GreenSight
GreenSight is a Boston-based robotics company operating two divisions: a commercial TurfCloud drone-as-a-service platform for golf, sports turf, and vineyards, and a government/defense division building autonomous UAS, swarm cybersecurity, and atmospheric drone systems for DARPA, NASA, Navy, and NSF.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2015
- HeadquartersBoston, United States
- Headcount51–100
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What GreenSight does
GreenSight is a Boston-based robotics company founded in 2015 that operates two business divisions through shared technology platforms: a commercial TurfCloud platform serving golf courses, sports turf facilities, and vineyards, and a government/defense division (GreenSight Defense) developing autonomous drone systems and cyber-secure swarm technologies for the US Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA, NSF, and the US Navy. The company's core technology stack combines custom UAV hardware (notably the Dreamer drone with 60+ minute flight endurance and the WeatherHive nano-drone swarm), patented thermal and NDVI imaging sensors, and machine-learning-based image analytics delivered through the TurfCloud SaaS dashboard. Six patents cover its data processing and remote sensing IP, including proprietary GSNDVI processing, a self-calibrating thermal imager, and the SAEPIO secure computing stack built on the formally verified seL4 microkernel.
GreenSight generates revenue through three streams: (1) drone-as-a-service subscriptions at approximately $825/month per golf course, including hardware, sensors, analytics, cloud storage, FAA compliance, and insurance; (2) hardware sales of catalog and custom robotic vehicles, drones, payloads, and components; and (3) government R&D contracts and SBIR grants (DARPA $2.9M Phase II, NASA Phase II, NSF Phase I, Navy ADAPT, USDA). The company distributes through a regional direct enterprise sales force covering the Northeast, West, and Southeast United States, supported by warehouses in Boston, Raleigh, and Ceres, and a strategic channel partnership with Husqvarna for integrated ground-mower solutions. Its commercial customer base spans named golf properties (Meadow Club, Blackhawk Country Club, Valhalla, PGA Frisco, Oracle Park), vineyards (Newport, Greenvale), and is anchored by Toro Company's strategic minority equity investment. The defense/government pipeline targets the Pentagon Drone Dominance Program (30,000 drone procurement) and broader SBIR-to-production transitions.
The company is led by CEO James Peverill and COO Joel Pedlikin (co-founder), with a leadership team including VPs of Turf/Agriculture, Engineering, Emerging Technology, and Growth. Founded by former defense contractor executives, GreenSight operates with a team of 40+ uncrewed systems specialists and has executed over 9,000 flights across 6 countries, accumulating 2 million acres of imagery. Strategic priorities appear to be: converting its SBIR pipeline into recurring defense revenue, scaling the TurfCloud ecosystem with Husqvarna/Kress/NexMow robotic mowers and Spiio soil sensors, and expanding its FAA BVLOS-authorized service model into new geographies and verticals.
GreenSight firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- GreenSight
- Legal name
- GreenSight Inc.
- Website
- https://greensightag.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2015
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 51–100 employees
- Short description
- GreenSight is a Boston-based robotics company operating two divisions: a commercial TurfCloud drone-as-a-service platform for golf, sports turf, and vineyards, and a government/defense division building autonomous UAS, swarm cybersecurity, and atmospheric drone systems for DARPA, NASA, Navy, and NSF.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
GreenSight industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Aerial Drone Intelligence
- SIC
- Agricultural Services (700), Aircraft (3721)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Aerial Surveying & Crop Scouting (Imaging, Mapping, Stand Counts) (AFACAIAJ)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Drone/UAV Data Capture & Processing Software (AFAAAFAH), Agricultural UAV/UGV Autonomy Platforms (Navigation, mission planning, fleet autonomy) (AFAAAGAF)
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Where GreenSight is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Boston
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices4 records
Markets served
GreenSight business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Drone-as-a-Service / Subscription: Turnkey drone intelligence service with monthly leasing at $825/month for golf course customers, including drone hardware, cameras, sensors, analytics platform, cloud storage, FAA compliance, and insurance.
- Hardware Sales: Sale of catalog and fully custom robotic vehicles, drones, payloads, and components including Dreamer UAV, WeatherHive, OWL delivery aircraft, and avionics systems.
- Software Platform (TurfCloud): Cloud-based turf management platform with integrated aerial survey robots and terrestrial sensors, offered as subscription service.
- Government R&D Contracts: SBIR contracts from DARPA, NASA, NSF, Navy, and other government agencies for development of novel technologies for defense, aerospace, and weather monitoring applications.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | Monthly | Drone Intelligence Service - Monthly subscription for golf courses |
| Other | Annual | Senior Electrical Engineer compensation |
| Other | Annual | Robotics Technician compensation |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels8 records
GreenSight product offering
Product offeringCore offering
GreenSight develops and sells autonomous drone systems and the TurfCloud cloud-based analytics platform for commercial turf/agriculture management and government/defense applications. Its offerings combine custom UAVs (Dreamer, WeatherHive, ADAPT), AI/ML-driven image analytics (NDVI, thermal, computer vision), and a turnkey Drone-as-a-Service subscription that delivers daily automated aerial monitoring, cloud processing, and actionable insights to enterprise customers.
