Deep Planet Partners with EIT Food and Bernard Magrez to Demonstrate AI Vineyard Solution

As part of the EIT Food items RisingFoodStars programme, Deep World has partnered with EIT Food and Bernard Magrez to show the impacts of its AI local weather adaptation solution for vineyards, VineSignal.

July 22nd – Oxford-centered startup Deep Planet has partnered with EIT Food, the world’s biggest and most dynamic food stuff innovation local community, and Bordeaux wine grower Bernard Magrez (BM) to reveal the benefits of VineSignal – a satellite and AI dependent answer that lowers winery variability, monitors produce and enhances crop excellent. EIT Food items is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a physique of the European Union. 

VineSignal aims to help winegrowers in France and across the entire world adapt to the rising impacts of local climate modify, embed much more sustainable and efficient management techniques to improve grape and wine good quality, and increase harvest effectiveness. 

VineSignal is currently becoming used by more than 60 prospects around the globe which include international winemakers this sort of as Pernod Ricard and modest and quality producers in Bordeaux.  Obtaining monitored over 50,000 hectares of vineyards and additional than 100 types of grapes, the AI method has been created and optimised to predict the nuances of grape production. 

Deep Earth has been component of the EIT Food RisingFoodStars community considering that 2020, a programme created to help startups expand and scale faster as a result of industry screening new strategies, supplying assist from professionals, connecting with primary corporate companions in the food stuff field and facilitating accessibility to investors. As component of the programme, Deep Planet obtained financing to help scale its answers by accelerating the commercialisation of its technological innovation.

Sushma Shankar, Co-Founder of Deep World, said:

“Deep Planet’s eyesight to aid farmers construct resiliency against the impact of local climate improve. The wine sector is our first sector. Our merchandise VineSignal is assisting growers and winemakers to increase productivity, quality and sustainability in their vineyards by means of checking maturity, generate, vigour, evapotranspiration, soil vitamins and soil carbon. We have worked with quality producers, modest and significant growers and corporates globally but generally in France, Australia and US with solid circumstance scientific studies. We’re energized to have partnered with EIT Food and Bernard Magrez as we prepare for the subsequent chapter of our mission to assistance much more growers to adapt to transforming weather conditions circumstances and to profit from the technological know-how.” 

Narjis Chakir, EIT Food RisingFoodStars Manager, claimed:   

“Deep Earth has been a superb contributor to the RisingFoodStars group. The success of their alternative to boost winery efficiency and sustainability administration is a testomony to their perseverance and innovation endeavours. I am hunting ahead to continuing our aid for Deep Earth and next the upcoming stage of their journey.” 

Deep Planet is also portion of Bernard Magrez Start off-Up Gain, the initial startup incubator solely devoted to the wine, vines, wine tourism and digitisation sectors. As aspect of the incubator, Deep World has benefited from committed guidance to extend its market place presence in France and to improved comprehend regional output problems. 

Sébastien Labat, Director of Bernard Magrez Commence-Up Acquire Incubator, mentioned:

“We are glad to be a companion of Deep Planet’s amazing VineSignal venture. We designed an R&D section a few several years in the past and a startup incubator two decades back, in buy to operate on and aid these recreation-switching projects. 

These days, we hope that our partnership with Deep Earth assists us and other winegrowers adapt to progressively tough organic conditions that we have to deal with!”

About RisingFoodStars Association 

RisingFoodStars is a programme aimed at early scaleups that previously have paying buyers or a compensated pilot challenge and are all set to broaden globally on a substantial scale. The RisingFoodStars Affiliation aims to aid the scaleups mature even more quickly by screening new concepts in the market, supplying pro assist, connecting the scaleups with major company companions in the food market and facilitating access to buyers. 

About EIT Food  

EIT Food stuff is the world’s premier and most dynamic food stuff innovation local community. We accelerate innovation to make a foreseeable future-fit foods technique that makes wholesome and sustainable meals for all.    

Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a human body of the European Union, we invest in assignments, organisations and people today that share our ambitions for a wholesome and sustainable food system. We unlock innovation probable in corporations and universities, and create and scale agrifood startups to carry new technologies and items to market place. We equip business owners and pros with the competencies desired to change the foodstuff system and put individuals at the heart of our operate, aiding develop have confidence in by reconnecting them to the origins of their meals.   

We are a single of 9 innovation communities set up by the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT), an impartial EU overall body established up in 2008 to generate innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe.    

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