Avisomo

One week, or four(!) events ago, we had the honor of being selected to partake in Innovation Norway's scaling workshop at Oslo Innovation Week along with ten other ambitious Norwegian companies in about the same stage of their scaling journey as us. It was truly an inspirational session, filled to the brim with insight and knowledge. Main takeaways: 😎 The Innovation Norway EMNY scaling program looks very relevant to ambitious startups. 🤔 It's really challenging, borderline impossible, to build hardware startups with Silicon Valley VC funding timeframes. But, as Ravi Belani pointed out, all software needs hardware to run. So let's build hardware infrastructure for plant software to run on. 🌱

Amazing! We are nominated in two categories at the 2024 Vertical Farming World Awards next week! Thank you to Zenith Global Ltd, the amazing jury, and all our industry colleagues whom we both collaborate and compete with on a daily basis, while trying to create a truly sustainable future food system together 🌍 See you in Frankfurt for the Vertical Farming World Congress! Regardless of the Awards, we have already won!

We are well underway with the construction of our first fully automated vertical farm inside Coop Norges distribution centre at Gardermoen, and we are so fortunate to partner with the best of the best on all aspects of this facility. ✨ The HVAC setup from Meteor Systems will be a significant contributor to ensure an as energy-efficient and precise production as possible. Exciting times indeed, and we can’t wait to display the capabilities of this first-of-its-kind facility to the world. We believe this is the path towards truly sustainable food production 🌱

Join Avisomo at Arendalsuka 2024! 🌱 Next week Avisomo is excited to participate at Arendalsuka, the largest political gathering in Norway. We'll be diving into discussions on the political prerequisites necessary for accelerating technology-enabled, sustainable food production practices – our favorite topic! 🤓 On Monday, August 12, our Chief Commercial Officer Endre Thesen Harnes, and our board member Ellen Altenborg, will join a distinguished panel to explore how Agrifoodtech can become Norway's next major exporting industry. Also on the panel are: 🌟 André Skoog Bondevik from Agdir AS, 🌟 Morten Blaauw from Frukt AS 🌟 Ole Kind from SoilMate Tracker The session will kick off with an introduction by 🌟 Siri Fjellheim, principal at NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences The panel is part of a full-day event hosted by the AgriFoodTech Norway initiative, made possible by Klosser Innovation, NCE Heidner Biocluster, Aggrator, and T:Lab. 🕒 Time: 2 PM 📍 Location: Haralds pub 📅 Full program here: https://lnkd.in/d7aV8Kny We are proud to partake, and look forward to a fruitful debate both here and around Arendal over the course of the week.

Amidst all the hustle and bustle involved with the building of our first fully automated, industrial vertical farm, we are still somehow able to draw media attention to our ambitions of building a truly sustainable food system. So it is with great pride we today can announce that our founders Martin Molenaar and Jo André Flåseth have been selected to be part of the «Ledestjerner» campaign (leadership stars) in Norway’s most prominent business magazine Dagens Næringsliv - D2. It is truly an honor, and we are thrilled and humbled by the recognition! 😌 The article is available in print today and digitally through the link in the comments (paywall, Norwegian only). We would like to thank our entire team, our board, our investors, our partners, and all of you who are supporting and rooting for us on our mission. If you would like to be involved in one way or the other - investor, partner, or vertical farmer - do not hesitate to reach out to info@avisomo.no 🌱 Endre Thesen Harnes Morten Dahl Emil Joakim Wolff Anthony Kristina Inderhaug Ole Sverre Spigseth Ellen Altenborg Cecilie Wetlesen Borge Lars Rognås Dag-Adler Blakseth

Amidst all the hustle and bustle involved with the building of our first fully automated, industrial vertical farm, we are still somehow able to draw media attention to our ambitions of building a truly sustainable food system. So it is with great pride we today can announce that our founders Martin Molenaar and Jo André Flåseth have been selected to be part of the «Ledestjerner» campaign (leadership stars) in Norway’s most prominent business magazine Dagens Næringsliv - D2. It is truly an honor, and we are thrilled and humbled by the recognition! 😌 The article is available in print today and digitally through the link in the comments (paywall, Norwegian only). We would like to thank our entire team, our board, our investors, our partners, and all of you who are supporting and rooting for us on our mission. If you would like to be involved in one way or the other - investor, partner, or vertical farmer - do not hesitate to reach out to info@avisomo.no 🌱 Endre Thesen Harnes Morten Dahl Emil Joakim Wolff Anthony Kristina Inderhaug Ole Sverre Spigseth Ellen Altenborg Cecilie Wetlesen Borge Lars Rognås Dag-Adler Blakseth

I must admit that we have been too stretched on capacity to even share all the fun things we have been part of over the last few months. But as my mother says: "If I don't hear anything from you, I assume you're doing fine and keeping busy". 🙄 Even if this is true in most cases, we would still like to share that it was an honour to be part of the first agtech-specific Norwegian-Swedish investment collaboration event at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Stockholm a couple of weeks ago. The event was hosted by Innovation Norway, AgriFoodTech Norway, Agtech Sweden, and Business Sweden, and we hope this is the first of many governmentally supported events trying to accelerate the important (and exciting) agritech industries in the Nordics. Our Chief Commercial Officer Endre Thesen Harnes both got to pitch Avisomo to a relevant crowd of investors, celebrate his birthday in Stockholm and share a few insights in the video you can see below. 🤓 AviSoMe team checking in and out again, more old news to follow soon, have a great weekend folks! 🤠

Our Chief Commercial Officer Endre Thesen Harnes was interviewed in Vertical Farm Daily earlier this week. In the interview he gives a quick analysis of the current developments in the vertical farming industry - and argues how vertical farming is a good investment case at the moment, quite contrary to general investment market belief. We do fully get behind this message, given the many positive tendencies we see both for our own sake and industry wide. Let’s grow 🌱

Vegas, baby! 🤠 Last week I had the honor of representing Avisomo at Indoor Ag-Con in Las Vegas for the first time. We shared our booth with our good friends in Photosynthetic - a Rift Labs brand and had a lot of interest in our very small «Norwegian pavilion». As a general update, it’s good to see the industry-wide positivity following the last year-and-a-half of challenges in vertical farming. To my enjoyment - and just as it should - these challenges now seem to have spurred a rapidly increasing focus on transparency, inclusion, and collaboration in the space. I firmly believe that nothing long-lasting is built without addressing as many perspectives as possible, and seeing this development is reassuring and was very well illustrated in my favorite panel of the entire event: The diversity panel hosted by my good friend Thea-Isabella Otto. Women In CEA represent! This week I’m in San Francisco for World Agri-Tech and Future Food-Tech, I can’t wait to discuss the future of food with even broader strokes with everyone there. Thank you all so much for the great time Rebekka Boekhout Renko Schuil Erika Parente Marcus Comaschi Marcus Vagt Thomas Zoellner Oskar (where u at in here), Sepehr Achard Harry Duran 🎤 Podcast Strategist Okay so who had the biggest wins or losses at the tables? I was $20 up in the end. 😎 #highroller #avisomo #verticalfarming #CEA

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