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FLOX
Solutions for animal farming
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Food
- Computer Vision
- Hackney, London, UK
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Company mission
To transform the poultry industry by improving the lives of the 1.8 trillion chickens reared over the next few decades.
23% female employees
Our take
About 60 billion chickens are reared for meat annually, but even under the best farming conditions their welfare is not good. The most dedicated farms might have walkthroughs to check on the flock once or twice a day, and in that time chickens can become ill or injured.
FLOX aims to improve the welfare of chickens with an AI platform that uses to computer vision, automated alerts and analytics to watch the flock at all times, alerting farmers as soon as an incident occurs allowing an immediate response. The platform also yields a huge amount of data for farmers who can use the insights gained for accurate planning and decision making.
Since its founding in 2018, FLOX has gone operational in 10 commercial sheds, including those run by the UK's largest poultry producer. It has also raised a significant amount of funding including from DEFRA's Farming Innovation Programme, which is being used to build a scalable industrial demonstrator system and to further develop the platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Free lunches and snacks at the office
- Share Options
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- Hybrid work (2-3 days in our Hackney offices depending on operational needs)
- Inclusive and relaxed company culture: we welcome everyone, we encourage you to be yourself and dress as you like
Company values
- Ownership: we love to take things on and have a support network when needed
- Collaboration: we tackle problems together to move the needle as a team
- Authenticity: we are all silly in our own way and we are comfortable taking that part of ourselves to work
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2024
$3.1m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$0.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $3.6m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Imtiaz Shams
(CEO)Is also Director at Post Urban Ventures. Previously was Director of Business Development for Sunfish Energy and Technology Manager at Givergy.
Nils Hügelmann
(CTO)Was Lead Robotics Engineer at Moley Robotics and General Manager & Lead Developer with anonymoX.