3Bee goes international

3Bee is the leading Italian company in the biodiversity sector, founded in 2016 by Niccolò Calandri and Riccardo Balzaretti. The company works daily to protect bees using AI technologies and improve biodiversity through ESG and CSR projects. Using 3Bee's proprietary technology, namely Hive-Tech, and data analysis, the Italian company enables beekeepers to reduce bee mortality rates and benefit from real-time decision support.

The funding agreement involves€5M financed by entities such as AGfunder, a prestigious investment fund active internationally in the agri-tech sector, andthe ESA, the European Space Agency, which believed in 3Bee's vision, allocating €700,000 for the study of biodiversity using satellites and multispectral imagery. "Our goal is to set up a team of4 professionals in the German region and 4 professionals in the French region: we aim to hire brilliant talent to support our mission to protect bees and biodiversity." - Niccolò Calandri, CEO of 3Bee, said in a statement.

3Bee is looking for a team of business developers, marketing specialists and beekeeper managers to represent 3Bee in Germany and France. 3Bee's goal is to create a network of 20,000 hive adopters, 100 beekeepers and develop more than 250 CSR projects with companies in each country over the next 2 years.Today, 3Bee already has more than 20 beekeepers in Germany and more than 30 beekeepers in France using the monitoring system to protect their bees. 3Bee will be expanding its network to increase the presence of biodiversity across France and Germany. Over the last 20 years, biodiversity has lost the 20% of total species in France and Germany. France is the 6th country with the highest number of threatened species. (Source: IUCN red list). In fact, 18% of the animals that make up its biodiversity are threatened.

"We are confident that our expansion is necessary and that the right time is now," said Niccolò Calandri, speaking at the company's headquarters in Milan. The company's six years of experience and proven technology would enable it to become profitable more quickly in new territories with less investment. "To make it real and have a real positive impact, 3Bee has a budget of €1.5m to roll out over 18 months in each country. We're going to scale up more quickly," said Niccolò Calandri.

Since its creation, 3Bee has developed a network of more than 3,000 beekeepers, across Italy and the world, who use the monitoring systems. It has also created the "Sponsor a hive" initiative dedicated to individuals and companies, who can support a local beekeeper, learn more about the world of bees and taste handcrafted, traced honey. Today, 3Bee has convinced more than200,000 sponsors to protect bees, and has also created more than 1000 corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects with businesses, helping to protect more than 150 million honeybees and all other pollinators such as solitary bees. 3Bee does not sell honey and has a positive impact on biodiversity thanks to IoT technology.