Agtonomy: Raises $5M in Seed Funding

Agtonomy Raises $5M in Seed Funding

• 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
• The company 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