Karin Kloosterman


Karin Kloosterman is a serial entrepreneur, biologist, journalist, environmental publisher, founder of Green Prophet, founder of flux, social entrepreneur and futurist. She has written articles for newspapers such as Canada's National Post, The Jerusalem Post, Discovery Network, The Huffington Post, TreeHugger, The Jewish Chronicle, Bloomberg News, The Washington Post, CNN Money, Christian Science Monitor, and National Geographic Channel.
Kloosterman, from the University of Toronto first applied her work at CABI Biosciences to find solutions to conventional pesticides; she travelled to the Middle East and established Green Prophet with the goal of creating a news site where North American Jews could find out about environmental issues which affected Israel. She then decided she didn't need to limit it to just Israel, and begun covering environmental issues throughout the Middle East. Kloosterman is also founder of the Internet of things company Flux IoT, based in New York City. She also founded Israel's first and now largest international cannabis technologies conference, , and founded Mars Farm Odyssey to create non-NASA approved solutions for farming in Space.
Her current startup, flux, developing a grow robot called Eddy is hailed by Bloomberg as "likely to disrupt" the food system. Karin Kloosterman has been interviewed about her wild plan on bringing a device . Her alliance Mars Farm has been featured on . The device employs artificial intelligence tactics from the Israeli army in order to understand the language of plants and Mother Nature.

Personal life

Kloosterman was born in Canada to Dutch and Scottish immigrants. She has lived in Jaffa, Israel, and is a . She is married to Israeli musician Yisrael Borochov and has two children.