Founded in 2010, Vancouver-based Semios offers a precision farming platform that provides real-time crop data and pest management tools for growers of tree fruit, nut and vine crops. Leveraging a proprietary, in-orchard IoT wireless network, machine learning, and big data analytics, Semios helps farmers manage insect pests, disease, frost and irrigation. The Semios analytics engine draws on diverse sources of data and information including a robust, wireless network of in-canopy IoT sensors on each customer farm measuring climate, soil moisture, insect and disease activity.
Since 2018, Semios has been named to the Global Cleantech 100 an annual list of the 100 most innovative cleantech companies globally, and the Thrive Top 50, list of the 50 leading global AgTech companies. www.semios.com.
Semios was recently selected as one of the nine startups to join the inaugural Google for Startups Accelerator Canada cohort. With this exciting opportunity to collaborate with Google, Semios will be augmenting the use of machine learning and AI in its all-in-one crop management platform to help growers run their operations more effectively and efficiently.
Semios has been recognized by BC Business as one of BC's top three most innovative companies and was the only agriculture focused tech company to win Verizon's Powerful Answers competition in 2014.
Semios was also recently awarded ‘Overall Sensor Solution of the Year’ in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) awards category at the AgTech Breakthrough Awards.
We service some of the largest agriculture cooperative and growers in the world; Our work changes how growers think about farming. Currently our crop management platform can be found on some of the most important farms in California, Washington, Arizona, and Italy with new international market expansion underway.