Kozahive

Beekeeping for everyone. Beehive for every garden.

Design, quality & innovation

Premium beehive with amazing observation dome is suitable for every hobby beekeeper and even educational institutions. Rotational frames and propolis envelope are unique features setting up new standards in beekeeping.

Great design of the hive comes along nicely with observation dome. This enables to fully experience masterpieces of bees work.

Propolis envelope sets new standard in beehive production. Greatly boosts social health of the whole bee colony.

Round shape is more than design. Proper thermodynamics inside the hive and possibility to rotate the frames are even more important.

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kozahive offers new approach towards beekeeping. Never seen features are possible due to utilization of advanced production processes and technologies. Horizontal hive allows to use premium materials which are too heavy for standard hives. Round shape and propolis envelope boost overall health of the bees. Great design with observation dome are must have for every hobby beekeeper and educational institutions.

Milestones

September, 2018	Prototype concept.
April, 2019	Deployment of the prototype.
April, 2020	Start of the company.
September, 2020	First hive sold.
June, 2021	Second employee - head of production.
January, 2022	Expansion to foreign markets.
February, 2022	100 hives sold.
February, 2022	Introduction of the observer hive

Problems

Standard hives are fine-tuned for maximalization of honey production. Production processes are decades old with minimum innovation in place. Whole market segment struggles to find optimal hive.

Standard hives are very heavy to lift and not suitable for women and elderly.
Bee health is not a priority in standard hives.
User experience while managing the hives is ignored.

Solutions

kozahive is a new company which follows new trends in bee research. It aims for neglected market group of hobby beekeepers and educational institutions. Maximalization honey production is not #1 priority but still allows to extract honey the standard way.

Horizontal hive eliminates the need of lifting heavy objects.
Focus also on other parameters than honey production.
Beekeeping as a relaxing experience, not heavy work.

Funding Goals

Expansion on foreign markets together with educational videos due to superstitions and false information about beekeeping. Overall boost of sales is a priority.

FAQs

Why would anyone want kozahive?

Overall trend is shifting from honey production towards ecologically friendly approach. Bees are not just a mean for honey production but integral part of our ecosystem. Kozahive is best suited for this approach.

What is the greatest kozahive problem?

Superstitions. Standard beekeepers fail to understand that honey production may not be a priority. Therefore there is a misinformation about difficulty and time demands. It's like large scale farmer discouraging people with garden to grow own tomatoes because you need to wake up at 4 a.m. and start a tractor.

What else is planned?

Honeycomb honey is more and more popular with professional beekeepers. Kozahive plans to aim on this segment with different shapes of honeycombs inside frames. This will allow to aim for B2B with recurring sales.

Founding team

Ondrej Kališ

Founder & CEO

Experience in:

Financial analyst in energy sector M&A. Project management of multiple green field projects.

CFO at taphome.com

info@kozahive.com

Michal Kališ

Founder

IT expert.

michal.kalis@gmail.com