FlowCellutions: Turning a PhD breakthrough into a field-tested energy hardware product
When Becca Segel joined AlphaLab, she was still finishing her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh. Her startup, FlowCellutions was a lean, two-person team with early customer interest but plenty of open questions about what it would take to move from research to a...
Hermes Vision Brings AI Precision to Weed Control
Cattle ranchers face a costly lose-lose dilemma when managing invasive vegetation. Broadcast spraying douses entire fields in hazardous chemicals to hit scattered weeds, overapplying toxic herbicides and destroying vital native forage. Although manual spot treatment...
Leaficient Sprouts Insights: Plant Vital Drive Smarter Greenhouse Decisions
Leaficient is an AI-powered agritech company bringing laboratory-grade insights to commercial greenhouses. Leaficient uses low-cost cameras, hyper-spectral imaging, and environmental sensors to track plant biometrics in real time—down to the leaf level. The result is...