Carbon Robotics vs Trimble Ag Software
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Seattle precision ag laser weeding robot in 14 countries eliminating 10B+ weeds; $177M total ($70M Series D 2024 + $20M Series D-2 Giant Ventures) with LPM trained on 40M+ plants competing with Blue River Technology for herbicide-free precision weeding.
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Carbon Robotics is a Seattle, Washington-based precision agriculture robotics company — backed with $177 million in total funding including a $70 million Series D in 2024 and a $20 million Series D-2 extension led by Giant Ventures — providing specialty crop farmers with the LaserWeeder: the world's first commercial AI-powered laser weeding robot that eliminates weeds using high-powered lasers guided by computer vision without chemical herbicides or manual labor. Operating in 14 countries across North America, Europe, and Australia, owned and operated by 100+ growers, with 10+ billion weeds eliminated since 2022, Carbon Robotics' Large Plant Model (LPM) — trained on 40+ million labeled plants from three continents — enables real-time identification and precision destruction of weeds growing between crop rows. Named to the 2024 CNBC Disruptor 50 and TIME's Top GreenTech Companies of 2024. Founded in 2018 by Paul Mikesell in Seattle.
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) precision agriculture software with GPS guidance and variable rate application for farm management; competing with John Deere Operations Center and Climate FieldView for crop data platform.
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Trimble Ag Software is the precision agriculture software division of Trimble Inc. (NASDAQ: TRMB) — a Sunnyvale, California-based positioning and workflow technology company with $3.7 billion in annual revenue — providing farmers, agronomists, and farm managers with field mapping, GPS-guided variable rate application, crop record management, and agronomic analytics that enable data-driven farming decisions across planting, spraying, harvesting, and soil management. Operating under the Trimble Agriculture brand with products including Trimble TMX-2050, Trimble Farmer Core/Pro/Premium, and the Trimble Connected Farm suite, the division serves large-scale crop producers and ag service providers in North America, Europe, and Australia.
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