Neurohive Wins First Prize at EIT HEIPowered Startup Pitch Competition

Neurohive won first prize at the EIT HEIPowered Startup Pitch Competition, earning €15,000 and 8 hours of personalized mentoring for our mission to bring precision agriculture to every farm in Europe.

The competition was organized by the EIT Higher Education Initiative at the Falling Walls Foundation Science Summit in Berlin. Our co-founder and CEO Konstantinos Themistokleous represented Neurohive on stage, sharing our core belief: science belongs on the field, for every farmer, everywhere. Sheep and goat farmers have been overlooked by technology for too long. Digital Farmer, the AI brain of sheep & goat farms, changes that.

Today, Digital Farmer runs on more than 80 farms across Greece and Cyprus. From a problem in Greek barns, we've built a solution that resonates across Europe. This recognition from EIT and the Falling Walls Foundation validates our approach and strengthens our commitment to empower farmers with cutting-edge technology.

Congratulations to the other finalists who competed at a very high level: Raphael Cervan from Sunbiose (2nd place, €10,000), Kostadin Taligadzhiev and Egor Semenov from AstraCore AI (3rd place, €5,000), Aleyna Gültekin from NERA ECO CONSTRUCTION, and Costel Stanca from ATLAS CONSULT. Thank you to the EIT & EIT Higher Education Initiative teams, and to the jury members Mona Meyer zu Kniendorf and Natalia Sastoque.

This award belongs to our team in Thessaloniki, to Xenofon Spafaridis, our co-founder, and to the farmers who trusted us and opened their barns to us. Together, we're building the future of livestock farming.