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From strawberries to raspberries and blueberries: As all of you know, we are committed to pioneering the data-driven production of nutrient-rich foods through Vertical Farming. Until now, our focus has been primarily on strawberries – why? Because it gives us the opportunity to set a new global quality standard for one of the most beloved – yet most complex – fruits. 🍓🌍 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁, 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽. 💡 Together with Fraunhofer UMSICHT, we are now scientifically exploring sustainable indoor cultivation of other fruits, including raspberries and blueberries, for the very first time. 🚀 Looking ahead: Our goal is to refine our technology to enable year-round production of not just strawberries, but also raspberries, blueberries, and even melons. Here's to shaping the future of agriculture, one fruit at a time!

Excited to take the stage as a Keynote Speaker at innovate! tomorrow, representing vGreens! We will dive into how data-driven approaches and AI are revolutionizing the food production industry - unlocking new levels of resource efficiency and paving the way for a more sustainable future. See you on stage.

vGreens goes COP29 Azerbaijan 🌱 Another day, another one of those “pinch me” moments: Representing #TeamvGreens our Co-CEOs Claas Ahrens and Dr. Maximilian A. Hartmann and our Marketing Manager Lina Steinbrink are attending this year’s UN Climate Conference in Baku! 🌏 First stop on the list: Tonight’s COP29 Flagship Friday Event focusing on climate finance & innovation powered by SABAH.HUB, Top Tier Impact and Avestu Capital. We’re looking forward to a great evening with lots of exciting conversations! 👀 Keep your eyes peeled for our team’s personal profiles to gain some more insights into our stay and find out the incredible reason behind our journey! #vGreens #Startup #COP29 #GreenInnovation

It’s official: vGreens is a potential NEXT GEN UNICORN! This past week has been a whirlwind of super exciting developments for #TeamvGreens and winning 1st place in the Next Gen Unicorns Award Pitch definitely put the cherry on top of the cake! 🏆 Thank you Business Punk, especially Oliver Stock, for a great night at #DieBusinessPunk Invest in Innovation and giving us the opportunity to pitch our vision of data-driven food production in this setting. 🌱🚀 And pitch or not, it was overall an exciting evening with great new connections and lots of insights into #Financial trends, the #energy sector and of course #AI - spanning from Bitpanda to Marvel Fusion. One of my personal highlights was meeting Lara Sophie Bothur after her inspiring key note about tech megatrends. Her core message: "always see opportunity in every failure!" That’s something, we have also internalized at vGreens and this power woman is living proof, how far this mindset can get you. 👏 I’m incredibly proud of our team of everything we have achieved and can’t wait to experience many more breakthroughs and failures together on our journey! 🍓 #vGreens #NextGenUnicorn #DieBusinessPunk

Ready, Set, Go: In just a few days, #DieBusinessPunk, the brand-new convention for startups, investors and visionaries by Business Punk, will take place in Frankfurt – and I’m beyond excited that vGreens has been nominated as a Next Gen Unicorn! 🦄 This gives us a unique opportunity to showcase our vision for a more sustainable world in front of German visionaries and thought leaders like Frank Thelen, Carsten Maschmeyer and Deloittes Voice for Innovation Lara Sophie Bothur. 🚀 Of course, I’m equally excited to hear their insights in current tech megatrends like AI and crypto – it’s definitely going to be an exciting night! Let me know, if you'll be there as well! But most of all: Fingers crossed for the award! #vGreens #NextGenUnicorns #InvestInInnovation #DieBusinessPunk #Sustainability #FutureOfBusiness

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 – 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 🤖    Vertical Farming is gaining more and more traction as an innovative technology with enormous potential to address pressing issues and positively impact the food industry.    But what are the technological drivers for the industry?    👉 At vGreens, we believe that the integration of 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 and 𝗔𝗜 is a central building block to truly unlock the full potential of indoor farming methods and make them viable not only for leafy greens but also for other fruits and vegetables, like strawberries.    AI can be utilized in various aspects of Vertical Farming, such as:    🌱 Continuous and autonomous environmental control  🌱 Predictive analysis of potential issues and proactive countermeasures  🌱 Simple operation of resource-efficient and self-improving facilities    In other words: A data-centric approach not only enhances economic efficiency and sustainability but also provides data insights into plant growth, creating new business opportunities that were previously unimaginable in established food sectors. I’ve published an extensive article on this topic on our blog at v-greens.com – I’ll link it in the comments and would love to hear your thoughts on this! ⬇️ #vGreens #VerticalFarming #AI

A glimpse into the future of food production 👀 Our partners at Siemens welcomed our Co-Founder Claas Ahrens to their German Podcast "Einblick. Zweiblick. Weitblick." to shed light on the enormous potential of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). 🌱 Together with host Katja Lübcke and Siemens Account Manager Liliana Rahn, Claas dives deep on the topic of food security and the subsequent increasing need for innovative agricultural methods such as #VerticalFarming, especially our very own data-driven approach. 🎧 A must-listen for anyone interested in the current status of CEA, its prospects and possible future developments! 👉 You can find the link to the episode in the post below (German only). ___ Ein Blick in die Zukunft der Lebensmittelproduktion 👀 Unser Co-Founder Claas Ahrens war zu Gast im „Einblick. Zweiblick. Weitblick.“-Podcast unseres Partners Siemens, um über das enorme Potenzial der Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) zu sprechen. 🌱 In der Folge dreht sich alles um das Thema Ernährungssicherheit und den damit verbundenen steigenden Bedarf an innovativen landwirtschaftlichen Methoden wie #VerticalFarming. Im Gespräch mit Podcast-Host Katja Lübcke und Siemens Account Managerin Liliana Rahn geht Claas dabei insbesondere auf unseren eigenen datengetriebenen Ansatz ein. 🍓 Eine absolute Empfehlung für alle, die sich für den aktuellen Stand der CEA, ihre Perspektiven und mögliche zukünftige Entwicklungen interessieren! 👉 Den Link zur Folge findet ihr im unten stehenden Beitrag. #vGreens #IndoorFarming #CEA #FutureOfFood #Podcast

