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About
Agrology's mission is to give farmers the technology and data they need to thrive. The company’s founders, Adam Koeppel and Tyler Locke, had a shared passion for building clean technology that helps humanity and helps the planet.
After spending almost a decade building agriculture sensors in his basement, Adam showed Tyler his prototypes for a low-cost predictive agriculture system based on machine learning. A long-time friend and colleague Tyler was impressed, but knew he could make it even better. Together they decided to apply for a highly-selective National Science Foundation SBIR Award. They assumed it would take a few tries, and if they ever made it, they’d leave their jobs to found Agrology. To their great surprise they won the grant on the first try and in 2019 Adam and Tyler left their corporate day jobs. They soon hired Emma Sagan and began to build Agrology.
Today, Agrology is a Public Benefit Corporation committed to protecting the economic viability of our farmers and the sustainability of our planet. The Agrology executive team remains committed to building technology and a business that improves our world and helps keep the farming community viable and sustainable.
The Agrology Executive Team
Adam Koeppel, CEO
Adam’s motivation is growing enough food to feed the future world. He focuses on discovering customer problems, developing products to solve them, and designing business models to get products in customers’ hands. While growing up in California, Adam enjoyed working in his godparents’ apple orchard and visiting many Central Valley farms during family road trips. He also experienced many droughts. This led to his interest in agricultural optimization. Adam has experience at multiple early stage companies, including unicorn start-up MapBox, as well as corporate research labs. Adam has 48 granted patents and 69 applications pending.
Tyler Locke, CTO
Tyler’s interest in embedded systems and mission driven technological challenges led him to co-found Agrology. Tyler has comprehensive experience of over 14 years as a hardware engineering professional, leading product R&D and manufacturing for IoT and medical device systems. Tyler has strong knowledge in all phases of product development, as well as experience developing a range of embedded devices such as infusion insulin pumps, energy monitoring systems, lighting control systems, embedded payment devices, and wireless IP security cameras. As a hands-on team leader, Tyler has a proven track of building and managing strategic industry partnerships, leading cross-functional engineering teams, providing key technical contributions to innovation-driven product designs, and spearheading the implementation of both foreign and domestic supply chains and manufacturing services. Tyler currently holds 60 approved US patents.
Emma Sagan, COO
Emma has built shape-changing robots for DARPA, launched financial apps and products used by millions and developed data infrastructure tools to get people to vote in the last election. She created her own engineering major at Stanford University — a hybrid of Mechanical and Energy Engineering with a focus on Sustainable Manufacturing, which allows her to understand the complexity and potential impact for Agrology’s technology. She has a track record of bridging the gap between game-changing technology and user experience to bring products people love to market. As a start-up veteran, she brings a balanced approach to operational excellence, product and adaptability.
About Agrology
Agrology develops predictive agriculture technologies to help growers maximize profits with minimal input costs and environmental impact. Founded in 2019, Agrology’s predictive agriculture platform combines proprietary, affordable sensor arrays with machine learning to provide actionable insights and trends via a mobile application. Agrology is a Public Benefit Corporation committed to focusing on protecting the economic viability of our farmers and the sustainability of our planet. The company’s strategic partners include The National Science Foundation, UC Davis College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, and Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Agrology has offices in Alexandria, Virginia, and Sonoma, California, and can be found online at Agrology.ag.
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Media Contact:
Holly Nuss, PR // Tel: 415.845.1095 // Email: holly@agrology.ag