Product overview
GreenSight is a full-stack robotics company offering a multi-product portfolio centered on two divisions: commercial turf/agriculture management (GreenSight Agronomics) and government/defense robotics (GreenSight Defense). The core commercial platform is TurfCloud, a cloud-based turf management SaaS that integrates aerial drone imaging (Dreamer drone), terrestrial sensors, and ground-based robotic mowers (Husqvarna Automower, Kress, NexMow) into a unified dashboard. The defense division develops autonomous drone platforms (Dreamer, OWL), swarm technologies (WeatherHive), cybersecurity systems (SAEPIO), and specialized AI capabilities (PreSound, ADeSSSA, ADAPT). Products include both hardware (custom drones, sensors, robotics kits) and software (cloud platforms, AI/ML analytics). The company holds 6 patents for data processing and remote sensing, with systems deployed across commercial golf/turf and multiple US Government agencies.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- TurfCloud: Cloud-based turf management platform providing aerial survey robots, terrestrial sensors integration, and agronomic tools for golf course and sports turf management.
- GreenSight Defense
- SAEPIO
- ADeSSSA
- WeatherHive
- PreSound
Products and services
- TurfCloud Cloud-based turf management platform that integrates aerial drone imagery (NDVI and thermal), terrestrial sensors, and robotic mowers into a unified dashboard for golf course superintendents and sports turf operators. Monitors temperature, moisture, salinity, and vegetation health, and provides NDVI and thermal analytics for irrigation, disease, and chemical application decisions.
- Dreamer Drone Custom UAV platform with industry-leading 60+ minute flight endurance, equipped with a patented thermal sensor and dual cameras for simultaneous RGB Visible and Near-Infrared (NDVI) imagery capture. Used for daily automated turf monitoring flights and as the baseline platform for the ADAPT disposable cargo delivery variant.
- GreenSight Drone Service Turnkey Drone-as-a-Service subscription delivering daily automated drone flights, NDVI and thermal data capture, cloud processing, and actionable analytics for golf and sports turf customers. Includes drone hardware, sensors, cloud storage, FAA compliance and insurance as a bundled monthly service.
- WeatherHive Autonomous nano-drone swarm for atmospheric monitoring. Each drone measures temperature, humidity and wind speed; the backpack-sized hive enables autonomous launch, flight, landing and recharge, covering programmable areas up to 400 sq km per flight for severe weather forecasting and atmospheric research.
- SAEPIO Secure Computing Stack Cyber-secure swarm UAS computing stack combining secure mesh communications, a distributed NDN-based encrypted database, and a domain-specific language for collaborative robotic control, built on the formally verified seL4 microkernel OS. Enables secure, high-assurance networked robotic operations for defense and government customers.
- ADeSSSA Sense-and-Avoid System Automated Decision Support System for Sense and Avoid that fuses visual, acoustic and RF (ADS-B) data into a probabilistic model for aircraft detection and collision-free path planning. Enables beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations for small unmanned aerial systems.
- PreSound Aircraft Health Monitoring Aircraft health monitoring system that uses vibration and acoustic measurements with AI/ML classification to automatically detect and locate structural and mechanical problems in aircraft, supporting safer unattended UAV operations.
- ADAPT Disposable Cargo Delivery Aircraft Low-cost, disposable quadrotor delivery aircraft based on the Dreamer platform, designed to deliver 1kg packages up to 10 miles with NDAA-compliant components and a target retail price under $200 per unit for defense and supply chain security use cases.
- SeaJelly Robotics Kit Jellyfish-inspired STEM education robotics kit that teaches high school students 3D printing, silicone casting, robot assembly, soldering, and programming. Developed under a U.S. Navy STTR Phase I Award as the SeaJelly / Aquatic Soft Robotics education kit.
Quantifiable outcome
- Reduced water usage - achieved best irrigation efficiency ever during hottest summer on record
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use GreenSight
Customer profileNamed customers10 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
GreenSight technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration2 records
AI capability9 records
Feature7 records
GreenSight partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Ten partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.
- GroundWorxminorStrategic partnership for proactive soil management and water conservation technology integration into GreenSight's TurfCloud platform.
- HusqvarnacoreStrategic partnership combining Husqvarna's Automower and CEORA robotic mowers with GreenSight's TurfCloud platform to create an integrated turf management solution. The partnership integrates ground robotics (mowing) with aerial robotics (drone imaging) into a unified digital command center for golf course superintendents.
- Newport VineyardsminorPartnership under USDA Conservation Innovation Grant to apply drone remote sensing data and AI to develop best practices for reducing vineyard water consumption, identifying pests, and precisely applying agricultural chemicals.
- Greenvale VineyardsminorPartnership under USDA Conservation Innovation Grant to apply drone remote sensing data and AI to develop best practices for vineyard management.
