QualySense closes a financing round
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QualySense, this year's TOP 10 Startup of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award with focus on innovative grain and seed sorting technology announced a new financing round. The company has raised CHF 2.1 million from a number of Swiss and international business angels and plans to invest the funds in expanding their product range.
“QualySense aims at becoming a strategic partner within the agro-food community in the next years. This last funding round will allow QualySense to accelerate the development of our product range, enabling us to explore new markets”, said Alberto Romaneschi, Chairman of the Board. QualySense use space technologies that combine Machine Vision and Near-Infrared spectroscopy to develop the QSorter, the first artificial intelligence robot for high-speed single kernel analysis and sorting of grains. The QSorter technology analyzes and sorts each grain individually based on its physical and compositional properties, which enables a reliable and sophisticated control solution aimed at increasing quality and safety of food products, for example in the development of diet-specific food products.About QualySense
QualySense is a Empa based company pioneering innovative high-speed single kernel sorting solutions to achieve optimal processing, quality, and safety of agricultural products. The startup has been awarded with a number of prizes and grants including “Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2012”, and Venture Kick winner 2010. Additionally, QualySense scored 8th for the TOP 100 Swiss Startups 2015. Furthermore Francesco Dell'Endice, co-founder of QualySense, had the chance to travel as part of the Swiss National Startup Team to Boston in 2010: “The venture leaders program had a strong influence on my entrepreneurial thinking. It has given me, among others, the ability to set priorities and to develop long-term and sustainable strategies."
