Optimal Agriculture
Optimal Agriculture provides the most advanced operating platform for greenhouses, optimizing revenue, minimizing costs and eliminating error in greenhouse management.
Traditional agriculture presents a series of shortcomings: it uses 70% of the world’s fresh water, requires land (of which there’s a shortage) and requires the use of heavy amounts of pesticides. Greenhouses offer significantly more controlled growing environments. The world needs to more than double the capacity of high-tech greenhouses, but there is a shortage of skilled growers to operate them.
Optimal Agriculture’s technology allows greenhouse operators to increase their yield and the reliability of their production, whilst reducing energy consumption. This has a positive impact on the opportunity to build new greenhouses across the world and manage them efficiently and effectively, ultimately making a positive contribution to global food production and food security and the drive towards net zero emissions.
Founder
David Hunter
CEO
David left the Machine Learning Research Group at Oxford University to bring advanced AI control technology to the greenhouse industry. He holds a Master’s from The University of Oxford in Computer Science, and a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial University.
Milestones
Founded at Entrepreneur First