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We’re Jamie & Wilson, co-founders of Hedgehog.\n\n**Opportunity: Fungi - our next major food source?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65014&key=user_uploads/995535/6274e56c-e42e-41de-97aa-a0e6bc59c109)\n\nFungi are unique crops. They transform agricultural waste (corn husks, wheat straw, etc.) into protein-rich, meaty-tasting food. And they do it without arable land, irrigation, or energy intensive lighting. With 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions coming from food, this is an opportunity we must seize. Fungi are our chance to produce quality food at scale with near-zero environmental impact.\n\n**Problem: They’re labor intensive** \\\nUnfortunately, producing mushrooms and fungi is labor intensive, limiting their scale and affordability. For even the most sophisticated mushroom and fungi farms, labor is the vast majority of cost. They require delicate handling and careful monitoring – difficult jobs to automate.\n\n**Solution: Robots** \\\nOh yeah. Robots. We’re building robotics and AI to automate each step of production. Autonomous dexterous manipulation harvests, breaks down, and packages the mushrooms. Computer vision and low-cost sensors power decisions like when to harvest. AI optimizes >60 dimensions to increase yield. Eliminating labor and increasing yield will reduce costs by 70%+.\n\n \n\n\\*\\*How you can help:\\*\\*\\\nWe aim to unleash fungi as our next major food source, making these healthy, sustainable foods affordable for anyone. If you’re interested in helping out, we’d love to meet:\n\n* A+ talent in robotics and ML\n* Mushroom growers\n\nReach out at [hello@hedgehogfoods.com](mailto:hello@hedgehogfoods.com)\n\nJamie & Wilson\\\n🦔", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Guc-hedgehog-robotic-mushroom-farms", "votes": 272, "created_at": "2022-07-29T22:20:01.173Z" } ] }, { "id": 28794, "name": "Ohmic Biosciences", "slug": "ohmic-biosciences", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b68cb6a90af9c37176d63232ab7f6372925388d.png", "website": "https://ohmicbiosciences.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pests and pathogens cost the world hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Existing technologies like agrochemicals are no longer working. Ohmic Biosciences uses protein engineering to design resistance genes for crops that are robust to pathogen evolution.", "one_liner": "Genetically engineering plants for disease resistance.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Agriculture", "launched_at": 1689702500, "tags": [ "Synthetic Biology", "Biotech", "Climate", "Agriculture", "Genetic Engineering" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Agriculture" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ohmic-biosciences", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/ohmic-biosciences.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ohmic-biosciences", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b68cb6a90af9c37176d63232ab7f6372925388d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1293563, "full_name": "PJ Steiner", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm a protein engineer, synthetic biologist, and computer scientist. I studied computer science at MIT (SB/MEng) and then synthetic biology at Cambridge (PhD) and UCSD (postdoc). After two years as a scientist at Bolt Threads engineering yeast for protein production, I moved to the University of Colorado Boulder to work on a DARPA project using protein engineering to turn plants into chemical biosensors. My co-founder Matt and I founded Ohmic to make plants resistant to disease.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/pjsteiner", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ffbbe4cdd117cdb5d1833d399a417f33612afa78.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1350610, "full_name": "Matthew Bedewitz", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm a plant biochemist with experience in protein engineering, genetics and analytical chemistry. I studied Horticulture Science (BS), and then Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology (PhD) at Michigan State where I characterized enzymes in tropane alkaloid production for nerve agent antidotes and stimulants (including cocaine). That work led me to a DARPA protein engineering project where I met my cofounder, PJ, and we decided to use our skills to tackle crop disease resistance.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/matthew-bedewitz-915848239", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8a7b8411e8a6c8a66af0dd9bada25c96e6f74894.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 73380, "title": "Ohmic Biosciences: Genetically engineering disease-resistant plants", "tagline": "We use protein engineering to create resistance traits for any disease in any plant.