Year partnered with Savant: 2022
Sector: Agriculture
Application: Undercover Farming
Product: A Range of world-class undercover farming systems and hardware
Market Size: (Local) ZAR 1 billion (Global) USD 22 billion
Differentiation: Focussed on Poly-Greenhouses, Highly unique weather algorithms, Multi-positioning, Modular scalability
Investment Stage: Seed
Stage: Venture and Grow locally
Founding Team: Joel van der Schyff
AgrilogiQ
AgrilogiQ’s product suite includes proprietary sensors, sensor nodes and automation controllers as well off-the-shelf weather stations and related technologies. Where applicable, the company can integrate (plug-and-play or retrofit).
AgrilogiQ’s proprietary Smart Technology to any connected hardware in their system into an intelligent device. Its web-based software platform provides access to real-time data and enables system control on and off site.
Value Proposition
AgrilogiQ combines a range of off-the-shelf, and proprietary, world-class, undercover farming systems, software and hardware to enable wireless and intelligent poly-greenhouse automation and remote management. This includes venting motors, weather sensors/stations and a cloud-based software platform. Using key parameters such as temperature and humidity, the solution ensures suitable and swift adjustments to the growing environment. This maximises crop yield and reduces the risk of crop damage, without the burdens associated with manual processes.
Team
Joel van der Schyff
AgrilogiQ is led by Joel van der Schyff. He has a mechanical and electrical engineering background and an MBA from UCT. He is also an accomplished entrepreneur, having previously co-founded an FMCG equipment manufacturing business, which he ran for 6 years and exited.
Rowan Gracey
Co-founder and now, largely silent shareholder, Rowan Gracey discovered the need for AgrilogiQ through his industrial motor and gearbox supply company, Principal Power Solutions (PPS). The company had already established a relationship with Haygrove, a global farming operator and commercial polytunnel supplier.
Familiar with Joel’s success at building, scaling and exiting an industrial technology business, Rowan approached Joel to assist him steer the ship.
The first sales were captured through Principal Power Solutions due to financial, tax and operational requirements. However, the opportunity was phased out of PPS into AgrilogiQ, which was incorporated in 2020. Rowan and Joel are both equal shareholders, with Rowan having stepped down as a director in order to focus on PPS. Rowan invested cash into the business and Joel has invested sweat equity and cash. Rowan still holds contact sessions with Joel, but is not involved in the operations.
