VISUAL FARMS
VISUAL FARMS offers farmers an enterprise-scaled, global intelligence and Real-Time learning platform to support better seeds, healthier soils and crops.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded July 2015
- Employees 1
- Incorporation Type LLC
- Website http://visualfarms.com
Company Summary
VISUAL FARMS offers farmers an enterprise-scalable, real-time global intelligence and learning platform. Four new proven AI tools increase crop yields up to 50%, predict growth stages/disease potentials within 2 days and yields within 2.5% of actual. We know every US farm by owner/operator, field & crop. Independent decision-making, competitive positioning + accelerated adoption of Regenerative Agriculture can further improve profitability.
Team
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Founder
Co-inventor, VISUAL FARMS, (US Pat). M&A: Deere and Company. Built/sold nat’l GIS: state/use/potential, 1.6B ac US private lands. VP Integrated systems, Deere & Co. Co-founder Congressionally-funded 501c3/USDA to support rural decision makers. Built 1st GIS framework/$5M National Resources Inventory, NRCS/USDA. Co-built 1st nat’l pesticide potentials/Groundwater, NRCS/USDA . Technology Transfer, local state and federal levels.
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Ron OlsonFounder, Chief Agronomist
Agri-business consultant. Senior Agronomist, R&D Manager, Cargill Crop Nutrition. Led development of MicroEssentials suite of fertilizers. Educator/owner, earliest companies to assist farmers with GPS-based 2.5 acre grid soil sampling, VRT seeding and fertilizer applications, and yield mapping. B.S. degree,Agronomy and Education, University of Illinois. M.S., Environmental Science, Governors State U. IL.
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CTO of AI backend agronomic systems
PhD U Illinois—Computer Science/A.I. Built/maintains nation’s largest databases, 1)Crop performance- hybrids/yields corn, soybeans & wheat. 2) real-time solar radiation ag climate. PI/mgr, ag products/ tech-ann sales > $2 B. Designed/built prototype wireless network links ag/construction machinery worldwide. Pioneer, artificial intelligence modeling-US financial markets, & $100M stock fund. A.I. forecast consumer products, (Deere & Co).
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Cecil SamuelCEO, Novacis Digital. IIT, Madras, Chennai India and Atlanta Georgia
CTO, VISUAL FARMS' RT ML Reinforcement ML platform. CEO, HealthCare Real-Time, Reinforcement Machine Learning Platform, currently commercially operational in four US states for Healthcare applications. Common middle-layer functions adaptable for agriculture applications. Saves VISUAL FARMS, $10-20M and time to build from scratch.
Advisors
Previous Investors
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C. Kim Drackett,UnconfirmedMs. Betty LuceUnconfirmed
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Ron OlsonUnconfirmedKeith DevoeUnconfirmed
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