Fredericton’s Picketa Systems, which makes fertilizer analysis technology for the agriculture industry, has raised a $300,000 round of angel funding that gives the company about a year of runway.
Chief Executive Xavier Hébert-Couturier said in an interview that Picketa spent last summer gathering data from nine New Brunswick farmers, including its own CTO Dominic Levesque, to train its artificial intelligence system. Now, the company is rolling out what Hébert-Couturier described as an early adopter trial of its software for farmers in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
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