In Israel, where blooming orchards rely on nature’s tiniest workers—bees—two individuals, Saar Safra and Eliyah Radzyner, decided to take on a problem that few had dared to solve at scale.
It was in 2018 when Saar and Eliyah, inspired by the growing threats to bee colonies, combined innovation with passion to create Beewise—a startup on a mission to revolutionize beekeeping and save the bees.
The Wake-Up Call:
While most of us enjoy the fruits, vegetables, and grains that fill our plates, we often forget the invisible heroes behind our food security—honeybees. These tiny pollinators are responsible for pollinating more than 75% of global crops. But year after year, their population was vanishing at an alarming rate.
Safra and Radzyner noticed a shocking fact: every year, nearly 40% of bee colonies were being lost due to climate change, pesticide use, diseases, and the outdated methods of traditional beekeeping.
As beekeepers and nature lovers themselves, they saw this as not just an ecological issue but a global food security crisis in the making.
Why Traditional Beekeeping Was Failing
The duo beekeepers found that despite the critical role bees play in agriculture, the tools and practices used by beekeepers hadn’t changed for centuries. Wooden boxes, manual inspections, and delayed interventions meant that most hives didn’t receive timely care.
When bees fell sick, or conditions inside the hive became unfavourable, beekeepers were often too late to intervene. Safra and Radzyner realised that if humans couldn’t care for bees effectively, maybe technology could.
The Birth of Beewise and the Beehome
With backgrounds in tech and agriculture, the founders envisioned a bold solution: an autonomous, AI-powered robotic beehive that could monitor, treat, and care for bees round the clock—just like a skilled beekeeper, but more efficient.
Thus, Beewise was born, and so was its revolutionary product: the Beehome.
Beehome is the world’s first autonomous robotic beehive—a solar-powered smart system that uses AI, computer vision, and robotic automation to take care of bees 24/7. It monitors their health, regulates hive temperature and humidity, delivers precise treatments for diseases, protects from pests, and even harvests honey, all with minimal human intervention.
A Technological Leap for Nature
With real-time data powered by AI and a user-friendly cloud dashboard, Beehome transforms hive management by offering deep insights into bee activity and behavior.
This allows timely actions, improved decision-making, and, most importantly, a significant reduction in bee colony losses.
Where traditional hives would lose up to 40% of bees annually, Beehome reduces that number to single digits. This not only preserves pollinator populations but also boosts crop yields and helps farmers across the globe.
More Than Just Hives: Beewise’s Bigger Mission
Beewise is more than just a company that builds smart beehives—it’s an agritech solution transforming the way beekeeping and pollination are managed.
Beewise not only makes smart beehives but also offers services like automatic beekeeping, pollination planning for farms, cloud tools to manage hives, and advice to boost farm productivity.
By improving pollination, Beewise helps make food more secure, nature more stable, and farming better able to handle climate change.The Human Side of Innovation
What makes Beewise stand out is not just its tech but the bold vision behind it. The founders didn’t start with a product; they began with a purpose. Their motivation wasn’t profit—it was preservation. They took a hard, complex environmental challenge and approached it like engineers, ecologists, and guardians of the future all at once.
Beewise shows that when we use technology with care and compassion, it can do amazing things. Their work isn’t just about saving bees—it’s about creating a smarter, greener way to care for nature and farm responsibly.
Looking Ahead: A Buzzing Future
Today, Beewise is scaling its operations and reaching more regions with high agricultural activity. With funding from investors who believe in their mission and growing adoption from farmers, the company is on its way to becoming a cornerstone of future farming.
In a world facing climate change, food insecurity, and biodiversity loss, Beewise offers a rare ray of hope—an example of how innovation can protect life itself.
