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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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.
Saga Robotics
Thorvald: an autonomous platform using UV-C light to control powdery mildew in vineyards, with data collection and yield-prediction tools.
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.
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.
Burro
Autonomous mobile robots for harvest assist, mowing, spraying, and material transport in vineyards, blueberries, and nurseries.
Bluewhite
Retrofit autonomy ('Pathfinder' hardware plus 'Compass' AI fleet software) that converts existing tractors to autonomous operation for spraying, mowing, and disking.
Smart Apply (John Deere)
Intelligent Spray Control System: a LiDAR retrofit for air-blast sprayers that enables per-vine spray control.
Lumo
Lumo One smart irrigation valves: wireless, cloud-managed, block-level water control plus pump automation for vineyards and orchards.
VineView
Calibrated aerial imagery (drone plus airplane) for vineyards: vine vigor (EVI), leaf water content, and disease detection (leafroll, flavescence dorée).
Fruition Sciences
Sap-flow sensors (360viti Water Pilot) measuring vine transpiration to inform irrigation decisions.
Scout (Agricultural Scout)
AI that processes images from tractor-mounted cameras: vineyard mapping, vine counting, yield forecasting from flowering, and virus identification.
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.
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
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
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.
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