Participated · Series B · Aug 2026

Ranchbot combines field-installed hardware with recurring software to allow producers to remotely monitor water infrastructure and other assets across large agricultural properties. Water management remains the company's foundation, but it is developing broader capabilities that are expected to encompass livestock, wildlife and natural capital such as soil, pasture and biodiversity, plus other ranch and farm infrastructure. The company serves more than 12,000 customers responsible for roughly 10 million cattle and 15 million sheep across Australia, North America and other markets. With the Series B financing and a new global holding structure based in Fort Worth, Ranchbot is investing in additional staff, hardware and software development and pursuing partnerships to expand its platform. It is positioning its data infrastructure for potential value beyond individual farms, including use cases for insurers, lenders and supply-chain companies.

Participated · Series B · Aug 2026

Founded in 2014, Farmbot builds satellite-connected sensors and a software platform that lets farmers monitor tanks, troughs, dams, pumps and rainfall remotely. The company serves more than 12,000 customers across Australia, North America and other markets and reports management of about 10 million cattle and 15 million sheep. It operates as Ranchbot in the U.S. and is now headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. With the recent $22 million Series B, Farmbot plans a corporate reorganization to establish Ranchbot Technology Holdings Inc. as the global parent, hire additional staff, and continue improving its hardware and software. Leadership has indicated plans to evolve the product offering into broader agricultural and water management solutions for the farm sector.

Participated · Series B · Oct 2025

Plastomics is an agricultural biotechnology company headquartered in St. Louis that has developed a proprietary chloroplast engineering platform for corn and soybeans. By inserting traits into chloroplast DNA rather than nuclear DNA, the company eliminates pollen out-crossing, delivers maternal inheritance, and achieves higher and more durable trait expression. Its technology is aimed at producing crop varieties with superior insect and herbicide resistance, greater resiliency and improved sustainability. Following a commercial breakthrough in soybean chloroplast transformation, Plastomics plans to enter final commercial-scale field trials for soybean traits over the next 12–24 months. Concurrently, the firm is accelerating development of what it says will be the world’s first chloroplast-based transgenic traits in corn. The company recently secured $5.8 million in Series B funding to advance these initiatives. No operating metrics such as revenue or acreage under cultivation were disclosed in the announcement.

Participated · Series B · May 2024

Niqo Robotics builds compact agricultural robots equipped with AI-driven computer vision, a proprietary AI camera, and deep learning models to identify and selectively spray target plants, claiming up to 90% reduction in chemical use. The company positions its robots to lower costs and boost farm profitability. It plans to enter new markets and accelerate global commercial adoption of spot-spray technology. Niqo expects to commercialize more than 90,000 acres in 2023–2024 and help over 1,800 farmers. Financially, the company’s Indian entity recorded only Rs 1.3 crore in revenue in FY23 while losses doubled to Rs 9.8 crore; audited FY24 numbers were not yet released. The nine-year-old company has raised $21 million in total funding to date. TartanSense builds smaller-sized robotic farm vehicles equipped with computer vision to perform sowing, spraying, weeding, and harvesting for smallholder farmers. Its latest robot, BladeRunner, can locate, identify, uproot weeds and spot-spray crops. The company says BladeRunner can cut chemical use by up to 45% and improve weeding efficiency sevenfold. TartanSense targets high-weeding-cost crops such as cotton and estimates a potential Indian market of about $3 billion per year based on 33 million acres and $100 per acre weeding spend. Founded in 2015 in Bengaluru by Jaisimha Rao with a team of Carnegie Mellon alumni, the startup’s mission is to make smallholder farmers wealthier by shipping monetizable robots. Financially, it has raised $7 million to date and is focused on scaling its fleet and deployments over the coming months.

Led · Series A · Feb 2024

WeedOUT, based in Ness Ziona, Israel, provides a green solution for outsmarting resistant weeds using a proprietary weed pollen derived from male plants. Its sterile pollen fertilizes female weed ovules to yield nonviable seeds, impeding the growth of new generations of resistant weeds while supporting improved yields and reduced herbicide need. The company is moving to launch its inaugural product targeting Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri), a major nuisance in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina. It plans to expand field trials in multiple U.S. regions, including Georgia and Nebraska, and is developing new formulations targeting different weed species. WeedOUT recently submitted a request to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for marketing approval. The company is led by Co-CEOs Efrat Lidor Nili and Dr. Orly Noivirt-Brik and recently raised $8.1M in Series A funding. Founded in 2016 in Israel, WeedOUT develops biological herbicides that imitate pollen so they can be applied while weeds are flowering to overcome herbicide resistance. Its platform uses the weeds' natural reproductive system; the first product specifically targets Palmer's amaranth, a glyphosate-resistant threat to cotton and soybean. The company is targeting North America as its first commercialization market and sought North American expertise from investors. Fulcrum Global Capital highlighted an investor base representing more than 500,000 acres of row crop producers and its partner Kevin Lockett joined WeedOUT's board. Co-founders Efrat Lidor Nili and Orly Noivirt-Brik previously worked at Monsanto's Israel unit after Rosetta Green was acquired. The Series A funds will be used for product development, scaling operations, and regulatory advancements. WeedOUT produces a green bioherbicide that artificially pollinates target weeds with proprietary weed pollen to induce seed abortion and prevent germination. The technology aims to stop the next generation of weeds and reduce reliance on higher chemical doses against resistant weeds. Its bioherbicide is described as non-toxic and non-invasive to crops. WeedOUT was named Best Israeli Agtech Company in the 2018 AgriVest Competition and was later selected as the winner of the Radicle Challenge Israel. As Challenge winner the company received a $250,000 award and access to Radicle Growth’s custom acceleration program, venture partners, and strategic alliances. WeedOUT plans to use the funding and acceleration support to expedite product development, manufacturing scale-up, and build on the success of field trials.