AVTV: Arable

AVTV features Arable, a smart field sensing and analytics company working in agriculture

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AVTV features Arable, a company providing farmers with a hardware and software suite to efficiently and scalably collect crop data. AVTV videos feature Alumni Ventures’ portfolio companies sharing their stories and asks with our community.

Today we hear from Jim Ethington, the CEO of Arable Labs — a company providing farmers with a hardware and software suite to efficiently and scalably collect crop data. The platform leverages AI and machine learning to help farmers optimize water use, crop protection, fertilization, fieldwork, research trials, food supply chains, and sustainability initiatives. In this video, Jim shares the problem Arable is working to solve, what makes the company unique, the bigger mission behind Arable, what the future holds for the company, and Arable’s ask from the AV community.

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Company Ask: Connect Us & Join Our Team!

We’re expanding globally, which means we’re hiring new folks to support us and pursuing new customers. Specifically, we’d appreciate connections to large food and ag companies and enterprises that are pursuing improvements to their productivity and sustainability. On the hiring front, we have a number of roles across various departments posted on our website.

Arable Labs is building the next generation of hardware and software to efficiently and scalably collect data for farmers to use on their own farms. The company’s proprietary hardware collects real-time, hyper-local data across 40 different metrics. This robust data set is used as inputs for their AI algorithms, which in turn provide actionable insights to help farmers optimize water use, crop protection, fertilization, fieldwork, research trials, food supply chains, and sustainability initiatives. Click here to learn more about Arable.

AV Funds invested in Arable: Nassau Street Ventures, Towerview Ventures, and Total Access Fund

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