Bloom Automation, Inc.
Machine learning system with advanced optics for automated cannabis flower evaluation and processing
- Sector
- Agritech
- Headquarters
- MEDFORD, MA
- Founded
- 2016
- Latest Form D
- $30K, Feb 2017
- Total capital
- $30K
- Federal grants
- None on recordNo awards found in SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF or DoD records.
- Private capital raised
- $30K
- 1 Form D · last Feb 2017
- 116 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- 1
- 2 pending · first 2020
- Rank in peer group#17 of 87
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$30K
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Standing among 87 peers
Line = medianAgritech · System
- Granted patents#17 · top 20%
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Founders and team
From SEC Form D filings- Anderew Jay GowaDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Jon Thomas GowaExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
USPTO · 1 granted of 3- PendingAutomated Plant TrimmerUSPTOApplication 15930003
- GrantedAutomated Plant TrimmerUSPTOUS 10,687,476
- PendingAutomated Plant TrimmerUSPTOApplication PCTUS2018050199
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Regulatory activity · Agritech
- Supplemental Disaster Assistance Programs, Marketing Assistance Loans, and Sugar ProvisionsCommodity Credit Corporation
- Revisions to the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Loan ProgramRural Business-Cooperative Service
- Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP)Commodity Credit Corporation
- Technical Guidelines for the Production of Regenerative Agricultural Biofuel FeedstocksEnergy and Environmental Policy Office
- Rescinding Portions of U.S. Department of Agriculture Title VI Regulations To Conform More Closely With the Department of Justice's Regulations To Implement Executive Order 14281
- Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers (ASCF) Program; Approval of Information Collection RequestCommodity Credit Corporation
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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Data freshness
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