Future Food Fund , Graduate Entrepreneur , Horticoop and Innovation Industries are suffer VitalFluid in a € 5 M seed funding around . The investment enables VitalFluid to speed up further market introduction .
To guarantee world food production , chemical pesticides play a important part , and at the same time impose an tremendous threat to human health , biodiversity and the environment . Governments and industry have set firm quarry and recognize that the transition can only be successful when alternative become useable . It is exculpated that there is an pressing indigence for sustainable solutions .
In a thunderstorm , lightning stimulate the natural transformation of H2O into Plasma Activated Water ( PAW ) . By copying this natural process , VitalFluid make ' lightning in a corner ' . This on - site PAW production provide a raw and sustainable option to the pesticide that are currently needed to enhance plant health . VitalFluid PAW has manifest to be a good , effectual and scalable solvent to safeguard veggie cultivation without negative side effect .
A wide range of scientific and commercial-grade refinement trial in greenhouse veggie , ornamentals and plantation confirm the vast electric potential of VitalFluid PAW to toy a crucial office in a sustainable intellectual nourishment production system . The plasma scheme developed by VitalFluid allow Farmer to produce VitalFluid PAW on site and can be seamlessly integrate in subsist greenhouse and orchard infrastructure . Multiple plasm systems are now running 24/7 in greenhouses around the world , supporting leading growers like world ’s largest fresh tomato grower Azura , Europe largest organic tomato agriculturist BioSabor in Spain , US biggest leafy green growers , lead rose grower PortaNova , and several other veg raiser from the Netherlands .
Future Food Fund , Graduate Entrepreneur Fund , Horticoop and Innovation Industries , in compounding with incumbent investor have committed the cash in hand that let VitalFluid to transition into the next stagecoach of development . The € 5 M in backing will enable VitalFluid to expand its greenhouse PAW program , further optimize its blood plasma systems for plant wellness program , and quicken commercial action .
Erik Hertel , CEO VitalFluid : " We are gallant to team up with these hard investor that recognize the potential of plasma engineering in agriculture . Their recollective term sight , extensive noesis in both cryptical technical school and agriculture and warm internet perfectly correspond our ambition to make PAW a gamechanger in food for thought production . "
Jeroen Kimmels , get by spouse at Future Food Fund : " We have been following VitalFluid for seven age and determine now is the right time to indue . VitalFluid has prove to be the first caller able to transfer PAW from an experimental environment to with child scale commercial-grade software . It fits perfectly in our portfolio of food&agri ship’s company with an ambition to have a significant impact on clime change . "
Auke van den Hout , Managing Partner at Graduate Entrepreneur Fund : " We firmly belief in VitalFluid ’s pivotal role in expedite the imperative shift towards secure and eco - friendly vegetable finish . We are unrestrained to stomach the squad as they continue on this promising journeying . "
Wilco Schoonderbeek , Investments Director at Horticoop : " On behalf of some 300 horticultural businesses , Horticoop invests actively in company that are making a electropositive contribution to the futurity of the horticultural industry , and VitalFluid ’s founding dovetail seamlessly with that bearing . Thanks to the innovational engineering of VitalFluid , growers will have access to more environmentally - well-disposed fertilizers and crop protection products , so we are entranced to add this company to our portfolio . "
Vincent Kamphorst , director at Innovation Industries : " VitalFluid ’s plasma solution is unique in its applicability across a large variety of crop and its racy and predictable performance . We are thrilled to defend VitalFluid in the approaching commercial-grade stage and to take on the ever - increasing challenge of supply the growing world population with sufficient , sustainably - source intellectual nourishment . "
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