FarmWise raises $14.5M to sustainably farm crops using robots
FarmWise's autonomous, AI-enabled robots perform a variety of farming functions.
FarmWise, San Francisco, raised $14.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Calibrate Ventures, Pasadena, Calif., in addition to existing investors such as Wilbur Ellis Holdings, Inc., San Francisco; Xplorer Capital, Menlo Park, Calif.; and Alumni Ventures Group, Manchester, N.H. The proceeds will be used to grow the company’s robotic engineering and operation teams, as well as boost R&D efforts on plant-level detection and actuation capabilities.
FarmWise's autonomous, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled robots perform a variety of farming functions such as weeding. Using machine learning models, computer vision and high-precision mechanical tools, FarmWise’s sophisticated robots cleanly pick weeds from fields, leaving crops with the best opportunity to thrive while eliminating harmful chemical inputs.