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Iftach Birger Is Teaching Farms to See the Work
Raised in a farming family and trained as a plant scientist, Fieldin’s co-founder spent a decade turning tractors, sprayers and field crews into readable operations. Now, as CEO, he is betting that useful farm AI begins with earning the grower’s trust.
Arthur Chen
Arthur Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Verdi, a Vancouver-based agtech company building affordable, wireless precision irrigation automation for specialty crop farmers. A first-generation Taiwanese-Canadian engineer, Chen studied Engineering Physics at UBC on a Schulich Leader Scholarship before launching Verdi from an academic capstone project in 2020. By 2025, Verdi's IoT platform operates on over 5,000 acres across North America, has saved more than 100 million liters of water, and raised $9.5 million in venture funding - making farm automation accessible to the 95% of growers who've never been able to afford it.