Industry: Agricultural science and technology Region: Germany Transaction price: US$ 1 million Transaction method: equity investment
Project introduction:
The company is a product design and innovation consulting company headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands. Founded in 1978, it has more than 45 years of industry experience. The company is mainly composed of graduates majoring in innovative service and product development from Delft University of Technology, covering industrial designers, engineers, modelers and photographers. The company's mission is to promote social progress through user-centered, sustainable and meaningful innovation, and its core concept is "to realize the long life of products by providing high-quality solutions".
The company's main business covers the whole life cycle of product innovation, including strategic consulting, service design, industrial design, engineering design, prototyping and supply chain management. In terms of service scope, the company provides services for multinational companies and start-ups with projects spanning high technology (such as cooperation with ASML for more than 35 years, Provide mechanical solutions and shell design for its lithography equipment), sustainable agriculture (such as Cropkit concept research, H2arvester mobile solar system), clean energy (such as ZEF zero-emission fuel project), electric vehicle charging infrastructure (such as NRG2050 intelligent charging pile), medical health (such as market-oriented development of socks-wearing devices) and consumer packaging (such as designing a sustainable sauce distributor for Kraft Heinz to replace disposable plastic packaging). The company adopts the methodology of combining design thinking with business thinking, and guides customers to complete the innovation process through scenario analysis, risk assessment and experimental iteration, from opportunity identification to design and development to product realization.
H2arvester is a start-up project initiated by the company, which focuses on the research, development and commercialization of mobile and autonomous agro-optical complementary systems and agricultural robot technology. Its core innovation is to install large-scale solar panels on the chassis that can move independently, so that these "solar cars" can run flexibly on productive agricultural land such as traditional farmland, strip farming areas, dairy farms and nurseries, so as to realize the dual use of land-both planting crops and producing clean energy-without affecting normal agricultural production, and create a stable additional income equivalent to "extra crops" for farmers.
In addition to the function of energy production, H2arvester's autonomous mobile platform also has strong expansibility. It can be used as a multi-functional carrier to carry all kinds of precision agricultural equipment and sensors, perform a series of agricultural robot operations such as sowing, intelligent weeding, variable fertilization, soil monitoring, crop health monitoring and drip irrigation, and support single-vehicle independent operation or multi-vehicle series cooperation. By deeply integrating renewable energy power generation with modern agricultural automation, H2arvester is committed to providing an innovative solution for global agriculture that takes into account economic benefits, efficient land use and sustainable development.