Synphony: robots & software for farms

Synphony

robots & software for farms

Spring 2026

Active

Food Service Robots & Machines

SaaS

Robotics

Agriculture

https://www.synphony.co/

robots & software for farms

Strawberry farming is a $3B industry in California alone with 60% labor cost using 40-year old software. Synphony provides strawberry picking robots and software services including: bed-level analytics, data pipeline integration, and agentic solutions. Synphony's "side hustle" is selling data, evals, and viral demos to robot foundation labs while building capacity for general robot deployments. We've started with strawberry farming for great margins and outdoor data moat, but also received requests for robots in semi-conductors and autonomous space labs. Synphony's team has won over 15 hackathons together (taking home 4 Jensen-signed GPUs!). Sean did ML research at NVIDIA and led AI products used by IRS and Citibank. Lucas' research spanned robotics, IoT devices, and neuromorphic computing. Alex architected an app with 400k users.

Active Founders

Lucas Amlicke

Founder

Pursued research in neuromorphic computing, Human AI system optimization, and IoT cybersecurity during my undergrad at Santa Clara University for computer science and engineering. I always want to be on the cutting edge of technology so I can push the envelope of what is feasible. I like putting the latest tools to the test for improving my efficiency. Currently I'm focused on leveling up physical intelligence to make robots into co-workers.

Lucas Amlicke

Founder

Sean Wu

Founder

prev. NVIDIA AI & Stanford Bio Research visited 25 countries, wrestled for 7 years, saved 3 lives, and won 5 hackathons

Sean Wu

Founder

prev. NVIDIA AI & Stanford Bio Research visited 25 countries, wrestled for 7 years, saved 3 lives, and won 5 hackathons

Company Launches

Synphony - Automating Agriculture With Robots

See original launch post

We're building robots that pick strawberries.

California strawberries are a $3B industry. ~60% of that is labor cost — and that cost keeps climbing while the workforce shrinks. Growers are losing harvests they can't afford to pick. We’re working with California’s largest strawberry producers to solve this problem.

We send robots into the field to pick the fruit. Lower cost per pound, higher yield per acre, and software that finally replaces tools the industry has been running on for 40 years.

Robots just hit the crossover point with field labor. Strawberries are the wedge. Berries are $15B. Every other outdoor task — row crops, manufacturing lines, defense, anywhere robots have to actually show up and work — runs on the same deployment layer.

Synphony (YC W26). If you grow berries, invest in robotics, or want to build robots that do real work outdoors, let's talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DJM9p5Lnk4