Katherine Sizov

Founder at Strella
Seattle, Washington, United States

Katherine Sizov is CEO and Founder of Strella. She was Co-President at YouthHack. She is an Unreasonable Fellow at Unreasonable. She was named to Forbes 30 Under 30.

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Strella raises $4.25M, totaling $26.25M, to scale IoT fruit-ripeness monitoring and add kiwifruit

Strella raised $4.25 million, bringing total funding to $26.25 million to expand its IoT and machine-vision fruit-ripeness monitoring across the fresh produce supply chain and add kiwifruit to its supported crops. The Seattle-based ag‑tech, led by CEO Katherine Sizov, uses sensors that measure gases like ethylene plus metadata to help growers, packers, shippers and retailers reduce spoilage across 26 countries.

Strella raises $4.25M to expand ethylene‑sensing produce‑monitoring tech, Series A now $26.25M

Strella, a Seattle ag‑tech startup led by CEO Katherine Sizov, raised $4.25 million to expand its ethylene‑sensing produce‑monitoring technology, bringing Series A total to $26.25 million and backing from SilverBlue, LeVert Ventures, Beta Milouot, and PeakBridge. The company of 19 employees serves customers in 26 countries and aims to cut food waste across the supply chain.

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  • Unreasonable Unreasonable Fellow 2026–present · current
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    Strella Executive Officer, Director, Promoter 2026–present, Founder 2019–present · current
  • YouthHack Co-President 2017–2019 · past

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Molecular Biology · 2015–2019

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