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 18
| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.05.2026 | Oishii Leads Vertical Farm Revolution with Major Funding | Oishii, the vertical strawberry farm innovator, secured $150 million in Series C funding. This capital fuels aggressive expansion. It advances robotics and automation across its Smart Farm model. Oishii blends Japanese farming with modern e... |
| 15.05.2026 | On the heels of fresh funding, Oishii has ‘crossed the chasm’ of unit economics in vertical farming | Vertical farming company Oishii this week announced the first close of a $150 million Series C round, which founder and CEO Hiroki Koga says was made possible by the firm’s continued focus on proving unit economics instead of chasing revenu... |
| 13.05.2026 | Oishii Announces First Closing Of $150 Million Series C As It Scales Its Indoor Smart Farm Model | Oishii has closed the first $150 million tranche of its Series C financing, marking a major new phase of scale for the company behind the world’s largest indoor vertical strawberry farm. The round was led by SPARX Asset Management with part... |
| 24.03.2025 | Oishii acquires Tortuga AgTech’s IP, assets, and engineering team to ‘supercharge’ its vertical farms | Vertical farming company Oishii, best known for its premium strawberries and tomatoes, has acquired the “key IP and assets” of harvest robotics startup Tortuga AgTech. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Colorado-based Tortuga A... |
| 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... |
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