Aflabox raises €1.35M seed to bring food safety testing into the field

Italy-based agritech
startup Aflabox has raised €1.35 million in seed funding to accelerate the
commercialisation and industrial scaling of its AI-powered food safety
monitoring platform. The equity round was completed through FoodSeed, the
agrifood accelerator within CDP Venture Capital’s National Accelerator Network
managed by Eatable Adventures, with participation from Farming Future, the
National Agrifood Tech Technology Transfer Hub promoted by CDP Venture Capital
SGR in partnership with ToSeed & Partners.

Founded by Luca Alinovi and Fabrizio Cardillo, Aflabox is developing a field intelligence
platform that enables rapid testing of mycotoxins, commercial quality
assessment and food safety monitoring directly across agricultural supply
chains.

The platform combines portable hardware, UV and white-light imaging,
artificial intelligence, geolocated data collection and cloud-based dashboards.
It delivers digital, shareable test results in less than 90 seconds while
building a database to monitor contamination, quality, risk and the commercial
value of agricultural commodities.

Aflabox is addressing
the limitations of conventional mycotoxin testing, which typically relies on
specialised laboratories, expensive equipment and processing times ranging from
several hours to several days. By moving testing closer to where crops are produced,
collected, stored and traded, the company enables farmers, collection centres,
food processors, exporters and public institutions to make faster, data-driven
decisions.

Beyond individual test
results, every scan becomes a geolocated data point that can be aggregated to
create territorial maps of contamination and quality, improve supply chain
traceability, support export readiness, and help governments and international
organisations target food safety interventions more effectively.

The new funding will
support the validation and certification of the company’s device, enhance its
AI platform and improve detection accuracy, establish a micro-factory to
manufacture Aflabox devices, strengthen its commercial presence in Kenya,
Nigeria and Italy, expand its distribution network across Africa and Europe,
and grow the team.