Agrinnovation puts money into Cannabi-Tech, developer of an analysis device for medical marijuana flowers.

Hebrew University’s Agrinnovation investment fund has agreed to invest in the Rehovot-based medical cannabis firm Cannabi-Tech Ltd, which is developing a device for the automated sorting and analysis of medical cannabis flowers.

Agrinnovation, set up in 2015 to focus on agricultural innovation, is the agritech investment fund of the Yissum research and development company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the university’s technology transfer company.

Cannabi-Tech’s device, which is said to be affordable and easy to use, allows the nondestructive detection, analysis and automated sorting of individual medical cannabis flowers. The company’s technology combines near infra-red (NIR) spectrometry and imaging tools to provide a sensitive method of detecting and quantifying the active compounds of the cannabis plant and a unique spectral fingerprint for each flower.

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