Our mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving planet, through smarter farming. We're the world's largest harvesting robotics company.
Location: United States, Colorado, Denver
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $2.4M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 8
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 04.12.2017 | Seed | $2.4M | - |
Mentions in press and media 14
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| 24.03.2025 | Oishii Acquires Tortuga AgTech IP & Engineering Team | In March 2025, vertical farming firm Oishii acquired key robotics IP, custom hardware, software and core engineering talent from Tortuga AgTech. The acquisition integrates AI-driven strawberry-harvesting tech into Oishii’s system via Yaskaw... |
| 28.09.2023 | Bytes to Bites part two – From farm to fork: Leveraging AI in the food supply chain | Editor’s Note: Eva Everloo is senior investment analyst, and Anina Troya is an investment analyst intern at agri-food tech investor PeakBridge. The views expressed in this guest commentary are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect... |
| 22.09.2023 | 5 crucial agtech tools for sustainable and productive farming | Epi Ludvik is the founder and CEO of Crowdsourcing Week and BOLD Awards, which award companies in the digital economy. He works with all types and sizes of organizations, from high-profile companies to emerging startups, helping them to har... |
| 30.05.2023 | Rise of the machines: What will drive adoption of robotics and automation in specialty crops? | Editor’s Note: Koji Hasegawa is general manager at Kubota Innovation Center Silicon Valley, where he is responsible for new agricultural business planning and execution with open innovation and investing in US agtech startups. The views exp... |
| 01.12.2021 | Data Snapshot: Farm robotics startups raised $491m in H1 2021 to automate the basics | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletter to receive alerts about new re... |
| 13.04.2021 | This startup says its new laser-armed weeding robot is already sold out for 2021 | Autonomous robotics company Carbon Robotics today debuted its third-generation weeding robot which combines AI and laser technology to take care of one of farmers’ least-favorite jobs. “After meeting with a bunch of farmers and talking abou... |
| 08.04.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Harvest automation startup Tortuga raises $20m Series A to build hundreds of robots | Harvest is one of the most hectic times on a farm. The idea of sending a fleet of robots to do the dull, dirty, and often dangerous work is promising for many operators. Numerous startups are working tirelessly to create robots that can har... |
| 08.09.2020 | How to spot opportunities and land funding in agriculture tech, the multibillion-dollar industry that's only becoming more crucial with population growth | Tortuga AgTech robots. Tortuga AgTech This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Redeem now Conventional farming methods are unable to produce enough food to feed the world’s growing... |
| 02.09.2020 | Saga Robotics raises $11m to develop robo-strawberry pickers | Saga Robotics, a UK and Norwegian startup developing fleets of autonomous strawberry pickers and agri-robots that blast fungus with UV light, has just raised €9.5 million ($11.3 million). The funding round saw participation from three major... |
| 13.08.2020 | Root AI raises $7.2m from AgFunder, Calacanis to deploy its ‘cross-crop robot’ workforce | Covid-19’s onset in the US coincided with one of the most important seasons on specialty crop farms across the country: harvest. As labor shortages and uncertainties surrounding the H2A visa program — and other pandemic-related factors — hi... |
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