About Bright Yeti

Bright Yeti is helping corn and soybean farmers grow bigger crops with fewer chemicals. Our product harnesses space and medical technology to boost crop health and outperforms the status quo by as much as 90%. Our customers are farmers, and they buy our product on a subscription model.

The Bright Yeti team has backgrounds from NASA, Abbott Medical, and Lockheed Martin and we are leading the next revolution in agriculture by bringing Electrophysiology to the farm. With plant electrophysiology, our engineers and biochemists are fundamentally changing how people grow food on earth and beyond. This is the future of farming and we're just getting started.

Team

Jacob Cordova

Founder

Problem statement

Farmers waste billions of dollars on fertilizers and chemicals every year. And when crops struggle to grow in the field, farmers repeat this waste by replanting. Fertilizers are dangerous, damage our climate, and ruin our water resources. Expensive chemicals hurt ROI for farmers and make them struggle harder every year to grow our food. Farmers need deep technology solutions, not just incremental improvements.

Traction information

- Big success with customer trial: reduced fertilizer replanting waste by 90%
- Bright Yeti featured in Successful Farming Magazine: www.brightyeti.com/in-the-news
- Revenue model implemented with recurring subscriptions
- Product launched, performs 5x faster than beta
- Independent testing complete: results 3x better than expected

Milestones

April 2024

Version 2.0 Launched, Bright Yeti is in 5 states

Systems are now 50% lighter and half the size of Version 1.0. Shipping and processing for new customers is 2x as fast and easier to deploy. Bright Yeti is now operating with farmers in 5 states across the Midwest.

November 2023

Big Success with Customer Trial

Working with one of the top farmers in the USA, a 4th generation grower with experience at DuPont Pioneer, Bright Yeti treated seed performed 300% better than his premium products alone. We boosted yield and reduced fertilizer waste, two critical areas that drive farmer’s profitability.

July 2023

"A Yield Game Changer" - Successful Farming Magazine

https://www.brightyeti.com/in-the-news

March 2023

Implemented Subscription Revenue Model

Bright Yeti is now deploying on a recurring, treatment subscription basis. The model is scalable and low cost and customers have signed up for multi-year agreements.

March 2022

Version 1.0 Launched - 5x faster than Beta

Product version 1.0 is complete and farmers love it. We made engineering refinements to simplify the manufacture, packaging, and deployment. The system is now 95% autonomous, loading seed is 5x faster, and customer training only takes 15 minutes.

November 2021

Independent Testing Complete

Our Contract Research Organization (CRO) results are in: we aimed for a 5 bushel per acre impact and crushed our goal: 15.5!

April 2021

Launched Beta

After successful lab tests we’re ready for testing in the field. The team moved to Iowa to work onsite at a farm and embed ourselves into their operations. We spent weeks with the farmers to experience their pain points, and test how our technology can fit into their operations.

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