Tom Chi founds Reefgen, Inc. with Good Machine Studio and support from the National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) program.

In its early years, the Reefgen team designed,  developed and delivered the first-ever coral planting robot, Cora.   

Reefgen first demonstrated the potential of mechanized restoration tools with the first-ever deployment of a robotic coral planter.

Reefgen begins research and development of a seagrass shoot planter.

Reefgen deployed the Grasshopper 1, a robotic seagrass shoot planter, as part of a restoration project off the island coast of Catalina, in southern California.

Development begins on a scaled seagrass planter that utilizes eelgrass seeds to expand capacity and speed.

Reefgen begins expanding operations to Indonesia with a coral reef health monitoring vehicle.

Reefgen's Grasshopper 2 robotic seagrass seed planter planted over 8,000 seeds in the Milford Haven Waterway off the coast of Dale.

Reefgen reconfigures the coral reef monitoring vehicle into a shoot planting vehicle, kickstarting out planting operations on the island of Bali.

Reefgen returns to Milford Haven, UK and successfully plants 25,500 eelgrass seeds, nearly a 300% increase over the previous year

Reefgen conducts an R&D deployment in its home San Francisco Bay.

Reefgen conducts pilot deployment in Washington to further study scaling for future shoot planting vehicles.

Reefgen aims to be a global technology service provider for coastal management.
Our scaled fleet will allow us to reverse decades of damage.
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