Aflabox

Aflabox is an agrifood technology company founded in 2024 in Sassuolo, Italy, by Fabrizio Cardillo and Luca Alinovi to make on-site detection of aflatoxins, a group of carcinogenic mycotoxins that contaminate grain crops, accessible to smallholder farmers and small processors who previously had to send samples to a laboratory and wait days for results.

The Aflabox device combines UV and white-light imaging with an artificial intelligence model to analyse grain samples and return a contamination result with a geolocated, shareable digital report in under 90 seconds. Results feed a cloud dashboard that maps contamination risk across a supply chain, and the company sells to farmers, collection centres, food processors, exporters and public institutions, with commercial operations in Italy, Kenya and Nigeria.

1. Portable field device: Battery-powered hardware analyses grain samples on-site without a laboratory.

2. Under-90-second results: UV and white-light imaging combined with AI deliver a contamination reading almost instantly.

3. Geolocated reporting: Each test generates a shareable digital report tagged with its collection location.

4. Contamination mapping: Aggregated results build territorial risk maps across a supply chain.

5. Multi-user targeting: Sold to farmers, collection centres, processors, exporters and public institutions.

6. Cross-border deployment: Commercial operations span Italy, Kenya and Nigeria, backed by a EUR 1.35 million seed round.