Gamaya (Swiss company)


Gamaya is a Swiss company which provides to farmers drones equipped with hyper-spectral cameras, to help them grow crops in a more efficient manner.
The company has 35 employees and is located in Morges, Switzerland. Mathieu Hagen is the current company CEO.

Company history

Gamaya was founded in 2015 as an EPFL laboratory spinoff by co-founders Dragos Constantin, Igor Ivanov and Yosef Akhtman.
In 2016, the company raised an investment round of $3.2 million from the Sandoz Family Foundation, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Seed4Equity, and VI Partners.
In 2017, Gamaya received the Swiss Economic Forum Hightech award as well as the Nvidia Inception award.
In 2019, the company raised a second round of investment of CHF 12 million, led by Mahindra & Mahindra.

Hyperspectral camera technology

Gamaya's hyperspectral camera technology was developed between 2013 and 2015 through the EPFL Leman-Baikal project. According to the company, the camera can capture 40 different bands of light. Drones are equipped with the hyperspectral camera to collect images in order to generate a survey of the land. The data can be used for detecting invasive species and crop diseases, predicting yields, or for optimising soil treatment and fertilisation.
Gamaya's cameras are also used in several scientific projects as part of data collection for hyperspectral survey of agricultural crops.