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Tortuga raised a $20 million Series A round led by the investor Lewis & Clark AgriFood.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported
What the source says
“Tortuga has completed a $20 million Series A round led by Lewis & Clark AgriFood.”
What it means
Tortuga harvesting robots, from Tortuga AgTech (now owned by Oishii), is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on Tortuga harvesting robots
- Oishii raised $150 million. It said harvesting robots, added through the Tortuga deal, help it grow strawberries more consistently.
- At the time of the sale, Tortuga's commercial harvesting fleet was 150 robots.
- Oishii, an indoor strawberry grower, bought Tortuga's intellectual property, other assets and some of its engineers. The price was not disclosed.
- Tortuga won the Ag Robot of the Year award from the trade magazine Future Farming.
- Tortuga rented out its robots as a service and was paid by the kilo for the fruit they picked.