Partnerskap med Annevo
18 Juni 2021
Partnerskap med Annevo18 Juni 2021
Taigatech ingår ett partnerskap med mjukvarubolaget Annevo som tidigt såg potentiallen i att erbjuda sågindustrin ett verktyg att öka kvaliten och öka råvaruutnyttjandet av materialet. Annevo har tidigare erfarenhet av att ingå partnerskap med start ups och deras kunskaper inom affärsutveckling samt mjukvaruutveckling kommer hjälpa Taigatech att nå de uppsatta målen.
”Vi är väldigt nöjda med att ingå partnerskap med Annevo, sedan de har den rätta kombinationen av nyckelkunskapaer inom it-lösningar, affärsutveckling och sedan tidigare en erfaren investerare. Taigatech strävar efter att vara det självklara valet för spårbarhet av trästockar inom sågverksindustrin. Genom först anta ett nichat område för att höja råvaruutnyttjandet. Målet är att erbjuda en pilotprodukt som är redo för implemenation i slutet av året och därefter skala upp verksamheten. Partnerskapet med Annevo kommer vara en nyckel för att paketera våran produkt och förberda för en tillväxtresa.” Säger Christoffer Johnsson, grundare av Taigatech
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Press release
Taigatech closes a new investment round and welcomes new shareholders to the company The goal of the investment is to secure financing until the company becomes profitable on sales. Taigatech secures financing via a share issue. The financing will cover continued product development costs, stronger IP protection and pave the way to profitability. In addition to that, the investment contributes to a strong composition of shareholders who will support the company in both industry-specific issues and business development issues. Taigatech is pleased to present the new shareholders First Gate Invest, Key In, Pro Unica Invest, Zeedr, We Are Angels and Bianka & Christer Inderberg. Existing owner Annevo Studios also participated in the investment round. Taigatech are proud to welcome the new investors. The investment gives Taigatech the right possibility to increase focus on both sales and continued product development to broaden the technology’s application areas. With the help of the expertise and the financing that comes via the investment, Taigatech look forward to strengthen the position on the market. More wood per sawn log Taigatech helps sawmills use more material from each log. With sophisticated computer vision solutions, the company has since the beginning focused on various applications of traceability in the value chain. The focus is primarily on sawmills where a clear need has been discovered to optimize the sawing process for increased saw yield. The first product identifies logs with high accuracy and optimizes the position of the log before sawing. The technology has a direct impact on increased saw yield at sawmills by improving sawing and decreasing production stops. DATE 13 – 02 – 2023
Christoffer Johnsson named as Taigatech CEO
We sat down with Christoffer Johnsson, co-founder and, now, CEO of Taigatech AB to discuss Taigatech’s origins, growth, the forestry industry, and Johnsson’s vision for the future of the fast-growing Gothenburg-based startup. Christopher Jacklin November 29, 2021 Johnsson (right), 26, is a former student of Chalmers University’s School of Entrepreneurship in Gothenburg, Sweden. After the completion of his studies that focused on driving tech-based businesses, Johnsson, together with fellow Taigatech co-founders, Erik Dahl, Arvid Viktorsson, Antonio Butkovic, John Randelin, and Professor Fredrik Kahl founded Taigatech in January, 2021 with the goal of solving the challenges sawmills were facing when trying to optimize their sawing process and the traceability of the logs going through their mills. “I have always been very interested in entrepreneurship, innovation and technology. I wanted to start Taigatech with these guys because I knew how talented they were from my studies, I liked the technology, and I thought it would be great to be involved with a primary industry in Sweden,” said Johnsson. Kahl, Head of Computer Vision at Chalmers University, created Taigatech’s first prototype in the fall of 2020. “We had an initial meeting with the team and [Kahl] had an idea for our first prototype based on our customer feedback, so he developed it and it worked perfectly. From there, things really kicked off,” he said. Kahl now sits on Taigatech’s Board of Directors and engages with the team to help optimize their AI algorithms. “[Kahl] is one of the most prominent researchers in his field,” said Johnsson. “We are confident that, [together], we have the best in-house knowledge in the industry to create this product”. “We have a lot of fun together. It’s an interesting project that challenges us and it feels great to be innovating in an industry that is so important to Sweden.” – Christoffer Johnsson, CEO of Taigatech Johnsson had originally joined the Taigatech team to work with the company’s business development, as well as help solve technical issues relating to the company’s AI-driven image-recognition software. However, with his move to CEO, Johnsson admits that his focus will now shift even more towards driving the business side of the company. “I have gathered a lot of key business insights about how to work with sawmills. They have a traditional way of doing business, meaning they like to own their equipment. There aren’t a lot of SaaS models being used. So, we