Overview
Gratheon helps beekeepers to protect bees, understand colony development, and scale operations using smart hive hardware and data analytics. This drives pollination that strengthens global food security
Shape the future of beekeeping
Beekeeper, Founding engineer
I am a software engineer and 5 years ago I became a beekeeper to improve pollination of my garden and get higher yields. To me, bees are also a cute and interesting pet.
Bees are key species for our food security. Farmers are cooperating with beekeepers to increase yields through precise pollination.
Traditional beekeeping requires observability of a bee colony, because bees can experience starvation, queen loss, late swarming, or get Varroa destructor mite infestation which weakens the colony and causes overwintering collapse.
Observability is typically solved with a hard physical labor and frequent and time-limited inspections. Dressed in a protective suit, in the summer heat, you need to lift 20 kg beehive sections, which were designed 150 years ago and notice small details while you are getting stung by defending bees, causing inspection stress and killing bees.
As your apiary grows, this work becomes unscalable. Industrial beekeepers have multiple apiaries at distant locations that are hard to reach. Existing solutions do not adequately solve these issues.
💡 Our goal is to help beekeepers with observability and automation. Our vision is a fully autonomous multi-hive Robotic Apiary that can remotely inspect colonies. We will reach this step by step, starting with a software.
By providing actionable metrics and automation, beekeepers become more efficient, spend less time in the field and analyze more, doing precise intervention only when needed.
Gratheon app is built on the shoulders of open-source software and is fully open source too.
Join us to improve life of 100 million bee colonies worldwide and meet pollination demand for more. We're looking for investors to scale our development, engineers to join our team, beekeepers to run field testing and advisors to guide us.
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Elevator pitch
Problem
Did you know that on average 20% to 40 % of bee colonies die every year. They die from hunger, 🦀 Varroa Mite Infestations, late 🧶 Swarming or because beekeeper was too tired to lift heavy beehives to inspect them every 1-2 weeks.
Solution
My name is Artjom we at Gratheon develop a new type of beehive that inspects the bees automatically. It consists of 3 devices that send data about beehive and an app that analyzes weight, images and video with AI and alerts the user to improve awareness and prevent collapse.
Team and traction
We are targeting 👨🏻🚀 semi-professional beekeepers in Europe and offer SaaS.
We are a small team are engineers and researchers from companies like Pipedrive, Clarifai, Fits.me, Taltech. We are open source and had lots of volunteers. We have around 200 registered users.
Ask
By our calculation the market opportunity for a single device is over 150M ARR euros in Europe alone. We are raising 40 thousands euros in pre-seed angel investments to bootstrap our product. 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
- 🫀 12+ volunteering contributors
- 🚀 Bootstrapping, pre-seed phase
- 🪽 looking for angel investments for IoT field testing