The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Tortuga AgTech: 1 model, $20.0M raised. 2 sources back the record.
CategoryAgricultural robots
Overview
Tortuga AgTech was an agricultural robotics company that developed autonomous harvesting robots for greenhouse and vertical farming operations. Founded by Eric Adamson and Tim, the company raised $20M in Series A funding to build hundreds of harvesting robots. In 2025, Oishii Farm Corporation acquired Tortuga's IP, assets, and engineering team to supercharge its vertical farming operations with cutting-edge robotic harvesting technology.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
Robot
Focus
Technology
HQ
Stage
CEO
Series A
Oishii acquisition of technology assets
Harvesting technology transition
Data & sources
News coverage
1
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Tortuga AgTech has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Oishii Farm Corporation1× joint
Most recent
- Tortuga AgTech x Oishii Acquisition2025-03-01with Oishii Farm Corporationoperating
Tortuga AgTech on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Eric Adamson Co-Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Eric Adamsoncofounder
- Tim Brackbillcofounderno longer at company
Former / Previously (1)
- Tim Brackbill Co-Foundersecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Tortuga AgTech.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Tortuga AgTech in third-party press
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
Financial state
- Total funding
- $20.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- acquired
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating · 1 ended
Every company Tortuga AgTech has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Tortuga AgTech x Oishii Acquisition2025-03-01with Oishii Farm Corporationoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Oishii Farm Corporation1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Tortuga AgTech x Oishii AcquisitionwithOishii Farm Corporationinvestment2025-03-01concludedoperating
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2021-01-01
$20M(reported) · $120M post
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by Oishiiasset purchase2025-03-28
Timeline
Every recorded move in Tortuga AgTech’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Acquired byAcquired by Oishii
2025-03-28Acquired by Oishii (asset_purchase)
PartnershipTortuga AgTech x Oishii Acquisition
2025-03-01Oishii Farm Corporation acquired Tortuga AgTech's key IP, assets, and engineering team in 2025 to supercharge its vertical farming operations with cutting-edge robotic harvesting technology.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2021-01-01Series A raising $20000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-29
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-29
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Tortuga AgTech.Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Tortuga AgTech from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Oishii acquires Tortuga AgTech's IP, assets, and engineering team
Oishii Farm Corporation acquired Tortuga AgTech's key IP, assets, and engineering team to supercharge its vertical farming operations with cutting-edge robotic harvesting…
Harvesting robot startup Tortuga raises $20m to build hundreds of robots
Tortuga AgTech raised $20M in Series A funding to build hundreds of autonomous harvesting robots for deployment in greenhouse and vertical farming operations.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/tortuga-agtech.md
- RSS feed: /companies/tortuga-agtech/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/068791ed-c3dd-4ee5-811f-4a8013861770
- Revision history: /companies/tortuga-agtech/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
Video
We’re sharing some exciting recent footage of our “F” model robots picking at peak speeds of ~800 picks per hour.
In our newest video, our Model F and G robots show how we’re getting the job done in the right way: - We have built robots that can pick day or night, rain
Following our first blog post, we’re proud to share more of Tortuga’s exciting progress and videos in the coming months! This week, we’re opening up the vault
Our robotic harvesting fleet works day and night to pick strawberries in glasshouses or outdoor tunnel farms. The robots are autonomous when in the row, analyzi
For the first four years at Tortuga, we built a completely new version of our robot - hardware, software, and machine learning and vision - every six months. Th
In case you missed our longer promo video, check out the highlights here! Our robots perform the hard and delicate work of harvesting fruits, with better qualit
We believe robots need to do multiple critical jobs on farms. We started with harvesting, the biggest, hardest job, but our robots can do a lot more. We’re now
One word to describe our custom robot - robust. Here’s a fun video of our Model G robot pulling 1.5 tons at 4 mph up our warehouse ramp (5% slope, 8.75 degree i
Tortuga operates harvesting robots indoors or outdoors. This drone video shows ~40 robots picking on an Autumn day at The New Forest Fruit Company in their glas
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Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Tortuga AgTech draws attention at the 41st percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among ag robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Funding runway warrants monitoring: last known round 70 months ago.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026