Legmin

• Annual Spraying Service Area

  172 hectares - 2025-10-08 - Outdoor agricultural fields - Legmin reported 172 hectares of pesticide-spraying services around Fukaya during 2024. The company service combines agricultural robots and field operations. - source posture: Company Disclosed

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• 2026-09-30 - Strategic investment - Legmin receives strategic investment from MEEQ

  Legmin received strategic investment from MEEQ through a third-party allotment of newly issued shares. - source: meeq.com

• 2025-10-08 - Mixed financing update - Legmin completes JPY200 million financing package combining equity and debt

  Legmin combined a third-party allotment, FUNDINNO subscription rights and bank borrowing to support agricultural spraying robots and franchise services. - source: prtimes.jp

• 2019-12-20 - Additional equity financing - Legmin raises approximately JPY130 million in additional equity financing

  Incubate Fund led the financing, joined by Shizuoka Capital, SMBC Venture Capital and Takram Oneness. - source: prtimes.jp

• 2019-01-22 - Seed - Legmin raises JPY100 million in seed funding from Incubate Fund

  Legmin completed a third-party allotment to fund development of autonomous agricultural robots. - source: prtimes.jp

• Incubate Fund - Lead - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2019-01-22 - latest 2019-12-20
• AgVenture Lab - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-08
• Hachijuni Sustainability No. 1 Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-08
• MEEQ - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-30
• Saitama Shibusawa MIX Innovation Support Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-10-08
• Shizuoka Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-12-20
• SMBC Venture Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-12-20
• Takram Oneness Corporation - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-12-20

• Yoshihiro Noge - Representative Director
• Hirosato Maruyama - Executive Officer, Development - Leads robot and vegetable-preparation equipment development.
• Kohei Nishikawa - Executive Officer, Finance - Oversees finance, project coordination and administration.
• Takahiro Naruse - Executive Officer, New Business - Responsible for new business following the April 2026 leadership reorganization.

Media library

• Legmin company introduction

  video · Legmin

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Curated durable documents and official technical references.

• Agricultural robot and program — JP2024140855A

  PDF · Marker-based robot navigation · Japan Patent Office

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 LPG delivery operations.

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• 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 spraying-service franchise. The company reported 172 hectares of spraying services around Fukaya during 2024 and began franchising in 2025.

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• 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.

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• 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, while Kanto Koshin Kubota handled cultivation management.

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• 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 shipping komatsuna grown at its own farm in September 2019.

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• 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.

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Relationships

• MEEQ

  Agricultural Iot Collaboration - Legmin and MEEQ began exploring collaboration combining agricultural robots with mobile communications and an IoT platform.

• San-in Sanso

  Spraying Service Trial Partner - Legmin and San-in Sanso agreed to a pesticide-spraying service trial around Yonago in Tottori Prefecture.

1 commercial event; 1 contract award; latest event 2024-09-19

• 2024-09-19 - Contract award - Legmin selected for Japanese smart-agriculture development programme - source: legmin.co.jp