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Ohmic Biosciences genetically engineers plants to make them resistant to disease. Our first product is a soybean resistant to a parasite that causes over $1.5B of yearly damage in the US alone.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nPlant diseases cost the world more than $200B every year. Climate change and trade globalization are accelerating the problem, but existing solutions are failing. Today, crop diseases are controlled in two ways:\n\nAgrochemicals are slow and expensive to commercialize. Once pathogens evolve resistance to them, they are useless. Many are being taken off the market and it is increasingly difficult to get new products approved.\n\nGenetic resistance traits are a better solution - no spraying - but are plagued by a basic tradeoff: they usually either work really well but are easy for pathogens to evolve around, or are robust to pathogen evolution but don't work so well.\n\nThis comes down to a basic limitation of plant breeding and biotechnology as practiced today: both amount to hoping the gene you want already exists in nature and embarking on a fishing expedition to find it. Sometimes that works, but there's no reason to believe that genes useful for industrial agriculture will have evolved naturally.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nOhmic Biosciences is taking a different approach. We are protein engineers. We know what traits we want; instead of hoping nature already made them, we're engineering them ourselves.\n\nPlant pathogens have a difficult job. To even start infecting a plant they need to breach the plant's tough cell wall and disable its innate immune system. They do all of this by secreting a whole suite of effector proteins that attack the plant in various ways. We engineer proteins that inhibit those effectors, effectively defanging plant diseases.\n\nWe're starting by focusing on soybean cyst nematode (SCN), a tiny parasitic worm that has completely infested the US and causes >$1.5B in yield loss every year. That number is probably an underestimate, because SCN is an insidious root parasite that rarely causes visible above-ground symptoms - just yield loss.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73380&key=user_uploads/1293563/79777d2d-a15c-4669-9d68-5cf2a36c8fcf)\n\n_Above: soybean cyst nematode infection on soybean roots._\n\n**About Us**\n\nWe met as postdocs at the University of Colorado Boulder where we worked together for 2.5 years on [**engineering plant hormone receptors**](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01364-5) into biosensors. Before that, PJ worked in CS and synthetic biology and Matt worked in plant genetics and biochemistry.\n\n**Ask**\n\nPlease get in touch if you or anyone you know is interested in protein engineering for agriculture! Find us on LinkedIn [here.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ohmic-biosciences/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J5Y-ohmic-biosciences-genetically-engineering-disease-resistant-plants", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2023-07-28T19:41:51.431Z" } ] }, { "id": 29247, "name": "Precip", "slug": "precip", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ce5bdc762563a51d03ff83ec08044222b14c450e.png", "website": "https://precip.ai", "all_locations": "Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Precip uses deep-learning to make the most accurate rain forecast in the US. We started by using high-resolution radar to measure what actually fell, and built our minute-by-minute forecast on top of it. 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We measure rain without needing gauges. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/vollmarj", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e6bbe377d0b1dbaeb45c90f956380523e5e860e5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 266868, "full_name": "Michael Asher", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Data scientist and software engineer. Fascinated by agriculture and construction.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/michael-asher-1276065b", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f525bb41819fe8339272dc37415bd57046248e25.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 117439, "title": "Precip - Know exactly when it'll rain, down to the minute", "tagline": "The most accurate rain forecast in the US. 85% better than Apple Weather.", "body": "**Hey, we're Jesse and Michael. We were sick of weather apps being wrong so we built a better one.**\n\nToday we're launching the next iteration of Precip. It’s anchored on our own minute-by-minute rainfall forecast which is the most accurate in the US. \n\n\n\nIt all started with a gap most people don't know exists: accurate weather history. \n\nWe first ran into it a decade ago, while building a farming data-science startup in YC. \n\nMost weather providers just show you the last forecast and call it history. \n\nWe do it differently. \n\nWe use high-resolution radar to measure what actually fell. \n\nThe result is 60% better rainfall measurements than just using NOAA's HRRR analysis.