Editor’s note: The following profile is from the 2025 Packer 25, our annual tribute to 25 leaders, innovators and agents of change across the fresh produce supply chain. (You can view all honorees here.) This feature has been edited for length and clarity.
Omer Davidi — CEO and co-founder, BeeHero
As growers face mounting challenges from pollinator decline, Omer Davidi and BeeHero, the agtech company he co-founded, are taking a data-driven approach to turn the tide. BeeHero developed sensors that are placed inside beehives to provide beekeepers with critical intel on hive health and more, resulting in better pollination with the aim of future-proofing the global food supply.
What inspired you to co-found BeeHero?
Coming from the deep-tech space, and specifically cybersecurity, I had experience building businesses, but I was completely mind-blown when I learned from Itai Kanot, our co-founder and a second-generation commercial beekeeper, just how fragile the global food system is and how central bees are as a critical, yet poorly managed infrastructure.
Together with Yuval Regev, a highly talented, tech-driven problem solver, we realized there was a unique opportunity to shift our experience, knowledge and energy toward solving this massive global challenge and future-proofing global food supply.
The more we learned from boots on the ground with growers and beekeepers, the more curious and excited we became. We discovered that even the most sophisticated players in agriculture were managing pollination like farmers watered fields before irrigation systems: a “spray and pray” approach, despite billions of people depending on it.
Stepping out of the office and seeing bees in action — this magical process of pollination that underpins so much of life — still fills me with joy and appreciation that I get to work on something so meaningful.
Considering all that BeeHero has achieved, of which achievement are you most proud and why?
Our impact. Agriculture is one of the most complicated industries for startups. Seasonality, slow adoption cycles and countless external factors make it incredibly tough to build and scale. Despite this, we’ve become the largest precision pollination provider globally, with a strong focus on the U.S., Australia and Peru.
In just five years of commercial activity, we’ve deployed more than half a million sensors in some of the harshest field conditions, getting close to nine-digit revenue, and building trusted partnerships with the biggest strategic leaders in the agricultural ecosystem. That outcome makes me proud.
But what I’m most proud of isn’t just the numbers; it’s the people. We’ve been able to attract top-tier talent — people who could easily have chosen “sexier” industries or stayed in prestigious roles at leading companies — and instead they joined BeeHero. They gave up those seats to tackle something most of the world overlooked: enhancing pollination and saving the bees.
That commitment, especially in the early stages when the company was fragile and the risks high, is not trivial. Bringing the right people together from different industries, uniting them around this mission, and figuring it out together — that, more than anything, is what makes me proud.
What legacy do you hope BeeHero leaves agriculture and the global food supply?
For decades, the push for a scalable, efficient and cheap food system has come at the cost of mortgaging our future: using up next-generation resources to solve the problems of today. The collapse of bee colonies makes that fragility impossible to ignore.
With real data, we can build food systems that are not only productive and scalable but also sustainable long term. The population is growing, land is limited, and we must keep improving how food is produced while thinking beyond the next harvest.
BeeHero’s legacy should be proving that precision pollination creates a win-win-win: farmers produce more, beekeepers are supported throughout the year, and ecosystems are strengthened. We want to show the industry that you don’t have to choose between doing good and making money; you can do both at scale.
When you’re not working, what pastime, pursuit, or activity energizes or recharges you most?
I love everything outdoors: the ocean, the mountains, and any extreme sport my body can still handle. Surfing, skiing, hiking, watersports or just being outside gives me energy.
Most of all, spending that time with my wife and our three young kids is what really recharges me. Since I didn’t grow up with the best father experience myself, being present with them — whether it’s an adventure outdoors or just relaxing together with a good glass of wine — is what grounds me and gets me ready to roll.
