A fresh injection of $7.5 million USD seed funding is propelling Upside Robotics into its next phase of growth, giving the Velocity‑based startup momentum to deepen its partnerships with farmers and agricultural companies across Canada.
A fresh injection of $7.5 million USD seed funding is propelling Upside Robotics into its next phase of growth, giving the Velocity‑based startup momentum to deepen its partnerships with farmers and agricultural companies across Canada.
Co‑founders Sam Dugan (BASc ’22) and Jana Tian launched Upside Robotics to transform agriculture through sustainable automation. Their remote‑management, AI-enabled, lightweight autonomous robots apply fertilizer precisely where crops need it empowering farmers to monitor their fields, track crop health and deliver nutrients with unprecedented efficiency all without farmers stepping foot on the soil.
“Trust in robotics is earned in the field, not the lab,” Dugan says. “We built the system side by side with farmers, season by season. Today, that work has translated into more than 10,000 autonomous kilometers driven and over 100,000 liters of fertilizer applied across more than 1,300 acres.”
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