Charlie is saving a seat for Orchard's first designer.

The problem

Big farms make key decisions from hand samples covering about 0.01% of the crop.

Orchard makes Tractor-mounted AI cameras and farm software that scan every plant.

The founder

• CWCharlie Wu · Founder and CEO

  • Studied computer science at Cornell, where he met fruit professors
  • Dropped out to build Orchard and became a Thiel Fellow
  • His grandparents were apple farmers in China

So far

Used commercially on tens of thousands of acres of apples, grapes, cherries, nuts and citrus.

$22M Series A led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital, September 2025; $25M+ raised in total.

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