AI-enabled food security. VP Autonomous Control @sourceagri. Founder @optimalag (acquired).

Joined November 2011
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Flow has raised a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation, co-led by Antonio Gracias (Valor) and Gavin Baker (Atreides) with Sequoia Capital, Roelof Botha (SpaceX, Block), and more. When I became a mechanical engineer, I wanted to invent. In reality, 90% of the day to day execution work (CAD, excel, sim) was digital manual labour. That’s about to flip. The engineer’s role will change more profoundly than at any point since the invention of CAD, with humans focusing on invention, architecture, tradeoffs and judgement calls, and agents taking the grunt work. Anduril, Joby, Stoke Space, Rivian & many more - Flow is now the default platform for requirements and verification for frontier hardware teams. But it’s not just next-gen anymore. Industry giants including General Motors PPU and Volkswagen & Rivian’s joint venture (RV Tech) are reshaping their core development practices with Flow’s AI. The revolution is just starting. Models are getting better quickly at CAD, analysis, simulation, and tool use. In the next year, AI will move from integrating the work to doing the work. One day, this shift won't just enable us to iterate faster, it will enable us to design a class of products that we could not have dreamt of before. We’re hiring.
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Tariffs might be the thing that finally makes high tech greenhouses work in America. (Dave’s been working on how to run them with AI as good Holland’s best)
Most people don’t understand how devastating tariffs will be on the availability of fresh produce in America: 🧵
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Our H1'23 highlights are out. 👉 mailchi.mp/backed/h12023 👈Feat. new fund, deals, hires, events & digs. Incl. @InvTechInc, @LopayOfficial, @OchreBio, @labgeni_us, @voltz_xyz, @UltimateApp, @Immutable, @zaptic, @OptimalAg & more. Helmets & seatbelts people - we're flying.
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Missed the last ZERO? 👉 The keynote featuring David Hunter from @OptimalAg is online now! Learn more about how Optimal Agriculture plans on deploying AI-operated greenhouses outside every city on earth. youtube.com/watch?v=IE70jLBG…
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David Hunter from @OptimalAg at yesterday's ZERO, telling us about their mission to deploy fully autonomous greenhouses outside every city
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Replying to @_davehunter
@_davehunter from @OptimalAg will be joining us for ZERO! @OptimalAg's farms will provide billions of people with fruit and vegetables in a way which is resilient to extreme weather conditions 📷 Register now at lnkd.in/e-2qe4UH to secure your spot and find out more!
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Had such a special and energising few days with the @BackedVC founders in Portugal. It gave me a timely reminder of how lucky I am to work with such kind, inspiring and brilliant people. Kudos to @smaciusz and @VinayChaudhri for their incredible work to make it happen
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Did you know that agriculture accounts for over 70% of the world's water consumption? But climate change and increasing populations are putting severe pressure on water supplies. We are seeing crops around the world failing, or not being planted at all, due to a lack of water.
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Our mission at Optimal Agriculture: youtu.be/LDJ_QdUaap4
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Very good post on Barclays's dark pool here. tabbforum.com/opinions/why-b…
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more great analysis on the @AGSchneiderman dark pool case v @BarclaysOnline via @davehunteruk dave-hunter.com/why-barclays…
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