Beewise wins "World Changing Ideas 2025" award

Tech for Good: Beewise Honored by Fast Company for Its Smart, Pest-Resistant Beehive

Beewise has just added a major achievement to its list of accomplishments. The company was recognized for its flagship product, BeeHome, a next-generation beehive equipped with sensors and powered by artificial intelligence. This system analyzes the bees’ living conditions and the colony’s overall health 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Compiled annually by the renowned American magazine Fast Company, this global list highlights companies, NGOs, and institutions that develop creative and practical solutions to address the major challenges of our time.

To select the winners from among more than 1,500 entries, the team of journalists and experts uses five strict criteria: actual impact on society or the environment, the relevance of the design (hardware and software), the potential for large-scale deployment, the degree of innovation, and, finally, the project’s commercial maturity.

With its smart hives, Beewise is addressing one of the most critical environmental challenges of our century: the massive decline in bee populations. In the United States, nearly half of all colonies disappeared in a single year—an alarming situation for global food production, since bees pollinate about one-third of our crops. One of the main culprits behind this mass die-off is the varroa mite, a particularly deadly parasitic mite.

Automated Heat Treatment: BeeHome's Performance Metrics

To eradicate this scourge, Beewise has developed a thermal chamber that is directly integrated into the heart of the BeeHome module. Capable of eliminating 99% of varroa mites without using any chemicals, this approach avoids harming the bees, disrupting honey production, or causing the parasites to develop resistance.

Artificial intelligence detects the presence of the mite and immediately adjusts the temperature in a highly targeted manner, based on the needs of each hive. This technology has also been successfully tested in Thailand, in partnership with Auburn University, against another devastating parasite (the Tropilaelaps mite), achieving a perfect 100% elimination rate .

The impact of this technological deployment can be measured using very robust key indicators:

• 80% Drop in Mortality: Colonies equipped with this technology show unprecedented resilience against external threats.
• 150 million bees saved each year: A figure that is rising as more containers are installed on farms.
• +50% increase in crop yield: The restored health of the swarms ensures maximum pollination of surrounding crops.
• 90% less manual work: Repetitive and labor-intensive monitoring tasks are entirely handled by the automated system.

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The inclusion of AgTech (agricultural technology) companies in private equity portfolios reflects a very specific vision of value creation. Altaroc partner funds that pursue an investment strategy focused on companies with a significant environmental and social impact, often grouped under the "Tech for Good" label.

This strategy is based on two key beliefs:

1. The Synergy Between Impact and Profitability: A company like Beewise does not rely on subsidies to survive. It sells a solution that increases farmers’ earnings by 50% and reduces beekeepers’ workload tenfold. The environmental impact (saving the bees) becomes the direct driver of its commercial success.
2. Significant technological barriers to entry: Developing algorithms capable of recognizing an insect’s behavior or regulating a microclimate requires years of research. This intellectual property protects the company from competition, ensuring the long-term viability of the investment.

Other "Tech for Good" themes inAltaroc portfolio

Beyond protecting biodiversity, this investment philosophy is applied across several key sectors within our Vintage

• Decarbonizing Industries: Funding software companies that specialize in automatically measuring and reducing energy consumption in factories and large building complexes.
• Universal Access to Healthcare: Support for software platforms that streamline care pathways, automate medical record management, or optimize the distribution of medications in remote areas.
• Resource Management: Investment in cutting-edge technologies for monitoring water quality and instantly detecting leaks in drinking water distribution networks.