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INDEPENDENT TECHNOLOGY INTELLIGENCENAPA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
NAPA VALLEY AI[AI]

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INTELLIGENCE / DIRECTORY

Companies

16 company records tracked by the Intelligence desk. Statuses reflect the last verification date on each record; funding figures are disclosed rounds only.

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Hybrid autonomy / tele-guidance software · South San Francisco + Sonoma County, CA · OPERATING

Agtonomy

TeleFarmer: hybrid autonomy plus tele-guidance software and services for specialty-crop equipment, covering mowing, spraying, and weeding. Marketed under a 'Physical AI' positioning.

Autonomous UV-C disease treatment · Oslo, Norway; US operations California (US GM in Santa Barbara) · OPERATING

Saga Robotics

Thorvald: an autonomous platform using UV-C light to control powdery mildew in vineyards, with data collection and yield-prediction tools.

Vision-first autonomy stack · San Jose, CA (manufacturing Watsonville; test farm Davis) · OPERATING

Bonsai Robotics

A vision-first autonomy stack for agriculture: retrofit kits and the Amiga Flex/Max/Trax autonomous platforms for spraying, hauling, and scouting. Acquired farm-ng (the Watsonville maker of the Amiga platform) in July 2025.

AI vision retrofit cutting · Los Gatos, CA · OPERATING

Beagle Technology

'See and Cut': a camera plus AI vision system with hydraulic cutters that retrofits onto existing tractors for pruning and harvest cutting. Demonstrated in grapes and lettuce.

Autonomous mobile robots · Philadelphia, PA · OPERATING

Burro

Autonomous mobile robots for harvest assist, mowing, spraying, and material transport in vineyards, blueberries, and nurseries.

Retrofit tractor autonomy · Tel Aviv, Israel; office Fresno, CA · OPERATING

Bluewhite

Retrofit autonomy ('Pathfinder' hardware plus 'Compass' AI fleet software) that converts existing tractors to autonomous operation for spraying, mowing, and disking.

Precision spraying · Indianapolis, IN (acquired by John Deere, July 2023) · ACQUIRED

Smart Apply (John Deere)

Intelligent Spray Control System: a LiDAR retrofit for air-blast sprayers that enables per-vine spray control.

Smart irrigation · Napa County, CA (HQ) · OPERATING

Lumo

Lumo One smart irrigation valves: wireless, cloud-managed, block-level water control plus pump automation for vineyards and orchards.

Aerial imaging / remote sensing · HQ Halifax, Nova Scotia; office Angwin, CA 94508 (Napa County); also Toulouse, France · OPERATING

VineView

Calibrated aerial imagery (drone plus airplane) for vineyards: vine vigor (EVI), leaf water content, and disease detection (leafroll, flavescence dorée).

Sap-flow sensing · Napa, CA + Montpellier, France · UNKNOWN

Fruition Sciences

Sap-flow sensors (360viti Water Pilot) measuring vine transpiration to inform irrigation decisions.

AI vision / tractor-mounted cameras · Davis, CA area (UC Davis spinout; adjacent to North Bay) · OPERATING

Scout (Agricultural Scout)

AI that processes images from tractor-mounted cameras: vineyard mapping, vine counting, yield forecasting from flowering, and virus identification.

Actual-ET sensors / AI water-stress imagery · San Francisco/Davis origin · ACQUIRED

Tule Technologies

Actual-ET sensors plus Tule Vision AI (phone/ATV imagery for vine water stress), licensed surface-renewal ET sensing technology from UC Davis.

Winery data platform for AI assistants · Napa Valley, CA · OPERATING

New Vintage Labs

New Vintage: a platform that connects a winery's Commerce7, Klaviyo/Mailchimp, and RedChirp data to AI assistants including Claude and ChatGPT, so winery teams can query customer and business data in natural language, automate reporting, and push segments back

AI concierge agents for winery websites · Napa Valley, CA · OPERATING

WineSpeak.ai

Custom AI concierge and wine curator agents for winery websites, one named agent per winery, built on conversational commerce with natural language processing and retrieval-augmented generation. The agents cover tasting bookings, club membership guidance, and

AI product and experience recommendation software · New York, NY (per company announcements); Napa Valley deployment · OPERATING

Preferabli

Sensorial AI: recommendation software for wine, spirits, and food that builds personalized itineraries and taste-based recommendations. Its consumer-facing app is Tastefuli. The company states its software is protected by 15 patents.

Commerce infrastructure / agentic commerce · Los Angeles, CA · OPERATING

DRINKS

ANYWHERE: a transaction layer that lets merchants, marketplaces and platforms sell products from licensed alcohol suppliers through one integration, handling compliance checks, tax, routing and payment coordination. The ANYWHERE Supplier Network, launched Octo