Finalist Spotlight: Lambda Energy

Multi-award-winning AgriTech innovator, Lambda Energy, has unveiled a groundbreaking light-changing spray for greenhouse panels that can boost crop yields by an impressive 20%

This cutting-edge active material can easily be retrofitted or applied to new greenhouses, transforms unused ultraviolet light into the red light essential for photosynthesis.

Lambda Energy is the brainchild of Dr Monica Saavedra and Dr Boris Breiner, having its beginning in 2022, when a postdoc passed by and said 'plants like red light'. At the time Lambda was creating quantum dot-based solutions for converting UV into red light. Upon realising the lack of economic viability of this approach, the team switched their focus to designing non-toxic, biodegradable and highly scalable chemicals for use in agriculture, the lower-hanging fruit.

In a world where 800 million people are starving, and climate change is putting food security at risk they can increase food production with a solution that is low-cost, highly scalable and runs on natural sunlight.