Saveggy is listed in Impact Loop’s 150 technology leaders making impact in 2026

There are plenty of good reasons to be proud of having Saveggy at Embassy House Lund. Now there is another one.

Two people from the Saveggy team have been recognised by Impact Loop in its annual list of 150 technology leaders making an impact in 2026. Co-founder and CTO Arash Fayyazi and co-founder Vahid Sohrabpour are both included in the prestigious list, alongside some of Sweden’s most prominent entrepreneurs, researchers and technology leaders.

And, frankly, it feels like a pretty good fit.

Impact Loop created the list together with Teknikföretagen ahead of its annual BUILD event. The selection focuses on people using technology to make companies, industries and the wider world more sustainable. To put the list together, Impact Loop reviewed its own extensive editorial archive and consulted people from across the industry and its network.

Among the names are founders and leaders from companies working on everything from green steel and renewable energy to batteries, AI, water treatment and sustainable materials.

And then there’s Saveggy.

A better way to protect fresh produce

Saveggy is tackling a surprisingly big problem with a deceptively simple idea: what if we could protect fruit and vegetables without wrapping them in plastic?

The Lund-based foodtech company has developed a plant-based, edible coating that can extend the shelf life of fresh produce. That means less reliance on plastic packaging and, importantly, less food ending up as waste.

Impact Loop specifically highlights this combination, describing Saveggy’s technology as addressing both plastic dependency and food waste with one solution.

It is exactly the kind of practical innovation that makes the impact space interesting. Rather than asking people to completely change the way they buy, transport or eat fresh produce, Saveggy is working on changing what happens around the food itself.

And having Arash and Vahid recognised individually makes the achievement even more interesting. It is not simply a company appearing on a list. It is members of the team behind the technology being recognised for the work they are doing.

Two Saveggy names among some very big ones

The 150-person list includes leaders from companies such as Candela, Einride, Heart Aerospace, CorPower Ocean, Flower, Swedish Algae Factory and many other companies working on technologies intended to solve major environmental and industrial challenges.

Being included alongside those names is significant.

Impact Loop describes the people on the list as leaders, founders, experts and people driving change in their industries. The publication also notes that the selection is subjective and that there are many more people who could have been included.

So we're not going to pretend that getting onto a list magically changes the world.

But it is a pretty good indication that someone outside the company is paying attention.

And they’re doing it from Lund

Saveggy is one of the foodtech companies based at Embassy House Lund, where it sits alongside a growing community of companies working across technology, food, science and innovation.

That makes this recognition particularly fun for us.

One of the things we like about having companies such as Saveggy at Embassy House is that you get to see the people behind ambitious ideas doing the unglamorous work of actually building them. There are meetings, prototypes, experiments, emails, funding applications and probably more than a few coffees along the way.

Then, occasionally, something like this happens: two members of the team end up on a national list of 150 technology leaders considered to be making a real impact.

Not bad for a company working out of Lund.

Congratulations, Arash and Vahid

We’re very happy to see Arash Fayyazi and Vahid Sohrabpour recognised by Impact Loop — and even happier that Saveggy is part of the Embassy House Lund community.

Their work sits right at the intersection of food, technology and sustainability: making fresh produce last longer while reducing the need for plastic.

That’s the sort of impact we like having around the house.

Congratulations to Arash, Vahid and the whole Saveggy team.

We’ll happily take a little bit of credit for the coffee and meeting rooms. The technology, unfortunately, is all theirs.