Paris, 13 January 2017
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INNOVATIVE FARMING START-UPS
OUT IN FORCE AT SIMA 2017!
At its upcoming 2017 edition, SIMA (26 February – 2 March 2017 at Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre) will be
bringing together French and international start-ups.
Reflecting the 2017 theme "Being a Farmer in 10 years", around fifteen of them will congregate in the Start-up
Village, organised in association with La Ferme Digitale*, a forum offering a platform for social networking sites,
on-line comparators, management software, service providers, applications, and more. Other start-ups will have
their own stands in the surrounding exhibition aisles. Their common denominator is that they all develop
innovative solutions in step with a profoundly-changing farming sector.
ON-BOARD ELECTRONICS, NEW TECHNOLOGY
Airinov: a pioneer in farm drones offering the first measurement sensor for crop growth, developed in partnership
with the French research agency INRA.
Carbon Bee: a tool to assess plant health, enabling treatments to be optimised and diseases to be tracked by
capturing data using a drone, a robot or a tractor.
ConnectAgri.fr: a connected device aimed at agricultural equipment sharing clubs, which automatically calculates
the use of each machine to enable simple cost-allocation.
Exotic Systems: supplies vehicles, buildings and fields with connected solutions to help achieve higher efficiency on
farms and better yield from all farm processes.
Naïo Technologies: farm robots and electric tools to help farmers in their tasks by lightening their workload,
improving farm profitability and reducing environmental impact.
Sunibrain: an artificial intelligence robot which improves the precision of solar panel management in order to
achieve the highest return.
Visio-Green Agriculture: connected solutions (sensors, data analysis, apps, etc.) to contribute to the improvement
of operational efficiency on farms.
Weenat: solutions including connected sensors which supply real-time farm and weather information on the
parcel, linking up with an app and with decision-making tools.
SERVICES AND ADVICE
Agriconomie.com: the first online marketplace entirely dedicated to farmers’ supplies (seeds, parts, equipment,
fertilisers, etc.).
Agrifind: a social networking platform allowing members to offer the benefit of their expertise to other farmers in
search of tangible solutions.
ComparateurAgricole.com: the first online farm comparator on which farmers can sell their harvest or buy their
fertiliser.
E-farm.com: a supplier of a full range of services for the global resale of used farm machinery.
Ekylibre: farm management software for the agriculture of the future, with the aim of freeing up farmers from
their administrative burdens (500 hours per year on average).
PiloterSaFerme.com: decision making information platform enabling the modelling of individual commercial
strategies (buying and selling) from a proprietary algorithm.
SOCIAL PLATFORMS, MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE
365Farmnet.com: a social platform which connects up knowledge, information and resources allowing the farmer
to manage their farm and work with their partners using a single software solution.
Easystocktyre.fr: first social platform developed for distributors of farm tyres (specialist wholesalers and farm
equipment dealers).
Meshectares.com: a website to help with farm supplies (fertilisers, spare parts, livestock equipment, etc.), provides
information and encourages interaction between professionals.
Sencrop: an agro-meteorological social platform connected to weather stations and sensors and linked up with
decision-making tools
VotreMachine.com: the first farm machinery rental website allowing farmers to hire machinery that they cannot
afford or do not need to own.
WeFarmUp.com: a pioneering website for peer-to-peer equipment rental in the farming world which today boasts
2,900 WeFarmers and 1,850 available machines.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Enerbioflex: an engineering consultancy specialising in energy overconsumption which analyses and helps to
reduce direct energy consumption (electricity, heating fuel, gas and biomass) in farms.
Diimotion: a direct injection system, for more efficient and eco-friendly spraying, capable of working with all
products, both powders and liquids, with a reaction time of barely one second.
In parallel, the Start-up Village will be hosting several workshops organised by La Ferme Digitale* offering
exchange and debate around the most topical subjects:
 Green Trend, sustainable agriculture: new words have sprung up in recent years (AMAPs, local consumerism,
organic, responsible consumerism, etc.). This workshop will examine their meaning and offer dialogue between
consumers and producers.
 Farm distribution of tomorrow: how will it create value for the farmer, the sector’s businesses and the end
consumer?
 Internet of Things: new gadgets or the farmer’s best friend?
 Financing in the farming sector: traditional players are now investing in intangible assets (software, artificial
intelligence, innovative ecosystems, start-ups, etc.). Why has farming remained such a long-standing
investment?
Start-up Village - Hall 4 - Stand H 012 and J 011
* La Ferme Digitale is an association made up of 12 start-ups whose aim is to promote innovation and digital
technology to achieve high-performance, sustainable agriculture.
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