Millions for AI to give farmers a voice in the field

Aerial shot of patchwork of green and brown farm fields.

To ease the burden on agriculture of admin hours spent back in the office at the end of the day, venture capital has raised millions to support a tech solution that uses AI to give farmers a voice in the field, literally.

Tellia, the voice AI assistant for agriculture, has raised $5M to scale technology that lets farmers, agronomists and field teams capture and use their data simply by speaking.

This innovative solution turns everyday calls, texts and voice notes into structured field data.

The pre-seed round was led by Revent, with participation from Grey Silo Ventures (the corporate arm of Cereal Docks Group), Jeriko (operated by Techmind) and Fund F.

The capital raised will help Tellia build on the valuable work already done to validate the tech in field trials with specialty crop producers across Europe and the US, from almond growers to vineyards.

Move away from screens, forms and fingers

Aerial shot of farmland, maybe a vineyard, with rows of planted trees running diagonally bottom left to top right across image.

Despite the growing volume of software built for agriculture, much of it still relies on screens, forms and manual data entry, with interfaces designed for the office rather than the field.

As a result, critical information from day-to-day operations – from disease sightings and spray decisions to scouting notes and crew updates – is still often captured in notebooks, messaging threads or memory.

This approach generates hours of unwanted end-of-day admin for users already feeling time-poor.

The issue, however, is not the data itself, explains Coline Labadie de Faÿ, CEO and co-founder of Tellia:

“The Ag industry keeps facing the same challenge: the people who spend their days in the field spend their evenings at a keyboard. That was never a data problem. It was an interface problem. Traditional software cannot accept it the way it actually comes out, spoken, in the field, in whatever language.

“So, we did not build another platform that wants to own all the data. Instead, we built the interface. You talk, Tellia captures it, structures it, and interprets it into something the whole operation can act on.”

Interface reinvented with agentic AI

The tech response from Tellia reinvents the data interface with a voice AI layer that lets users capture information in natural language through phone calls, voice notes, text, WhatsApp or email.

Voice AI turns those inputs into clean, structured records connected to the right field, crop, crew and operation, while enabling users to ask questions and receive instant operational or agronomic answers.

Because no two operations work the same way, the solution can be structured around how each farm actually runs, instead of forcing teams into a fixed template. The aim is to provide an agricultural agent that is easier to use than traditional software, more complete and more valuable in the field.

Commercial traction in US and Europe

Importantly, Tellia has already built strong early commercial traction in trials with real-world users.

In the US, where the product first launched, Tellia is reaching 80% daily active usage among field teams within two months of onboarding. Its San Francisco-based operations have supported deployments with major agricultural producers, including almond giant Campos Brothers Farms and Duckhorn Vineyards.

Along with its validation and R&D work, the raise allows Tellia to leverage its strong early US traction to pursue similar results in Europe – where Tellia is already deployed with institutions like the Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin (IFV), cooperatives such as Val de Gascogne, and German plant breeder KWS Saat.

The funding will accelerate the rollout of Tellia’s agentic AI suite, which has been built specifically to bridge the gap between the field and the agtech stack, bypassing problems of data-capture friction.

Investing in future of agriculture

Tellia co-founders in sunny vineyard: Vincent Trastour (L) in dark t-shirt and straw hat; Coline Labadie de Faÿ (R) in white blouse and pale skirt. — *Tellia Co-Founders: CTO Vincent Trastour (L); and CEO Coline Labadie de Faÿ (R)*

The funding round brings together an international syndicate with deep agriculture and technology expertise, spanning Europe and the US. It has been led by Revent, a European VC firm looking to invest in ultra-ambitious founders, with a focus on AI companies in sectors such as climate, health and energy.

Operated by Techmind, Jeriko is a highly selective investment club specialising in sustainable foodtech and agtech. Grey Silo Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital arm of Cereal Docks Group, investing in innovative agtech and food-tech startups that contribute to more sustainable and resilient food systems.

Fund F is an early-stage VC fund backing gender-diverse founding teams across Europe. It invests in pre-seed and seed companies with at least one female co-founder. Fund F originated out of Europe’s leading community for female entrepreneurs, Female Founders, with 85k members across the continent.

Collectively, the syndicate recognises the potential in AI, concludes Revent general partner, Otto Birnbaum:

“We believe that the voice-first approach will lead the agricultural sector into the new agentic data age and that Tellia will be the category defining company here. Tellia is creating the critical data layer to meaningfully improve efficiencies and productivity in the agricultural sector. We are thrilled to partner with Coline and Vincent and are deeply impressed by their operational pace and how fast the product gets adopted on both sides of the Atlantic.”

Tellia Co-founders Vincent Trastour (CTO) and Coline Labadie de Faÿ (CEO) met through Entrepreneurs First, with the talent investor programme taking them from Paris to San Francisco, where the company launched.

Now operating on both sides of the Atlantic, Tellia combines US commercial traction with European standards around data protection, security and confidentiality – key to reassurance for agricultural business.

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