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿? Very happy to announce that we made it to the semifinals of the German Farm Startup Awards and have the honor of presenting our data-driven farming approach at the German Farmers' Association in Berlin on 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟰𝘁𝗵! 🌱🚀 Next to the other Top 7 candidates Farmula GmbH, noxt! sensortec GmbH, ZukunftMoor, Verdancy, revoltech and Prefiro our Co-Founder Dr. Maximilian A. Hartmann will pitch our vision in front of a jury of industry experts. 🤞 Keep your fingers crossed for us! The final will take place on 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝘁𝗵 during the innovate!, where the Top 3 startups will compete in a pitch battle. Additionally, our Chief of Staff Timo Quast will hold a keynote on resource efficiency in agriculture at the innovate! Convention on 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁. 🌍💡 We’d be beyond excited to meet you there and chat – you can get tickets for the convention and / or November’s award night at innovate-convention.de. ___ Wir stehen im Halbfinale der diesjährigen German Farm Startup Awards! Am 𝟮𝟰. 𝗢𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 wird unser Co-Founder Dr. Maximilian A. Hartmann unseren datengetriebenen Indoor-Farming-Ansatz beim Deutschen Bauernverband in Berlin vor einer Jury aus Branchenexperten präsentieren! 🌱🚀 Wir sind gespannt, wer es ins Finale schafft – drückt uns die Daumen! Das Finale findet dann am 𝟮𝟬. 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 im Rahmen der innovate! statt, wo die drei besten Startups im Pitch-Battle gegeneinander antreten werden. Zusätzlich wird unser Chief of Staff Timo Quast am 𝟮𝟭. 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 auf der innovate! Convention eine spannende Keynote zum Thema Ressourceneffizienz in der Landwirtschaft halten. 🌍💡 Wir würden uns sehr freuen, den ein oder anderen von euch dort anzutreffen – Tickets für die Convention und / oder die Awardnight gibt es auf innovate-convention.de. #vGreens #AgTech #AgInnovation #GermanFarmStartupAwards

Six startups, one mission: On Thursday NRW Minister Mona Neubaur will crown the winner of this year’s #MeetGreetBeat finale at the University of Düsseldorf. We’re excited to be part of the finalist startups, all trailblazers in the fields of social entrepreneurship and climate protection. 🚀 After the official part is over, the audience can also vote for their favorite startup – so, if you’re in the area, we’d love to count on your support for our delicious strawberries! 🍓 👉 There will be an interesting program surrounding the startup ecosystem in NRW with interesting keynotes and networking opportunities. Free tickets are available via the link in the post below! We’re counting on you!  __ Am Donnerstag ist es so weit: NRW-Ministerin Mona Neubaur wird den Sieger des diesjährigen #MeetGreetBeat kühren! 🚀 Sechs Startups werden in kurzen 4-Minuten Pitches ihre innovativen Ideen aus den Bereichen Social Entrepreneurship und Klimaschutz vorstellen und auch wir sind dabei! Wenn ihr in der Gegend seid, würden wir uns riesig über eure Unterstützung vor Ort freuen – neben dem Wettbewerb wird es ein spannendes Rahmenprogramm mit Impulsvorträgen und Networking-Angeboten speziell für die Gründerszene geben! 👉 Kostenlose Tickets gibt es über den Link im Post unten. Wir zählen auf euch! #vGreens #Startup #SocialEntrepreneurship #ClimateAction

Great encounter with Paula Brandt - RETURN ON IMPACT 💚 With Paula, we have a truly impressive neighbor here in #TripleZ. As founder and CEO of RETURN ON IMPACT she is advocating an impact-driven approach to business – a mission that aligns perfectly with our values at vGreens. All the better that we had the chance to get to know each other yesterday and talk about our visions for a #sustainable future – and of course try some strawberries together! 🌱🍓 Thank you, Paula, for coming over, we're hoping to see you again soon! __ Tolle Begegnung mit Paula Brandt - RETURN ON IMPACT 💚 Mit Paula haben wir eine wirklich beeindruckende Nachbarin hier im #TripleZ. Als Gründerin und CEO von RETURN ON IMPACT setzt sie sich für eine #Impact-orientiert Unternehmensführung ein – eine Mission, die sich perfekt mit unseren Werten bei vGreens deckt. Umso schöner, dass wir gestern die Gelegenheit hatten, uns kennenzulernen und über unsere Visionen für eine #nachhaltige Zukunft zu sprechen – und natürlich ein paar Erdbeeren zu probieren! 🌱🍓 Danke, Paula, dass du vorbeigekommen bist, auf hoffentlich ganz bald!