Key Takeaways
- Irene Rosique Conesa, co-founder and Managing Director of Nuvio Planet, built her expertise in environmental science and data-driven sustainability during a decade at BASF.
- Nuvio Planet spun out of BASF to serve a broader market and act more quickly in response to changing sustainability, regulatory, and efficiency demands.
- The company focuses on farm-level environmental footprinting in the animal protein value chain, integrating with feed formulation and farm management systems.
- A collaboration with KWS has demonstrated the platform’s ability to reduce assessment time and support low-carbon crop adoption while delivering auditable data across the value chain.
- By 2035, Irene Rosique Conesa envisions Nuvio Planet as a leading environmental intelligence standard, supporting both large corporations and SMEs and contributing to harmonized eco-labeling at retail.
From BASF to Nuvio Planet: A Decade of Data-Driven Sustainability For Irene Rosique Conesa
For Irene Rosique Conesa, the journey to co-founding Nuvio Planet began inside one of the world’s largest chemical companies. With a background in environmental science and sustainability, she spent around ten years at BASF working in a data-driven sustainability team focused on animal nutrition.
“I had the chance to really help companies measure and understand their environmental impact,” she explained. Over time, a recurring pattern emerged: companies had data spread across multiple systems and struggled to translate operational information into environmental indicators. “They all had the data… but it was very complex to translate their operational data into an environmental impact,” she said.
To address this, Irene and her team developed a software solution within BASF that automated data collection and modeling for the animal protein industry. That internal tool became the basis for Nuvio Planet, initially created inside BASF and later transformed into an independent company.
