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HipScience Makes Sensors That 'Play Nice' With IoT Tech
HipScience, founded by Laron Walker in 2013, designs IoT-compatible sensors for agriculture, industry, and STEM education, with clients like The Home Depot and a spin-off called MantisEDU for classroom use. The startup is participating in the IoT.ATL Agtech Challenge to build a solar-powered greenhouse in Atlanta food deserts while pursuing seed funding and new partnerships.
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Summary
HipScience, founded by Laron Walker in 2013, designs IoT-compatible sensors for agriculture, industry, and STEM education, with clients like The Home Depot and a spin-off called MantisEDU for classroom use. The startup is participating in the IoT.ATL Agtech Challenge to build a solar-powered greenhouse in Atlanta food deserts while pursuing seed funding and new partnerships.
Tags
iot · sensors · agtech · stem-education · startup · urban-agriculture · bluetooth
Key entities
Laron Walker (person, 0.98) · HipScience (organization, 0.99) · MantisEDU (organization, 0.95) · The Home Depot (organization, 0.95) · United Negro College Fund (organization, 0.9) · Atlanta Public Schools (organization, 0.88) · HATponics (organization, 0.85) · IoT.ATL Agtech Challenge (event, 0.93) · Atlanta BeltLine (location, 0.9) · Internet of Things (concept, 0.95) · social sensors (concept, 0.85) · Muriel Vega (person, 0.9) · Hypepotamus (organization, 0.85)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 9 Jul 2026