HoneyComb

HoneyComb builds a fixed-wing drone and the software behind it, letting a grower see an entire field in high resolution in minutes, from launch to processed data. Scouting a crop means walking it, so typically less than a fifth of a field is ever actually looked at, and decisions about the rest are extrapolations from the part someone had time to reach.

What you can't see, you overtreat. Water, fertilizer, and chemistry get applied uniformly across ground that is not uniform, because uniform is what you do when you don't know. Seeing all of it, often, is what makes precision possible, and precision is what takes the inputs down. The imaging itself isn't the hard part. Making it survive a farm, fly itself, and hand back something a grower can act on before the moment passes is the part.