Overview
Gratheon develops open, modular robotic beehive as a service for ๐จ๐ปโ๐ Semi-professional beekeepers to save bees ๐, improve efficiency and increase food security through scalable precise pollination.
- ๐ deck.pdf or google docs
- ๐๐ป B2B (beekeepers) + B2B2B (beekeepers reselling services to farmers)
- SaaS / Deeptech / Agrotech / Robotics
Elevator pitch for the investors ๐ถโ
๐ข Do you like honey or apples? 5 years ago I became a beekeeper to improve pollination of my garden and to take care of the super organisms of bees.
Soon enough I understood that bees can ๐งถ Swarm and get ๐ฆ Varroa Mite Infestations. To manage that, I had to lift heavy beehives every week to inspect and treat bees, otherwise they would get weak and die over the winter. Losing a colony is not just 300 euros of monetary loss, its also a personal failure. 20% to 40 % of colonies die every year.
Imagine a new type of modular robotic beehive that inspects the bees and ๐จ๐ปโ๐ semi-professional beekeepers see colony development over time automatically. This allows to save time, travel to the field and scale precise pollination, giving 40% more crop yields to farmers.
We are engineers from companies like Pipedrive, Clarifai, Fits.me and we are raising 1M pre-seed investments for 2 years of runway. Angels are also welcome. Join us to help 2 million beekeepers.
5 min pitchโ
Numbers and Metricsโ
- ๐ฃ Founded legally in 2012 (for web-development)
- ๐ก Idea formulated in 2020
- ๐ฎ Coding started in 2022
- ๐ข Pitches in 2023
- ๐ Web-app live - 100+ registered users
- ๐ฑ Android app live 10+ installs
- ๐คฒ๐ป 1 paying customer (obviously Artjom Kurapov)
- ๐ซ 12+ volunteering contributors
- ๐ Bootstrapping, pre-seed phase
- ๐ชฝ looking for angel investments for IoT field testing