VitalFields offers cloud-based software and mobile apps that help farmers with plant disease and growth phase modeling, climatic pattern tracking, farm planning, stock management, and P&L reporting. Founded in 2011 at the Garage48 hackathon and an alumnus of accelerator Startup Wise Guys, the company has expanded its product beyond its original agricultural early warning system. It operates in Poland, Ukraine, Germany and Estonia. The product includes a recently launched app for machine operators and field workers aimed at eliminating paperwork. VitalFields positions itself as a classic SaaS play replacing paper-based or legacy agricultural tools. The company plans to use new capital for further product development and to boost its presence across Europe. VitalFields provides cloud-based web and mobile apps that consolidate farm data and automate tasks such as plant disease and growth-phase modelling, hyperlocal weather tracking, farm planning, stock management and P&L reporting. The product is positioned as a SaaS replacement for paper-based or legacy farm-management tools and includes automation and data consolidation to surface actionable insights. The company serves roughly 1,500 farms worldwide. VitalFields plans to use its latest capital to customise its solution for several new European countries and to invest in R&D, specifically analytics and machine-learning to help farmers become more efficient. To date the startup has raised a total of €750,000 and traces its origins to a 2011 Garage48 hackathon; it is also an alumnus of accelerator Startup Wise Guys. VitalFields is an Estonian startup that helps farmers make better use of data by supplying precise weather data for individual fields alongside disease and pest forecasting. The platform offers tools to reduce the labor of logging farm data, enabling automated forecasts and a farm efficiency analysis. The company is building global pest and disease warning models and plans to add HyperLocal weather forecasting to those models to warn farmers early and provide advice on prevention and combatting issues, according to CEO Martin Rand. VitalFields graduated from the Startup Wise Guys accelerator. Financially, the company recently closed a €250,000 (approx. $318k) seed round. The investment was led by SmartCap with participation from Arvi Tavasti valduse and Wiser Financial Advisors.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

May 2015