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🎓 Milissa Laane completed her bachelor thesis on digital beekeeping solutions

Congratulations to **Milissa Laane** from the University of Tartu on completing her bachelor's thesis, **Digital Solutions in Beekeeping: Linking Industry Challenges with Existing Solutions and Identifying Gaps**. We are happy that Gratheon could support the work with practical advice and guidance from the beekeeping t...

📢 Live Queen Finder

We are releasing **Live Queen Finder** in the Gratheon app. Open the app on your phone during a hive inspection, start the camera, and Gratheon will look for the queen in real time.

🐝 Varroa-on-bee detection model published

We just published our new **varroa-on-bee detection model**: a specialized computer vision model for detecting varroa mites directly on bee bodies. Repository: https://github.com/Gratheon/models-varroa-on-bee Unlike frame-level mite detection, this model works after bees have already been detected and cropped by the Gr...

University of Tartu Students Advance Bee Monitoring with AI

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.

Gratheon Trademark Registration Approved in Estonia

The Estonian Patent Office (Patendiamet) has issued a trademark registration decision for Gratheon under application M202501179, covering Nice classes 7, 9, and 42. In April 2026, we received the formal response from Patendiamet confirming the registration decision.

Prototron top 40 application form

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.

🎒 Visual AI in Agriculture Webinar

We attended a Webinar on agriculture, mostly showcasing voxel51 AI tool use with agriculture projects https://www.youtube.com/@voxel51 Pest dataset 102 classes hierarchical taxonomy https://github.com/xpwu95/IP102 https://precision-sustainable-ag.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IR2/overview https://www.precisionsustainableag...

🔬 Gratheon Whitepaper

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.

🔬 L59 startup training - Finding the right mix of scientists, engineers, and business builders (GScan use-case)

~40 employees ~half are engineers some PHDs QA motivations: vesting or sell shares if they leave build diverse team some want to implement fast some want to research

⚖️ Attended EstBAN Red flags in startup legal aspects webinar

check statistics. check what are the avg rounds.

💶 Attending EIC Accelerator and Ready2Scale webinar

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💶 Tehnopol AI accelerator pitch

We're pitching Gratheon to Tehnopol's AI Accelerator program with the following structure: 1min for elevator pitch + team introduction 1min for business plan 1min for 6-month plan, detailing what we aim to achieve during the AI Accelerator program (month by month) Our primary goal is to make Gratheon **production- and...

💶 Tehnopol AI pre-accelerator event

Visited event organized by Tehnopol. We've submitted application to be in the next batch.

🎒 Visited AI TalTech webinar

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🤝 Visited VIDRIK

Had a meeting with VIRUMAA DIGI- JA ROHETEHNOLOOGIATE INNOVATSIOONIKESKUS representatives (engineers, researchers and managers) on the topic of research and development collaboration with Gratheon. Seems like the most suitable topic is the area of IoT devices.

🎒 Attended "Robotics is easy" local webinar for schools

Led by Reet Allik and Lauri Vilibert, this webinar explains how robotics is being taught in local Estonian schools from the first grades and higher. https://www.facebook.com/events/1226346678472001 In short, schools use Lego Spike Prime.

📢 Participated in Startup Pitch Practice webinar by Founder Institute

We took part in Founder Institute online 1 min pitch practicing and getting feedback from the mentors. Regine Harr gave a good advice on elevator pitch structure.

🤝 Gratheon joins NVIDIA Inception Program

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 commu...

🛠️ Andmetorm hackathon

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...

🎒 PurposeTech Early traction webinar

paid vs unpaid events & scalability channels willingness to pay Customer Interest Letter of intent newsletter to measure engagement Marketing efficiency virality conversion Product engagement (if you have it) installs signups retention Initial revenues (if you can) pilots subscription (stripe?) Commitment from other in...

🎒 Attended Practical startup strategy webinar

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🔬 Attended open hardware webinar

Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/301997990/?eventOrigin=home_page_upcoming_events$all https://github.com/devtank-ltd Use cases: https://gerritniezen.com/openuk-slides https://forum.openhardware.science/ https://www.openplant.org/openmta/ wetware DNA tests how many copies of DNA you're making similar to PCR...

🛠️ Attending Garage48 hackaton Andmetorm kick-off

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🎒 JAMK workshop 🇫🇮

Attended JAMK workshop that is looking for precise pollination and food-related startups. AniCare was one of the example startups that was featured https://www.jamk.fi/en/jamk/focus-areas/bioeconomy/bioboosters https://www.jamk.fi/en/project/agriventure-finland-2025 From startups that BioBoosters has supported, I liked...