Ian Wylie Hedrick
Co-founder, CEO
Founded an urban-farming program and managed institutional-scale solar farm construction. Builds AEROBERRY, our robot's hardware, and leads the company's greenhouse and business model.
We're building the robots that make greenhouses pay.
Our mission: grow a city's fresh food next to the city, in greenhouses automated seed to truck.
Greenhouses already grow more food per square foot than any field, but labor is 42% of what they cost to run. We build agentic robots that drive the aisles, pick ripe fruit by the stem and carry it to packing, starting with strawberries, one of the hardest crops to pick.
Our first robot, AEROBERRY, is built. It drives the aisles on mecanum wheels, lifts its arm to each row and carries grip-cut jaws we designed to take fruit by the stem. Next, it goes to work in a partner's facility.
Founders
Isaiah Ballah
Co-founder, CTO
Leads the software that runs our robots. He was a founding engineer at Mentra, which builds an open-source operating system for smart glasses, and before that worked at Salesforce and Google.
Advisors
Richard Nelson
Inventor of SolaRoof. Four decades of greenhouse research and six US patents in greenhouse design.
Lukas Bartusevicius
CEO of Freya Cultivation Systems, our aeroponics partner.
Marius Krutulis
Chief Agronomist at Freya. Ran a commercial greenhouse for more than a decade.
Nils Pihl
CEO of Auki. Advises on robotics.