Website: www.blokgarden.com
Country: Finland
Founding year: 2020
Key technologies: Urban farming as a Service, Mobile Biodiversity solutions
Team size: 3
Member of incubators/ accelerators/ programmes: Innovestor PALO and Nordic Startup Ventures
We help people to grow food in urban locations.
Our main product is Blokgarden – a gardenbox as a service.
We deliver you a readymade gardenbox with soil and seedlings, so growing your own food could not be easier.
During growing season we provide you tips and task on our mobile app so you are sure to succeed with getting good crops from your plants.
About the Solution: Green Factor Elements by Blok
URBAN TECH Challenge: Solutions for improving biodiversity with greenery in urban areas
Challenge owner: City of Turku (Finland)
Sector: Greentech
Funding received: up to 27000 EUR
Type: Hardware : Green Factor Elements – Retrofittable Biodiversity Solution for urban infrastructure
Customer focus: B2B: Cities and Municipalities, construction industry
Target Market: Global
Blokgarden Green Factor Elements are affordable, robust, safe, transportable and reusable units and designed as failproof solutions. With sensory technology Blokgarden knows any time the module needs service and a person onsite.
The Blokgarden App provides live information on what should be done and how.
With the modules design, Blokgarden main innovation is to use and combine readily available components with their knowhow on plants and urban farming in demanding conditions.
Most components (frames, connectors etc.) are constantly available and any special parts can be 3D printed. This enables keeping the production and stock costs low whilst being able to upscale the concept as needed.
Startup cost for launching the concept is extremely low enabling to take on large orders without tying much capital.
