Orchard Robotics Raises $22M Series A for Farm Vision AI

Orchard Robotics announced a $22 million oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital, with participation from General Catalyst, Contrary, Mythos, and Yext founder Howard Lerman. The round brings total funding to over $25 million.

Founded by Thiel Fellow and TJHSST alum Charlie Wu, Orchard Robotics builds the FruitScope Vision System — an AI-powered camera that mounts onto any tractor or farm vehicle, capturing millions of images and analyzing every visible detail of each tree, vine, or plant. The technology is already deployed across some of America's largest apple and grape farms and has recently expanded to blueberries, cherries, almonds, pistachios, citrus, and strawberries.

Wu was inspired by his grandparents, who were apple farmers in China. He dropped out of Cornell to pursue the venture and plans to double the team and open a new San Francisco office.