Some days don't just feel productive, instead they feel directional. February 2nd was one of those days for the team at vGreens.
At the official funding-award ceremony Grüne Gründung, the company received a funding commitment of more than 476,000€ for its project "LiqBotanics", following the successful involvement in the fourth call of the funding-competition.
The official funding notice was handed over by Oliver Krischer, Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, during an inspiring event at the Startup Village in Jülich.
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Where energy and entrepreneurship collide
The day unfolded at the Brainergy Park in Jülich, a place where research, industry and startups collide in the best possible way. Between a guided tour through the already growing campus, countless conversations with fellow founders, shared food and drinks, and a lineup of sharp startup pitches, one thing became crystal clear: this ecosystem is designed for ideas that think long-term and scale responsibly.
Fixing strawberries in a way that matters
European strawberry production faces a problem that's easy to overlook but hard to ignore once you see it: Over generations, plant vitality declines, diseases accumulate and the availability of high-quality plant material becomes increasingly unpredictable.
The consequences ripple through the entire supply chain, creating uncertainty for growers and pushing sustainability further out of reach.
LiqBotanics started with a simple but uncomfortable question: what if the real bottleneck isn't how strawberries are grown, but how the plants themselves are produced?
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From lab benches to to intelligent production
With LiqBotanics, vGreens are rethinking plant propagation at its core. Instead of manual, repetitive lab work, the company is building an AI-automated, bioreactor-based tissue culture platform designed for industrial reality.
By integrating bioreactor systems, adaptive robotics and data-driven monitoring, vGreens create a controlled, intelligent production environment that preserves biological quality while enabling reliable, local production.
In short: fewer manual steps, more intelligence, and a system that scales.
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A clear vision for NRW
"Our ambition goes far beyond this single project: We want to help position NRW as a leading hub for automated, sustainable plant production, where biology, AI and robotics come together to build resilient food systems for the future," said the company in a statement. "Receiving this funding is a major milestone on that journey. It adds confidence, sharpens focus and reinforces why we started building in the first place! We're deeply grateful for the trust and support. It means a lot to see our ideas not only encouraged, but truly believed in!"
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