QualySense raises CHF 1.3 million
21.04.2014
QualySense, an EMPA based startup company and fromer venture leader and venture kicker focused on innovative grain and seed-sorting technology, has closed a financing round and raised CHF 1.3 Million from existing and new investors. Investors include a selected number of well-known Swiss and international business angels.
 The QualySense Team: Paolo D’Alcini, Francesco Dell’Endices and Olga Mykhailova
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 Coffee hand sorting will be soon a thing of the past thanks to QualySense.
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During the last year, the company has been able to consolidate the performance of its first product, the QSorter Explorer, and to acquire relevant customer references in Europe as well as in the United States of America. The financing round will enable the company to build up the sales network and continue its innovation effort into the world of analytical sorting technologies for grains, seeds, and beans.
Alberto Romaneschi, chairman of the QualySense board of directors says: “We are very pleased about this innovative financing round. The proceeds will enable us to boost our commercial efforts and to scale up our sorting devices to industrial capability.”
About QualySense
QualySense has pioneered high-speed single kernel technologies since 2010 and it is now proud to offer the QSorter Explorer, the life science single kernel robot for high-speed accurate analysis and sorting of grains, seeds, and beans. The startup has been awarded with a number of prizes and grants including finalist of Swiss Technology Award 2010, Swissparks “Start-Up of the Year 2012” award, EUROSTARS fund, CTI Start-up label, finalist at the “Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2012”, and venture kick winner. Additionally, QualySense scored 10th for the TOP 100 Swiss Startups 2013 and is member of the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) since 2012. Furthermore Francesco Dell'Endice, co-founder of QualySense, had the chance to travel as part of the Swiss National Startup Team to Boston in 2010: “venture leader had a strong influence on my entrepreneurial thinking. It has given me, among others, the ability to set priorities and to develop long-term and sustainable strategies."