 From the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE, covering food IT, fork to farm. Brought to you by Western Digital. Hey, welcome back everybody, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at the Food IT Show at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. We took a walk off the set to come over to the little expo area that they have set up. Some really interesting technology. We're really excited to have Shami Patel on, he's the CEO of from Lumaglow, welcome. Hi, thank you very much. Absolutely, so you've been at this for a while. You got a 10 year old company and tell us a little bit about what is Lumaglow? Sure, Lumaglow is a smart LED lighting company that focuses exclusively on the horticulture sector. The intelligence is based on a smart fixture that's wirelessly connected that's tied to a cloud-based software solution. And you've got a little itty bitty baby one here for demo purposes, but you say this is used at big scale manufacturing, not manufacturing, big scale horticulture. Yes, so our customers are primarily large scale greenhouse growers and they really leverage our solution which allows the grower to alter the spectrum to fundamentally change plant biology. So our customers include the USDA who uses 1200 of our fixtures across multiple facilities. We currently have 25 customers in the cloud. So we're lighting 500,000 square feet of crops including cucumbers, basil, lettuce and cannabis. So it's pretty interesting, because you said you're leveraging cloud, we leverage all the stuff we talk about all the time. You're leveraging algorithms and you basically can change the light based on your algorithms to change the behavior in the way that the plant grows. That's correct, right? Absolutely, absolutely. With our team of close to a half a dozen plant biologists, we partner with universities as well as production partners to really understand the nuances of how the light can be used to achieve an economic objective of the grower. So in certain instances, we can change the root mass or the strength of the stock for early growers in the propagation field, whether they're tomato propagators, cucumber propagators or even plant propagators. Or we can also alter the fundamental biology of large scale growers, whether they be vine crops to enhance yield and whatever their economic objective is. That's great. So you can change the algorithm based on the changing economic objective which might be different if they're trying to sell seedlings or trying to sell a final product. You said even you can change the height of the plant, the width of the plant. Absolutely, right? So in certain instances, particularly in the early development of the plant, you want to maintain some element of compactness so you don't want aggressive branching and you want to control the height, particularly for propagators before you're transitioning that cloned or propagated plant into production level growth. So and then do you collect data from the local plantings as well to validate your algorithms, change them, you know, adapt to the specific conditions of those particular, I guess, grow house or greenhouse? Absolutely. Lumigrow is not a lighting company. It's really a solution and services company. So we use our research team as sales support and we also provide an ongoing service through our software to be able to continually grow with that, that particular grower in some aspects to be able to deliver more and more value add. Ultimately, what we're looking to do is create a broader ecosystem and a dialogue amongst farmers that are non-competitive but can leverage off similar findings from how to use light as a growth variable. And then do you integrate with the other systems like for the fertilizer, probably not a lot of worried about bugs and stuff, but for the fertilizer and for the irrigation and the water, do those systems tie into yours as light is just another component to again kind of maximize or drive the type of plant behavior that you're trying to achieve? Yes, absolutely. We can integrate with some existing control systems. Obviously, when a farmer wants to evaluate the control of their crop, they want to make sure that they understand all the different growth variables, whether it's hydration, HVAC, and lighting, the unique aspect of our solution is we're putting in the infrastructure that with our cloud-based software to really be an IoT platform so that we can integrate additional sensors very efficiently or we can simply use the plant as the sensor itself, being able to collect data downwards by looking downward. We're in the process of adding a light sensor to our platform, which we can retrofit with existing customers to allow to create the ability to have a uniformity in terms of light coverage at the crop level. Really interesting stuff. So just a little background on the company. Said you've been around for 10 years, kind of where are you in terms of your funding? How many people? What can you share kind of about the state of the company? Sure, so the company's been around for 10 years, but we were recapitalized with a venture fund called the Ecosystem Integrity Fund within the last 18 months that did a series B for us. And with that, we brought in a new management team and a focus and a shift on strategy to focus on research and software. We currently have close to 30 employees. We are growing, we're likely to double revenue from last year and we are anticipating doing a C round sometime in the first quarter. All right, well exciting story, really cool stuff. So thanks for taking a few minutes and sharing your story with us. No, thank you very much. We're delighted to be here and enjoyed speaking with you, thank you. All right, Sean B Patel, the CEO of LumaGrow. I'm Jeff Rick, you're watching theCUBE from FoodIT, from Fork to Farm.