Vertical | Food & Ag |
Size | 1-50 employees (LinkedIn) |
Stage | Series A |
Investors | NEA, Regen.vc, Global Founders Capital (GFC) |
Location | Seattle |
Website | Aigen website |
What Aigen makes
Current: solar-powered robots to reduce fossil fuels/soil tilling/pesticides. Long-term: unlocking large-scale regenerative agriculture.
Company Info
Aigen provides a solar powered robotics service to reduce fossil fuels, reduce soil tilling, and replace pesticides. Their long-term goal is to unlock large-scale regenerative agriculture.
Role of software at Aigen
There are many types of software work at Aigen, including - Robotics navigation and controls embedded software - Crop analytics AI. - Customer-facing web and mobile applications.
Aigen's Trajectory
Aigen is anticipating a Series A in 2023 that will increase headcount to ~40 employees.
Aigen's Climate Impact
Annually, the potential upper bound impact of Aigen would be to offset is 1.4 gigatons carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e).
Breakdown: herbicide production: 0.4 GtCO2e, herbicide spray: 0.3GtCO2e, tractor emissions (from tilling): 0.66 GtCO2e = 1.4 GtCO2e total, globally.
Aigen also has the potential to sequester 1.3 GtCO2e annually 1 at full scale. This is more than the entire global road freight (trucks/lorries) or the combined aviation, shipping, and rail sectors combined. 2
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