Tevel

• Flying Autonomous Robots

• Customer site

  2023-05-29 - Unifrutti deployed eight Flying Autonomous Robots on a Darwin Harvesting ground platform in apple orchards in Linares, Chile. - single named commercial orchard programme - Linares apple orchards

  Source

• 2026-03-26 - Series C - $18M - Tevel secures $18M Series C funding for flying robot harvesters

  source: fruitnet.com

• 2021-01-26 - Series B - $20M - Tevel raises $20M Series B for flying autonomous fruit-picking robots

  source: ke.kubota-eu.com

• AgFunder - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-01-26 - latest 2026-03-26
• Maverick Ventures Israel - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-01-26 - latest 2026-03-26
• OurCrowd - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-01-26 - latest 2026-03-26
• Club degli Investitori - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-26
• Forbon - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-26
• Kubota - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-26
• Kubota Corporation - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-26
• Sound Media Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-26

• Yaniv Maor - Founder and CEO - Founder associated with Tevel's aerial harvesting robot system and orchard automation strategy.
• Assi Rubin - Chief Financial Officer - As chief financial officer, he leads Tevel's finance function as it commercializes autonomous fruit-harvesting systems.
• Nir Hazout - Chief Operations Officer - As chief operating officer, he leads Tevel's operating scale-up and implementation of autonomous fruit-harvesting systems.
• Eyal Desheh - Chairman of the Board

Events

• 2026-03-26 - Funding - Tevel secures $18M Series C funding for flying robot harvesters

  Tevel raised $18 million in Series C funding to expand its Flying Autonomous Robots harvesting business. Sound Media Ventures led the round, with Maverick Ventures Israel, Kubota, AgFunder and OurCrowd participating. The financing supports commercial expansion of Tevel's orchard-harvesting system as growers face persistent seasonal labour shortages.

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• 2023-05-29 - Partnership - Tevel partners with Unifrutti and expands to South America

  Tevel partnered with Unifrutti and deployed its autonomous harvesting system in apple orchards in Linares, Chile. The deployment used eight Flying Autonomous Robots mounted on a ground harvesting platform developed by Darwin Harvesting Group. The rollout expanded Tevel's commercial harvesting work into South America with a named global fruit producer and live orchard operations.

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• 2023-02-14 - Product Launch - Tevel debuts Alpha-Bot harvesting system at World Ag Expo and wins Top-10 New Product recognition

  Tevel introduced its Alpha-Bot robotic harvesting system at World Ag Expo in Tulare, California. The system combined eight Flying Autonomous Robots with an S&S Alpha-1 platform harvester and was tailored for modern U.S. orchard row formats. The launch shows a more productized U.S.-market configuration rather than just a lab or pilot concept.

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• 2022-11-14 - Award - Tevel is named finalist for the 2022 Atlas Award

  Tevel was selected as a finalist for the 2022 Atlas Award in the food tech category. The recognition was tied to its autonomous harvesting solution rather than a new product release or customer deployment.

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• 2022-08-16 - Deployment - Tevel partners with HMC Farms to pilot autonomous fruit harvesting in California

  HMC Farms partnered with Tevel to pilot its Flying Autonomous Robots in California stone-fruit orchards. Tevel said the system had already harvested peaches, nectarines, and plums during its first U.S. customer work. The deployment is one of Tevel's clearest early commercial field deployments in the U.S. orchard market.

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• 2022-04-19 - Deployment - Tevel begins fully automated robotic harvesting in Europe

  Tevel said its Flying Autonomous Robots system was set to begin fully automated harvesting in Italy from June 2022. The deployment was focused on apricot harvesting and marked one of the clearer early European commercial operating milestones for the platform. The deployment helps bridge the public timeline between the 2021 funding round and the later 2022–2023 grower deployments.

  Source
• 2021-01-26 - Funding - Tevel raises $20M Series B for flying autonomous fruit-picking robots

  Tevel raised $20 million in Series B funding for its autonomous flying fruit-picking robots. Public investor disclosures tied the round to backing from Kubota, Forbon, Maverick Ventures Israel, OurCrowd, AgFunder, and Club degli Investitori. The round helped move Tevel from early development toward broader manufacturing and commercial deployment.

  Source

Relationships

• Darwin Harvesting Group

  Technology Partner - Tevel has a public partnership relationship with Darwin Harvesting Group.

• Unifrutti

  South America Orchard Deployment Partner - Unifrutti deployed eight Tevel Flying Autonomous Robots in apple orchards in Linares, Chile.

• HMC Farms

  U.s. Orchard Deployment Partner - HMC Farms piloted Tevel Flying Autonomous Robots in California stone-fruit orchards.

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Context tags

• Fruit harvesting robotics - Peer Group - Tevel builds fruit harvesting aerial robots for orchard environments.
• Soft crop handling - Capability - Tevel harvesting handles soft fruit with care.
• Robotic fruit picking - Workflow - Tevel robots detect, grasp and pick fruit from trees.
• Autonomous navigation - Capability - Autonomous orchard navigation between trees and rows
• Autonomous fleet operation - Capability - Multiple tethered robots operating in coordinated orchard fleet
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Builds complete fruit harvesting robotic systems
• Vineyard or orchard robotics - Peer Group - Tevel robots operate in orchards and fruit-growing environments.
• Agricultural robot OEM - Stack Layer - Tevel builds complete aerial fruit harvesting robot systems.
• Agricultural robot development - Workflow - Core peer group: fruit harvesting autonomous robotics
• Orchard fruit harvesting - Workflow - Flying autonomous robots for orchard fruit picking
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Customer deployments in multiple countries
• Crop-level perception - Capability - Tevel uses vision-based fruit detection and crop-level perception.
• Plant-targeted actuation - Capability - Tevel actuates at the fruit and branch level for selective harvesting.
• Farms and orchards - Customer Environment - Deployed in orchard and farm environments