Orchard
We're a team of engineers, researchers, and farmers on a mission to revolutionize one of Earth's most important industries – agriculture. At Orchard, we're securing America’s food supply by building the AI farmer that automates our nation’s farms. Our mission is to help farmers produce more food for the world, more profitably and sustainably than ever before. Farmers across the U.S. use our industry-leading hardware-enabled software to look at their data, make critical decisions, and command farming operations. Our technology is used today across some of the largest farms in the nation.
Orchard
We're a team of engineers, researchers, and farmers on a mission to revolutionize one of Earth's most important industries – agriculture. At Orchard, we're securing America’s food supply by building the AI farmer that automates our nation’s farms. Our mission is to help farmers produce more food for the world, more profitably and sustainably than ever before. Farmers across the U.S. use our industry-leading hardware-enabled software to look at their data, make critical decisions, and command farming operations. Our technology is used today across some of the largest farms in the nation.
TL;DR
Product: FruitScope — tractor/vehicle-mounted AI cameras + FruitScope OS/Vault for plant-level fruit data and farm decision workflows
Crops served: Apple, grape, blueberry, cherry
Founding: Founded 2022 by Charlie Wu (Founder & CEO); HQ Seattle, Washington
Funding: Disclosed rounds: $600K pre-seed, $3.2M seed (Mar 27, 2024), $22M Series A (Sep 3, 2025); disclosed total $25.8M
Team size: Approximately 33 employees
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Company Overview
Problem Domain
Precision agriculture for specialty crops (orchards and similar), enabling plant-level measurement and farm decision-making.
Founded
2022
Industry
AgTech / Precision agriculture
Tech Stack
Funding Track Record
$600K
Previously unannounced pre-seed referenced in later reporting.
$3.2M
Participants included Humba Ventures, Soma Capital, Correlation Ventures, VU Venture Partners, and Genius Ventures.
$22M
Participation from returning and additional investors including General Catalyst, Contrary, Nico Rosberg, Mythos Ventures, Howard Lerman, Ravelin Capital, Valyrian Capital, and others.
Investor Signal
“Backed by established venture investors (General Catalyst, Quiet Capital, Shine Capital) with participation from multiple venture funds and angel investors.”