DigiFarm Most Important Milestones.

The timeline below illustrates our most important milestones and our product development. A big thanks to all the partners who've supported us.

2018

DigiFarm received grant-funding from Innovation Norway in order to conduct preliminary research on feasibility of creating deep neural network models to help optimize crop-production among crop-producers in Norway.

Our feasibility study led to our first R&D project, grant funded by the Research Council of Norway while partnering with the University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

2019

Initiate our third R&D project to include the National Agronomical Advisory Organisation (NLR) as a R&D partner in the project. Expands the dataset to include data from over 14,000 crop producers field data over a 12-year period (2007-2018).

Accepted into Google Cloud for Startups and AWS Activate programs, including over 200k USD in cloud credits, supercharging our ability to train multiple different models on GPU-instances. Start training several hundred models with different hyperparameters.

Received secondary grant funding from Innovation Norway to accelerate project, in addition to multiple year tax-refund scheme. During this phase we grow our team to 7 in our core team.

First startup to be accepted into the Norwegian ESA BIC program, enabling grant funding from ESA in addition to Norwegian Space Agency through 2020.

2020

Becomes a part of NCE Heidner Biocluster, Norway's leading Bioeconomy Cluster, Startuplab and Kjeller Innovasjon. Wins the "Mjøsa's idepris" of 2020.

Secured additional funding from Innovation Norway through "Bioeconomy" initiative. Funding used to develop MVP for B2B/B2G clients to launch in Q4 2020. Product will include field delineation, crop detection and zoning products.

Won the Copernicus Masters "Galileo" Prize of 2020 for Sweden. Secured ESA grant funding through Business Application initiative.

‍Becomes a part of the Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator and the NVIDIA Inception Program, enabling our regional expansion roadmap for 2021.

Secures spot in Copernicus Accelerator for 2021, received funding through Copernicus Incubation 2020 and joined Nora.ai. Launching services to B2B and B2G partners in Norway, US, Canada and Australia.

2021

Received grant-funding through our partnership with the Norwegian Space Agency and fourth round of soft funding from Innovation Norway, became incubation member in Kjeller Innovasjon. Launching services and running models for ag-business partners in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe.

Accepted into EU's leading EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN) batch #4, chosen among 18 other startups from 600 applications (Sustainable Agriculture Sidetrack). Winner of Oracle Startup Idol 4: most creative startup 2021.

Accepted into EU-leading accelerator Spinlab (2021 Rootcamp), funded by KWS/K+S. Won the Copernicus Accelerator Pitch Bootcamp and closed grant-funding with ESA and NoSA. Secured EIC Accelerator funding €6M.