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Companies demonstrate John Deere’s commitment to customers’ future needs

Deere & Company announced the names of six companies chosen for its 2024 Startup Collaborator program. The John Deere Startup Collaborator program was launched in 2019 to enhance and deepen the company’s interaction with startup companies whose technology could add value for ag and construction customers.

“The startup program is mutually beneficial for John Deere and the startup companies that participate,” said Dennis Muszalski, VP, Module & Electrification Systems Engineering. “The program is based on finding benefits for our customers. The goal is to learn together and explore new ways to help customers unlock more value in ways they never thought possible.”

The companies participating in the 2024 Startup Collaborator include:

Constellr – a company measuring land surface temperature and water from its satellites at unprecedented accuracy levels to enable insights for a more sustainable future.

Geminos – an artificial intelligence company empowering businesses to understand and leverage causality for enhanced decision-making.

SB Quantum – a quantum sensing company focused on navigation based on a novel quantum magnetometer.

Fermata Energy – a leader in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) bidirectional charging platform technology.

goFlux – a Brazil based logistics company focused on digital solutions to connect the ecosystem for freight transactions.

Cloudscape Labs – a production management software company focused on providing job site visibility across the construction team to help meet production, cost, and safety targets.

“The cohort this year represents a diverse group of solutions that are applicable across a range of challenges and opportunities that our customers face,” said Cody Sorge, Business Development Manager for the John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group. “We look forward to working side by side with these companies to learn together regarding their solutions and how they can apply to John Deere customers in Agriculture and Construction.”

Companies demonstrate John Deere's commitment to customers'

Agrotech, Company News, Start ups

 This year’s group shows the importance of connecting with the startup community across a broad range of applications and technologies

Deere & Company has released the names of eight companies chosen for its 2023 Startup Collaborator program. The Startup Collaborator was launched in 2019 and helps John Deere enhance precision technology in its agriculture and construction equipment.

“This year’s group shows the importance of connecting with the startup community across a broad range of applications and technologies,” said Julian Sanchez, director of emerging technology at John Deere. These connections help John Deere better understand opportunities to advance precision technology in agriculture and construction.”

The Startup Collaborator, now in its fifth year and includes notable alumni such as Bear Flag Robotics, and Hello Tractor. In 2021, Bear Flag Robotics was acquired by John Deere to support the company’s autonomous tractor solutions. In 2022, John Deere also invested in Hello Tractor, a company that connects tractor owners with smallholder farmers through a farm-equipment sharing app.

The eight companies participating in the 2023 Startup Collaborator include:

Albedo, a startup company developing low-flying satellites that will collect visible and thermal imagery at ultra-high resolution.

ANELLO Photonics, a company that is disrupting the navigation industry with their Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope, a low-noise and low-drift optical gyroscope smart sensor for autonomous applications.

GrAI Matter Labs is in the business of Life-Ready AI – artificial intelligence that feels alive, delivering brain-inspired chips that behave like humans do and makes devices assisting humans act, and react, in real time.

Impossible Sensing, an aerospace company developing and applying space technology to the agriculture industry to help the world become carbon neutral.

IntelliCulture, a company providing farm equipment management software that helps drive sustainable farming practices through actionable insights, efficiency improvements and risk mitigation.

Precision AI, a startup that’s creating the world’s first artificial intelligence-powered agricultural drones for plant-level herbicide applications at broad-acre scale.

RodRadar, a company transforming excavation. Its Live Dig Radar™ technology provides real-time, on-site, automatic alerts to prevent damage to underground utility infrastructure during excavation.

Vega is the window that certifies agribusiness sustainability to the world. Supporting sustainable production, Vega impacts the entire agri-food chain through traceability, risk analysis and monitoring of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices.

“The Startup Collaborator is an exciting way for big ideas to grow into something larger,” said Michele Kaiser, business development manager for the John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group.

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According to the report, the fastest-growing market is North America and the largest market is Asia Pacific

The global agriculture equipment market size was estimated at $112.84 billion in 2021. The agriculture equipment includes various mechanised equipment such as tractors, harvesters, plant protection equipment, and irrigation equipment that helps in agricultural activities. This modern and technologically advanced equipment helps in producing higher yields with fewer efforts. Further, it saves time by boosting the activities, reduces the use of labour, and saves labour cost.

Agriculture is the primary source of food across the globe. And with the rapid increase in the global population, the demand for food has increased rapidly, creating pressure on the food supply chain. Therefore, the demand for modern agriculture equipment has increased in order to obtain higher yields in less time, thereby propelling the growth of the global agriculture equipment market.

The growth rate from 2021 to 2030 has been projected at a CAGR of 4.6 per cent. According to the report, the fastest-growing market is North America and the largest market is Asia Pacific. The companies covered are CNH Industrial NV, EXEL Industries, Mahindra and Mahindra, Deere & Company, Kubota Corporation, Tractor and Farm Equipment, AGCO Corporation, SDF S.p.a., Bucher Industries AG, CLAAS, ISEKI & Co.

According to the report, the fastest-growing market