SRSharique Raza
Founder & COO
Fulbright Scholar, inventor and US patent holder with 10+ years across particle physics, materials science, software and product invention.
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Our mission · Michigan-based
Plant care shouldn't require a green thumb. It should just work.
Most people don't lack the desire to keep plants alive — they lack the time, knowledge and consistency it takes. So we built a device that handles all three.
Founding team
The people behind Soileafy.
Physics, embedded systems and finance — the three disciplines it takes to ship hardware that works.
SR
NSNishant Sood
Founder & CEO
Embedded systems architect with 16+ years building mission-grade ECUs and full-stack IoT and robotics systems.
SJSyed Junaidi
Founder & CFO
Finance and operations leader with 12+ years across Fortune 500 and startup environments.
Milestones
Where we are.
- US patent
D1,020,506 S granted for the device's design.
- Thread Group award
Innovation Enabler Award with a $40K protocol grant.
- Pilot
100 units in real homes ahead of launch.
- Public launch
Available on soileafy.com and Amazon first.
- Retail
Retail stores planned after launch.
Traction & validation
Selected by the Thread Group Board of Officers.
The officers who lead the Thread Group, the standards body behind the wireless protocol used across today's smart homes, named Soileafy a 2025 Innovation Enabler Award winner.
Vividh Siddha
President, Thread Group
Director of Software Engineering · Apple
Ann Olivo
VP of Marketing, Thread Group
Int'l Marketing Manager · Silicon Labs
Jonathan Hui
VP of Technology, Thread Group
Principal Software Engineer · Google
Thomas Kurowski
VP Commercial & European Region, Thread Group
Technical Regulation Manager · Siemens
Thread Group Innovation Enabler Award 2025
Recognized for excellence in IoT innovation by the Thread Group Board of Officers.
$40,000
Protocol grant award
- 2 years of Thread protocol support
- Resources for IoT device development
About the Thread Group
A non-profit formed in 2013 to make Thread the foundation for the Internet of Things in homes and commercial buildings. Its members and backers include Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung SmartThings, Qualcomm, Siemens and Silicon Labs.
About the award
Launched in 2015, the Innovation Enabler program recognizes early-stage companies worldwide that use the Thread protocol to solve real IoT challenges.
What Thread is
A low-power, secure wireless mesh network built on open IETF and IEEE standards.
