Our mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving planet, through smarter farming. We're the world's largest harvesting robotics company.
Denver, CO
Joined October 2016
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Our farm customers deal with extreme heat, rain, flooding, dust… so we do too! Farm robots require AI, software, and hardware sophistication - and that’s just the start. Our Model F and G robots get the job done. See you next week at FIRA USA, Booth 31!
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Thank you to @willreedHQ for naming us #22 on your Top 100 list. We strive to make Tortuga a place that helps our team members get out of bed in the morning - through our mission, values, and daily relationship to employees. willreedtop100-2.squarespace…
Another announcement about our work with The Summer Berry Company - which continues to grow every season. We look forward to sharing more about our partnerships in the coming months.
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Despite what you may think at first about robots and jobs, at Tortuga, we’re actively creating jobs. We even train or hire farm workers to manage robots. Working at Tortuga is hard, rewarding work, upskilling, and enjoying the outdoors, all in one!
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The Summer Berry Company is one of the very best growers we’ve met in the world. We’re grateful for our innovation partnership. Here’s a new feature on our work together. Picking 10,000’s+ of berries every day, plus forecasting and UV-C pest control!
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We fully endorse this LA Times Op-Ed, and we’re honored to be featured. Many farmers and startups are trying to innovate, and thoughtful public policy and investment is critical, given challenges like climate, labor availability, and necessary regulation.
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We’re very proud of our partnership with The Summer Berry Company since 2018, and thank you to Cibus Fund for the support! (Paywall)
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Sustainability and resilience aren’t buzzwords or marketing campaigns. They need to be built into your business and mission. Our robots work on sustainable farms and help them build resilience and profit. Thanks @BuiltInColorado for recognizing us!
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Many robots are cool tech looking for a problem. Our approach is different: start with your customer’s real-world economics, understand their operations, THEN prototype the tech and iterate like crazy. We call this “Essential Robotics” in our latest blog:
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We’re proud to be named one of @ThriveAgriFood’s Top 50! Thrive is a great community. We are all striving to improve our food system with tech. Tortuga is excited to lead the scale-up of advanced harvesting robots in challenging farm environments.
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A great panel featuring a number of impressive ag robotics companies. The work on farm is only getting started, but the future is exciting!
The robotics sector of agtech is set to double to $12bn in the next five years, we're looking at how the agtech sector can address labour shortages with robotics. Moderated by @DCVCBio , featuring @TortugaAgTech @_BWRobotics @Agtonomy @fieldintech @verdantrobotics #WorldAgriTech
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These "tribes" are not all mutually exclusive - only pure pastoralism is. We can pursue plentiful energy, build dense, resilient networks, find low-hanging fruit (we are!), live more within our means, set carbon/eco goals, and also, prepare for the worst by being more resilient.
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Thanks to @BuiltInColorado for recognizing Tortuga as a 2023 Best Places to Work in Colorado! We are on the lookout for talented software engineers to join our mission-driven team. Check out our job postings --> tortugaagtech.com/careers
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Come talk to our CEO, Eric, and @TheAgritect about AgTech and the future of farming. Looking forward to it!
#freewebinar - "Latest Developments in #Ag #Tech"
REGISTER - bigmarker.com/the-food-insti…
When: 11/8 (2-3 pm EST)
Speakers:
- @TheAgritect, founder/CEO of @agritecture
- Eric Adamson, co-founder/CEO of @TortugaAgTech
Sponsored by @BMO Commercial Bank and @MarcumLLP
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We had a lot of fun hosting @carterevans and @CBSEveningNews at New Wave Berry, a leading innovative farm producing Happy Berry hydroponic strawberries from @OppyProduce. Check out the news coverage of our robots on California farms!
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We're excited for #FIRAUSA22 on Oct 18-20, a crucial conference about automation in agriculture. Thanks for @FIRA_team , @WesternGrowers , and all other participants -- we'll see you on the "scaling" panel on Weds!
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We believe robots need to do multiple critical jobs on farms. We started with harvesting, the biggest, hardest job, but our robots can do a lot more. We’re using UV-C light to help our customers fight pests/disease, reduce costs, and be more sustainable.
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Thank you @GuardianUS We agree with those quoted. robots are tools to help workers upskill and gain higher wages, and aren’t replacements. We already train and pay farm workers to use our robots to pick, and have hired workers who were going to quit!
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Grapes, berries and robots: is Silicon Valley coming for farm workers jobs? theguardian.com/environment/…
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Congratulations to @avidan @kane and team @rootvc - who have been excellent investors and huge supporters of ours since our (and their!) very beginnings.
Excited to announce our third fund at $150M (and an upgrade to root.vc)
But more excited to reflect how much has evolved since Day 1.
I started Root Ventures as a "solo-capitalist", but I knew I could never grow it alone
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Extreme rain is more and more frequent. From Mexico: 400 Hectares of berries destroyed by rain. "there are plantations with crops protected with macro tunnels but not with enough surface to maintain production."
More tunnels = climate change resilience.
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