Hedgehog
Hedgehog builds robotic mushroom farms. Our robots eliminate labor and our AI optimizes grow conditions to increase yield. We’ll soon grow mushrooms and fungi for <1/3rd the cost of leading growers. Fungi may address our food system’s biggest problems: they transform agricultural waste into protein-rich foods with near-zero environmental impact. Hedgehog’s technology is unleashing fungi as our next major food source.
Y Combinator
yc-company-directory #2214Hedgehog is a crypto robo-adviser that manages your funds in broad baskets of digital assets covering up to 85% of crypto's market cap. We already have 15k users monitoring $176m in crypto assets and over $548k in GTV on our V1 product, we have completed our exit interview with the SEC as of 4/24, and our custodial product is now live in the App Store and Google Play.
sourceY Combinator
yc-company-directory #2304Hedgehog builds robotic mushroom farms. Our robots eliminate labor and our AI optimizes grow conditions to increase yield. We’ll soon grow mushrooms and fungi for <1/3rd the cost of leading growers. Fungi may address our food system’s biggest problems: they transform agricultural waste into protein-rich foods with near-zero environmental impact. Hedgehog’s technology is unleashing fungi as our next major food source.
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Bear Flag Robotics
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shared extracted concept terms: grower; shared product terms: robotic, farm, grower, optimize; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Fountain9
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shared extracted concept terms: food; shared product terms: food, problem, environmental, cost; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Red Barn Robotics
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shared product terms: farm, robot, eliminate, labor; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Eqtrade
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shared extracted concept terms: food, system; shared product terms: food, system, transform; same category: AI infrastructure
Ten Lives
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shared product terms: optimize, protein, cost, environmental; shared affiliation: Y Combinator
Reviway
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shared product terms: problem, cost, environmental, impact; same category: AI infrastructure