Startup · $55.1m raised · Agriculture and food · Robotics
Robotic solutions for efficient and sustainable agriculture
Emerald, QLD
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round SwarmFarm Robotics raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Tenacious Ventures | Series B · Series A · Unnamed stage · Unnamed stage · Unnamed stage | - |
| Artesian VC | Series B · Unnamed stage · Unnamed stage · Unnamed stage | - |
| Emmertech | Series B · Series A | - |
| Queensland Business Development Fund | Unnamed stage · Unnamed stage | - |
| Clean Energy Finance Corporation | Series B | $7,000,000 |
| Edaphon | Series B | - |
| QIC Ventures | Series B | - |
| Access Capital Ventures | Series A | - |
| Conexus Venture Capital | Series A | - |
| GrainInnovate | Series A | - |
| Tribe Global Ventures | Series A | - |
| Northern Australia Development Program | Grant | $856,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Unnamed stage | - |
Companies SwarmFarm Robotics acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Stories naming SwarmFarm Robotics. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Tenacious Ventures explains why it led Agovor's $3 million pre-seed round alongside Hort Innovation, profiling the startup's compact autonomous farm tractors, founders, new chief executive, and grower savings.
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Tenacious Ventures' 2025 impact report notes Fund II's first close is complete, describes environmental outcomes delivered by portfolio companies, and outlines its ecosystem, education and advisory activity.
AgFunderNews' quarterly analysis finds funding for agricultural robotics down 36% quarter-on-quarter, with SwarmFarm, Beewise, 4AG and other weed-fighting startups among 2025's raises, plus a new crop robotics market map from The Mixing Bowl.
Weekly roundup of eight Australian and New Zealand funding rounds totalling about $53.5 million, led by SwarmFarm Robotics' $30 million Series B for its farm robots.
Funding roundup: eight trans-Tasman startups together secured $53.56 million, topped by SwarmFarm Robotics' Series B, with Amber, Javln, Enhance Labs, Indi, Wych, Lift Women and Ambra Spirits also raising capital.
Agtech robotics firm SwarmFarm raised a $30m Series B led by Edaphon, with CEFC, QIC and Artesian taking part, to boost production and push into North America.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: several offshore raises, a baby-food company's IPO filing, a new carbon fund for Australia, delivery robots, award winners, and a handful of executive moves.
Queensland agricultural robotics firm SwarmFarm has raised a Series B led by a European backer, with several local investors taking part, to expand robot production and enter the North American market.
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Queensland superannuation fund Brighter Super has unveiled a startup investment mandate to be managed by QIC; the article also recalls QIC's earlier backing of Attekus, SwarmFarm Robotics, Go1, Gilmour Space Technologies and VALD.
Agtech investor Tenacious Ventures reached an $18 million first close on its second fund, which has a $50 million target; backers include Trawalla Group, Wollemi Capital Group and Macdoch Ventures.
Also Forbes Australia
A data review of 2023's ten largest Australian agrifoodtech raises, topped by Loam Bio's US$73.2 million Series B, showing funding down 33% as capital concentrated in upstream climate-mitigation startups.
Tenacious Ventures reflects on attending the evokeAG conference in Perth, discussing climate adaptation in farming, weed resistance to AI detection, women in agtech, and its own plans for a second fund.
Tenacious Ventures' analysis says farm autonomy is entering a more practical second phase, citing Guardian Ag's drone deployment for Wilbur-Ellis and its portfolio company SwarmFarm's self-refilling sprayer feature.
NBN Co's faster Sky Muster trial and Starlink's Oceania speed results signal a rural bandwidth contest, with SwarmFarm and Zetifi founders describing connectivity struggles and their recent raises.
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Weekly agrifoodtech roundup covering funding rounds for Pure Salmon, FreshToHome, SwarmFarm and others, acquisitions of Delphi and Soylent, layoffs at Impossible Foods and GreenLabs, and plant-based labeling news.
Weekly roundup reporting six Australian startup raises totalling $178 million, headed by Loam's $105 million Series B, with rounds for Shift, Quantum Brilliance, SwarmFarm, Tracksuit and Getahead.
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Weekly agrifoodtech roundup reporting numerous funding rounds including Loam Bio's Series B and SwarmFarm's Series A, plus partnerships, OrderEZ acquiring FoodRazor, and vertical farming expansion into the Middle East.
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Queensland robotics startup SwarmFarm closed a $12 million Series A led by Conexus Venture Capital, following an earlier grant and a 2020 raise, to scale its autonomous farming platform.
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A Tenacious Ventures blog post reflects on staying confident while raising Fund II after visiting portfolio company SwarmFarm Robotics, and shares tactics for maintaining morale during fundraising.
Podcast episode where SwarmFarm Robotics co-founder and CEO Andrew Bate outlines three emerging categories of agricultural autonomy; the publisher discloses it is an investor in the company.
Agrifoodtech venture firm Tenacious Ventures has completed the final close of its debut fund at A$35 million, with CEFC and Grok Ventures as cornerstone backers, and has so far backed six startups including Goterra, Nori and Vow.
Tenacious Ventures closed its debut agrifood tech fund oversubscribed at A$35 million, after a March 2020 first close of just over $20 million backed by the CEFC's Clean Energy Innovation Fund and Grok Ventures.
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Cut Through Venture's debut quarterly newsletter rounds up Q1 2021 raises across Australian and New Zealand startups, highlighting crowdfunding, fintech dominance, active investors, and two newly launched startups currently seeking backers.
US nonprofit The Nature Conservancy has taken undisclosed stakes in five soil-health startups through iSelect's fund. The piece also recaps earlier raises by Growers Edge, PatternAg, Stony Creek Colors, SwarmFarm and Kula Bio.
Also AgFunderNews
An Australian agricultural robotics maker has secured a multi-million-dollar round led by two local venture firms, with a Queensland government fund also backing, to expand engineering, production and its robot app ecosystem.
Tenacious Ventures' investment memo on SwarmFarm Robotics, the agricultural robotics startup it co-backed with a A$4.5 million round, covering the SwarmBot platform, founders Andrew and Jocie Bate, and traction on Australian farms.
Tenacious Ventures' blog post reflects on Australia's agrifood tech strengths after Melbourne's Global Table event, citing FluroSat's fundraise, AgDNA's sale to CNH, Data Farming's accelerator placement, and local capital opportunities.
Also AgFunderNews
Analysis of Australia's low robot uptake, the launch of CSIRO's Robotics Innovation Centre in Queensland, Emesent's recent capital raise, and the need for more local robotics startups.