BeeHero
BeeHero's Precision Pollination optimizes insects foraging and pollination, maximizing seed set and crop yields. Real time beehive management enables ultimate ecosystem functioning under climatic stress conditions that impact both plant life and insect populations.
About Us
BeeHero is a data-driven tech company redefining pollination in commercial agriculture and, in less than three years, has become the world’s largest pollination provider.
Using advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, and low-cost IoT sensors, BeeHero brings transparency and efficiency to the complex logistics of commercial crop pollination. BeeHero’s Precision-Pollination-as-a-Service results in better crop yields and increased profits for commercial crop growers and agribusiness stakeholders.
BeeHero has raised $23M through Seed and Series A funding, the company is expanding rapidly and is currently 32 people strong. Headquartered in California, with an R&D center in Tel-Aviv.
Relevant Challenges
Habitat and Species Monitoring
Non-invasive detection and tracking of species and monitoring of habitats and vulnerable ecosystems, tools and platforms to analyze, organize and share observations, developing alert systems for failing food webs, invasive species, stressors etc. Relates to both terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
Reduce Land Footprint
Reducing land footprint by improving crop yields, increasing nutritional content, and implementing novel farming systems such as vertical, urban and aquaponic farming as well as insect and algae farms.
Crop Resilience
Improve resilience and reduce vulnerability of crops to increasing temperatures, weather variability, shifting agroecosystem boundaries, invasive crops and pests, and more frequent extreme weather events.