need to work a lot with how we will package and deliver our product,” he said. Since the development of their first prototype, Taigatech has had an ongoing pilot project with Moelven DalaTrä, a major sawmill company in Sweden, to perform early tests. “Overall, there are about 140 sawmills in Sweden, and Sweden will be our beachhead market. Of these mills, there are about 60 larger sawmills that produce a minimum of 60-100K cubic meters of sawn goods per year. This size of mill is interesting to us because we’ve seen that smaller sawmills typically don’t have the requisite equipment to measure the logs’ internal parameters”. Johnsson is also planning to take Taigatech globally to markets such as Canada, the US, and Australia. “The global industry does share the same challenges and they are striving to solve them with our type of technology,” said Johnsson, who has had ongoing conversations with a large Australian sawmill. The forestry has become more technology oriented and advanced technologies are being developed, but there are still parts of the value chain that are obsolete. Therefore, Johnsson is confident that it is a perfect time for digital companies like Taigatech to succeed. “There are new regulations coming from the EU that may limit how many logs companies can harvest, so they aren’t able to harvest as much as they used to. So companies are more dependent on the resources that they have,” he said. Furthermore, Johnsson said that due to recent environmental crises in North America, such as the wildfires and an increase in pine bark beetles that attack and destroy pine trees, there has been a boom in prices, which has resulted in increased profits for European sawmills. “Sawmills in Europe have much more cash than before, so they have the opportunity now to improve by investing in new equipment.” Johnsson plans to run parallel pilot projects through 2022 to iterate on their prototype, gather performance data, and work on optimizing the speed of their algorithm, hit rate accuracy of matching individual logs, and increasing their data storage capacity. In addition, the team will work to mitigate the challenges of operating their equipment in the winter months when snow could impact performance. Johnsson is confident that Taigatech’s upcoming challenges are well within the team’s capability to solve and said, “we expect our first paying customers in spring 2022”. Taigatech recently received a small equity investment from local, Gothenburg-based IT consultancy, Annevo. “We picked them because they have great knowledge in business development, IT, and software development. So we receive a lot of support from them,” said Johnsson. Aside from this investment, Taigatech has been funded primarily through non-dilutive grants from Chalmers Innovation Office and Almi, and loans from local agencies, such as Västra Götalandsregionen (VGR). Johnsson said that Taigatech currently has a runway of one and a half years, at which time they may look to build their first investment round to finance the growth and expansion of the company. If you’re interested in learning more about Taigatech’s solution, visit their website, or contact Christoffer Johnsson directly for business inquiries. Christoffer Johnsson CEO, Taigatech AB Email christoffer@taigatech.se Phone +46 (0) 761 963 430 Taigatech AB is a Swedish startup based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company develops digital solutions based on artificial intelligence to optimize the cutting and traceability of logs within sawmills.
Forest Business Accelerator
Taigatech har blivit antagna till Forrest Business Accelerator som genomförs av BizMaker, SCA, RISE Processum och IBM. Pelle Berglund från BizMaker säger att Västernorrland ska bli ett skogligt utvecklingskluster både nationellt och internationellt. ”Vi sökte till acceleratorn för att för att fortsätta bygga upp vår kunskap om branschen, få nya kontakter och verifiera vår lösning. Vi ser fram emot coaching både vad gäller affärsutveckling och vårt team” . Erik Dahl, Styrelseledamot, Taigatech Under åtta månader kommer Taigatech att få hjälp med sin tillväxtresa genom att finjustera idéer, utvecka affärsmodeller och komma närmare marknaden. BizMaker kommer att bistå med rådgiving, affärsutveckling och kontakter tillsammans med partnerbolagen SCA, RISE Processum och IBM
Partnerskap med Annevo
Taigatech ingår ett partnerskap med mjukvarubolaget Annevo som tidigt såg potentiallen i att erbjuda sågindustrin ett verktyg att öka kvaliten och öka råvaruutnyttjandet av materialet. Annevo har tidigare erfarenhet av att ingå partnerskap med start ups och deras kunskaper inom affärsutveckling samt mjukvaruutveckling kommer hjälpa Taigatech att nå de uppsatta målen. ”Vi är väldigt nöjda med att ingå partnerskap med Annevo, sedan de har den rätta kombinationen av nyckelkunskapaer inom it-lösningar, affärsutveckling och sedan tidigare en erfaren investerare. Taigatech strävar efter att vara det självklara valet för spårbarhet av trästockar inom sågverksindustrin. Genom först anta ett nichat område för att höja råvaruutnyttjandet. Målet är att erbjuda en pilotprodukt som är redo för implemenation i slutet av året och därefter skala upp verksamheten. Partnerskapet med Annevo kommer vara en nyckel för att paketera våran produkt och förberda för en tillväxtresa.” Säger Christoffer Johnsson, grundare av Taigatech Länk till Annevos pressrelease