NovaUCD-based start-up selected for global GenAI accelerator

Proveye beats crowded field of more than 800 international applicants

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Jerome O’Connell and Prof Nick Holden, Proveye

Proveye, developer of an AI-driven remote sensing platform for agricultural and the environmental use, has been selected for the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator 4.0 programme, Generative AI Energy Lab edition.

Proveye is among a cohort of 15 global start-ups chosen from more than 800 applications from more than 70 countries for the programme. As part of the Generative AI Energy Lab Proveye will be connecting and collaborating with AWS enterprise customers to test and deploy its solution at scale.

The AWS Clean Energy Accelerator is centred on the needs of enterprises looking to accelerate their energy transition through emerging technologies.

Proveye, headquartered at NovaUCD in Dublin, was founded by Jerome O’Connell and Prof Nick Holden as spin-out from the UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering. The company an Enterprise Ireland high-potential start-up has been supported to date with funding from ComOp, Enterprise Ireland and ESA.

Proveye’s remote sensing technology enables independent and highly accurate measurement of grassland and biodiversity at scale to provide frequent and empirical evidence of the performance of nature-based solutions to climate change and biodiversity restoration across the world’s grasslands.

Jerome O’Connell, CEO and co-founder, Proveye, said: “We are delighted to have been selected for the Generative AI Energy Lab edition of the AWS Clean Accelerator programme given the huge number of applications from around the world. It is a fantastic endorsement for Proveye’s AI-powered platform and the work our team is doing not only here in Ireland but internationally.

“Through this programme we will be engaging enterprise organisations that are looking to measure, monitor and report on the success of large nature-based projects for the purpose of habitat restoration.”

Proveye, which previously completed the ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) Ireland programmme, was named start-up innovator of the year at Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Arena competition at the 2023 National Ploughing Championships. In addition, Proveye completed the inaugural AgTechUCD Agccelerator Programme and was named the Ornua most innovative AgTech Start-up 2022 at the end of the programme.

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