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Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#62I 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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Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#63My side project is AutoMicroFarm (https://automicrofarm.com). Currently working on https://edible.estate/
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#64My friend just started working at Agricycle global. https://www.agricycleglobal.com/
One of their products is a charcoal for your grill made out of coconut shells.
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#65Just 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/
Source/go-to link? The website doesn't seem to mention any hiring.
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#66Indigo Agriculture (indigoag.com) - Boston/Memphis/Remote
Shameless plug for Indigo Agriculture (indigoag.com). We're expanding on a number of different fronts with the central goal of increasing farmer profitability while reducing the environmental impact of production. Here are some of the groups at Indigo that are hiring: - Marketplace: matching growers producing high quality crops with buyers who need that quality. Giving farmers a reason to produce crops that are better than commodity standard, produced in better ways. - Transport: contract trucking services to allow farms to sell their products, efficiently, well beyond their current reach - Agronomy/Precision Agriculture: giving farmers the tools and expertise they need to improve their efficiency while reducing environmental impact. - Remote Sensing: supplementing Indigo's and growers' knowledge of fields with continuously updating global observations from satellites - Carbon Sequestration (terraton.org): sequestering a trillion tons of carbon dioxide into agricultural soils to improve soil quality while slowing the march of climate change
If you are interested, please apply on our website or feel free to reach out to me directly at jmcdonald@indigoag.com. I'm a software engineer who works across a number of the above groups. I'd love to chat or put you in touch with the right person.
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#67On the farmer to consumer side, I've been using marketwagon for my dairy meat and produce and really like their products and business model. https://marketwagon.com/pages/market-wagon-about-us
Its kinda a mash of Amazon food delivery and community supported agriculture. If you want to see smaller farms thrive, they have a pretty compelling service. So far they are Midwest only but hopefully they can expand, or similar services can start up in other regions.
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#68Here is my ad: Corang.info is the world first fully sustainable property development. It combines renewable energy with food production and housing. The project has 'negative emissions'.
If it works we plan to make lots of similar projects in Australia and Asia.
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#69I 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 ?
Security guards?
Re: Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
#70I 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…
I spent a bunch of time modelling out the unit economics for autonomous greenhouses and struggled to find any combination of technologies that could even come close to competing with the current costs of field agriculture, including labor. Do you folks need something key to change in the competitive landscape (like climate change or very different immigration laws in the US) to become profitable?
See https://www.eater.com/2018/7/3/17531192/vertical-farming-agr... for an example of the costs for the case of indoor vertical farms.