Dogtooth Technologies

Market context

Dogtooth Technologies builds autonomous fruit-harvesting robots for commercial growers. Its fifth-generation strawberry robots navigate tabletop glasshouse and polytunnel rows, pick ripe fruit, inspect berries and pack into punnets. A July 2026 growth-capital package supports international deployment, with systems already supplied to Dyson Farming.

Facts

• Website: https://dogtooth.tech/
• HQ: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
• Founded: 2014
• Segment: agricultural robotics
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-07-08 - Growth capital package - $18M - Dogtooth secures over £14M to scale fruit-harvesting robots - source: uktech.news

Investors

• 24Haymarket - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-08
• ACF Investors - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-08
• EMV Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-08
• Innovate UK - Participant - Government / Public - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-08
• Kineo Finance - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-08

Events

• 2026-07-08 - Funding - Dogtooth secures over £14M to scale fruit-harvesting robots - The package combines equity from 24Haymarket, EMV Capital and ACF Investors with Innovate UK grants and a Kineo Finance venture leasing facility. Dogtooth will use the capital for international expansion and wider commercial deployment of its autonomous harve…

Team

• Dr Duncan Robertson - Founder & CEO - Leads Dogtooth's commercial and technical direction for autonomous fruit-harvesting robots.
• Ed Herbert - Founder & COO - Oversees operating execution for Dogtooth's robotics business.
• Frank Tully - CTO (Hardware) - Leads hardware engineering for Dogtooth's autonomous harvesting robots.
• Dr Nick Scott - Director of Manufacturing - Leads manufacturing scale-up for Dogtooth's commercial harvesting systems.

Context tags

• Agricultural robot OEM - Stack Layer - Dogtooth sells fifth-generation strawberry-harvesting robots.
• Fruit-picking agriculture robotics - Peer Group - Dogtooth builds autonomous fruit-harvesting robots.
• Agriculture process automation - Workflow - Dogtooth automates picking, onboard inspection and punnet packing.
• Agricultural operations - Customer Environment - Dogtooth robots operate in glasshouse and polytunnel growing environments.
• AI Vision Robotics - Capability - Dogtooth uses computer vision for robotic fruit identification and inspection.