Mission
The Trupples thesis: a farm should behave like a distributed system — sensing early, adapting continuously, and coordinating machines, climate, and biology without wasteful overcorrection. We build the infrastructure that makes that possible today.
Every machine and automation loop is evaluated against the plant. If a feature optimizes for machine efficiency at the cost of crop quality, it doesn't ship.
We show growers what's actually happening — including when our system underperforms. We don't filter dashboards to look better than reality.
Everything we ship is tested in production greenhouses, open fields, and real weather — not controlled environments with perfect sensor conditions.
By the numbers
Leadership
The team that built Trupples from a 6-hectare berry tunnel visit into a 23-site autonomous agritech company.
Former crop scientist at Wageningen UR. 8 years in precision agronomy and protected-crop systems before co-founding Trupples in 2021 after observing a 22% yield loss from poor irrigation timing.
10 years building autonomous logistics and robotics systems in warehouse environments. Designed the core Route Mesh architecture and the first Verdant One drivetrain prototype.
Previously VP Product at a European precision irrigation software company. Joined Trupples in 2023 to lead Orbit OS product direction. Drove the v3 and v4 platform releases.
Founded Apex Protected Crops in Ghana before joining Trupples — first as a deployment customer, then as the head of all site operations and customer success globally.
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Our story
Mara and Tomás met at a precision agriculture conference in Wageningen. After visiting a 6-hectare berry tunnel that lost 22% of its yield to poor irrigation timing and late disease detection, they decided to build the system that should have caught it.
The first Verdant One units were assembled in Utrecht and deployed to berry growers in the Netherlands and Belgium. First season: 31% reduction in pesticide use, 12% yield improvement in treated zones. A €4.2M seed round followed.
After 18 months on-site, the team realised the hardware wasn't the bottleneck — a unified operating layer was missing. Orbit OS v1 launched and 11 sites migrated within six months.
Deployments expanded to Norway, Ghana, Morocco, Japan, and Canada. Orbit OS v4 shipped with digital twin simulation and AI predictive harvest windows. 23 sites. 8 countries. The AX-9 is in final testing for 2027.
Whether you're a grower, investor, researcher, or potential partner — we'd like to talk.
