Sabanto

• Sabanto Autonomy System

  Sabanto Autonomous Tractor

• 2026-07-14 - Series B - Sabanto closes oversubscribed Series B led by Leaps by Bayer

  Sabanto closed an undisclosed oversubscribed Series B led by Leaps by Bayer to scale production, dealer distribution and deployment of its retrofit tractor-autonomy system. - source: bayer.com

• 2022-08-18 - Series A - $17M - Sabanto raises $17M Series A for autonomous farm equipment

  Sabanto closed a $17 million Series A to expand autonomy systems for agricultural equipment. - source: prnewswire.com

• DCVC - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-14
• Fulcrum Global Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-14
• InnoVenture Iowa - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-14
• Leaps by Bayer - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-14
• Sustainable Forward Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-14
• Yara - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-14

• Craig Rupp - Founder & Chief Executive Officer - Founded Sabanto and leads its retrofit agricultural-autonomy strategy.
• Cory Spaetti - Chief Operating Officer - Leads Sabanto's operations and deployment scale-up.
• Mike Burdick - Commercial Lead - Leads commercialization and customer development for Sabanto's autonomy kits.
• Jason Lambert - Vice President of Engineering - Leads engineering for Sabanto's retrofit tractor-autonomy system.
• Mike Lyons - Director of Research & Development - Leads research and development for Sabanto's agricultural autonomy stack.

Events

• 2026-07-14 - Funding - Sabanto closes oversubscribed Series B led by Leaps by Bayer

  Sustainable Forward Capital, InnoVenture Iowa, Fulcrum Global Capital, DCVC and Yara joined the round. Sabanto said the capital will support autonomy-kit production, software development, customer support and field operations. The company plans to reach hundreds of additional farms over the following 12 months.

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• 2026-06-30 - Deployment - Sabanto and Verdant integrated autonomous tractor workflow enters commercial use

  Sabanto’s Autonomy System and Verdant’s SharpShooter communicate directly over CAN bus, combining tractor navigation with plant-level application decisions. SharpShooter uses Aim & Apply technology to identify individual plants and weeds and direct inputs only where needed, while the tractor adjusts speed and implement height autonomously. The integrated workflow is already operating in commercial sod production at Bethel Farms and is designed to run extended field operations without an operator in the cab.

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• 2026-06-30 - Partnership - Sabanto and Verdant integrate autonomous tractor operation with SharpShooter

  Sabanto and Verdant Robotics announced an integration connecting Sabanto autonomous tractor operation with Verdant SharpShooter plant-level precision application. The workflow connects cabless autonomous field work from navigation through plant-level application. The integration is already operating commercially, including at Bethel Farms in sod production.

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• 2025-10-09 - Partnership - Sabanto expands autonomous tractor retrofits into Australia

  OneAg and Vantage NSW will provide local support for Sabanto retrofit autonomy kits. The systems convert existing tractors into autonomous machines for Australian farmers.

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• 2022-08-18 - Funding - Sabanto raises $17M Series A for autonomous farm equipment

  Fulcrum Global Capital led the round, with DCVC Bio, Hico Capital, Yara Growth Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Johnsonville Ventures, and Trimble Ventures participating. Sabanto had autonomously tilled, planted, seeded, weeded, applied, and mowed across multiple U.S. states with smaller tractors.

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Relationships

• Verdant Robotics

  Evidenced Contextual Relationship - Sabanto supplies tractor autonomy integrated with Verdant SharpShooter in commercial field operations.

Comparable profiles

• Monarch Tractor

  stack adjacency - Agricultural Autonomy Platform

• Agreenculture

  stack adjacency - Agricultural Autonomy Platform

• TerraClear

  stack adjacency - Agricultural Autonomy Platform

Shared workflows

• Bluewhite

  workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Companies · Field Agriculture Robotics

• FarmWise

  workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Companies · Field Agriculture Robotics

• EarthSense

  workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Companies · Field Agriculture Robotics

• Antobot

  workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Companies · Field Agriculture Robotics

• Blue River Technology

  workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Companies · Field Agriculture Robotics

• Agtonomy

  workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Companies

• AgXeed

  workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Companies

• Aigen

  workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Companies

• GreenSight

  workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Companies

• Rowbot Systems

  workflow adjacency - Agriculture Robotics Companies

• Upside Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Field Agriculture Robotics

• Fieldwork Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Field Agriculture Robotics

Context tags

• Agricultural autonomy platform - Stack Layer - Sabanto develops a hardware-and-software autonomy platform for conventional agricultural tractors.
• Heavy equipment autonomy retrofit - Capability - Sabanto retrofits existing tractors with autonomous navigation, perception, connectivity and remote mission control.
• Agricultural robotics workflow - Workflow - The company provides autonomy for agricultural machinery.
• Field agriculture robotics workflow - Workflow - Sabanto enables autonomous farm vehicle operation.