Join our Precision Agriculture Webinar on 10/14
Learn about the top trends and technologies that investors and founders should know about the precision ag industry.
AgTech, and specifically precision agriculture, has been an area that we’ve been tracking closely at Prime Movers Lab (check out Dan’s whitepaper on the topic if you haven’t already). Advances in farming technology have been enabling increased crop yields since time immemorial; and nowhere is this more visible than in the last hundred years with the widespread adoption and expansion of agricultural automation. Using data to optimize crop inputs/outputs and track their progress throughout the growth lifecycle is known as precision agriculture. According to MIT, “Precision agriculture augments a farmer’s decision-making ability by integrating advances in our understanding of crop growth, sensor technology and wireless connectivity.” In a post-COVID world, there is an even more paramount need to leverage technology and science to ensure a robust food supply chain in which animal and plant produce reaches consumers reliably, sustainably and safely.
Next Wednesday (10/14 @ 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET), we will bring together a group of founders and experts to discuss the most exciting and impactful technologies we’re tracking in the precision ag industry. Please register at the link below if you would like to join.
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The webinar will be hosted by our partners Suzanne Fletcher and Dan Slomski and will feature the following founders and industry experts:
Michael Norcia is the CEO and co-founder of Pyka. Pyka is a developer of autonomous planes designed to make agricultural chemical application safe, fast and precise. The company’s aircraft technology use autonomous flight controller and onboard sensors to fly precise paths and land safely, while detecting the right timing and path for spraying on the target areas so that it can compensate with the wind and reduce the drift, enabling cultivators to spray agricultural chemicals and dust crops over hills and challenging terrains, while using less chemical per acre and decreasing accidental exposure. Prime Movers Lab led Pyka’s seed round in 2019.
Shely Aronov is the CEO and co-founder of InnerPlant. InnerPlant is a developer of a biosensor sentinel plant platform designed to provide farming information and analysis. The company’s platform is solving the costly farming information gap by sensing molecular changes directly from the plant, enabling farmers to use early, specific and actionable data.
Kyle Cobb is the CFO and co-Founder of advanced.farm, a venture-backed startup based in Davis that is focused on robotic crop harvesting. At advanced.farm, Kyle is reunited with a Founding team that had prior success in robotics with a company called Greenbotics. Greenbotics pioneered robotic solar panel cleaning for utility-scale solar farms, and was ultimately acquired by SunPower in 2013. He lives in Davis with his wife and two kids.
Prime Movers Lab invests in breakthrough scientific startups founded by Prime Movers, the inventors who transform billions of lives. We invest in seed-stage companies reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation and agriculture.
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