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 21
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| 17.09.2026 | These constraints are holding agrifood back. AgFunder is investing to solve them | In the 1820s, when European farmers were pouring manure onto exhausted soils and getting very little yield back, the accepted explanation was that plants needed more humus, the decayed organic matter in the ground, which they fed on. So the... |
| 28.08.2026 | 🎥 ‘The whole system is now more investable’: Reservoir makes the case for ag robotics | When growers are testing new ag robots, they will usually tell you one of two things, observed Ben Palone at Western Growers at the inaugural Ruggedize conference at Reservoir Farms in Salinas: “They’ll say it’s alright, which means its wor... |
| 14.07.2026 | Leaps By Bayer backs Sabanto to bring ‘practical autonomy to more farms’ | Sabanto, best known for its autonomy retrofit system for agriculture, has raised an oversubscribed Series B round to bring “practical autonomy to more farms,” according to founder and CEO Craig Rupp. “We believe autonomy should reduce capit... |
| 02.07.2026 | From ‘cautiously optimistic’ to ‘hollow words,’ agrifood weighs in on the US regen ag executive order | By now, plenty of agrifood industry folks have weighed in on the Advancing Regenerative Agriculture and Strengthening American Farm Resilience Executive Order, which President Trump signed last week. Building on the Make America Healthy Aga... |
| 19.05.2026 | The cracks in chemical farming are getting hard to ignore. These startups are providing alternatives | From MAHA’s glyphosate tug-of-war with Trump to patent cliffs to rising fertilizer costs, the cracks in the use of traditional crop inputs are starting to resemble fault lines. Mainstream investors are even starting to notice, including Gar... |
| 15.04.2026 | Verdant Robotics expands into grass seed and sod, “where the weeds and the crop can look nearly identical’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Verdant Robotics] Ag robotics startup Verdant Robotics has expanded its SharpShooter precision application system into grass seed and sod production, two sectors “where cr... |
| 12.06.2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Coco Robotics bags $80m, Tastewise secures $50m, Tebi raises $34m | This week, Sam Altman-backed last-mile delivery robots startup Coco Robotics raised $80m, Israel’s Tastewise closed a $50 million round to scale its AI platform for food companies, and Amsterdam-based Tebi landed funds to develop an all-in-... |
| 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... |
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