HHEMAV
HEMAV is a Barcelona-based agtech company (founded 2012 by UPC aerospace engineers) that began as the world's leading drone-services provider for precision agriculture and has since pivoted to LAYERS, an AI SaaS platform that predicts crop yields field-by-field using satellite imagery, weather data and 13+ years of agronomic models. It serves large growers, sugar mills and cooperatives (clients include Syngenta and AMAGGI) across LATAM, Europe and North America, with subsidiaries in Brazil, the US and Peru and roughly 40 staff. LAYERS is a trademark of HEMAV Technology S.L. The company is headquartered in the Barcelona area (Castelldefels/ESA BIC).
SectorsAgtech, AI & Data, Satellite & Remote Sensing, Climate Tech, SaaS
Start-up MapFoodtech & Agtech › Farm management & monitoring
Founders
C
Carlos Ferraz Pueyo
Co-Founder & Product Director (CPO)
X
Xavier Silva García
Co-Founder & CEO
Global models 5
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Gro Intelligence
United States · gro-intelligence.com ↗
Sold subscriptions to an AI platform that combined satellite, weather and agronomic data to forecast crop yields for agribusinesses; it shut down in 2024.
$118MComparable
SSolinftec
Brazil · www.solinftec.com ↗
AI agronomic platform sold to large growers and sugar mills in Brazil and the US to monitor fields and optimise operations, the same customer base LAYERS targets.
$100MComparable
TTaranis
Israel · www.taranis.com ↗
Started with aerial and drone crop imagery and grew into an AI crop-intelligence subscription for agribusinesses and growers, much like HEMAV's move from drones to SaaS.
$100MComparable
CCropin
India · www.cropin.com ↗
B2B SaaS that uses satellite imagery, weather data and AI models to predict yields plot by plot for agribusinesses, food companies and cooperatives.
$45MComparable
AAerobotics
South Africa · www.aerobotics.com ↗
Combines drone and satellite imagery with AI to sell yield estimates and crop analytics to commercial growers on a subscription.
$27MComparable
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Investors 6
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CCrowdcube
www.crowdcube.com
IInclimo
inclimo.com
EEIC Fund
eic.ec.europa.eu
FFuture Food Fund
PPureTerra Ventures
SScranton Enterprises
Funding rounds 3
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2024-12-09 | Series A (estimated) | €8M |
Future Food Fund, PureTerra Ventures
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| 2016-12-01 | Seed | €3M |
Lead not disclosed
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| 2014-12 | Pre-seed (estimated) | €450K |
Lead not disclosed
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News 1
Open as list →| Published | Article |
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| 2024-12-09 |
Barcelona-based HEMAV raises €8 million to advance AI-driven sustainable agriculture ↗
EU-Startups
2024-12-09 |