Gardin raises $1.2M pre-seed to use ‘optical phenotyping’ tech to improve food production
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Steve O’Hear @sohear / 8 hours Gardin , a ‘deep tech’ hardware and software startup developing optical phenotyping technology and analytics to optimise food production, has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding. Specifically, the startup is developing tech for farms based on its own “optical phenotyping” hardware and accompanying analytics software. The idea is to enable food producers to measure and monitor the nutritional value of food, from “seed to plate in a real world environment,” rather than a lab. With deployment of Gardin’s OS, insight from our analytics will be delivered to help food producers optimise production, grow nutritious food, lower carbon footprint and reduce waste,” says founder and CEO Sumanta Talukdar. At Gardin, we want to empower food producers to feed the world consciously, sustainably and nutritionally, as it should be”.
