ApisProtect in the News
ApisProtect has been featured in many magazines and articles. Please see details below.
Our bee monitoring solution will enable beekeepers to direct their focus on cultivating larger and stronger colonies and transform beekeeping globally. – Dr Fiona Edwards Murphy
Latest News
We are proud to be a new member of Guaranteed Irish
ApisProtect is proud to be a new member of Guaranteed Irish. Our innovative bee monitoring technology had its beginnings in University College Cork and has since collated over 15 million data sets from across the world. Inspired by Irish beekeepers, our CEO Dr Fiona Edwards Murphy developed her award-winning PhD into a bee monitoring product for commercial and hobbyist beekeepers.
Irish startups and scaleups to watch in 2021
Thanks to Sifted for highlighting us as one of the Irish startups and scaleups to watch in 2021. We first made this list in 2020 and are thrilled to be featured amongst so many inspirational Irish start-ups and scaleups again in 2021. It has been a busy few months...
ApisProtect and Microsoft using innovative technology to monitor honey bee hives
ApisProtect uses cutting-edge science, engineering, and advanced business processes to bring honey bee-saving technology to every corner of the globe.
“One firm also at the forefront of the honey bee industry is Irish business ApisProtect.” BBC News Article
Thanks to the BBC News for featuring our story today highlighting how technology can reduce honey bee losses. "Beekeeping is one of the oldest industries in existence, but it faces numerous threats. A number of tech firms hope to help the honey bee have a brighter...
Over 100 million honey bees around the world have been monitored by Irish Agtech Start-Up ApisProtect to date.
Over 100 million honey bees around the world have been monitored by Irish Agtech Start-Up ApisProtect to date. With a new hobbyist product now available on the Irish market, ApisProtect aims to make Irish beekeepers the most...
Our News 2020
- Think Global Awards – Winners 2020 Announcement
- Microsoft for Startups – ApisProtect leverages technology to save the honey bees
- Think Business.ie – 24 disruptors and trailblazers changing Irish business
- Sifted – Top Irish startups to follow in 2020
- Fast Company – 2020’s most innovative companies in Europe
- Global AgInvesting – ApisProtect partners with Microsoft to protect honey bees
- ThinkBusiness.ie – Cork bee tech ApisProtect deal with Microsoft as sweet as honey
- Irish Tech News – World Bee Day – ApisProtect and Microsoft working to protect honey bees
- Morning AgClips – Salinas Valley Agh Tech Summit, March 17-18
- AGNetWest – Salinas Valley Ag Tech Summit to Focus on Leveraging Innovation Through Skilled Workforce
- Vegetable Growers News – Ag innovations and a skilled workforce topics of Salinas summit
- Silicon Republic – Sci-Tech 100: The rising science and technology stars to watch in 2020
- California Ag Today – New sensor technology coming for beekeepers
- Echo Live –UCC start-up advice is doing the business
- Silicon Republic – Irish start-up leaders publish open letter urging for policy change
- ThinkBusiness.ie – 12 Cork start-ups to keep an eye on in 2020
- The Irish Advantage – Pollinate to dominate: how ApisProtect became an agritech success
- RSVP – Bees knees: Fiona Edwards Murphy of Apisprotect
- Newstalk – Down to Business with Bobby Kerr
- Digital Irish – Cosimo Ventures: Ciaran Hynes
- Irish Research Council – Strategic Plan
Our news in 2019
- Forbes – Everything You Need To Know About The Future Of Pesticides And Bees
- Forbes – Two Ways Dairy Farmers And Beekeepers Are Making Agriculture More Sustainable And Successful
- Bee Culture – June Edition
- Crunchbase – Startups swarm to build bee based businesses
- Tech News – AgTech VC fund begins search for scaleable start-ups
- IEEE Internet of Things Newsletter – IoT Applications for Honey bee Colony Condition: What’s the Buzz All About?
- Data Makes Possible How 3 Companies Are Using IoT and Machine Learning to Change an Industry
- American Bee Journal ApisProtect teams up with two local St Louis businesses to perfect hive health monitor.
- Monteray Herald – Agtech incubator celebrates three years in Salinas
- Forbes – Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, To Headline Fifth-Annual Forbes AgTech Summit In Salinas, CA
- WG Innovation Blog – WGCIT Update: Agtech Startup Successes
- Independent – Hive minds: Cork’s ApisProtect twins with space agency research
- Sunday Business Post – 100 Hot Start-Ups
- Sunday Times – Create a buzz to become the bee’s knees like Fiona Edwards Murphy and ApisProtect
- Irish Times – Women still face obstacles in entering tech industry
- Silicon Republic – Europe Start-up 100: Who are the ones to watch in 2019?
- Irish Times – 50 people to watch in 2019: Ireland’s hottest young talent
- Evening Echo – Sharing their stories with Cork students at I WISH
- Silicon Republic – 25 entrepreneurs set to shake up their industries in 2020
- Think Business –20 Irish start-ups to watch out for in 2020
- RTE News – ApisProtect teams up with European Space Agency
- Silicon Republic – Cork’s ApisProtect announces partnership with the European Space Agency
- Irish Tech News – ApisProtect brings mission to save bee populations into space with ESA business incubator at Tyndall.
