# Georg Caspary

> Georg Caspary is the founder and CEO of HarvestAi, a Potsdam-based deeptech company that uses machine learning and computer vision to forecast harvest dates and yields in commercial greenhouses growing tomatoes, peppers and strawberries. A former World Bank economist and fundraising lead with degrees from Oxford, the LSE, Sciences-Po Paris and MIT, he spent two decades on environmental and agricultural finance across more than 20 countries before turning his attention to the unglamorous but high-stakes problem of knowing exactly how many tomatoes a greenhouse will produce, and when. HarvestAi has raised over $3 million, won first prize in Food/Agritech at Slush, and runs pilots in Germany, the Netherlands and Canada.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at HarvestAi
- **Organizations:** HarvestAi (Harvest AI GmbH), Scaletech GmbH, The World Bank, IFC, OECD, Georgetown University
- **Nationality:** German
- **Education:** Economics and Philosophy (National Merit Scholar), University of Oxford, London School of Economics (LSE), PhD, Infrastructure and Environmental Economics, Sciences-Po Paris, MBA, Management / Clean Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Founded HarvestAi, a deeptech agritech company applying AI to greenhouse crop forecasting, Raised over $3 million for HarvestAi, plus EUR 1.58M Interreg VI Germany-Netherlands co-financing, Won first prize in Food/Agritech at Slush, Europe's leading tech event

## Career timeline

- **2000s-2010s** — Worked at OECD in environmental regulatory advisory roles
- **~2007-2019** — Spent roughly 12 years at the World Bank as economist, team lead and fundraising lead (Environment), overseeing around $90M in fundraising
- **2019** — Founded Scaletech GmbH in Potsdam, focused on sustainable market launches for clean technologies
- **2020** — Founded HarvestAi to apply machine learning and computer vision to greenhouse yield prediction
- **2023** — HarvestAi ran a seed crowdinvesting round via Companisto; partnered with Canobi AgTech and Gemueseproduktion Zorbau
- **2024** — HarvestAi continued scaling pilots across Germany, the Netherlands and Canada
- **2025** — HarvestAi presented at MIT STEX Demo Day

## Achievements

- Founded HarvestAi, a deeptech agritech company applying AI to greenhouse crop forecasting
- Raised over $3 million for HarvestAi, plus EUR 1.58M Interreg VI Germany-Netherlands co-financing
- Won first prize in Food/Agritech at Slush, Europe's leading tech event
- Named to Germany's '40 under 40' list
- Oversaw approximately $90M in fundraising at the World Bank and received World Bank awards for project quality
- Holds patents in energy management and indoor-farm emissions tracking
- Published peer-reviewed articles on energy economics and renewable energy

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — HarvestAi presented at the MIT STEX Demo Day, showcasing its crop growth and yield prediction technology.
- **2024-02** — HarvestAi's latest funding activity recorded around a seed stage, with total funding near $3M.

## Links

- Website: https://harvest-ai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georg-caspary/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Harvest-Ai

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