# Agovor: agricultural robotics company

Canonical ID: `1a6b5354-32c0-45bc-b40a-fd164365bdae`

## Key facts

- **HQ:** New Zealand (manufacturing: Sydney, Australia)
- **Founded:** 2022
- **Founders:** [Richard Beaumont](/people/richard-beaumont.md), [Simon Carroll](/people/simon-carroll.md) (CTO)
- **CEO:** [Mike Riley](/people/mike-riley.md) (30+ years scaling tech companies, ex-TOMRA/Compac)
- **Funding:** [A$3M pre-seed (Feb 2026)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Investors:** [Tenacious Ventures](/investors/tenacious-ventures.md) (lead), [Hort Innovation Investment Fund](/investors/hort-innovation.md), [Artesian](/investors/artesian.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Product:** [Agovor eTractor](/models/agovor-etractor.md) — 120kg electric autonomous tractor with smart towed attachments
- **Savings:** $30,000+ annual savings, 90% water reduction, 12.5% chemical reduction (early customer data)

- **Slug:** agovor
- **Founded:** 2022
- **HQ:** New Zealand
- **Category:** [Agricultural robots](/agriculture)

## Models

- [Agovor eTractor](/models/agovor-etractor.md) (agriculture) (id: `3c9892fe-4bc4-479b-914e-38ea8c9e001b`)

## Current leadership (4)

- [Richard Beaumont](/people/richard-beaumont.md) Co-founder (SEC-verified)
- [Simon Carroll](/people/simon-carroll.md) Co-founder & CTO (SEC-verified)
- [Simon Carroll](/people/simon-carroll.md) Co-founder & CTO (SEC-verified)
- [Mike Riley](/people/mike-riley.md) CEO (SEC-verified)

## Founders (2)

- [Simon Carroll](/people/simon-carroll.md) (cofounder)
- [Richard Beaumont](/people/richard-beaumont.md) (cofounder)

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Agovor?

[Agovor](/companies/agovor) is a New Zealand horticultural robotics startup building compact, fully electric autonomous eTractors for vineyards, orchards, and berry farms. Founded in 2022 by Richard Beaumont and Simon Carroll, the 120kg eTractor operates up to 10 hours on swappable batteries with smart towed attachments including mowers and sprayers. The Agovor Portal software enables fleet management and automatic work redistribution. Agovor raised A$3M in pre-seed funding led by Tenacious Ventures with Hort Innovation, and is expanding sales across Australia and New Zealand.

### What does Agovor make?

Agovor has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Agovor eTractor (Agovor builds physical robots).

### Where is Agovor headquartered?

Agovor is headquartered in New Zealand.

### Where does Agovor operate robots?

Agovor is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is Agovor a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Agovor ranks in roughly the top 45% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Agovor founded?

Agovor was founded in 2022.


## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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