Vivent 2022: Real-Time Plant Health Monitoring Made Easy
Vivent is a Swiss-based startup that harnesses bio-electrical signals from plants to develop plant health monitoring technologies. In this interview, sustainability manager Marina Martin Curran describes the company’s innovative technology and its potential to revolutionize agriculture as we [...]
How to Keep Crops Alive In a Warmer, Dryer World
(Bloomberg) -- Every week, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture update America’s Drought Monitor, a map illustrating the parts of the country that are currently experiencing water [...]
Swiss crop electrophysiology specialist is a registered B Corp
Switzerland, Gland - The ‘Fitbit of plants’, Vivent’s PhytlSigns device, the first commercial crop health diagnostic system based on plant electrophysiology, has been certified as a B Corp – a Certified Benefit Corporation – after [...]
Erfolgreiche AgriTech-Challenge: Das sind die drei Final-Teams aus Europa für Ruhstorf an der Rott
29 Startups haben sich für die Ausschreibung für Innovationen in der Digitalen Landwirtschaft für nachhaltige Lebensmittelsysteme beworben - nun kann die Pilotphase im Siemens Technopark Ruhstorf und auf Testflächen der Bayerischen Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft in [...]
Vivent receives 500’000 Swiss Francs from fit for its crop monitoring technology
The newly certified B-Corp startup Vivent provides growers with a technology to monitor plants’ health and thereby improve both yield and sustainability. The Tech Growth loan from the Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) will fund [...]
A sensor to unravel the secret life of plants
A sensor that can unravel what is going on with the plant would be a fine tool in data-driven greenhouse cultivation, Colinda de Beer contends. In a previous column for Innovation Origins, I wrote about [...]