\n\nToday we're introducing the next evolution of Precip: our own minute-by-minute rainfall forecast. Instead of a false alarm about rain that never shows up, or getting drenched without warning, Precip tells you when the storm will hit your precise location, how intense it'll be, and how long it'll last, right on your lock screen.\n\nAnd it's not just guessing. Our benchmarks show Precip's minute-by-minute forecast is the most accurate in the US by a large margin: 85% more accurate than Apple Weather and 52% more accurate than Google Weather.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=117439&key=user_uploads/5724/e3eba11a-751f-45a7-9402-4faafee56141)\n\nHere's what we found doing the research: There are dozens of published \"state of the art\" models that couldn't beat simple, non-deep-learning approaches, even ones from journals like Nature. None of the \"foundation model\" approaches shipped by the big players worked either. \n\nThe reason is twofold: low-quality training data (this is why we had to start with the most accurate history) and the wrong model architecture for this specific problem.\n\nSo if you're like us and don't want to get caught in the rain, download Precip: the first truly exceptional weather app since we lost DarkSky. \n\nAnd if you're building your own product and want the best weather data, check out our API where you can pull data directly or connect your tools via MCP. 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Previously, she held several research positions working in immunology, cancer, malaria vaccine development and viral drug discovery (in institutes like Barts Cancer Institute CRUK, Cambridge University, King’s College London, Institute Curie France and Imperial College London). ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/emmanouelapetsolari", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fe0981d815a5985e4455e8444899976e07cac408.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1676577, "full_name": "Melina Petsolari", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Melina is the Co-founder & CTO of ACX and PhD in Computer Science from King's College London. Previously, she held several research positions spanning digital health, robotics, technology-enable interventions, HCAI and NLP (in institutes like Cambridge University, King’s College London, National Health Service (NHS) in England and Francis Crick Institute).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/melina-petsolari-a03915298", "x_url": null, "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/df48f52856a7187592c6c728a6e25be063a80e70.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 82452, "title": "🧬🦠 ACX – Next-generation biocides for sustainable agriculture at scale", "tagline": "ACX is developing a new standard for precision agriculture technologies by providing sustainable, eco-friendly alternatives to chemical pesticides.", "body": "Hi everyone,\n\nWe are [**ACX**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/acxtherapeutics/)! We’re two PhD’s in Biochemistry/Biophysics and Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and King’s College London developing a new type of therapy with applications in animal farming and agriculture. We have discovered a new molecular weapon to first provide more efficacious pest control measures.\n\n### **Team:**\n\n👩🏼‍🔬[**Emmanouela Petsolari**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanouelapetsolari/) – Molecular Geneticist and Biochemist with 8 years of research experience in drug discovery and development (from leukemia, ovarian, and breast cancer as well as viral and bacterial infections).\n\n👩🏼‍🔬 [**Melina Petsolari**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/melina-petsolari-a03915298/)  – Computer Scientist and Designer with extensive experience in HCI, AI, and healthcare developing hardware and software for applications in digital health, biotech, and privacy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82452&key=user_uploads/1676544/c167d705-6bb6-44bf-86be-5eec9824edc3)\n\n# **❌ Problem:**\n\nThere is more disease impacting our livestock and crops than ever before - and this comes at a time when the human population is also exploding.\n\n1. Manure from livestock and extensive use of limited therapeutics for growth promotion and disease prevention in animal breeding as well as overuse of pesticides in crops\n\n ●  One billion kilos of chemicals are used annually to combat crop pests\n2. Spread of pathogenic agents that have adapted in previously used medications\n3. Failure of commonly used pesticides and insecticides has been documented in nearly 1000 distinct pest species worldwide\n\n ●  This leads each year to the world’s food supply facing an up to 30% loss due to insect pests alone, and this number is continuously increasing\n\n# ✅ **Our Solution:**\n\nExisting therapeutics are either no longer effective or have never worked to the extent necessary for achieving positive outcomes. We have discovered a common biological pathway that can be targeted across pathogenic species.