In europe, https://eagronom.com/ is taking an interesting approach - rather than throw all existing farming practices out with the bathwater, try to build on top of them and modernize to achieve sustainable farming.
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Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#22You need to look north: https://www.farmersedge.ca/ ; precision farming, exited by Kleiner Perkins via sale to Prem Watsa of Fairfax Financial https://seedotrun.com/ ; autonomous farming https://www.seedmaster.ca ; precision farming These companies actually have customers and / or are well on their way to commercialization
Very cool to see these posted here (they're in my backyard). Interestingly, DOT and Seedmaster have a very close relationship. Last time I was out there, DOT equipment was being fabricated by folks in the Seedmaster shop.
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#23* The Climate Corporation * Granular * Farmer's Business Network * Inari * Pattern Ag * Solum * Arable Labs
Worth noting that The Climate Corporation is owned by Monsanto which in turned is owned by Bayes.
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#24Strider (strider.ag), where I work at, is a segment leader in Latin America, and FarmShots (YC alumn) (farmshots.com) and Cropio (about.cropio.com) are some other examples.
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#26ecoation - https://www.ecoation.com/ - robots for greenhouses (monitoring & analytics) - vancouver
robotany / fifth season - https://www.fifthseasonfresh.com/ - https://www.cmu.edu/energy/news-multimedia/2018/robotany.htm... - vertical greenhouses - Pittsburgh
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#27I'm the data science lead at http://agrian.com. Shoot me a message if you want to chat (email in profile). I love talking about this topic and trading notes.
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#28https://tanibox.com we are doing farm management and monitoring platform. We released an open-source software too called Tania.
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#29www.orisha.io (In french)
www.products.orisha.io
We are a modest startup that aims at developping tools for smaller farmers. We developed a greenhouse growing assistant that helps the community-supported agriculture folks.
We are currently considering developping: * Automating irrigation with tensiometers (humidity sensors). And potentially use forecast and solar radiation. * A production management tool * A project to help reduce the use of fossil energy in greenhouse heating
And for the functional programming enthusiasts out there: We are currently hiring !
Contact me for more info: guillaume@orisha.io
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#30https://en.agricool.co is a French startup perfecting its technology to grow fruit (they focus on strawberries) in containers, within cities, using very little water. They raised €25M last year.