What Ubees does

Ubees is a regenerative agriculture company that operationalizes pollination as a measurable, technology-enabled input for global agricultural supply chains. Founded in 2017 and now headquartered in Paris, the company deploys IoT-equipped beehives instrumented with patented non-invasive sensors that continuously monitor colony health, temperature, and pollinator activity across more than 15 countries on five continents. The hardware feeds a real-time monitoring dashboard and a mobile companion app, both of which apply AI-driven analytics — including the proprietary Frames of Bees metric — to optimize hive placement, predict colony growth, detect stress or pesticide exposure, and quantify biodiversity impact. Ubees packages these capabilities into five service modules: yield optimization, farmer income uplift, biodiversity assessment, premium bee-derived product commercialization, and crop value upgrade through traceability.

The company's commercial model is two-sided. Large multinational food, beverage, and cosmetics brands — including Nespresso, Nestlé, Starbucks, and Genomma Lab — co-invest in pollination programs that are then deployed across their agricultural sourcing networks, generating both supply chain resilience and ESG-compliant biodiversity reporting. The same infrastructure is sold directly to commercial farms and agricultural cooperatives through managed pollination contracts and flexible hive technology leasing. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Ubees has raised approximately $18 million across three disclosed rounds, including an €8 million Series A in February 2026 co-led by European investors Starquest and Capagro, and maintains a workforce of 11–50 employees.

Name

Ubees

Legal name

Ubees France

Website

https://ubees.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ubees is a Paris-headquartered regenerative agriculture company that deploys patented IoT-connected beehives and AI-driven analytics to deliver managed pollination, biodiversity reporting, and supply chain traceability services to multinational food, beverage, and cosmetics brands and their farmer networks across 15+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Precision Pollination & Smart Beekeeping Technology

NAICS

Apiculture (11291), Apiculture (112910)

SIC

Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200), Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Commercial Pollination Services (Hive Rental) (AFAEAHAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Beekeeping Equipment Manufacturing & Supply (Hives, Frames, Tools, PPE) (AFAEAHAI), Bee Health Management & Treatments (Mite/Disease Control Products & Services) (AFAEAHAK), Honey Production & Extraction (AFAEAHAA), Beekeeping Training, Education & Advisory Services (AFAEAHAO)

Keywords

• Precision pollination services
• Connected beekeeping technology
• Agricultural IoT sensors
• Regenerative agriculture solutions
• Biodiversity impact reporting

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Pollination Services (Managed Programs): UBEES provides structured pollination programs deployed during crop flowering periods. Hives are placed across orchards and farms, with pollinator activity monitored in real time. This is the core revenue stream where Ubees installs and manages connected hives for clients and charges for the pollination service. Services include hive placement and density optimization, real-time tracking with heat maps, and customized pollination recommendations.
2. Hive Technology Leasing: Flexible leasing model for connected hive technology access. Farmers and brands can lease the sensor-equipped hives rather than purchase them outright, lowering the barrier to entry while maintaining access to monitoring and analytics capabilities.
3. Biodiversity Impact Assessment & ESG Reporting: Biodiversity monitoring services using bees as bioindicators, producing reports on plant diversity and ecosystem health. Provides KPI-compliant CSR reporting for brands' sustainability and ESG disclosures. Revenue generated through service contracts with brands seeking quantifiable environmental impact data.
4. Premium Bee-Related Products: Streamlined supply of bee-derived products (honey, beeswax, propolis, royal jelly) from connected hives to market for high-quality distribution. Includes guidance on premium honey commercialization through sustainable practices. Ubees earns margins on product sales as a supplement to pollination services.
5. Crop Value Upgrade & Traceability Services: Traceable technology from field to shelf for food products. Ubees helps brands implement regenerative farming practices that boost product value, with data and traceability infrastructure that commands higher market prices. Revenue tied to supply chain digitization and premium product certification.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Ubees deploys sensor-equipped connected hives on farms and orchards as part of managed pollination programs, then monitors colony health, pollination activity, and biodiversity in real time through its IoT platform and AI analytics (including the proprietary Frames of Bees metric). The company sells these integrated pollination programs to global food, beverage, and cosmetics brands and to farmers and cooperatives, delivering measurable yield improvements, biodiversity impact data for ESG reporting, and traceable regenerative agriculture outcomes.

