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Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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http://picktrace.com/ (YCS15) was in our batch. Both the founders grew up on a farm and build tools for people to use out in the field like how to accurately keep track the number of baskets of strawberries a worker picked so they get paid the right amount when there's no WiFi or cellular connection.

I always thought it was interesting.

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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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…

Whats the big difference with modern existing greenhouses, like the ones in The Netherlands?

High-tech Dutch greenhouses are our base class. We are working very closely with operators in The Netherlands currently.

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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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.

Thanks for the heads up. It redirects to https://home.agrian.com/.

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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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.

Good question. Growing cannabis does not align directly with our mission. However the production methods for cannabis are fairly similar to crops such as tomatoes and so it may be something we consider doing. I want to be clearer on the health benefits before committing.

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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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…

How do you propose to keep those autonomous systems secure against threat actors ?

Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

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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…

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