Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Lincoln, NE

Overview

Nave Analytics, Inc. is a Lincoln, Nebraska agricultural data company. It applies analytics to one operational question: when to irrigate and how much water to apply. Most soil moisture tools ask growers to install probes or other in-field hardware.

Nave instead builds its insights from remote and modeled data, so its software can serve as an alternative or a complement to physical sensors. Buyers comparing business intelligence providers should see Nave as a vertical analytics specialist for row crop water management. It is not a general-purpose dashboard or reporting consultancy.

The company serves growers, agronomists and crop advisors. It also reaches growers through a network of agricultural dealers. Prospective customers can enroll with the company directly or be paired with a participating dealer. Results are delivered through a web application that users log into.

Products and Services

Nave's software covers the season from pre-planting through harvest, for both irrigated and non-irrigated acres. It has two named products:

• NavePlant: estimates moisture in the seed zone. It helps growers choose when to plant, flags fields that are too wet or too dry, gauges germination prospects and provides a two-week outlook.
• NaveGrow: tracks moisture through the crop's rooting depth during the season. It highlights the risk of drought stress or leaching, projects moisture trends and supplies whole-field data to guide water applications.

The company also offers sustainability tracking and reporting. This service pulls scattered data sources into a single view of water use across irrigated fields. For operations that already own sensors, Nave markets gap-filling data that extends point readings into estimates for the entire field. Because nothing has to be installed on the ground, Nave describes its approach as able to scale to large acreages worldwide, with pricing meant to suit a range of users.

Methodology

The platform combines frequently updated observations with crop and climate models. The team uses data assimilation and uncertainty propagation to calibrate inputs from satellites, aircraft, field sensors and the irrigation equipment itself. This lets the system weigh all available information together. This modeling-first design is the main thing that separates Nave from hardware-based moisture monitoring.

Team and Background

The founders report more than 25 years of combined work in research, field testing and rollout of digital agriculture tools, along with earlier startup experience. Chief Executive Officer Jessica Korinek spent about 12 years running small plot research and commercial trials alongside growers. She was also part of an earlier startup that was later acquired. Chief Technology Officer Dr.

Val Kovalsky earned his doctorate at South Dakota State University's geospatial sciences center. He contributed to the NASA-funded WELD Landsat archive project and served as a Landsat Science Team affiliate. He then spent six years at Climate, LLC, where he filed patents and led irrigation recommendation and water sustainability research. He co-founded Nave in the summer of 2021.

Chief Operating Officer Bradley Griggs has more than 15 years of experience building digital water management tools. He previously worked at the startup HydroBio and stayed on as a senior portfolio manager after it was acquired.

For channel partners, the NaveNavigator program lets agricultural retailers add Nave's irrigation analytics to their lineup. Dealers receive support for selling, deploying and servicing the tools, and they earn revenue through commissions and related services. Organizations that want sensor-free, model-driven insight into crop water use will find Nave a narrowly focused option.