Our Startups
You don’t get to be a HortiHeroes Start-up for nothing. This group of heroes is the future of the Food & Flower industry and they live for innovation. From drones for crop protection to data-driven cultivation. And from energy saving screens to new ways of purchasing plants.
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Hortiheroes startups
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Hortiheroes Startups
The Thermeleon Heat Battery increases the energy efficiency of greenhouses. By strategically buffering the surplus of heat during the day by cooling the greenhouse, the product provides sustainable heating at night. The result is a significant reduction in energy demand up to 30% and a more sustainable greenhouse.
PAR+ is a sustainable spray coating suitable for glasshouse horticulture developed by FOTONIQ. PAR+ offers diffusivity without light loss, increasing crop yield year-round for 8 years.
Listening to plants? That sounds a bit strange, but the smart sensors of Plense Technologies can use ultrasound to listen to what is happening in plants, just like an ultrasound with babies.
They translate this into information such as stress and plant recovery, which they then translate into advice or breed traits.
Concert Bio develops beneficial microbe products tailored to horticulture. Working with growers all over the world, Concert Bio has used DNA sequencing to create the biggest database of plant-microbiome data for greenhouses in the world. Their platform uses this data to identify completely new beneficial microbes. The yield improvement of their first product, Overture™, has been validated by growers in the Netherlands, UK and elsewhere and is now launching.
Blockbax provides a platform that makes it possible to centralise data from any type of sensor or machine to one place, to create clear dashboards & analyses from here and then set alerts & actions on them without programming a single line for this.
Common examples are energy management, greenhouse climate insight & control, logistics track & tracing and proactive monitoring of critical machinery or other assets.
OpusWatch is a smart watch that can be used to visualise the performance of agricultural businesses. This is how they make data-driven business possible!
Their OPUSSmart makes it possible to collect valuable information on crop production and labour in no time and the OPUSEasy makes it possible to capture or receive real-time information. Capture labour or pests and diseases or receive packing orders on your wearable!
APEX is an AI-driven platform that connects supply and demand in the food & flower industry, developed by PEAX Data. Centralise all your market insights in one place and easily create analyses and overviews to make data-driven commercial decisions. From gut feeling to being informed and from Excel to APEX!
Voltiris pioneers the world's first photovoltaic modules specifically designed for greenhouses.
Their cutting-edge spectral filtering technology transmits the essential PAR-light directly to crops while transforming the remaining frequencies into renewable power. Combining crop and renewable energy production without compromise.
Infrascreen provides more effective transparent energy-saving screens, helping growers reduce their energy bills and CO2 emissions.
The screens of Infrascreen are more insulating because they keep outgoing thermal radiations inside the greenhouse.
This is known as the “low-emissivity” effect.
Hortiheroes scale-ups
PATS automates pest monitoring and control with vision solutions and bat-like drones.
Through innovative bio sensors, Vivent Biosignals supplies crop monitoring services, to detect diseases and pests well before visual symptoms, to demonstrate the efficacy of crop treatments and to help growers optimise climate, nutrients, and irrigation. We do this by decoding naturally occurring biological signals and providing alerts and regular reports on crop health to our clients.
