FarmWise was founded in summer 2016 by Sebastien Boyer and Thomas Palomares, long-time friends and engineers passionate about sustainability challenges. They started to imagine how the technology they used while working in MIT and Stanford Computer Science laboratories could be used to make farming drastically more efficient. Thanks to the trust and collaborative effort of two visionary growers in California, their idea of a machine that could kill weeds without using chemicals went from a proof-of-concept to a commercialized product.