- The pre-seed round, led by Revent, comes as Tellia scales live deployments across the US and Europe.
- Tellia’s voice AI turns everyday calls, texts and voice notes from farm teams into structured field data.
San Francisco & Paris, 8th September 2026 – Tellia, the voice AI assistant for agriculture, has raised $5 million to scale technology that lets farmers, agronomists and field teams capture and use their data simply by speaking.
The pre-seed round was led by Revent, with participation from Grey Silo Ventures (CVC of Cereal Docks Group), Jeriko (operated by Techmind) and Fund F.
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.
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 instead of the systems designed to support action.
Tellia reinvents this interface with a voice AI layer that lets users capture information in natural language through phone calls, voice notes, text, WhatsApp or email.
It 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, Tellia shapes its structure around how each farm actually runs, instead of forcing teams into a fixed template.
The result is an agricultural agent that is easier to use than traditional software, more complete and more valuable in the field.
The company has built strong early commercial traction; in the US, where the product first launched, Tellia reaches 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 the Duckhorn wineries.
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, which has already seen Tellia deployed with institutions like the Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin (IFV), cooperatives such as Val de Gascogne, or German plant breeder KWS Saat.
“The Ag industry keeps facing the same challenge: the people who spend their days in the field spend their evenings at a keyboard,” said Coline Labadie de Faÿ, CEO and co-founder of Tellia.
“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 the team works in. 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. This funding round lets us push the voice AI further, build the agentic layer that sits between the field and the rest of the agtech stack, and grow our team in the US and Europe.”
Every agtech platform runs into the same wall – data capture friction – so the field never makes it into the software. The funding will accelerate the rollout of Tellia’s agentic AI suite, built to close that gap.
Partners embed it through a simple API: their users just talk, and Tellia captures, structures and interprets the field, delivering records and recommendations directly inside the partner’s own product.
Richer data, higher daily usage, a new revenue stream, no rebuild. The first agritech partners are integrating it now.
Revent’s general partner, Otto Birnbaum commented: “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.”
The round brings together an international syndicate with deep agriculture and technology expertise, spanning Europe and the US. For Tellia’s founders this investor base, which mirrors the diversity of their 13-strong team, is a signal of both credibility and global ambition.
Tellia’s founders met through Entrepreneur First, the talent investor whose programme took 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, an important reassurance for agricultural businesses handling sensitive operational data.
Its long-term ambition is to become the leading voice interface between agriculture and the technology that supports it.
