Vulcan
Identify and remove weeds between crops using cameras.
FarmWise Labs Funding History
FarmWise Labs built autonomous weeding robots for vegetable row crops. Taylor Farms acquired the business after FarmWise wound down operations.
Company Overview
FarmWise Labs
Founded 2016 · Salinas, California, US
Official WebsiteFarmWise Labs Funding Timeline
Series B
US$45 million
FarmWise said the funding would help it serve more vegetable growers and adapt its weeding technology for row crops.
Participation included GV.
Source · prnewswire.com ↗Series A
US$14.5 million
FarmWise planned to expand its robotic weeding services to more farms across California and Arizona.
Source · forbes.com ↗Seed
US$5.7 million
FarmWise raised seed funding to commercialize a robot that identifies and weeds around individual plants.
Led by Playground Global. Participation included Felicis, Basis Set Ventures.
Source · wsj.com ↗
FarmWise Labs Founding Team
FarmWise’s founders brought engineering and data science to a problem in agriculture. Their robots identified and removed weeds in vegetable crops. The founding team included Sebastien Boyer.
- Thomas Palomares — CTO. MIT graduate.
FarmWise Labs Products
FarmWise Labs Company Development
The Weeding Business Passed to a Grower
FarmWise built autonomous equipment for removing weeds from vegetable rows. After operations wound down, Taylor Farms acquired the business in 2025, moving its equipment and technology into the hands of a produce grower.
FarmWise Labs Competitive Landscape
Different Tools for Weeds in Vegetable Rows
FarmWise’s Vulcan tackled weeding mechanically, while Carbon Robotics developed a laser-based implement for the same field task. For growers comparing these approaches before FarmWise wound down, the relevant differences included how each machine removed weeds and which crop layouts it could accommodate.
