Hedgehog
Building robotic mushroom farms
What they do
Mushroom cultivation is labor-intensive and costly, limiting scalable production of low-impact protein from fungi.
Robotic mushroom farms with AI-controlled grow optimization to automate labor and increase yields at lower cost.
Mushroom and fungi growers and agricultural food producers seeking automated, lower-cost production.
Founders
Jamie is a co-founder of Hedgehog, building robotic mushroom farms. He previously founded Indigo Carbon, the largest agriculture carbon credit platform. He joined Indigo Agriculture pre-revenue and helped scale sales to >$250m as GM of two new business units. Before Indigo, he worked in software and food at McKinsey & Co. In June 2022, Jamie graduated from Stanford's MBA.
Wilson Ruotolo is a co-founder of Hedgehog, where he designs robotics for mushroom production. He received his PhD from Stanford, studying the design of robotic hands. He collaborated with NASA on end-effectors for martian exploration and his prototypes have been used to retrieve artifacts off the Mediterranean seafloor. He has first author publications in multiple journals, including Science Robotics, and his work is featured in TechCrunch, Popular Science, and Spotify’s Soft Robotics podcast.
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Company timeline
- Founded2022
- YC batchSummer 2022
- StatusActive
- Team size18 people
- LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
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