Interest in BeeHomes, an autonomous, AI-driven beehive packed with cameras, robotics, and machine learning models built by Beewise, has been growing since the company's inception in 2018.
Tending to roughly 60,000 honeybees with more precision than any human beekeeper could manage on their own, these Beehome are the focal point for Beewise’s Earth Month celebration and launch of a new program, Bees for Buildings.
The timing is deliberate. Beewise, the San Ramon-based company behind the BeeHome, chose Earth Month to officially launch Bees for Buildings nationwide. The program is a corporate beekeeping subscription designed for commercial and residential properties that want to do more than plant a pollinator garden.
In a time where corporate sustainability programs have sometimes struggled to demonstrate real impact, Beewise is betting that technology is the solution. Each Bees for Buildings subscription includes access to the BeeHome's autonomous hive system, white-glove service from Beewise's beekeeping team, hands-on educational programming for tenants and residents, custom-branded honey, and a digital app that lets anyone peer inside the hive in real time to monitor colony health. The bees become a living amenity, one that also happens to be saving a species.
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Beewise Founders (left to right) Hillel Schreier, Eliyah Radzyner, Saar Safra, Yossi Surin, Botz Petersil
A Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight
The urgency behind Beewise's mission is not abstract. Every year, an estimated 40% of bee colonies around the world collapse. Honeybees pollinate 80% of the world's flowering plants, including 75% of all food crops. As wild pollinator populations continue to decline, managed honeybee colonies have become a keystone species for entire ecosystems, including many to which they are not native. The threats are numerous and interrelated: shifting weather patterns driven by climate change, pesticide exposure, and habitat loss. But according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, the single largest danger facing bees is the parasitic mite.
Varroa destructor is the most widespread of these mites. It weakens bees' immune systems, spreads deadly viruses, and has been linked to colony collapse disorder on a global scale. A newer threat, Tropilaelaps mites, is already causing significant damage across Southeast Asia and parts of Europe, and researchers fear it is only a matter of time before it spreads further. Beewise is working on both fronts.
Our goal is to leverage our technology to eradicate mites around the world — these losses are on track to cause a degree of biodiversity crash that poses an existential threat to our planet and global food security."
Saar Safra, CEO & Co-Founder, Beewise
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The Machine that Thinks Like a Beekeeper
The BeeHome is, at its core, a climate adaptation tool. It uses onboard cameras and computer vision to inspect colonies in real time, machine learning models to identify threats, and an autonomous robotic system to act on what the software finds, all without requiring a beekeeper to open the hive. The result is a colony loss rate below 10%, compared to the global average of 40%.
Since 2018, Beewise has grown into the world's leader in pollination services, with thousands of BeeHomes operating across farms and counting customers like Nuveen Natural Capital, Agriland, and Olam Food Ingredients among hundreds of growers. Those systems now pollinate more than 300,000 acres.
Today there are 1,925 BeeHomes in the field.
Beewise's BeeHome™ — AI and robotics-powered beehive built as a climate adaptation solution to support bees.
Central to the company's biosecurity ambitions is the Beewise Heat Chamber, which eliminates Varroa mites without chemicals or additional labor by exposing colonies to precisely calibrated heat. In partnership with the Geoff Williams Lab at Auburn University, a globally recognized leader in pollinator health research, the Heat Chamber has demonstrated 99% efficacy against Varroa without compromising bee health.
More recently, Beewise expanded that research with Auburn University and with Bajaree Chuttong of Chiang Mai University in Thailand to study the Heat Chamber's potential against Tropilaelaps mites. Early results showed 100% efficacy in eliminating Tropi mites, offering real promise as a preventative solution before the pest spreads further.
The BeeHome was named a Top Invention by TIME in 2023. In 2024, Beewise appeared on Fortune's Change the World list, Inc.'s Best in Business list, and CNBC's Disruptor 50 list. In 2025, CEO Saar Safra was named to the Forbes Sustainability Leaders 50 List, and Beewise was named a BloombergNEF Pioneer in Climate Adaptation.
Co-Founder Eliyah Radzyner with BeeHomes
From Farm to Rooftop by 2030
Bees for Buildings represents a natural evolution for a company that has spent years proving its technology in some of the world's most demanding agricultural settings. But Beewise's vision extends well beyond commercial real estate.
By 2030, the company aims to partner with beekeepers globally to save six billion bees per year, working with smallholder farms, small apiaries, corporate campuses, and agribusinesses worldwide to suppress Varroa and other mites at scale.
The downstream effects of that ambition are significant. Higher crop yields, improved local biodiversity, and healthier wild pollinator populations would in turn support the managed bee colonies Beewise protects, creating a reinforcing cycle of ecosystem resilience. Stronger pollinator communities also enable more robust plant reproduction, enhancing natural carbon-sinking processes and contributing to broader climate health. To date, Beewise has raised nearly $170 million, including a $50 million Series D in June 2025.