- MassRoboticscorePartnership for Jumpstart Fellowship program supporting young women in STEM. MassRobotics now leads the program while GreenSight provides mentorship and internship opportunities. GreenSight also supports MassRobotics BlueTech Academy bootcamps.
- Boston UniversitycoreCollaboration with Boston University Professors Sheryl Grace and J. Gregory McDaniel on the NASA PreSound program for aircraft health monitoring. Dr. Grace leads the Unsteady Fluid Mechanics & Acoustics Lab, Dr. McDaniel runs the Sound and Vibration Laboratory.
- University of Southern California Information Sciences InstitutecorePartner in DARPA HASHTAG SBIR program developing SAEPIO cyber-secure swarm UAS solution. USC ISI brings expertise in distributed systems and secure communications.
- C-3 Communications LLCcorePartner in DARPA HASHTAG SBIR program developing SAEPIO cyber-secure swarm UAS solution. C-3 provides software products and system solutions for secured context-aware data delivery over heterogeneous wireless networks.
- NASAcoreMultiple NASA SBIR awards including Phase II for ADeSSSA sense and avoid technology and Phase I for PreSound aircraft health monitoring system. NASA provides funding and technical collaboration for Urban Air Mobility and advanced aerial mobility research.
- Humane Horse HandlingminorCollaboration to develop drone technology for humane wild horse population management. GreenSight provides Dreamer drone platform optimized for slow, quiet flight needed to lead horses into capture pens.
Scale indicators7 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights7 records
GreenSight competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Sentera: Aerial imagery analytics and drone-based sensing solutions for agriculture and turf. Directly comparable to GreenSight's NDVI/thermal analytics offering for crop and turf health monitoring.
- PrecisionHawk: Drone aerial analytics platform for agriculture, insurance, and infrastructure. Direct competitor to GreenSight's commercial drone intelligence business for agricultural and turf monitoring use cases.
- DroneDeploy: Cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform serving construction, agriculture, and inspection markets. Comparable to GreenSight's TurfCloud as a subscription aerial intelligence SaaS product.
- Pix4D: Photogrammetry software for drone-captured imagery, used across surveying, agriculture, and inspection. Comparable to GreenSight's AI-driven image processing pipeline that turns drone imagery into agronomic insights.
- SlantRange: Drone-based remote sensing and analytics specifically focused on agriculture and crop health. Closely comparable to GreenSight in combining proprietary multispectral sensors with analytics software.
Broad incumbents
- Skydio: US-based autonomous drone manufacturer with strong commercial and growing defense presence. Overlaps with GreenSight's autonomy platform and defense UAS roadmap at a significantly larger scale.
- Anduril Industries: Well-capitalized defense technology company building autonomous systems, including UAS, for the DoD. Direct competitor to GreenSight in the Pentagon Drone Dominance Program and broader defense autonomy space.
- Shield AI: Defense-focused autonomous drone and AI company (Hivemind, V-BAT). Competes with GreenSight Defense in autonomous UAS for military customers and is significantly better capitalized.
- AeroVironment: Established defense and commercial drone manufacturer (Switchblade, Puma). Competes with GreenSight Defense in the Pentagon Drone Dominance Gauntlet and across small UAS programs.
- Parrot: European drone manufacturer with both commercial and defense/government product lines. Comparable in offering drone hardware plus Pix4D-derived analytics; overlaps with GreenSight's broader portfolio.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
GreenSight social profiles
Digital presenceGreenSight compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance1 record
GreenSight financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
GreenSight leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles9 records
GreenSight funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds5 records
Investors5 records
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GreenSight M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A1 record
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about GreenSight
What does GreenSight do?
GreenSight develops and sells autonomous drone systems and the TurfCloud cloud-based analytics platform for commercial turf/agriculture management and government/defense applications. Its offerings combine custom UAVs (Dreamer, WeatherHive, ADAPT), AI/ML-driven image analytics (NDVI, thermal, computer vision), and a turnkey Drone-as-a-Service subscription that delivers daily automated aerial monitoring, cloud processing, and actionable insights to enterprise customers.
Is GreenSight a public or private company?
GreenSight is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was GreenSight founded?
GreenSight was founded in 2015. It employs 51 to 100 people.
Where is GreenSight based?
GreenSight is headquartered in Boston, United States, in the North America region.
How does GreenSight make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Drone-as-a-Service / Subscription is the primary driver. The others are hardware Sales, software Platform (TurfCloud) and government R&D Contracts.
Who are GreenSight's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Sentera, PrecisionHawk, DroneDeploy, Pix4D and SlantRange. Broad incumbents are Skydio, Anduril Industries, Shield AI, AeroVironment and Parrot.
Does GreenSight have an API?
No public API is recorded for GreenSight.
What industry is GreenSight in?
GreenSight's product category is Aerial Drone Intelligence. Its primary akta.pro industry code is AFACAIAJ, Aerial Surveying & Crop Scouting (Imaging, Mapping, Stand Counts), with a secondary code of AFAAAFAH, Drone/UAV Data Capture & Processing Software. Its SIC code is 700.