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🎓 University of Tartu Students Advance Bee Monitoring with AI

· 3 min read

We're incredibly thankful to share the outstanding work of three student teams from University of Tartu who chose Gratheon as their machine learning course project. This work was completed as part of the Machine Learning course (MTAT.03.227) taught by Dmytro Fishman, Associate Professor at University of Tartu. Their contributions are moving us closer to our mission of protecting bees through AI-powered monitoring.

🏛️ Gratheon Trademark Filed

· 2 min read

We've filed trademark registration for Gratheon with the Estonian Patent Office (Patendiamet) in Nice classes 9 (hardware/software), 42 (SaaS platform), and 7 (robotics).

What This Means​

Brand protection in Estonia establishes formal intellectual property foundation as we prepare for angel investment discussions and deploy IoT hardware to beekeepers. As we expand across EU markets, we'll pursue EU-wide protection through EUIPO.

Prototron Top 40 Application Form

· 10 min read

We have participated in the Prototron funding program for the second time and submitted our application for consideration. Below are the details of our application form for the Prototron Top 40. We share this information to provide transparency about our funding journey and to illustrate the kind of projects we are working on as transparency is one of our core values

🔬 Gratheon Whitepaper

· One min read

We are glad to announce that we have published our whitepaper on entrance observer field testing. Feel free to research and contact us for more details.

⚖️ Attended EstBAN Red flags in startup legal aspects webinar

· 3 min read
  • check statistics. check what are the avg rounds. wether offer is ok or not
  • term sheets usually are not binding
    • teams not understanding what they are signing is dangerous.
      • for example liquidation preference with 3x = everything goes to investors
      • new investors can be more control/agressive than older ones
  • Due Diligence - don't hide anything. Otherwise later on you can be liable for that
  • Convertibles / SAFEs. Difference. 95% are done on convertible loans in Estonia
    • Convertible loan = loan. In balance sheet it goes under obligation.
      • Section usually has maturity date if its converting or repayment.
      • Pre-money formula
    • With SAFE you usually need to repay. In some cases can be booked under equity.
      • Post-money formulas
    • Use same templates for different rounds
      • Ex. Startup Estonia.
  • Warranties - need to notify investors in case of internal issues (hiring/employees)
  • Reverse vesting - ability to buy-out one of the not efficient founders. Vesting provisions.
  • Non-competition. Protection against founder competing
  • Roles for investors/leadership
    • Management board member = super power to manage company
    • Supervisory board member = controlling body. Controls management, some veto rights
    • Observer = no voting rights. Tool for investors to get information.
  • Management Board Member Service Agreement - more flexible. No non-competition payments. Employment Contract does.
  • Liquidation preference - in EU. Investors 1x liquidation preference is ok.
  • Anti-dilution protection. In case of down-rounds, investors get more.

Tehnopol AI Accelerator Pitch

· 3 min read

We're pitching Gratheon to Tehnopol's AI Accelerator program with the following structure:

  1. 1min for elevator pitch + team introduction
  2. 1min for business plan
  3. 1min for 6-month plan, detailing what we aim to achieve during the AI Accelerator program (month by month)

🤝 Gratheon joins NVIDIA Inception Program

· One min read

We're excited to announce that we join NVIDIA Inception Program!

As we are relying on edge devices for video monitoring of bees and we are using NVidia Jetson Nano and Orin, it is natural for us to seek more knowledge and deeper research, gain pricing benefits on devices and have better reach to NVIDIA associated communities of engineers, startups and potential investors. This will especially crucial for robotic beehive.

According to Program Terms and Conditions, we may benefit from:

  • credits to NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) offerings
  • preferred pricing on a wide range of products and platforms
  • listing of your application in the applicable public NVIDIA catalog for visibility of your application
  • NVIDIA facilitating introductions to third parties such as Investors/VCs
  • brand exposure opportunities

🛠️ Andmetorm hackathon

· 6 min read

We are excited to participate in the "Data Storm" hackathon, which focuses on utilizing open government data from Estonia, particularly in areas such as environment, weather, hydrology, and alerts. Our project addresses challenges related to storm winds collapsing beehives and proposes a solution in the form of weather alerts.

Our focus areas​

  • 🗃️ Storm wind collapsing beehives
  • 📡 Weather alerts

Team members​

Participants and mentors collective foto by Tiit Tamme / Garage 48:

First pitch slides​