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🟢 Grant AwardedWageningen, Netherlands

Flora Robotics

Autonomous robots for sustainable agriculture and precision farming in European climates.

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🟢 Grant Awarded

Received €2.8M from Horizon Europe for autonomous crop monitoring robot development

3 Mar 2026

Flora Robotics' Horizon Europe grant confirms institutional validation. Unlike US agritech focused on large-scale monoculture, European farms require robots that handle diverse, smaller fields — a different technical challenge that Flora specifically addresses.

Founding Team

Sophie van der Berg

CEO

Wageningen University PhD in agricultural robotics.

Thomas Bakker

CTO

Former TU Delft robotics researcher, 10+ years in autonomous systems.

Signal Score

Nucleus Signal Score

Composite score (0–100) across four equal dimensions: Team Strength (25pts), Market Timing (25pts), Deal Velocity (25pts), Signal Quality (25pts). Scores 75+ are tracked as High Conviction.

70

Estimated Stage

Pre-Seed

Location

Wageningen, Netherlands

Sectors

AgriTechRoboticsClimate Tech