VerdantAI raises $45M to launch FieldSense — a crop-monitoring agent for smallholder farms

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VerdantAI announced a $45 million Series B led by GreenPath Capital and launched FieldSense, a small-footprint AI agent that runs on inexpensive edge devices to monitor crop health and irrigation needs. The funding will be used to expand field deployments across Southeast Asia, East Africa, and parts of Latin America where traditional cloud-first approaches struggle with intermittent connectivity.

FieldSense combines low-power computer vision, thermal sensing, and a compressed suite of plant-disease detection models. The device offers on-device diagnostics and lightweight sync to VerdantAI cloud when bandwidth is available, enabling agronomists to manage thousands of small plots from a single dashboard and receive automated intervention recommendations.

VerdantAI says FieldSense is priced to be accessible to cooperative ownership models and will be sold with microfinance options. The company highlighted pilots that reduced fungicide use by 28 percent and increased yield consistency, positioning FieldSense as a commercially viable, climate-resilient crop-monitoring product.