July 17, 2025

Company hones in on drone data collection

By Erica Quinlan

GRYFN, a Purdue University-affiliated agbioscience startup, is growing as it takes multisensor drone data collection technology to market.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — An agbioscience start-up company is growing despite challenges and changes due to COVID-19.

GRYFN, a Purdue-affiliated company, focuses on research-grade sensing data for agriculture. The company is adding team members and expanding to a new location at Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette.

“We have added a full-time pilot and analyst to help with data collection and processing, a director of solutions for hardware-software integration and support, and we are actively recruiting a research scientist,” said Trenton Lindenman, the chief operating officer at GRYFN.

“This year was about operational excellence, driving evidence to support our capabilities and collaborator feedback. Now we turn to telling our story, to sales and customer support for the coming season.”

GRYFN is using technology developed at Purdue and licensed through the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization.

GRYFN uses an unmanned aerial vehicle platform with a co-aligned sensor package, which includes visible RGB, LiDAR and very near infrared hyperspectral sensors.

It also uses processing software to enable breeders to scale research operations.

GRYFN provides precise, repeatable data for research and high throughput phenotyping and has other applications in the field.

The team is working on integrating thermal and short-wave infrared hyperspectral technologies to use next year.

Learn more at www.gryfn.io.