2022 SPECIALTY CROP AUTOMATION REPORT
APPENDIX: SPECIALTY CROP AUTOMATION START-UP PROFILES (CONTINUED)
Tortuga AgTech
UPP
Selective harvesting robots for broccoli
Harvesting robot for tabletop strawberries and grapes that can perform cultivation tasks and data / forecasting services
Colorado (US) / 2016
UK / 2020
Strawberries, grapes
Broccoli
$37 m / Round A
$1 m / Seed
50+ customers 1-5 robots
0 customers 0 robots
info@tortuga.ag
David.whitewood@upp.farm
tortugaagtech.com/
upp.farm
Verdant Robotics Inc
Autonomous robots focused on crop spraying and thinning, with first robots focusing on automat- ed chemical spraying and apple thinning
California (US) / 2019
Crop agnostic
$46.5 m / Round A
6-10 customers 6-10 robots
curtis@verdantrobotics.com
verdantrobotics.com
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