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Synphony

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synphony.ai

Strawberry picking robots combined with bed-level analytics, data pipeline integration, and agentic software services. Secondary revenue strategy: selling robot-foundation-model training data and evals to AI labs. Targets California's $3B strawberry market where labor is ~60% of costs. Founders: NVIDIA ML research and robotics/neuromorphic computing backgrounds.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, US
Founded2025
Corporate funding$500K
Team1-10
Deployments0
Open roles6
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Company overview

Identity and operating footprint

Company typeRobot maker
Market segmentCorporate
StageSeed
FoundersSean Wu (co-founder, ex-NVIDIA ML researcher; previously led AI products for IRS and Citibank), Lucas Amlicke (co-founder, robotics and neuromorphic computing research background)
Regions servedNorth America
Countries deployedNot listed
Service footprintHQ San Francisco Bay Area (offices also in San Carlos, Santa Clara, Salinas CA); deploying in California strawberry farms per YC P26 profile.
Last reviewed2026-07-05
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Robot models

Specifications remain vendor-claimed

Machineagriculture

Strawberry picking robot (prototype, model name not yet disclosed)

  • Field-deployable strawberry picking robot with integrated bed-level analytics; designed for California in-field strawberry harvesting; outdoor data collection capabilities for AI foundation-model training

    vendor-stated product description for in-field strawberry harvesting and data-collection robot

    Claim source
CA

Funding history

Publicly announced rounds

Investors on recordY Combinator
HR

Hiring signal

Public job board · 2026-07-13

Open roles6

Hiring is an operating signal, not deployment evidence. Roles are refreshed from the company’s public careers system.

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Company timeline

Milestones and announcements

2026-04-01Selected for Y Combinator P26 (Spring 2026) batch; reported deploying strawberry picking robots with California's largest strawberry producers per YC marketingY Combinator
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Source ledger

1 unique public sources

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Synphony: robots & software for farms: Y CombinatorY Combinator · retrieved 2026-07-05