Company Profile

Four Growers Inc
Profile last edited on: 9/8/2021      CAGE: 7Y2U8      UEI: JNCHJ5JZMVA1

Business Identifier: Industrial automation platform develops harvesting robots for greenhouses
Year Founded
2017
First Award
2018
Latest Award
2018
Program Status
Inactive
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Location Information

529 Braddock Avenue
Turtle Creek, PA 15145
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   info@fourgrowers.co
   fourgrowers.co/
Location: Single
Congr. District: 18
County: Allegheny

Public Profile

A current and developing problem faced in the food supply industry is the limited availability of people actually to harvest food crops - in short, as an industry, farms are experiencing serious labor shortages. This translates into a limited number of available options for the grower: increased cost to hire the requisite personnel, leaving crops (eg tomatoes) in the field and rotting on the vine, or completely shutting down their operations. Organized arround next-generation farming technologies, Four Growers Inc has first addressed the challenge of developing harvesting robots for greenhouses - starting with the harvesting of tomatoes ... solving this problem by creating a solution that provides both automated harvesting and plant analytics. reducing the production costs of greenhouse growers through robotics technology. The firm's positioned to become the automated solutions provider for greenhouse crop management. Working closely with various greenhouse growers to develop a tomato harvesting robot, the firm's technology relies on two layers of protection (1) patents filed protecting the physical design of the robot and (2) a proprietary algorithm that controls the robot's decision making. The developed solution is not only capable of harvesting the tomatoes, but also of performing a quality check and packaging.

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
5-9
Revenue Range
.5M-1M
VC funded?
Yes
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
1-4

Awards Distribution by Agency

Key People / Management

  Brandon Contino -- Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

  Cameron Beichner -- Chief of Staff

  Frank F Campagna -- Director of Mechanical

  Dan Chi -- Co-Founder & CTO

  Jim Darr Sr -- Mechanical Engineer

  Jayanth Jayanth -- Robotics Engineer

  Mira Murali -- Computer Vision Engineer

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