USA – Agtonomy, a San Francisco CA- and Sonoma County-based hybrid autonomy and tele-assist service platform, raised $5M in Seed funding.
Backers included Toyota Ventures, Flybridge, Hampton VC, E²JDJ and Momenta, as well as existing investors GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Grit Ventures.The company intends to use the funds to accelerate development and trials of its platform to address the growing labor and sustainability challenges facing local agriculture.Led by Tim Bucher, CEO, Agtonomy provides a platform that give local agriculture and land maintenance operators the ability to solve the skilled labor shortage with autonomous equipment and increase their efficiency. The platform turns tractors and other equipment into autonomous machines providing a low-cost, technology-enabled labor force to manage such equipment. 18/01/2022
