, while ImpactOS is sector-agnostic. Together, we can support customers across the entire value chain”, said Klaus Matilainen, CEO and Co-founder of ImpactOS.

“In this cooperation, we see our place in providing accurate, authentic data from farmers and from the food processors, so that it can be used for the reporting purposes", adds Agri Solutions’s Founder and CEO and the creator of FarmCloud platform Julian Cmikiewicz.

Neste and the winning teams will set up a meeting to discuss on the potential for the collaboration.

About the Hackathon

Data Transparency from Farm to Plate – BioBoosters Hackathon powered by Neste was organised by Circular Bioeconomy Business Accelerator BioBoosters and Neste Marketing & Services. In addition to the winners, Elvenite from Sweden, partnership team Ecobio and Matter from Finland and DataFarm from Finland participated on the final stretch of the hackathon.

The hackathon culminated on 17 – 18 November 2025, when the teams were mentored across six themes, ranging from Neste-specific topics to broader ESG reporting and the agri-food value chain. Mentors represented wide range of expertise from BDO; Hankkija, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vaasan, Neste and Jamk.

The hackathon is organised as part of Finnish Future Farm project. One of the project’s goals is to demonstrate the emission reduction potential of agriculture and to identify solutions for verifying the achieved reductions. The hackathon serves as a concrete method for discovering new solutions to real business needs. The project is executed by Jamk University of Applied Sciences and POKE Vocational College. The project is co-funded by the the European Union, via Regional Council of Central Finland. Project is also funded by Saarijärvi City, Valtra, Neste and AGCO Power.