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Rootcell

Applied

Climate control software for small vertical farms

Climate & energyBuild MVPSingapore
Active users
9
Paying customers
8

The problem

Small vertical farms lose crops to temperature swings because industrial control systems are priced for giant facilities.

The solution

Rootcell gives them a simple product that fixes this end to end, priced for small teams and live within a day of signing up.

Who it's for

Small and mid-sized organisations in our home market first.

Market

Bottom-up: ~40k target customers at ~$1,500 a year.

Competition and edge

What people use today

Spreadsheets and enterprise suites that are too heavy for this segment.

Why this team wins

Founders lived this problem for years and already have the first customers lined up.

The team

Wei spent years on the customer side of this problem; Arjun built the technical core at a previous company.

Worked together
1–3 years

About the founder

Wei Lin Tan

CEO & co-founder · Singapore · 6 years of experience

Previously built products in climate & energy for six years; started Rootcell after seeing the problem first-hand.

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