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FluroSense now available to all agronomists globally with new investment backed by Microsoft’s M12

Announcement posted by FluroSat 23 Jul 2019

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      FluroSat has raised an AU$4.6 million investment round backed by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Costanoa Ventures, Space Capital, Artesian/GRDC GrainInnovate Fund, Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund, along with existing investors CSIRO’s Main Sequence Ventures, AirTree Ventures and muru-D.

 

      Funding reinforces FluroSat’s track record of delivering user-friendly, actionable and proven agronomic analytics underpinned by world-leading crop science from Australian research.

 

      Within 10 months of launching FluroSense, FluroSat has secured customers across eight countries with more than 1,000 users and is monitoring 10.8 million hectares of land.

 

Sydney, Australia, July 23rd 2019 -- Award-winning agronomic analytics company, FluroSat, announced its successful closing of a new $4.6M funding round backed by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, Costanoa Ventures, Space Capital, Artesian/GRDC GrainInnovate Fund, Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund, along with existing investors including CSIRO’s Main Sequence Ventures, AirTree Ventures and muru-D (an accelerator backed by Telstra).

 

The new funding, together with over $3M in federal grants from the Australian government, will be used to further improve agricultural yields in Australia as well as make FluroSat available to agronomists globally.

 

“Computational agriculture will help the world feed 10 billion people in the decades to come,” says Samir Kumar, Managing Director at M12. “FluroSat’s machine learning-powered FluroSense platform empowers agronomists with actionable insights so they can scale helping more farmers make the right decision the first time.”

 

FluroSat’s agronomic analytics engine helps agronomists and farmers to assess plant health, detect crop stress and direct input applications - all at a scale and accuracy never before possible thanks to the automation of mundane data processing and synthesis of the insights.

 

FluroSat Founder Dr. Anastasia Volkova said, “Our agronomy customers help farmers to understand the past, act in the present and predict the future, but they can’t be everywhere at once. FluroSat’s mission is to scale their knowledge and science in a powerful, simple-to-use computing platform that keeps farms on track, in real time.”

 

FluroSat currently provides its solution to more than 1,000 users across eight countries, monitoring 10.8 million hectares of land. Its customer and partners base include Landmark, Nufarm, MicaSense, TerrAvion and Iteris.