Before founding BloomX, Thai Sade spent nearly a decade managing his family’s food business – immersed in the world of ingredients, meals, and the people they nourish. But the deeper he went, the more one question kept rising: What if, one day, there’s not enough food to serve? That question pulled Thai back to his roots – to the kibbutz where he grew up surrounded by agriculture, working the land and learning the value of natural systems.
With a passion for sustainability and a problem-solver’s mindset, Thai pursued a degree in Sustainability & Government and joined the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at Reichman University. There, the vision for BloomX came into focus: to bring innovation to one of the most critical – and often overlooked – links in the food chain: pollination.
Today, BloomX is driven by that same mission – ensuring that growers can produce more, better food, in a more sustainable way.
Before founding BloomX, Thai Sade spent nearly a decade managing his family’s food business – immersed in the world of ingredients, meals, and the people they nourish. But the deeper he went, the more one question kept rising: What if, one day, there’s not enough food to serve? That question pulled Thai back to his roots – to the kibbutz where he grew up surrounded by agriculture, working the land and learning the value of natural systems.
With a passion for sustainability and a problem-solver’s mindset, Thai pursued a degree in Sustainability & Government and joined the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at Reichman University. There, the vision for BloomX came into focus: to bring innovation to one of the most critical – and often overlooked – links in the food chain: pollination.
Today, BloomX is driven by that same mission – ensuring that growers can produce more, better food, in a more sustainable way.
Pollination Reimagined. Agriculture Redefined.
Our Vision
To redefine pollination and ensure a more secure, sustainable future for food.
Our Mission
To empower growers with control over pollination,
using robotic technology to sustainably improve yield and fruit quality.
At BloomX, we believe pollination is one of the most powerful – and most underestimated – levers in agriculture. Yet for decades, it’s been left in the hands of chance, weather, and biology. We’re changing that.
Our approach is rooted in biomimicry – studying how pollinators like bees and other natural forces work, and engineering solutions that replicate and enhance these biological processes. We’re not trying to replace nature. We’re building technology that collaborates with it, bringing precision and consistency to a process that has always been unpredictable.
This philosophy guides everything we do: combining deep agronomic understanding with smart, robotic systems to give growers something they’ve never had before – control over pollination.
Our Growth Story
2019
BloomX founded (originally named Bumblebee AI).
2020
First field deployment of a working prototype.
2021
Secured first commercial customer.
2022
Raised $7M Seed round from strategic and financial investors, with backing from the Israel Innovation Authority.
2023
Selected to join the cohort of the Ray of Hope Prize, the US Biomimicry Institute’s flagship accelerator.
Named one of the top 20 most promising agtech startups at Fruit Logistica, the world’s leading annual agriculture exhibition.
2024
Raised $5.2M Pre-A, backed by existing investors and the Israel Innovation Authority (for the second time).
2025
Completion of the largest commercial blueberry project, leading to an even larger follow-on deployment in 2026.