Anthrogen (formerly Arctic Capture) is excited to announce the next chapter of its startup journey - bringing on two new co-founders to complete the initial founding team.

Connor Lee will be joining as Anthrogen's CTO. He is the youngest-ever President of Columbia Robotics and has a real passion for the field; he has been doing robotics for 10+ years winning various awards throughout high school and college. He has worked as a researcher in labs at UW and Columbia - including the ROAM mobility lab at Columbia University. He will largely handle physical development of growth systems.

Vignesh Karthik will be joining as Arctic's COO. He has worked as an AI researcher - analyzing ocean sediment behavior for the Naval Research Laboratory and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. His insights related to abstracting bacteria in aqueous solutions as sediments and thereby optimizing bacterial growth will be critical as Anthrogen scales out of the lab.

They both previously worked on the startup Yucca Earth together where they designed drones and retrofitted sprinklers to save on farmer irrigation costs. Both of them combined fill out the engineering/robotics side of the founding technical talent.

Super excited to have them on board Anthrogen!