Semios is a precision-farming startup and one of the world’s largest independent agtech platforms. The company offers an integrated, end-to-end crop management platform that addresses annual planning, insect and disease control, water management, and regulatory reporting and compliance. Its technology stack emphasizes big data analytics and machine learning to simplify the grower experience and help mitigate climate-driven crop risks. Semios expanded via acquisitions in 2021, rolling Altrac, Centricity and Agworld into its platform to broaden its service offering. CEO Dr. Michael Gilbert frames the company’s mission around helping growers grow more food more sustainably amid volatile climate conditions. Semios serves customers across the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and South Africa. Semios provides a cloud-based analytics platform and field hardware that ingests granular data from over one million IoT sensors, measuring in-canopy microclimate, soil and plant conditions every 10 minutes. Its models—established and proprietary—translate those data points into guidance for growers on weather, insects, disease and water management across crops such as almonds, apples, pistachios and grapes. The company serves more than 500 farms in the United States, managing over 150,000 acres of permanent crops. Semios was founded in 2010 by CEO Dr. Michael Gilbert and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company has secured a total of US$115M in external capital to date and raised US$75M in February 2020. It intends to use the proceeds to accelerate research and development, form partnerships, or pursue acquisitions to better leverage in-field data.

Total raised

$175M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Sep 2021