Orchard Robotics secures $22M Series A funding for AI-powered agriculture platform

Seattle-based agricultural technology startup Orchard Robotics has raised $22 million in Series A funding, co-led by Shine Capital and Quiet Capital, with participation from General Catalyst, Contrary, Mythos Ventures, and others, as the company scales its AI-powered precision farming platform across America's specialty crop farms.

Founded in 2022 by CEO Charles Wu, Orchard Robotics aims to transform traditional farming through its FruitScope Vision System, which uses ruggedised cameras that mount to any farm vehicle and capture detailed images of every tree, vine, or plant at speeds up to 12 mph. The company's proprietary computer vision algorithms analyse these images to count, measure, and assess the health of individual fruits with unprecedented precision.

Core to their system is their FruitScope Vault that centralises farm data management, FruitScope OS for farm management software, and the upcoming Canary AI system for automated decision-making across all farm operations. Orchard Robotics' integrated approach addresses critical challenges in modern agriculture, where farmers traditionally rely on manual sampling methods.

Thus, it is not surprising that they are serving large commercial farms across the United States, already supporting apples, grapes, blueberries, cherries, almonds, pistachios, citrus, and strawberries.

Founder: Charles Wu (CEO)

Sources: Crunchbase, AgFunder News, TechCrunch, GeekWire