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Blue River Technology

www.bluerivert.com

 
Blue River began as an idea hatched by two Stanford graduate students: Jorge, former head of precision agriculture at Trimble Navigation, and Lee, a PhD student and roboticist. While taking Steve Blank`s Lean LaunchPad course, Jorge and Lee had a wild ambition: to make farming more sustainable through robotics and computer vision. During the course, the team built and tested its first prototype in California`s ripe Central Valley - successfully demonstrating a computer that could recognize distinct plants. With seed funding from several professors, including Blank, and an NSF SBIR grant, Jorge and Lee took the leap and incorporated. ...
  • Number of Employees: 25-100
  • Annual Revenue: $0-1 Million

Executives

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Funding

Blue River Technology raised $17M on 12/16/2015

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