Plenty of buzz for ApisProtect as it closes €1.5m seed

Fiona Edwards-Murphy, chief executive, ApisProtect

Company: ApisProtect

Done Deal:€1.5 million funding round

The clincher:“This investment will allow us to accelerate our expansion as we work to create an extensive global hive health database to power our machine learning insights” - Fiona Edwards-Murphy, chief executive

ApisProtect, the UCC spin-out behind sensor-based technology designed to help halt the decline in bee populations globally, has closed a €1.5 million seed round led by agtech VC Finistere Ventures and Atlantic Bridge Capital.