Synphony Robotics
Y Combinator-backed San Francisco startup founded in 2025 building strawberry-picking robots and bed-level analytics software for California farms.
Synphony (Synphony Robotics) is a San Francisco-based robotics startup founded in 2025 and part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch (announced at launch as W26). The founders are Sean Wu (CEO), who previously worked on AI at NVIDIA and in bio research at Stanford, and Lucas Amlicke (CTO), who studied computer science and engineering at Santa Clara University with research in neuromorphic computing, human-AI system optimisation and IoT security. Y Combinator lists a team of 10.
Synphony builds robots and software for farms, beginning with strawberry harvesting in California, a crop where the company estimates labour at about 60% of costs. Its offering combines strawberry-picking robots with bed-level analytics, data-pipeline integration and agentic software. The company also states that it supplies data, evaluations and demonstrations to robot foundation-model labs and has received requests for robots in semiconductor facilities and autonomous laboratories. Its website describes the company more broadly as making robots that take on physical jobs and complete them reliably inside real facilities.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Synphony strawberry-picking robot
Strawberry-harvesting robot paired with bed-level analytics and agentic farm software.
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WEBSITE
https://synphony.co/HEADQUARTERS
United States
Company Facts
Founded
2025
Primary Role
Manufacturer
Company Size
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Primary Region
North America
Annual Sales
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Funding Stage
Early-Stage VC
Funding Total
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