Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Post by anfractuosity » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 5:35 PM UTC

haditab wrote: post #38

These guys are making an apple picking robot that's pretty bad ass: https://www.abundantrobotics.com

Nice, that's cool, is that using a vacuum pump for the picking part?

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Post by dfsegoat » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

davidhunter wrote: post #20

I am the founder of Optimal: http://optimal.ag . We are a team of engineers and scientists from DeepMind, Palantir, Oxford and MIT. Our mission is to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous greenhouses outside every city on earth. We are backed by leading deep technology funds, including Founders Fund. We believe that high-tech greenhouses will be an important part of our agricultural future, for imp…

Just curious if you are planning to open your solutions up to non-food solutions: E.g. commercially licensed cannabis cultivators?

Autonomous / IoT greenhouses seem to be a big "thing" up here in Northern California where many commercial cultivators are.

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Post by viggity » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 5:37 PM UTC

shinryuu wrote: post #23

seattle_spring wrote: post #15

* 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.

and Granular is owned by Corteva (previously DuPont Pioneer) which is was just spun out from the Dow-DuPont merger

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Post by DarmokJalad1701 » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

https://www.smart-ag.com/ - Autonomous tractors

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Post by sharkmerry » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

https://bearflagrobotics.com/

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Post by guessmyname » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

Just yesterday I got invited to interview at AgriTask [1].

> An AG-management platform that turns agriculture data into smart tools for planning and decision making.

I don’t know much about them aside from this line from one of their recruiters; check them out if you want.

By the way, they are hiring a couple of remote workers if anyone is interested.

[1] https://www.agritask.com/

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Post by dazhbog » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

https://pycno.co - soil sensors and IoT stuff

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Post by gallamine » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 5:50 PM UTC

aaron-santos wrote: post #27

I'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.

That link doesn't seem to work, btw.

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Post by lchengify » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 5:54 PM UTC

https://www.descarteslabs.com - Satellite imagery for predictive intelligence, lots of work in agtech for things like crop yields.

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Post by rdlecler1 » Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 5:56 PM UTC

I'm one of the founding partners of AgFunder. You can see see a lot of startups in our annual investor report:

https://agfunder.com/research/agrifood-tech-investing-report...