LettUs Grow has announced the spin-out of Ostara, to support the company's strategic focus on scaling their aeroponic technology globally.
Ostara is a software platform initially developed by LettUs Grow to boost yields and reduce costs for indoor growers. The successful spin-out has been enabled by the Ostara leadership team securing investment from Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV), a leading VC for tech-driven start-ups with a focus on creating positive impact.
Ostara was created to reliably control and monitor all aspects of a crop's life in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) farms, including lighting, irrigation, fertigation, and environmental controls. It has been in use across more than 30 CEA projects across the country since 2015.
Recognizing the challenges faced by the established, lower-tech polytunnel sector in managing environmental conditions effectively, the spin-out of Ostara now seeks to deploy the high-tech platform into covered horticulture. This addresses a need for improved climate management in polytunnels to protect crops from extreme conditions; on-farm waste accounts for £1.8 billion in lost revenue to farmers and the equivalent of 6.9 billion meals in the UK alone (WWF, 2022).
Ostara's software platform offers a solution for growers, automating manual tasks and providing actionable insights to optimize growing operations. The platform can be seamlessly integrated into existing systems or incorporated into new installations, offering a unified approach to environmental controls, hardware management, and data analysis.
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