ApisProtect buzzing with €100k to help save bees

Andrew Wood, chairman, and Fiona Edwards-Murphy, chief executive, ApisProtect

Company: ApisProtect

Done Deal:€100,000 investment

The clincher:“There is a very real demand for what ApisProtect is offering and a sizable commercial opportunity” - Andrew Wood, ApisProtect

Yield Lab, the Missouri-based food sustainability accelerator that launched in Ireland in 2016, has invested €100,000 in a UCC spin-out that develops sensor-based technology to help halt the decline in bee populations globally.

Established in February 2016 by chief executive Fiona Edwards-Murphy, ApisProtect has appointed a chairman ...