Facts

• Segment: Agriculture
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2021
• Website: https://www.canopii.us/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Canopii develops automated greenhouse systems for urban and specialty-crop farming. Its modular farms use robotics and controlled-environment growing technology to automate seed-to-harvest production in compact sites.

Market context

Canopii matters because it approaches agriculture as a full-stack automation problem, not just a single robot task inside a conventional greenhouse. Autonomous greenhouse systems for local produce: seed-to-harvest operation without human intervention in the loop for routine production.

• Capability: Greenhouse automation with robotics and remote fleet-style management Compact footprint autonomous farms for specialty greens and herbs Designed to shorten the cold supply chain via local automated production
• Strategic position: Full-stack automation for controlled-environment agriculture economics

Facts

• Website: https://www.canopii.us/
• HQ: Aurora, OR, United States
• Founded: 2021
• Segment: Agriculture
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2024-12-20 - Grant - Business Oregon awards Canopii SBIR/STTR matching grant for commercial scaling of fully automated greenhouse farm - source: oregon.gov

Investors

• Business Oregon - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-20

Autonomous greenhouse company

Canopii develops autonomous indoor farming systems designed to grow crops locally from seed to harvest with minimal human intervention.

• Target environment: Indoor farms, autonomous greenhouses, local food production sites and controlled-environment agriculture facilities.
• Deployment model: Autonomous farm infrastructure and local greenhouse systems for fresh-food production.
• Customer context: Food producers, local retailers, controlled-environment agriculture operators and partners seeking local produce supply.
• Workflow context: Seeding, plant movement, crop care, harvesting, greenhouse automation and local food production.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage agriculture automation company with autonomous greenhouse milestones. Scaling depends on crop economics, system uptime, produce quality, and proof that automated local growing can outper…
• Market position: Controlled-environment agriculture company using robotics and automation to reduce labour and cold-chain dependence.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on crop economics, energy costs, produce quality, automation reliability, capital cost and local market demand.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes autonomous greenhouses, indoor farming robotics, controlled-environment agriculture and food supply-chain automation.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-03-11 - Capability - Canopii reaches fully autonomous seed-to-harvest greenhouse milestone - The March 2026 TechCrunch story highlighted that Canopii had reached a major milestone with an autonomous farm that grows…
• 2025-04-17 - Regulatory - Canopii receives organic certification from CCOF - CCOF lists Canopii as certified for crops, handling, and USDA National Organic Program status effective April 17, 2025.
• 2024-12-20 - Funding - Business Oregon awards Canopii SBIR/STTR matching grant for commercial scaling of fully automated greenhouse farm - Business Oregon named Canopii as one of the 2024 SBIR/STTR Matching Grant recipi…

Operations / Deployments

• 2024-12-20 - Funding - Business Oregon awards Canopii SBIR/STTR matching grant for commercial scaling of fully automated greenhouse farm - Business Oregon named Canopii as one of the 2024 SBIR/STTR Matching Grant recipi…

Team

• David Ashton - Founder & CEO
• Sam Pepperwood - Senior Mechanical Engineer
• Ryan Tovey - Operations & Revenue Manager

Relationships

• investor - SBIR/STTR matching grant recipient (2024 announcement); commercial scaling of automated greenhouse farm.

Context tags

• Controlled-environment crop automation - Workflow - Canopii automates controlled-environment crop production.
• Greenhouse indoor farm automation - Peer Group - Canopii builds automated indoor farming and greenhouse robotic systems.
• Autonomous crop growth system - Capability - Canopii provides autonomous crop growth and environmental control.
• Indoor farm robotics operator - Stack Layer - Canopii operates indoor farm robotics systems.
• Greenhouse crop robotics - Peer Group - Canopii provides greenhouse crop automation.
• Greenhouses or indoor farms - Customer Environment - Canopii operates in greenhouse environments.
• Indoor farming sites - Customer Environment - Canopii serves indoor farming sites.