What Orchard Robotics does

Orchard Robotics commercializes its platform via a per-acre, per-year annual subscription that bundles hardware, software, data processing, and in-field support, with volume discounts for large commercial operations. Go-to-market is a direct enterprise field-sales motion: the company targets commercial specialty crop operations ranging from 100 to 10,000+ acres growing apples, wine and table grapes, blueberries, cherries, almonds, pistachios, citrus, and strawberries, and relies on live on-farm demonstrations, customer testimonial content, and selective PR as its primary demand-generation channels. The company has raised approximately $25.8M across three rounds, most recently a $22M oversubscribed Series A in September 2025 led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital with participation from General Catalyst, Contrary, Mythos, Valyrian, and Ravelin, and has been recognized as a 2026 GeekWire Awards Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.

Name

Orchard Robotics

Legal name

Orchard Robotics

Website

https://orchard.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Orchard Robotics builds an AI-powered precision agriculture platform, FruitScope, that uses tractor-mounted cameras to capture per-plant crop data for commercial specialty crop growers, and sells it as a per-acre annual subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Precision Agriculture Software

NAICS

Lawn and Garden Tractor and Home Lawn and Garden Equipment Manufacturing (333112), Fruit and Tree Nut Farming (1113)

SIC

Farm Machinery & Equipment (3523), Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Autonomous Field Robots & Tractors (Driverless tractors, robotic carriers) (AFAAAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Field Mapping, GIS & Remote Sensing Analytics (AFAAAFAB)

Keywords

• Precision agriculture
• Agricultural robotics
• Computer vision farming
• Crop analytics platform
• Farm management software

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription (Per-Acre Annual License): Annual subscription model priced on a per-acre, per-year basis. Includes hardware (camera system), software access (FruitScope OS, Vault), data processing, and support. Large-acreage discounts available for large commercial farms. Hardware is provided as part of the subscription rather than sold separately.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Orchard Robotics sells the FruitScope precision agriculture platform to commercial specialty crop growers. The platform combines a tractor-mounted AI camera system (FruitScope Vision) that captures per-plant crop data, a centralized data system-of-record (FruitScope Vault), and farm management software (FruitScope OS) for analytics and decision-making. Hardware, software, data processing, and in-field support are bundled into a per-acre annual subscription, with an AI decision-automation engine (Canary) announced as coming soon.

Product overview

Orchard Robotics offers a unified precision agriculture platform called FruitScope, consisting of three integrated products: FruitScope Vision (AI-powered camera system for data capture), FruitScope Vault (data management system-of-record), and FruitScope OS (farm management software). The platform captures comprehensive crop data via mounted cameras on farm vehicles, stores it in a centralized system, and provides software for decision-making and automation. A fourth component called Canary (in development) will serve as the AI brain powering autonomous farm decision-making across all operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FruitScope Vision: AI-powered camera system that mounts to tractors and farm vehicles to capture precision data on crops including fruit counts, sizes, colors, disease detection, and yield estimates
• FruitScope Vault
• FruitScope OS
• Canary

Products and services

• FruitScope Vision An AI-powered camera system that mounts to any tractor, ATV, or farm vehicle and collects comprehensive per-plant crop data — including fruit counts, sizes, colors, disease detection, and yield estimates — across the entire growing season. Hardware is ruggedized for farm-tough conditions, operates at 1–12 mph, processes data on-device overnight, and delivers results by the next morning. Designed for commercial specialty crop growers with operations from 100 to 10,000+ acres.
• FruitScope Vault A centralized farm data system-of-record that houses the information critical to farm operations and integrates into every decision made across the farm. It tracks billions of fruit across tens of millions of trees, vines, or plants across multiple seasons, blocks, ranches, and farms, providing the persistent data layer underlying precision agriculture analytics and AI modeling. Designed for growers and farm management companies that need cross-farm, multi-season data continuity.
• FruitScope OS A modern farm management software suite where captured crop data meets decision-making. It provides growers with an interface to view and act on all farm data, integrates directly with existing farm operations, and bridges the gap between computer-based analytics and in-field activity to enable farm automation workflows. Targeted at commercial specialty crop growers and farm management companies seeking to operationalize precision agriculture data.

Quantifiable outcome

• Data processing turnaround by next morning
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• John Deere (See & Spray / Blue River Technology): Largest agricultural equipment maker; Blue River Technology (acquired) powers its See & Spray precision platform. Operates broadly across row and specialty crops with deep dealer network and farmer relationships, making it a dominant incumbent should it choose to expand into orchards and vineyards.
• Trimble Agriculture: Established precision agriculture platform providing GPS, telematics, and farm management software. Broad incumbent that addresses specialty crop growers as part of a wider portfolio spanning many farm types and geographies.
• Climate Corp (Bayer): Bayer-owned digital agriculture platform offering FieldView. Large incumbent with deep agronomic datasets, though primarily focused on row crops; represents a credible expansion threat into specialty crops given Bayer's resources.

Direct peers

• Semios: Precision agriculture platform focused on specialty crops (tree fruits, nuts, vines) combining IoT sensors, weather data, and decision support. Closest comparable in target customer, crop specialization, and data-driven farm management focus.
• Bloomfield Robotics: Computer vision company that images specialty crops (vineyards, orchards) to assess plant health and yield. Direct overlap with Orchard's vision-based approach to specialty crop data capture and AI-driven agronomic insight.
• Tule Technologies: Provides irrigation and crop water-stress analytics specifically for specialty crops (vines, almonds, pistachios). Comparable in crop specialization and the use of field-deployed sensing to deliver farm management decision support.
• VineView: Aerial imaging and analytics provider focused on vineyards and other high-value specialty crops. Closely comparable in specialty-crop focus and use of imagery for yield, vigor, and disease analytics.
• Prospera (Valmont Industries): Acquired by Valmont, Prospera built AI-powered computer vision and analytics for specialty crops including greenhouses and open fields. Highly comparable in vision-based specialty crop AI; now has the backing of a large irrigation equipment maker.

Emerging players

• Aigen: Agricultural robotics startup developing solar-powered robots for weeding and crop monitoring. Adjacent in robotics+AI for in-field farm automation with overlapping specialty crop ambitions but a different hardware form factor.
• xFarm Technologies: European farm management platform offering IoT, satellite imagery, and decision support with growing specialty crop coverage. Comparable in farm management software and integrated data-to-decision positioning, though with regional focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors12 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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