\n\n### ✅ ✅ **Specifics:**\n\n1. We have _in vitro_ validation data of our therapeutic showing high inhibition and specificity in the cell line\n2. We are initially focusing on animal health and crop production due to the experimental validation of our therapeutic's effectiveness on a shared pathogen\n3. We are developing drug delivery systems that minimize toxicity and immunogenicity while providing precise spatiotemporal control for targeted drug release\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82452&key=user_uploads/1676544/1f3bc0eb-72b6-4c8b-80d3-d3172a311f1f)\n\nIllustration of our solution. Nanoparticles carrying the killer compound (orange) infiltrate the target cell like a Trojan horse and activate drug release upon targeting our newly discovered pathway.\n\n### 💡**Key facts about our solution:**\n\n➔   High killing efficacy\n\n➔   Designed to specifically target pathogenic cells while preserving the surrounding healthy cells and ensuring no toxicity or adverse side effects\n\n➔   Highly suitable to become a platform solution (i.e., therapeutic development pipeline expanded to multiple disease areas and organisms)\n\n➔   Scalable, stable, and easy to manufacture\n\n### \n\n# 👋**Our Asks:**\n\n* Share this post with your network and help spread the word!\n* If you’re as excited as we are about this novel approach, email us to learn more about it at [emmanouela@acxtherapeutics.com](mailto:emmanouela@acxtherapeutics.com)\n\n### ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LRs-acx-next-generation-biocides-for-sustainable-agriculture-at-scale", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2024-07-25T21:52:31.810Z" } ] }, { "id": 29661, "name": "Silurian", "slug": "silurian", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/264e2c359db5aaec1e0417e61bfa018c5458c3dc.png", "website": "https://silurian.ai/", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA", "long_description": "Silurian is building foundation models for simulating Earth, starting with weather. 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", "body": "# **The Problem**\n\nEvery day, crucial decisions are made based on outdated geospatial simulations. \n\nInsurance companies guess more than they would like about hurricane risks. Airports can't predict tomorrow's delays, let alone next week's. Meanwhile, utilities are crossing their fingers every heatwave that the grid won't collapse.\n\nEarth’s simulation infrastructure needs an upgrade.\n\n# **The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83141&key=user_uploads/1992622/3f194f0b-cfe1-4af7-a41a-e12d0d081aa7)\n\nToday, [Silurian](https://silurian.ai/) is announcing the launch of GFT (Generative Forecasting Transformer), a 1.5B frontier model that simulates global weather up to 14 days ahead at approximately 11km resolution with unprecedented accuracy. Our model outperforms numerical weather prediction systems from the American (NOAA) and European (ECMWF) agencies by up to 30% across multiple variables. \n\nRemember Hurricane Beryl? In a simulation (shown above) run on the 1st of July, GFT correctly predicted that the hurricane would hit Texas. In contrast, the NOAA and ECMWF models wrongly predicted a landfall in Mexico, as [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/29/science/ai-weather-forecast-hurricane.html) recently reported. \n\nGFT is immediately available to our customers via our **Artificial Planetary Intelligence (API)**. The API allows users to easily query our models at any location on Earth, and it will become publicly available in the next few weeks. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83141&key=user_uploads/1992622/aadb6eff-4273-443f-abab-ff9244da3dcf)\n\nGFT is only the beginning. We are working towards state-of-the-art simulation infrastructure for verticals such as energy, climate, and agriculture.\n\n# **Team**\n\nWe are a team of scientists and engineers with years of experience in building large-scale AI simulations at Microsoft Research and Google Brain. Our work on weather and atmospheric chemistry simulations at Microsoft has been featured in [Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01677-2), [Bloomberg,](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-25/from-trump-to-ai-bill-gates-sees-climate-impacts-for-the-world) and [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-learning-to-predict-the-weather-8968fa7c?st=d0o2so2v9r14bf2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink).