[company_age]7.0[/company_age][employees]2-10 employees[/employees][funding]Seed[/funding][description]Next Cooking Generation (NCG) is an Italian innovative start-up company that focuses on revolutionizing the Food Service Equipment sector. They have patented innovative technologies to address issues such as food safety, energy saving, and food resource scarcity in light of population growth (according to the FAO, the planet will be home to 9 billion people by 2050). NCG has patented the ultrasound system called "maturazione spinta©" on which the operation of the waveco® device is based. The "maturazione spinta©" of waveco® (a machine that the company has already launched on the market) allows to increase up to 3 times the shelf life, that is, the ability of a food to maintain its nutritional qualities without deteriorating. waveco® manages to achieve such a goal thanks to the reduction of the bacterial load, something impossible with traditional technology. From a safety point of view, this is an excellent result considering that every year 600 million people are poisoned by contaminated food and 420 thousand people die, including 125 thousand children (Source: FAO and WHO). Furthermore, NCG has managed to impact on energy saving: 40 minutes of "maturazione spinta©" are equivalent to about 25 days of canonical maturation, with an energy saving of at least 90%. To these results must be added the improvement of the perceived quality of food (flavor, volume, and color). In fact, the maturation process can be considered as an intermediate step between the cooking of a food and raw consumption: with the use of waveco® the food can be consumed simply "matured". However, the advantages do not only concern the environment and health. The use of waveco® allows operators in the sector to obtain a cut in food costs of over 40%. The company is strongly focused on research and development activities and is designing Krudo, a food sanitization device.[/description][ps]waveco® machine, Krudo food sanitization device[/ps]