Product overview

Ubees offers a modular platform centered on Connected Hives instrumented with patented non-invasive sensors, supported by the Beekeeping Companion App and a real-time Monitoring Dashboard. The platform organizes pollination as a measurable, financeable agricultural input delivered through five service modules: (1) Boost – Yield Optimization (connected hive installation, leasing, and pollination recommendations); (2) Increase – Farmer Income (revenue diversification and supply chain resilience); (3) Assess – Biodiversity Impact (bioindicator monitoring and CSR reporting); (4) Develop – Premium Bee Products (honey supply chain and traceability); and (5) Upgrade – Crop Value (traceable regenerative agriculture credentials). A prior companion tool, MyPollination App (2021), streamlined pollination operations before being succeeded by the Beekeeping Companion App (2022). Together these products translate hive health data into actionable agronomic decisions for farmers and sustainability metrics for brand customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MyPollination: Application introduced in 2021 to streamline pollination operations.
• Beekeeping Companion

Products and services

• Connected Hives IoT-equipped beehives with patented non-invasive sensors that continuously monitor temperature, colony activity, and hive health in real time, forming the hardware backbone of Ubees' pollination management platform for farmers, cooperatives, and brand customers.
• Beekeeping Companion App Mobile application that enables farmers to monitor connected hives remotely, receive AI-driven smart alerts, access learning content, and make operational decisions on hive management, feeding, and relocation across regions and crop types.
• Monitoring Dashboard Real-time data platform aggregating hive metrics, honey and wax production data, biodiversity indicators, and social impact KPIs from connected hives, providing interactive visualizations and traceability reports for farmers and brand partners.
• Boost – Yield Optimization Service Managed pollination program that installs and maintains connected hives for real-time pollination monitoring, offering flexible leasing, expert hive placement, heat-map tracking, and customized pollination recommendations to boost crop yields.
• Increase – Farmer Income Service Program that increases farmer revenue through enhanced beekeeping activities and pollination-driven yield boosts, while securing a consistent supply of high-quality raw materials for brand partners.
• Assess – Biodiversity Impact Service Biodiversity monitoring using bees as bioindicators, generating reports on plant diversity and ecosystem health, with CSR/ESG-compliant KPIs and farmer training on biodiversity promotion.
• Develop – Premium Bee Products Service End-to-end service that streamlines bee-related product supply (honey, beeswax, propolis, royal jelly) from connected hives to market, including premium honey commercialization guidance and biodiversity storytelling for brand partners.
• Upgrade – Crop Value Service Traceable technology from field to shelf that implements regenerative farming practices and improves crop uniformity to command higher market prices through verified sustainability credentials.
• MyPollination App Pollination operations management application that streamlines program execution, hive placement tracking, and pollination scheduling across multiple crop types and geographies.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10–50% increase in agricultural yields across crops including coffee, berries, avocados, and nuts
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability6 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReference partner cited on Ubees' website for pollinator and biodiversity data. Ubees aligns its methodology and impact reporting with FAO frameworks for pollination services and sustainable agriculture, referencing FAO.org resources in its communications about regenerative agriculture.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• BeeHero: BeeHero is the most direct competitor: it offers IoT-equipped beehives, AI-driven pollination analytics, and managed pollination services for commercial crops including almonds, blueberries, and apples. It serves similar enterprise customers (large food brands) with overlapping go-to-market and crop focus.
• The Bee Corp: The Bee Corp provides IoT hive-monitoring sensors and data analytics for commercial beekeepers and growers, including pollination-strength scoring analogous to Ubees' Frames of Bees metric. It is a smaller, US-focused direct competitor in connected hive technology.
• Arnia Remote Hive Monitoring: Arnia offers remote hive monitoring sensors, colony health analytics, and pollination data for beekeepers and researchers. It overlaps with Ubees on the IoT-instrumented hive and analytics layer, though with less commercial pollination-service scale.
• Apivox: Apivox builds smart beekeeping hardware and software for hive monitoring, with a comparable connected-hive-plus-analytics positioning. It is a European-based direct peer in the precision apiculture category.

Emerging players

• Apicbase: Apicbase provides beekeeping management software and apiary analytics, with partial overlap on data-driven colony and hive operations. Its focus is more on operational management than on the pollination-services commercial model that anchors Ubees' revenue.
• Vatorex: Vatorex develops connected beehive technology with AI-driven colony health monitoring for commercial beekeepers, addressing similar problems to Ubees' sensor platform. It is smaller and primarily European, with pollination services as a smaller share of activity.

Broad incumbents

• Wonderful Bees (Paramount Farms / The Wonderful Company): Wonderful Bees is one of the world's largest commercial beekeeping and pollination operations, primarily serving almond pollination in California. It represents the established incumbent in commercial pollination that Ubees is digitizing through its IoT and analytics layer.
• CropX: CropX is a broader farm management and soil-sensor agtech platform that could bundle pollination insights into its wider offering. It overlaps with Ubees on IoT sensors and AI-driven agronomic analytics, though pollination is not its focus.
• Semios: Semios provides IoT sensors, weather, pest, and crop analytics for specialty crops including tree nuts and fruit, serving the same enterprise grower and agribusiness customers as Ubees. It is a broad agtech incumbent that could expand into pollination monitoring.
• Sphera (ESG / Biodiversity reporting): Sphera is an enterprise ESG, sustainability, and biodiversity reporting software provider serving the same multinational food, beverage, and cosmetics brands that buy Ubees' pollination services. It competes with Ubees' Assess module at the data and reporting layer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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