\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXd9eEb9mwTRMRPXQpJ6vkWtFRoUpGCc5sXpXIukdbAGyLsmWCAoqAKCOwXLbWfQZuFuGxg4Mu6qNyRHpIsoRKYlhDbnr8Qx0XCnUl26oa_T2ftzOsL4W3BijCebKj6OXA4oUoXWDnrqjJnqDIvGJz-SP5RL?key=P6HArdzTsIyNOARHbY8cEw)\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nDo you want to talk about the weather? 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But the traditional practice of manually inspecting animals doesn’t scale - labor costs add up, while farms miss disease outbreaks and breeding cycles. Disease alone causes \\~$100 billion in losses yearly for cattle farms globally.\n\nExisting tech for monitoring cattle includes external wearables like collars and ear-tags. Being outside thick cattle skin, these can’t accurately track useful biometrics beyond “activity” (a glorified step-count). There’s also boluses, pill-shaped devices that sit in the cow stomach. But these are super expensive, have short battery life, and can’t be used for beef cattle.\n\n**Solution**\n\nNexa is building implantable microchips that go underneath the skin in the ear of cattle. We analyze vital biometrics - like temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen, activity, GPS location, and more - that other systems miss, to empower farmers with early disease detection and reproductive insights. And because our electronics operate at millimeter scale, we benefit from low production costs and pricing up to 70% cheaper than current solutions.\n\nOur hardware also enables collection of the world’s largest cattle health dataset - so, we can develop foundation models that can unlock new possibilities in farm management and livestock pharma. \n\nWe’re currently launching our dairy pilot program - if you know any dairy farmers based in the USA, please send them our way at [admin@nexa.farm](mailto:admin@nexa.farm) :)\n\n**About Us**\n\nWe’re a team of Caltech dropouts with backgrounds in bioengineering, electrical engineering, CS, math, and physics. 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They target a single pest species, stay safe for humans, pollinators, and the environment, and can be reprogrammed over time as pests evolve resistance.\n\nPesticides underpin modern agriculture and food security, accounting for $80B in annual spend. Without effective pesticides, we can't grow enough food.\n\n\n\n**The Problem 🌱**\n\nPests are developing resistance faster than new pesticides can be invented to replace the failing ones. At the same time, regulators are banning core active ingredients over environmental and human toxicity. Farmers are losing tools from both ends at once.\n\n**Our Solution 🪲**\n\nWe build pesticides out of insect virus-like particles. We start with a virus that only infects insects and is harmless to humans. We strip out its genome so it can't infect or replicate, and we keep the empty protein shell as a delivery vehicle.\n\nWe engineer that shell with two parts:\n\n* A **targeting element** that recognizes a single pest species (or a set of species). This is what keeps the product species-specific and invisible to humans, pollinators, and beneficial insects.\n* A **payload** that kills the pest.\n\nBoth parts are swappable. Changing the targeting element will modify which pest it kills. Changing the payload will result in a new kill mechanism for the same pest, which is how we update the product when resistance appears.\n\nDesigning for true pollinator safety is hard, so we did the underlying science ourselves. We solved a cryo-EM structure of a key receptor in honey bees, which lets us deliberately engineer our targeting elements so they do not bind pollinators.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=108796&key=user_uploads/2273508/62f4362a-1938-4843-ab26-c9a62c742a84)\n\n**Why Us? 🧑🏽‍🔬**\n\nWe are Zaky and Min, viral structural biology PhD candidates and lab mates at the University of Toronto, where we have worked together for the past 6 years studying how viruses interact with their hosts. We have published in Nature Microbiology and Nature Communications, and Min holds the world record for the highest-resolution structure of a coronavirus spike protein.\n\n**Traction 📈**\n\nWe have signed our first grower LOI, have more in the pipeline, and produced our first set of viruses for testing. During the batch we also solved a cryo-EM structure of a honey-bee receptor that directly informs our pollinator-safe design.\n\n**Connect with us!**\n\n* **Growers and producers**: if you are fighting resistant pests or losing tools to bans, we would love to talk about your crops and target pests. Reach us at [molagri.com](http://molagri.com) \n* **Everyone else:** intros to ag and crop-science operators, or anyone who has built regulated biological products, are always welcome.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SIm-molagri-resistance-free-pesticides", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-08-03T18:35:06.582Z" } ] } ]