{"id":6720,"date":"2023-08-14T21:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=6720\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:36:40","slug":"zenvus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/zenvus\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenvus &#8211; Intelligent solutions for farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">  <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Zenvus is an intelligent solution for farms that use proprietary electronics sensors to collect soil data like moisture, nutrients, pH&#8230; and send them to a cloud server via GSM, satellite or Wifi. Algorithms in the server analyze the data and advice farmers on what to do in their farms to maximize yield. As the crops grow, the system deploys special cameras to build vegetative health to help detection of drought stress, pests and diseases. The data generated is aggregated, anonymized and made available via subscription for agro-lending, agro-insurance, commodity trading to banks, agro-insurers and agro-investors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Link to online video (if available)\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"boombox-responsive-embed \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zenvus 2D Animation Video\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fNWlv0C1-Fg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your products and services\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We offer two products &#8211; Zenvus Smartfarm, a soil fertility sensor, and Zenvus Yield which is a high spectral camera for vegetation mapping. Our services are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>zManager <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0zManager is an electronic farm diary that helps Zenvus farmers record all phases of farming from planting through harvest to sales. It keeps all records \u2013 financial, staff, tools&#8230; in one secure place.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>zPrices<\/strong> -zPrices empowers rural Zenvus farmers with real-time produce prices across major cities. It provides farmers with data to effectively negotiate prices with merchants who normally pay them little.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>zCapital <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0zCapital helps Zenvus farmers raise capital (loan or equity) by providing independent farm data from our sensors to help banks and investors evaluate overall profitability of farms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>zCrowdfund <\/strong>-zCrowdfund helps Zenvus farmers crowdfund capital from local donors to whom they can deliver produce after harvest. Our sensors validate these farms providing partners with confidence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>zInsure <\/strong>-zInsure helps Zenvus farmers insure their farms by providing independent farm data from our sensors to insurers. This helps them evaluate the risks based on actual farm data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>zMarkets <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0zMarket provides a platform for Zenvus farmers to sell their produce. It is an avenue to expand their markets by removing geographic limitations. Farmers list their harvest days and buyers connect.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your success factors\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Innovation and delivering products and services at less than 10% of cost which big foreign brands deliver the same. We understand that African farmers are cost-conscious, so we work to deliver services at good prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Zenvus uses electronic sensors to measure soil nutrients, temperature, moisture etc. It uses special cameras to build farm vegetation index to detect drought stress, diseases and pests in crops<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Both data are sent wirelessly to a cloud server where analytics use them to precisely tell a farmer when to water a farm, among others. Linked to weather station, it knows when to wait for rain over irrigation. Zenvus reduces water usage by 70% and sells for $200 compared to $120k needed for some big foreign competitors<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your business model (how do you make money?)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0We sell our sensors and we also sell via subscriptions the aggregated data (and anonymized) from farms so that banks, insurers and agro-investors can use the same data to make loans and insure farms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A few words about your competitors<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They are big companies selling IOT devices to large farms in Africa. They include John Deere. So far, they have no solution targeting small African farmers. We are pioneering this field of building sensors (IOT devices) for small farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your website\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenvus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/zenvus.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Zenvus is an intelligent solution for farms that use proprietary electronics sensors to collect soil data like moisture, nutrients, pH&#8230; and send them to a cloud server via GSM, satellite or Wifi. Algorithms in the server analyze the data and advice farmers on what to do in their farms to maximize yield. 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