Legmin Timeline

Events

• 2026-09-30 - Funding - Legmin receives strategic investment from MEEQ - Legmin develops AI-equipped autonomous pesticide-spraying robots and offers pesticide-spraying BPO services. The companies aim to combine MEEQ communications and IoT infrastructure with Legmin agricultural robot technology. - source: meeq.com
• 2026-05-12 - Partnership - Legmin and San-in Sanso plan robot spraying pilot in Tottori - The planned trial area centres on Yonago. Legmin will provide spraying robots, associated equipment and operating know-how; San-in Sanso will perform spraying for local farms. The trial is planned under Japan's agricultural SBIR programme. - source: prtimes.jp
• 2026-04-01 - Org Change - Legmin moves to a single representative director under Yoshihiro Noge - Hirosato Maruyama became executive officer responsible for development. Kohei Nishikawa became executive officer responsible for finance. The reorganization separates management and execution responsibilities to accelerate decision-making. - source: legmin.co.jp
• 2026-01-21 - Partnership - Legmin agrees spraying-service trial with Shizuoka Gas Service - The planned service area centres on Hamamatsu and Iwata. Legmin will provide autonomous spraying robots, associated equipment and operating know-how; Shizuoka Gas Service will carry out spraying for farmers. The project aims to use spare summer capacity in… - source: prtimes.jp
• 2025-10-08 - Funding - Legmin completes JPY200 million financing package combining equity and debt - Equity participants included AgVenture Lab, Saitama Shibusawa MIX Innovation Support Fund and Hachijuni Sustainability No. 1 Fund; Saitama Resona Bank provided the loan. Proceeds support manufacturing improvements and nationwide expansion of the… - source: prtimes.jp
• 2024-09-19 - Contract Award - Legmin selected for Japanese smart-agriculture development programme - The project forms part of the programme for development, improvement and practical use of next-generation smart-agriculture technologies. The programme selected three projects from twelve applications. - source: legmin.co.jp
• 2021-07-19 - Demonstration - Legmin joins greenhouse automation trial at Kubota Incubation Farm - Legmin's role covered automating crop protection and reducing pesticide use. inaho contributed harvesting automation, OPTiM crop monitoring and growth analysis, and Routrek Networks irrigation and fertilization. Kubota built the shared-data environment… - source: legmin.co.jp
• 2019-12-20 - Funding - Legmin raises approximately JPY130 million in additional equity financing - The capital supports agricultural-robot trials at a pilot farm and expansion toward full operation at the company's own farm. Cumulative equity financing reached approximately JPY230 million following the earlier JPY100 million investment. Legmin had begun… - source: prtimes.jp
• 2019-01-22 - Funding - Legmin raises JPY100 million in seed funding from Incubate Fund - The development programme covered leafy-vegetable tasks from sowing through harvesting. Planned image-analysis functions included crop-growth monitoring and early detection of disease and insect damage. - source: prtimes.jp