Aflabox raises €1.35M seed to bring food safety testing into the field

Italy-based agritech startup Aflabox has raised €1.35 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialisation and industrial scaling of its AI-powered food safety monitoring platform. The equity round was completed through FoodSeed, the agrifood accelerator within CDP Venture Capital's National Accelerator Network managed by Eatable Adventures, with participation from Farming Future, the National Agrifood Tech Technology Transfer Hub promoted by CDP Venture Capital SGR in partnership with ToSeed & Partners.

Founded by Luca Alinovi and Fabrizio Cardillo, Aflabox is developing a field intelligence platform that enables rapid testing of mycotoxins, commercial quality assessment and food safety monitoring directly across agricultural supply chains.

The platform combines portable hardware, UV and white-light imaging, artificial intelligence, geolocated data collection and cloud-based dashboards. It delivers digital, shareable test results in less than 90 seconds while building a database to monitor contamination, quality, risk and the commercial value of agricultural commodities.

Aflabox is addressing the limitations of conventional mycotoxin testing, which typically relies on specialised laboratories, expensive equipment and processing times ranging from several hours to several days. By moving testing closer to where crops are produced, collected, stored and traded, the company enables farmers, collection centres, food processors, exporters and public institutions to make faster, data-driven decisions.

Beyond individual test results, every scan becomes a geolocated data point that can be aggregated to create territorial maps of contamination and quality, improve supply chain traceability, support export readiness, and help governments and international organisations target food safety interventions more effectively.

The new funding will support the validation and certification of the company's device, enhance its AI platform and improve detection accuracy, establish a micro-factory to manufacture Aflabox devices, strengthen its commercial presence in Kenya, Nigeria and Italy, expand its distribution network across Africa and Europe, and grow the team.