Fauna Smart Technologies

25/11/2025

✨ is never a straight line — and last week’s KU Lighthouse MasterClass reminded us why.

Together with Sofie Tidsvilde (Fauna’s vineyard project lead and rising horticultural innovator) and our CEO Dr. Dragana, we joined an inspiring session on funding for founders.

And the key message hit home. 👇
You must keep thinking, re-thinking, and reshaping your funding strategy — especially in deeptech.

🚫 The classic VC “10x ROI” model wasn’t built for:
• deeptech
• deepscience
• lifesciences, biotech or climate innovation
These fields operate on longer timelines, higher validation needs, and far more complexity.

🌱 At Fauna Smart Technologies, we follow a hybrid path:
➡️ Commercial grants (non–de minimis)
➡️ Soft funding
➡️ Strategic private investment

Commercial grants create the essential bridge toward later hard funding — and they align naturally with how researchers work.
This is how scientists evolve into Entrepreneurial Scientists: validating, building, and commercializing innovation within a framework familiar to academia.

We believe this approach deserves far more attention in the Nordic ecosystem.
And with players like Nordic Innovators pushing these conversations, the shift is already happening.

💡 Deeptech needs its own investment logic.
And it’s up to founders, scientists, and innovators to challenge old models and create new ones that match the complexity of the problems we solve.

Grateful to KU Lighthouse for sparking meaningful reflection and strengthening the direction we want to drive innovation forward. 🚀

16/10/2025

✨ Last week, half of Europe gathered in the heart of ! Two great houses — ESA - European Space Agency and European Environment Agency — joined forces to bridge, in a nutshell, the precision of Data Science with the wisdom of Ecology, weaving a dialogue between numbers and nature, between satellites above and roots below.

We are proud to share that the work we presented was crafted back in 2023 — a little ahead of its time, like a curious idea that wandered too far down the rabbit hole. We tucked it away, let it rest, and after 2.5 years of lively detours through other fascinating projects, the moment finally arrived to bring it back into the light — under the banner of LULUCF. 🌿✨

💡 How does LULUCF unfold in horticulture when the story is told through nitrogen?
For this project, we built a real-time tool, tested it under real skies, and harmonized low- and high-resolution imagery until data and landscape spoke in unison. And then — voilà!

📬 Reach out if you’d like to explore the potential of this approach within current and upcoming national and European regulations.

The future becomes truly smart when the most curious, brilliant, and daring minds allow themselves to explore to the fullest.
Here’s to those who listen to the land, question the skies, and weave both into something entirely new. 🌍📊✨

05/06/2025

This time, it’s personal 🙂 Nordic Women in Tech Awards
Last year we were named Denmark’s ✨ Innovator of the Year ✨ - a recognition of national impact - and 🎉 Finalist for the Nordics. 💫
This year, the nomination is personal, and it means a great deal for our Founder and CEO Vukasinovic.

It celebrates a journey shaped by years of exploring the interfaces between fields that traditionally don’t talk to each other - but should.

We are still largely educated to think inside disciplinary boxes.
But if we stay endlessly curious, and let a research mindset guide us, we begin to notice the patterns - revealing connections that were always there - just hidden by habit or structure.

And those connections matter.
They unlock new ways of seeing.
And when we start seeing differently - we also start feeling differently.

What feels radical today may soon become the new standard.

Onwards and upwards 💖

07/02/2025

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31/01/2025

🚀 Exciting news to share! 🚀 🦋🌳🔊

We've secured funding from ESA - European Space Agency and of Higher Education and Science of Denmark to explore through , starting in Denmark’s National Forest Park ! 🎧🌳

The is here, but it’s not equally distributed.
While the world is shifting, some countries are in, investing in technologies to listen to and decode their signals before it’s too late.

🌍 Why does this matter?
🌳 speak—we’re decoding their .
⏳ change is accelerating— is key.
🦋 loss is silent—we’re making it .

We are here to bridge and to . Led by a great, , we’re harnessing AI, bioacoustics, and data-driven insights to create real .

The signal is clear. The time is now. Let’s tune in. 🎶🔊🌱

25/12/2024

🎄✨ Happy Holidays, everyone! ✨🎄

There’s so much life and inspiration in this photo—values, lessons, and moments that resonate. I hope you can find something meaningful for yourself in this creative mess 😉

Here’s to embracing new challenges, overcoming them, and evolving into better humans.

Wishing you all a season full of joy, inspiration, and love.

Happy, happy, and very merry! ❤️🌟