# Brendan Dowdle

> Brendan Dowdle is the Chief Business Officer of Bonsai Robotics, a Silicon Valley company building vision-based autonomy software for agriculture. He arrived there in 2025 when Bonsai acquired farm-ng, the modular farm-robot maker he ran as CEO. Dowdle grew up in an agricultural family across Southeast Asia, watched his agronomist father work the ground, and spent a decade building computer-vision and robotics companies before turning that toolkit on farming. He co-founded Arraiy (acquired by Matterport, where he later helped scale the services business through IPO), holds an MBA from Stanford, and now argues that the future of farming will be driven by intelligence, not iron.

- **Role:** Chief Business Officer at Bonsai Robotics
- **Organizations:** Bonsai Robotics, farm-ng, Matterport, Arraiy
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, B.A., Undergraduate (B.A.)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Arraiy, a computer-vision VFX startup later acquired by Matterport, Helped scale Matterport's services business through its public-market IPO, As CEO, grew farm-ng to roughly 230 Amiga robots sold and targeted 3x sales growth in 2025 while pursuing profitable, non-VC-dependent growth

## Career timeline

- **circa 2016** — Co-founded Arraiy as COO, automating high-end video and visual-effects production
- **2019** — Arraiy acquired by Matterport; Dowdle joins Matterport
- **2019-2022** — Led services business at Matterport, driving enterprise adoption of digital-twin technology through and beyond its IPO
- **circa 2023** — Became CEO of farm-ng, maker of modular electric Amiga farm robots
- **2025** — farm-ng acquired by Bonsai Robotics; Dowdle becomes Chief Business Officer of the combined company

## Achievements

- Co-founded Arraiy, a computer-vision VFX startup later acquired by Matterport
- Helped scale Matterport's services business through its public-market IPO
- As CEO, grew farm-ng to roughly 230 Amiga robots sold and targeted 3x sales growth in 2025 while pursuing profitable, non-VC-dependent growth
- Engineered farm-ng's acquisition by Bonsai Robotics, uniting hardware and vision-based autonomy software under one roof
- Now leads commercial strategy for one of agtech's most-watched autonomy companies

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — farm-ng acquired by Bonsai Robotics; Dowdle named Chief Business Officer of the combined company
- **2025-10** — Combined company unveiled the Amiga Flex platform at FIRA USA 2025 as part of the merged roadmap

## Links

- Website: https://bonsairobotics.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanbdowdle
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/bonsai_robotics

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