About Metal Dog Labs

I am a rational techno-optimist. I believe technology will play an outsized role in bending the arc of humanity's future towards progress, prosperity, and peace.

Advisory Services

Metal Dog Labs provides advisory services for legacy industries as it relates to product strategy, digital transformation, automation, and AI adoption.

• Product and technology strategy for startups and agribusiness
• Landscape scans, due diligence, M&A pipeline for investors
• Thought leadership and positioning for AgriFoodTech

Metal Dog Labs also partners with advisory groups like the Skyhaven Group, and the AgTech Advisory Collective. Please send an email to rhishi at rhishipethe dot com to know more.

Speaking engagements

If you want to invite Rhishi Pethe to speak at your event or moderate a panel, please send an email to rhishi at rhishipethe dot com. Rhishi has experience moderating panels at World Agritech, FIRA, corporate events, including key-notes at different organizations.

Rhishi Pethe

Metal Dog Labs was founded and is run by Rhishi Pethe. He has more than 20+ years of technology experience working within the agriculture and food industries. Rhishi has had product and technology leadership roles at Alphabet X (the moonshot factory), The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science), Amazon, startups (with exits) like HarvestMark, and ShopWell. He spent the first decade of his professional career in working on supply chain and logistics technology for the food and beverage industry.

Rhishi grew up in India and so has a keen sense of some of the challenges inherent in the food and agriculture systems, and climate change issues unique to the Global South.

He has extensive experience in supply chain & logistics, product management, data and technology strategy, and artificial intelligence.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs (Biscuit and Ozzy).