Winning momentum for MycoSense Spotlight

Tasting mushrooms this festive season, imagine the sprinkling of green and red that may have adorned them as they grew, thick and robust, courtesy of MycoSense’s solution pointing the ones ready-to-harvest. Founded in 2021, the startup has spent the last two years developing its first product, the MycoSense Spotlight, and rolling it out to trial customers in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands.

Contacted by Startupticker.ch, MycoSense founder, CEO and seasoned entrepreneur Stéphane Doutriaux explains that the startup's customers are industrial mushroom producers. The company has big ambitions. "Our aim is to meet the needs of producers all over the world. The largest Swiss producer has been our customer since 2022. In 2024, we intend to expand and serve around 15 producers internationally” says the CEO.

MycoSense develops tools to improve yields in agriculture. Its core capabilities lie in optics and computer vision, microtechnology, machine learning and AI, advanced computing, embedded software, and data analysis. Its first product, MycoSense Spotlight, uses ML to learn how to optimize the harvesting process for industrially grown mushrooms.

To meet growing demand, the company is set to increase its production and sales capacity for Spotlight, its flagship product in 2024 and 2025, with new products in development to be launched in the coming years. MycoSense is headquartered in Cully, in the canton of Vaud, near Lausanne. The company currently employs 7 people.

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