Protect farmer identity
Keep farmers' personal information separate so their data never linked personally and data remains entirely credible.
Our Mission
Stray Blocks enables secure and ethical agricultural data exchange by anonymizing sensitive farm information without reducing its analytical value.
Our technology enriches geospatial datasets with analysis-ready contextual data while removing direct spatial and temporal references, allowing farmers and AgTech companies to collaborate safely, transparently, and at scale.
Guarantees data trust
for downstream
Create a publicly available, immutable log of activity that is timestamped and tamper-proof by ensuring.
Speeds-up the exchange
process and automation
Automated trading that dramatically increases the speed of data exchange and enables faster downstream.
Product
Stray Blocks has developed an anonymization technology focused on a specific geospatial data type widely used in machine learning and artificial intelligence — gridded image time series organized into blocks. The key challenge in anonymizing these data lies in preserving the valuable patterns within the time series that are essential for building and fine-tuning ML and AI models. Our solution applies a carefully sequenced combination of topological procedures to hide identifiable features while preserving analytical value.
Our Team
Research leader with 20+ years of experience in academia and industry, specializing in digital agriculture, field research, and scalable data infrastructure.
In 2021, he co-founded a startup as CTO and built a most comprehensive and cost-effective data production pipeline for risk-based irrigation decision-making.
Geospatial data scientist and project manager with 13+ years of experience in remote sensing, precision agriculture, and forestry.
He has led the development of large-scale geospatial data management and insight delivery frameworks supporting millions of acres at Weyerhaeuser.
Blog
DATA OWNERSHIP VS INSIGHTS
Following our discussion on why AgTech innovation is starving for data, we have
to address the elephant in the field: ownership. If a satellite captures a
high-resolution image of your...
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Precision agriculture promises a future of hyper-efficient farming, yet many of our most powerful innovations are starving for the very fuel they need: high-fidelity geospatial data. Farmers are sitting on a goldmine of insights, but years of "data grabs" and murky privacy...
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Stray Blocks will be presenting at InvestMidwest 2026 as part of the Food Tech session. We look forward to sharing our progress in building a secure, geospatial data exchange that enables privacy-preserving access to farm-level data for AI and agricultural innovation. This...
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