Overview
Gratheon develops open, modular robotic beehive as a data service for 👨🏻🚀 Semi-professional beekeepers to save bees 🐝, improve efficiency and scale beekeeping. Globally we increase food security through precise pollination.
Pitch
📢 We are building a robotic beehive! 5 years ago I became a beekeeper to improve pollination of my garden and to take care of the super organisms of bees.
Soon I understood that bees can 🧶 Swarm and get 🦀 Varroa Mite Infestations. I had to regularly lift heavy beehives sections to inspect and treat bees. Some colonies got weak and died over the winter. Losing a colony is not just 300 euros of monetary loss, its also a personal failure. On average 20% to 40 % of colonies die every year.
Imagine a new type of beehive that inspects the bees automatically. This would save time, reduce loss of bees, require less inspections. 👨🏻🚀 semi-professional beekeepers could have more beehives and could see colony development over time automatically. 🧑🏻🌾 Farmers would get more pollination services and have 40% more crop yields.
Our team are experienced engineers and researchers from companies like Pipedrive, Clarifai, Fits.me, Taltech and we are raising 1M pre-seed investments for 2 years of runway. Angels and volunteers are also welcome.
Join us to help 2 million beekeepers and their cute & fuzzy bees.
For the investors 💶
- 📑 deck.pdf or google docs
- 💁🏻 B2B (beekeepers) + B2B2B (beekeepers reselling services to farmers)
- SaaS / Deeptech / Agrotech / Robotics
Numbers and Metrics
- 🐣 Founded legally in 2012 (for web-development)
- 💡 Idea formulated in 2020
- 🖮 Coding started in 2022
- 📢 Pitches in 2023
- 🌍 Web-app live - 140+ registered user
- 📱 Android app live 10+ installs
- 🫀 12+ volunteering contributors
- 🚀 Bootstrapping, pre-seed phase
- 🪽 looking for angel investments for IoT field testing