- Silicon Republic – ApisProtect and Inmarsat develop early warning system to save the bees
- Women Mean Business – World Bee Day
- Talent Garden – World Bee Day 2019: What ApisProtect are doing to save our honey bees
- Media HQ – World Bee Day: ApisProtect
- Fora – Bee-health startup ApisProtect is partnering with a satellite telco giant to go global
- Intel – Intel celebrates World Bee Day
- IoT World Today – IoT in Agriculture: Using Connected Sensors to Monitor Bees
- Think Business – How ApisProtect will save the honey bees
- Silicon Republic Intel excited by Ireland’s promise as a ‘powerhouse for Edge AI’
- Irish Tech News – Irish Agtech company ApisProtect to double global bee monitoring in 2019 to monitor 20 million honey bees across the world
- Women Mean Business – ApisProtect to Double Global Bee Monitoring
- Smart Futures – Profile of Dr Fiona Edwards Murphy
- Tech Central – Technology to bee
- Women in Tech – Finalist in Rising Star Award 2019
- From Farm to Fork, Enterprise Ireland – Innovating Agri Food Report (Pg 40)
- Intel Newsroom – Intel Movidius enables artificial intelligence through Irish incubator programme
- Forbes (France) – L’Apiculture Urbaine Peut-Elle Sauver Les Abeilles ?
- The Times UK – Satellite deal is the bee’s knees for hive sensor company
- Sifted: Bee tech: The buzz about smart hives, big data & robot bees
- IT Wire (Australia) – Inmarsat, ApisProtect partner to help stem global bee population decline
- Newstalk – Sean Moncrief Show – How to manage beehives remotely
- Mr Andrew Wood – Salt of the Earth Podcast – ApisProtect
- Win Happy by Greg Canty – From PhD to protecting the world’s bee population with Cork woman, Dr. Fiona Edwards Murphy
- The Future of Agriculture Podcast Future of Agriculture 154: Saving Bees Via IoT with Dr. Fiona Edwards Murphy of ApisProtect
- Dr Padraig Whelan – Pádraig Whelan of ApisProtect – Voices of the Valley podcast
Our news in 2018
- VentureBeat – ApisProtect raises $1.8 million for bee-monitoring sensors
- AgFunder – ApisProtect Raises $1.8m Seed Funding to Monitor Bees with IoT
- Bee Culture – Irish Agtech Company That Monitors Honey Bee Colonies Expands into US
- Crunchbase – Seed Round – ApisProtect
- The Entrepreneur Fund – ApisProtect raises $1.8 million for bee-monitoring sensors
- CB Insights – ApisProtect Funding
- Fresh Plaza – Irish agtech company that monitors bee colonies expands into US
- GAI News – 15 minutes with … Fiona Edwards Murphy, CEO of ApisProtect
- GAI News – Finistere, Atlantic Bridge lead $1.8 M round for Irish AgTech startup ApisProtect
- The Hustle – Series-Bee: Meet the startups trying to save America’s ailing bee population
- Pulse 2.0 – ApisProtect Raises $1.8 Million to Enable Beekeepers to Monitor Hives
- Quartz – Multi-million dollar startups are building tech to spy on honey bees in their own homes
- Louis Business Journal – St. Louis accelerator among investors in Irish startup’s $1.8 million raise
- The Spoon – ApisProtect Raises $1.8M to Save the Bees Through IoT
- Technology Breaking News – ApisProtect raises $1.8 million for bee-monitoring sensors
- Irish Examiner – Three entrepreneurs on the lessons learned from their first year in business
- Irish Independent – Cork ag-tech company raises €1.5m in funding
- Irish Independent –Irish firm buzzing after e-hive innovation lands it sweet €1.5m investment
- Irish Examiner – Cork bee protection firm receives €1.5m investment injection
- Irish Examiner – The Monday Interview: Pollination technology creates buzz
- Irish Times – Cork firm ApisProtect gets €1.5m funding for bee monitoring tech
- Sunday Business Post – Plenty of buzz for ApisProtect as it closes €1.5m seed
- Connected Magazine – Sunday Business Post – ApisProtect raises €1.5m for bee-monitoring technology
- Fora – These are the top Irish companies to watch in 2019
- Beat – Cork bee protection firm receives €1.5m investment injection
- Fora – Cork beehive tech startup ApisProtect has snagged €1.5m to plot its Californian push
- Irish tech News – ApisProtect receives €1.5m investment boost to create 25 new jobs
- Silicon Republic – Cork agritech innovator ApisProtect to create 25 new jobs
- Industry and Business – ApisProtect Receives €1.5 Million Investment Boost
- European Scientist – An Irish agtech startup is helping beekeepers more effectively manage their hives
- Women Mean Business – Bee-ing in Control!
- Women in Tech – Video, podcast and blog: Real Irish Honey
- Red FM Business – RedBusiness with Jonathan Healy
- EU Start ups – Irish agtech startup ApisProtect raises €1.5 million for its IoT solutions to help bees flourish