About Aerobotics

Address

16 Napier Street, De Waterkant

Company Size

51-200
Summary

Why Aerobotics

Farming is a risky business with pests and disease often reducing a farmer’s yields. Over the past few years, we have built solutions that enable drones to do the work in minutes that used to take farmers hours.

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Our vision: To provide intelligent tools to feed the world

Our mission: We are a data analytics company using aerial imagery and machine learning algorithms to optimise crop performance for farmers around the world. We make it possible for farmers to interact with this data through our mobile and web applications

History: Since founded in 2014 by James Paterson (CEO) and Benji Meltzer (CTO) we have grown to a 85+ people team

Our impact to date: We have helped farmers manage over 65 million trees with clients in 18 countries, including Africa, USA, Spain, and Australia.

Where we are based: Right now we have 2 main offices in Cape Town and Los Angeles, in addition to this we have Business Development Managers and Sales people on the ground across the world - working remotely and mostly spending their days with our farmers.

What we do

We are a data analytics company that uses aerial imagery and machine learning algorithms to optimise crop performance for farmers around the world. Farmers are able to interact with this data through our mobile and web apps.

How we work

Our teams are split into what we call “squads”, each with a focus on a particular area of the business. Squads are cross-functional, typically consisting of frontend (web/mobile) and backend engineers, data scientists and data engineers. We are agile and use CI/CD to often deploy into production multiple times per day.

The two main items we try to help farmers with are early problem detection and yield management.

What it’s like to work at Aerobotics

We are a fun loving output-driven team who believes in and values:

  • Delivery > Activity
  • Ideas > Hierarchy
  • Transparency > Ambiguity
  • Meaningful Interactions > Individualism

Working at Aerobotics you will feel the impact you make on our internal and external clients.

Perks
Flexi Hours
Subsidised Lunch from Registered Nutritionists
Coffee Runs
Share Options
Tech Stack

Application and Data

Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
AngularJS
Ionic
PostgreSQL
Javascript
Python
Java
React
HTML5
Django
nginx
TypeScript
Angular

DevOps

Jenkins
Git
Docker
Android Studio
npm
Xcode
Bitbucket
Kubernetes

Utilities

Google Analytics
Mixpanel

Business Tools

Google Apps
Slack
Trello
JIRA
The team in the early stages!
Aerohawk drone
Our Scout drone
Brainstorming
Farmers First
End of Month Celebrations!
Quiz Nights
Casually working hard....
Data Cleaning
Coffee Walks
Birthday Celebrations