CDTI Innovation’s SICC Innvierte invests together with Swanlaab Innvierte Agri Food Tech in Grodi, to accelerate digitisation and robotisation in greenhouses
Thanks to this participation, the CDTI Innovation supports innovative companies that bet on the use of technologies to optimize crop management, improving productivity, efficiency and sustainability.
Grodi is a company created in 2022 in Almería that, together with a team specialized in engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence and agronomy, and with the help of its co-founders Samuel Ruiz, Natalia Gálvez and Ana Molina, has developed a system designed to respond to the specific challenges of Mediterranean intensive agriculture. Its proposal allows producers, cooperatives and seed houses to work with objective, standardized and continuous information, reducing uncertainties and improving decision-making.
This company, specialized in autonomous robotics and artificial vision, has developed VEGA 11, a robot designed to move autonomously in Mediterranean greenhouses and obtain complete visibility of each plant thanks to an advanced artificial vision system. Grodi’s technology combines proprietary hardware with algorithms based on machine learning and massive data analysis, allowing growers to optimize their agronomic management, anticipate plant health problems and estimate crop yields with high accuracy. The Grodi APP digital platform centralizes all information in real time to facilitate the making and execution of safer, more efficient and more sustainable decisions.
Autonomous robot VEGA 11 and digital platform Grodi APP
The company is in a key phase of growth in which it seeks to consolidate the commercial implementation of VEGA 11, while continuing to expand its technological portfolio with new products that provide robust and directly applicable solutions in the daily lives of people working in agriculture. Its objective is to strengthen its presence in the market and accelerate the standardization of advanced technologies in greenhouses at national and international level.
The CDTI Innovation, through Innvierte, has closed an investment operation in Grodi with Swanlaab Innvierte Agri Food Tech with an investment amount of 500,000 euros. Thanks to this participation, it is possible to provide efficient, comfortable solutions that speed up the daily productive management of farmers.
Swanlaab Innvierte Agri Food Tech
SWANLAAB INNVIERTE AGRIFOOD TECH, FCRE, managed by SWANLAAB VENTURE FACTORY, SGEIC, S.A. (Swanlaab Venture Factory) is the first Venture Capital fund specializing in Agri-Food Tech in Spain. It was born with the purpose of materializing innovation in new competitive products and services, to allow the agri-food sector to overcome the demands of the market and the great global and local challenges it faces in primary production, food transformation, logistics, distribution and retail.
Swanlaab Venture Factory is a unique venture capital firm in Spain with a team with over 20 years’ experience in investment, in sectors as diverse as B2B software, agrifood-tech and searchers’ funds. Swanlaab’s team is made up of professionals who have founded and directed their own startups, directed reputable VC funds, and supported as advisors and consultants to launch more than 200 companies to the market, with a clear purpose of helping Spanish entrepreneurs succeed globally.
Innvierte
Innvierte is an initiative whose objective is to promote business innovation by supporting venture capital investment in technology-based or innovative companies. This program is implemented through the closed-ended collective investment company Innvierte Economía Permanente SICC S.M.E., S.A., self-managed and subject to the supervision of the National Securities Market Commission and of which CDTI Innovation is a single shareholder.
To date, the CDTI Innovation has committed, through Innvierte, 3,183.8 M€ in 57 investment vehicles and, through its co-investment line, has directly committed an amount of 864.3 M€ in 197 companies.
Innvierte is part of the Spanish Strategy of Science, Technology and Innovation 2021-2027, approved by Agreement of the Council of Ministers, in September 2020. This Strategy contains the objectives, reforms and measures that must be adopted throughout the field of R+D+I in order to boost its growth and impact, and is one of the pillars on which the design of the Government's R+D+I policy for the coming years is based.
CDTI Innovation
The Center for Technological Development and Innovation, CDTI E.P.E. It is the innovation agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, whose objective is the promotion of technological innovation in the business environment. The mission of the CDTI is to ensure that the Spanish business fabric generates and transforms scientific and technical knowledge into globally competitive, sustainable and inclusive growth. In 2024, within the framework of a new strategic plan, the CDTI provided more than 2.3 billion euros of support to Spanish companies and startups.
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