Fluxunit - OSRAM Ventures

Using existing land for efficient will be crucial for meeting the increasing food demand caused by heavy population growth in the next decades.

At Fluxunit we strongly believe that solving societal problems can only happen through technological progress. We therefore invested into Canadian startup MotorLeaf who enable farmers to monitor their harvest and recognize plant disease or plant maturity remotely.
Their technology will be a major step towards increased efficiency in agriculture and will contribute to the of .

What an exciting event! Our investment manager Tanja Koch attends Axis Innovation in Tel Aviv and explores the local ecosystem. Listening to interesting such as the one of Agro Scout, we learn about the various opportunities of systems for such as increased and reduced pesticide costs. Farmers further argue that such system not only help to detect illnesses of fruits but also their level of maturity which contributes to improved yield harvesting/ management.

Moreover, there is an increasing number of Israeli startups that are part of the next generation production. The production of is an increasingly widespread and super method as it is low in saturated fat, contains all amino acids and is cheap to grow.

Have you already met our portfolio company MotorLeaf? Thanks to their software, operators and indoor farms are able to improve their yield forecasts by 50%! Also, they help to anticipate problems so that farmers can act on them before the greenhouse is diseased or even rotten.

Sounds good - but why did Fluxunit invest? Because our parent company OSRAM already focuses on smart in farms – making this light even smarter seems to be a logical next step!

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