Sweden’s Flox Intelligence raises €2.5 million to become a “digital shepherd” guiding wildlife away from danger

Flox Intelligence, a wildlife intelligence company building AI systems enabling infrastructure to prevent human-wildlife conflict, today announced a €2.5 million ($3 million) Seed+ round to accelerate deployments across North America. 

The round was led by Tilia Impact Ventures, with participation from Satgana, GENIUS NY (operated by CenterState CEO), J.O.S.S. and existing investors Unconventional Ventures and Almi Invest.

Sara Nozkova, CEO and co-founder of Flox Intelligence, said, “The future of infrastructure safety will include wildlife intelligence by default. “For decades, we’ve relied on reactive tools — from scare tactics to fences — that don’t scale, don’t learn, and don’t protect the corridors wildlife depends on. For so many years, we have been fighting wildlife, but what if we could communicate with them instead?

“Flox Intelligence is building a future where critical infrastructure can proactively prevent conflict, where animal movement is respected and safer, and where people and wildlife can finally coexist. Our goal is to make wildlife intelligence a standard layer of modern operations — and to lead that category globally.”

Flox Intelligence was founded in 2020 by Nozkova and Tomas Becklin. It was born out of an AI research lab at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The company recently relocated its commercial headquarters to the US. 

Flox Intelligence is an AI-powered wildlife intelligence company that aims to create a world where humans and wildlife coexist. According to the company, it builds autonomous systems deployed on the edge that guide wildlife in real time using AI, bioacoustics, and applied wildlife science. The technology prevents collisions, damage, and disruption across critical infrastructure, including railways, airports, roads, agriculture, and industrial sites, and provides reporting through the Flox Wildlife Platform.

The company claims to replace reactive, fragmented deterrents like scarecrows, pyrotechnics, gunshots, and fences with a modern, autonomous layer of prevention and learning at the edge. Every deployment makes the next one smarter, and collectively, these deployments are building one of the world’s largest non-lethal wildlife datasets and windows into how wildlife moves, adapts, and survives alongside human infrastructure.

Flox Intelligence mentions that human-wildlife conflict is already a global multi-billion-euro problem. This keeps growing every year as humans take more space, wild animals are pushed closer to urban spaces, and transportation systems get faster, quieter, and harder to avoid.

According to the company, existing tools do not scale and lack adaptive learning capabilities. Flox Intelligence claims to be built on a different premise.

It is building edge-based physical AI that can operate 24/7 in harsh environments, where decisions have to be made in seconds. The company combines embedded systems, real-time sensing, and applied wildlife science to speak with animals in their own language. “In other words, it turns wildlife communication into actionable intelligence — enabling critical infrastructure to “speak” with wildlife and gently guide them away from high-risk zones before incidents happen,” mentioned Flox Intelligence. 

The startup’s first commercial product, Edge, is an intelligent wildlife deterrent system built for harsh, real-world environments, engineered for multiple species, extreme weather, remote sites, limited connectivity, and long uptime. It is always on, multi-species, multi-modal, and deployed at the edge.

Flox Intelligence has already started shipping Edge pods to the front lines of human-wildlife conflict, including airports dealing with coyotes, deer, and bird strike risks, to rail corridors affected by large wildlife such as moose and bears. It is also helping DOT road networks where deer and bison collisions drive injuries, fatalities, and financial losses. 

Some other use cases of Edge include ranches and farms balancing predator-healthy ecosystems with livestock protection, and cities and public spaces that witness wildlife movement. 

The company reports that Edge has logged over 60,000 wildlife events across 27 species, and early deployments show measurable reductions in wildlife presence in high-risk zones.

This funding follows Flox Intelligence’s Seed round in July last year. It has expanded its operations across the U.S. and Canada, grown its New York headquarters, and accelerated commercial deployments over the past few months. 

The fresh capital will be used by the company to accelerate deployments across North America. It will also support growing international demand for Flox Intelligence’s AI-powered wildlife deterrence platform across airports, rail corridors, road networks, and industrial sites.

Flox Intelligence reports that it already works with major airports, departments of transportation, infrastructure owners, and mission-driven partners across North America and Europe. Its partners include the U.S. Department of Agriculture, GRR Gerald R. Ford International Airport, WWF, KWS Group, Boliden, and Alstom. 

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