Indeex raises pre-seed funding to automate food quality control using Internet-of-Things
Indeex, a Greek startup providing Industrial-Internet-of-Things solutions targeted on the food industry, announces today the completion of a pre-seed financing round led by TECS Capital.
Through TECS Capital’s investment, the company will commercialize & deploy the IIoT platform to optimize food quality control that currently isn’t efficient and based on experience rather than data. With decisions taken from a manual sampling and analysis process with questionable precision, the process ends up needing many working hours, investment in expensive lab equipment, and a lot of product wasted during analysis.
Indeex’s IIoT platform offers the needed digital transformation and introduces remote quality control, using IoT devices that are 24/7 attached and collecting data. Through the platform, users can improve precision by using data, while also replacing manual quality control processes (e.g., sampling and lab analysis) to cut costs. However, Indeex is not providing standalone sensors for specific metrics but an all-in-one integrated platform that will combine different metrics to export complex chemical data and use them for actionable, real-time, predictive analytics using machine learning algorithms.
Indeex has performed several pilot installations and Proof-of-Concepts in Greece, some of them with key players of the Food & Beverages industry like Athenian Brewery, the largest beer producer in Greece and part of HEINEKEN Group which invests heavily in innovative equipment and processes. During those developments, the company has built a wide network of partners including food industries, industry-related universities and food machinery providers that will strengthen the product’s distribution channels. Indeex has successfully completed OK!Thess startup acceleration program in 2021.
The solution (Hardware-Enabled Software-as-a-Service) has been deployed and beta tested in industrial environments for over 12 months, with users mentioning that they achieved to simplify their production procedures and made them from experience-driven, data-driven. The devices offer 10+ years of battery-operated lifetime and proven Plug-N-Play features, with the users performing the installation themselves in a matter of minutes.
The company has also been previously funded by, and is a portfolio company of, EIT Digital, a leading European digital innovation and entrepreneurial education organization driving Europe’s digital transformation.
About Indeex
Indeex, offers integrated Industrial IοΤ solutions mainly targeted at the food and beverage industry. Indeex’s all-in-one IIoT platform includes wireless & Plug-N-Play sensors that are 24/7 attached at different production stages, collecting data that will be used to optimize production procedures using machine learning algorithms. The IIoT platform provides real-time remote monitoring, data analytics & digital traceability features.
About TECS Capital
TECS Capital, is a pre-seed/seed investment structure focused on Industry 4.0, that invests in science and technology startups fueling talented founders to turn their best ideas into scalable ventures and build the future. TECS Capital has a network of Venture Partners in Europe and the US contributing to its operations. The GP Team has extensive business and technical experience and diversified backgrounds. The LPs come from various industries and the anchor investor is the Hellenic Development Bank for Investments (HDBI).
