At deepgreen we develop state-of-the-art computer vision applications by harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence. Our image recognition system can already detect the gender of cannabis plants, and in the near future will be able to diagnose plant diseases, pests, nutrient deficiencies and molds, as well as determine the best time to harvest. This will help growers to produce more yield of better quality. We aim to provide solutions for individual homegrowers, growbox makers and cannabis growing operations. Since both of us come from countries where cannabis is not yet legalize, the US with its cannabis hotspots were the most viable option. Hence we took the leap of faith. The reason why we entered the world of cannabis startups is that we have a greater goal in mind: to change how plants and crops are grown all over the world. The cannabis industry is still kind of a niche, and in its infancy, and we'll use our launch as a springboard for developing technology that has the potential to impact how a variety of plants and crops are cultivated, while having an actual impact on the cannabis movement.

 

I (Max Unfried) hold a Masters Degree in Complex Adaptive Systems in which I focused on Computer Vision and artificial Intelligence. I worked as a Guest Researcher at the National Chiao Tong University in Taiwan on a facial expression recognition system; after graduation from university, I started working as a Data Scientist in a FinTech startup in Vietnam, where I worked with Natural Language processing, teaching machines to understand text from social media. Maxime obtained a Master's Degree in Computer Science and Systems Security in France. After 4 years developing cryptographic software, he was sent to build and manage the Software branch of his company in South Korea, working with major mobile manufacturers. He then moved to Vietnam and worked for companies such as Criteo, a multi billion dollar leader in the advertisement industry; and Ansarada, ranked 5th best place to work in Australia; and most recently Sentifi, a Fintech company leveraging Artificial Intelligence to help make better investment decisions. This wide experience gave him both a very strong technological knowledge as well as solid foundations in building great team environments.

 

We found out about Canopy through Google. We were just aiming to join a cannabis-specific accelerator program, and Canopy - with its strong ties to the Arcview Group and its proven track record of successful cannabis startups - was our first choice. The start of the program also fitted nicely into our timeline, so it was a no-brainer for us to accept the offer. As both of us are engineers and scientists by trade we hope to get a comprehensive understanding of the business side of a startup as well as fundraising.

Coming from a technology background we see many changes coming from this side. Technology, especially AI, is disrupting pretty much every industry on the planet, and will also leave its footprint on the cannabis industry - especially technology that helps to automate tedious processes.