Together with growers, we are building sustainable, high-fidelity farming: spatially, temporally, and physically working the farm at a precision, accuracy, frequency and scale never before possible. At Verdant we believe environmentally conscientious robotic farming is the future of agriculture. Our goal is to transform how food is grown while improving the lives of farmers, workers and rural communities. By digitizing the farm at sub-millimeter scale, indexing it, and taking actions that unlock new value, we are providing our customers with superhuman farming tools. To learn more, visit www.VerdantRobotics.com.
Location: United States, California, Hayward
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $46.5M
Founded date: 2018
Investors 9
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 05.12.2022 | - | $46.5M | AgFunder |
Mentions in press and media 14
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| 24.10.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Agtonomy raises $32.8m, NVentures backs Orbital Materials, NotCo unveils ‘fragrance formulator’ | Ag robotics and automation startups swarmed the news this week, coinciding with the FIRA 2024 farm robotics show in Sacramento, California. Agtonomy, Carbon Robotics, FarmDroid, and others all announced fundraises, while AgFunder portco Ver... |
| 07.05.2024 | Brief: NVIDIA’s venture arm invests in autonomous weeding startup Carbon Robotics | NVIDIA‘s venture capital arm, NVentures, has invested in US-based Carbon Robotics, best known for its autonomous laser-weeding platform for specialty crops. A specific dollar amount was not disclosed; Carbon Robotics says this investment to... |
| 01.11.2023 | Startups in the AI farming space you should know | They include Intelia, ecoRobotix, Sentera, Regrow, and Verdant Robotics Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, but it's growing extremely fast: valued at nearly $100 billion U.S. dollars, it's expected to grow twentyfold, up to ne... |
| 09.03.2023 | Mistakes were made (and that’s fine) | Forgive the scattered nature of this week’s Actuator. No big, overarching monologs this week — just a handful of things I’ve been thinking about lately that I’d like to get down on paper. I suppose that’s one of the perks of doing a weekly ... |
| 07.03.2023 | A list of robotics companies that are hiring | The economy is a bit better — kind of, maybe, sort of? While things appear to be trending in the right direction, it’s going to be a long road. Besides, if you’re unable to find work, positive macroeconomic trends are cold comfort. One of t... |
| 09.02.2023 | Hype machines | The age-old question in my industry is, “Where are we in a given hype cycle?” For now, crypto news cycle dominance has, thankfully, died now, largely through its own self-destructive tendencies. FTX obviously served as the most prominent re... |
| 29.11.2022 | Verdant Robotics lands $46.5m in fresh funding from Cleveland Avenue, AgFunder & others | US-based Verdant Robotics has closed a $46.5 million Series A for its “Robotics as a Service” technology that combines crop applications with data analytics for farmers. Cleveland Avenue led the round joined by DCVC Bio, Future Ventures and... |
| 24.02.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: GrowUp Farms gets $135m, PlantLab pulls in $57m & Novameat nabs $6m | The UK will soon get a new, large-scale controlled environment agriculture (CEA) facility thanks to a recent nine-figure investment in GrowUp Farms. In the realm of alternative proteins, Spain’s Novameat netted several million dollars for i... |
| 22.02.2022 | Verdant aims to be the (robotic) king of carrot weeders | Agtech is a massive industry aching to be disrupted by robotics. It’s a big category that’s going to require a number of solutions to various problems, though lately it’s been hit by a number of false starts. Abundant Robotics, for instance... |
| 22.02.2022 | Verdant Robotics unveils ‘multi-action’ tech for specialty crops that handles spraying, weeding & more | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Verdant Robotics. Verdant Robotics has officially launched its platform that combines data analytics and crop applications such as spraying and weeding into a single farming impl... |
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