Lambda Agri

Lambda Agri is a pioneering agritech company revolutionising greenhouse agriculture with advanced photonic materials. Its innovative range of materials for greenhouses and polytunnels harness sunlight to boost crop yields and improve quality.

As climate change increasingly threatens global food security, Lambda is helping to make agriculture more sustainable and resilient to unpredictable growing conditions.  Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur and nanomaterials expert Dr. Monica Saavedra, together with former University of Cambridge researcher Dr. Boris Breiner, the company is driven by a mission to harness sustainable technologies to solve real world challenges.

Central to Lambda’s technology is an active material that can be sprayed onto the outside of greenhouses or incorporated in polytunnel films. By converting unused ultraviolet light to red light that plants use for photosynthesis, it has shown increases in crop yield by 10% while improving quality.

Having successfully trialled its patented technology with some of the world’s largest manufacturers of greenhouse parts and agricultural film, Lambda is now raising capital to help it achieve a 20% increase in yield and progress to full commercialisation.

To date, the venture has received more than £3.8 million through grants, equity and prize money.