An kafa tsofaffin ɗaliban jihar Penn Fosfoli, wanda ke kan gaba a fasahar taki mai dorewa, kwanan nan ya ba da sanarwar ƙarin saka hannun jari daga manyan kamfanonin noma na duniya da ya kai $5.3M. Wannan tallafin zai tallafawa kasuwancin fasahar RhizoSorb (alamar kasuwanci mai rijista) a cikin kasuwar amfanin gona ta Amurka.
Wannan sabon jerin saka hannun jari ya haɗa da saka hannun jari daga Ospraie Ag Sciences (OAS), Bunge Ventures, mai riba, hannun jari na duniya na Bunge, da UPL Ltd. Jerin ya bi jerin A jimlar $ 10.3M da aka sanar a farkon shekarar da ta gabata, wanda ya ba da damar Phospholutions. girma fiye da sau uku. Bugu da ƙari, kwanan nan Phospholutions ya sami $250,000 saka hannun jari a lokacin Kalubalen Radicle ta UPL.
Wanda ya kafa Phospholutions kuma Shugaba Hunter Swisher ya fara haɓaka RhizoSorb a matsayin dalibi a cikin shirin kimiyyar shuka a jihar Penn. A matsayin wani ɓangare na aikin bincike na digiri na farko, Swisher ya koyi game da fasahar da ɗaya daga cikin farfesa ya ƙirƙira da haƙƙin mallaka. Ganin yuwuwar kasuwa don fasahar, ya yi aiki tare da Ofishin Gudanar da Fasaha na Jihar Penn don ba da lasisin IP da ƙaddamar da Phospholutions.
Swisher ya ce "Nasarar mu da saurin bunkasuwa ba za su yiwu ba in ba tare da tallafi da tushe wanda tsarin yanayin kasuwanci a Happy Valley ke bayarwa ga al'umma ba," in ji Swisher. "Tallafin yana daya daga cikin dalilan da muka kula da hedkwatarmu a Innovation Park."
Phospholutions' RhizoSorb samfuri ne na haɓaka ƙasa wanda ke amfani da fasaha wanda aka kirkira a cikin Kwalejin Kimiyyar Noma ta Jihar Penn. Tare da bincike da ke nuna fiye da rabin taki da ake amfani da shi a ƙasa ba a taɓa yin amfani da shi ta zahiri ta hanyar shuke-shuke, RhizoSorb yana da niyyar inganta haɓaka abubuwan gina jiki a zahiri, haɓaka ɗaukar shuka, kuma a ƙarshe rage sharar leach da phosphorus.
"Wannan jarin zai taimaka wajen hanzarta ƙaddamar da kasuwancin mu ta hanyar tallafawa shirin gwaji na kasuwanci na wannan shekara, haɗin gwiwar haɓaka dabarun haɓakawa, da kuma ba da damar isar da samfur ga kasuwannin amfanin gona na jere na Amurka don lokacin girma na 2023," in ji Swisher.
Baya ga wannan sabon jerin saka hannun jari, Phospholutions ya kuma sanar da cewa tsohon dalibin jihar Penn Stephan Levitsky ya shiga kungiyar a matsayin Babban Jami'in Gudanarwa da Mataimakin Shugaban Dorewa. Levitsky yana da fiye da shekaru 20 na babban gwaninta a cikin jagorancin abinci da kamfanonin noma.
Levitsky ya ce "Tallafin ra'ayinmu na hangen nesa na duniya game da makoma mai dorewa ga aikin noma ya sa mu daidaita dabarun tare da masu zuba jarinmu waɗanda ke neman kawo hanyoyin da kimiyya ke tallafawa kasuwa don yin tasiri mai ma'ana," in ji Levitsky.
A ƙarshen shekarar da ta gabata, an kuma zaɓi Phospholutions a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin kamfanoni biyar na farko da aka zaɓa don Platform Gwajin Fasahar Nutrient Technology Farm2050 a New Zealand, wanda ya shirya Finistere Ventures da Ƙaddamar Ƙaddamarwa. New Zealand za ta shiga cikin Kanada, Amurka, Turkiyya, Indiya, Brazil da Afirka a cikin jerin wuraren gwajin RhizoSorb na duniya da aka shirya don 2022.
"Fasaha na RhizoSorb ya yi daidai da manufar kamfaninmu don yin ƙari da ƙasa," in ji Carl Casale daga OAS. "Fasaha na inganta haɓakar riba mai girma kuma yana rage tasirin muhalli don ba da gudummawa ga ci gaba mai dorewa ga noma."
Don ƙarin koyo game da Phospholutions kuma bi tafiyarsu, ziyarci www.phospholutions.com ko a kan LinkedIn.
Game da Ƙirƙirar Jihar Penn
Ƙirƙirar Jihar Penn wani shiri ne na gama-gari na gama gari don haɓaka ci gaban tattalin arziki, samar da ayyukan yi da nasarar aikin ɗalibai. Ƙirƙirar Jihar Penn ta haɗu da shirye-shiryen ilimi da aka mayar da hankali kan kasuwanci, horar da fara kasuwanci da haɓakawa, kudade don kasuwanci, da jami'a, al'umma, da haɗin gwiwar masana'antu don sauƙaƙe tsarin ƙalubale na juya binciken bincike zuwa samfurori da ayyuka masu mahimmanci waɗanda zasu iya amfanar Pennsylvania da bil'adama.
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