Facts

• Segment: Agriculture
• Country: Japan
• Founded: 2020
• Website: https://harvestx.jp/en/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

HarvestX develops robotics and AI systems for strawberry production in indoor vertical farms. Its solution automates plant management, pollination and harvesting, with robotic strawberry pollination as a core technology for stable, hygienic and higher-yield production.

Market context

HarvestX matters because robotic pollination and crop handling are hard parts of indoor fruit production, giving the company a real agricultural automation wedge. HarvestX builds agricultural robotics and AI systems for automated pollination, crop handling and plant-factory workflows.

Facts

• Website: https://harvestx.jp/en/
• HQ: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• Founded: 2020
• Segment: Agriculture
• Known funding rounds: 4

Funding

• 2026-07-06 - Strategic investment - Undisclosed - HarvestX signs Mitsubishi Corporation investment partnership - source: prtimes.jp
• 2024-03-20 - Pre-Series A - $3M - HarvestX raises 410 million yen in pre-Series A funding - source: harvestx.jp
• 2022-03-30 - Seed - $969K - HarvestX secures a total of 150 million yen in funding - source: harvestx.jp
• 2021-01-18 - Seed - $323K - HarvestX raises a total of 50 million yen in funding - source: harvestx.jp

Investors

• ANRI No.4 Investment Limited Partnership - Participant - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-01-18 - latest 2024-03-20
• Open Innovation Promotion No. 1 Investment Limited Partnership - Participant - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-01-18 - latest 2024-03-20
• DEEPCORE TOKYO No.2 Investment Limited Partnership - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-03-30 - latest 2024-03-20
• Mitsubishi Corporation - Lead - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-07-06
• Dawn Capital No.1 Investment Limited Partnership - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-03-20
• HULIC Startup No.1 Investment Limited Partnership - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-03-20
• Shinkin-Yaramaika Investment Limited Partnership - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-03-20
• Shinsei Venture Partners II Investment Limited Partnership - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-03-20
• SMBC Venture Capital Industry-Academia Collaboration No.3 Investment Limited Partnership - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-03-20
• The Future of Food 1st Investment Limited Partnership - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-03-20
• Keisuke Sogawa - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-18
• Kunihiro Tanaka - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-18
• Soichiro Kawai - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-18

Automated strawberry cultivation robots for indoor vertical farms

HarvestX develops robots and automated systems for strawberry cultivation in indoor vertical farms. Its technology targets plant management, pollination and harvesting, with camera and 3D image analysis used to identify flowers that require pollination.

• Target environment: Indoor vertical farms, plant factories, controlled-environment agriculture sites and food-production facilities.
• Deployment model: Agricultural robotics solution model built around pollination robots, cultivation equipment, AI, operation systems, harvesting automation and partner-led deployment.
• Customer context: Indoor farm operators, food producers, agricultural technology partners, overseas cultivation partners and companies seeking stable strawberry production.
• Workflow context: Automated pollination, strawberry cultivation, plant management, harvesting, 3D image analysis, controlled-environment farming and indoor crop automation.
• Commercial maturity: HarvestX has moved from R&D into product implementation and international partner activity. Its maturity is strongest in strawberry-focused indoor farming rather than broad open-field agriculture.
• Market position: Japanese agricultural robotics company focused on automating fruit cultivation workflows that are difficult to run with bees or manual labour in indoor farms.
• Adoption constraints: Crop-specific generalization, farm economics, reliability in continuous cultivation, overseas deployment, crop quality, plant-factory capital cost and service support.
• Adjacent context: Agricultural robotics, indoor farming, robotic pollination, harvesting automation, food production and controlled-environment agriculture.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-07-06 - Funding - HarvestX signs Mitsubishi Corporation investment partnership - Mitsubishi Corporation became a strategic investor in HarvestX.
• 2026-03-25 - Partnership - Sumitomo Corporation enters capital and business alliance with HarvestX - Sumitomo Corporation entered a capital and business alliance with HarvestX around AI-powered automated pollination rob…
• 2024-11-20 - Deployment - HarvestX announces first commercial implementation of its automated strawberry cultivation solution at Hamamatsu Farm - HarvestX announced that Shunkado would implement HarvestX as the world's…
• 2024-03-20 - Funding - HarvestX raises 410 million yen in pre-Series A funding - HarvestX announced 410 million yen in pre-Series A funding for its automated strawberry cultivation solution.
• 2023-11-06 - Facility Opening - HarvestX opens new branch office in Hamamatsu City - HarvestX established a Hamamatsu office to strengthen business expansion for its automated strawberry cultivation system.
• 2022-12-21 - Product Launch - HarvestX announces sequential rollout of its automated strawberry cultivation solution from summer 2023 - HarvestX announced that it would begin offering its automated strawberry cultivatio…
• 2022-03-30 - Partnership - HarvestX partners with National Institute of Technology, Tokuyama College - HarvestX partnered with National Institute of Technology, Tokuyama College and established its second office within…
• 2022-03-30 - Funding - HarvestX secures a total of 150 million yen in funding - HarvestX announced 150 million yen in funding to support hardware and software development for demonstration tests with indoor farming part…
• 2021-11-15 - Product Launch - HarvestX launches XV2 automatic pollinating and harvesting robot prototype - HarvestX released XV2, a new automatic pollinating and harvesting robot prototype built for indoor vertical farm…
• 2021-06-21 - Facility Opening - HarvestX establishes HarvestX Lab for robotic systems R&D - HarvestX established HarvestX Lab at the University of Tokyo Entrepreneur Lab as an R&D facility for fully automated strawberry…
• 2021-01-18 - Funding - HarvestX raises a total of 50 million yen in funding - HarvestX announced a total of 50 million yen in funding to advance its automated pollination and harvesting robotics work for indoor farms.

Operations / Deployments

• 2024-11-20 - Deployment - HarvestX announces first commercial implementation of its automated strawberry cultivation solution at Hamamatsu Farm - HarvestX announced that Shunkado would implement HarvestX as the world's…
• 2022-12-21 - Product Launch - HarvestX announces sequential rollout of its automated strawberry cultivation solution from summer 2023 - HarvestX announced that it would begin offering its automated strawberry cultivatio…

Team

• Yuki Ichikawa - Chief Executive Officer - Leads HarvestX as it commercializes robotic pollination and automated strawberry cultivation systems for indoor farms.

Supply chain relationships

• Technology partner - HarvestX has a public partnership relationship with National Institute of Technology, Tokuyama College.

Relationships

• Customer - HarvestX has a public commercial-order relationship with Shunkado.
• Partner - HarvestX has a public partnership relationship with Sumitomo Corporation focused on partner.
• Investor - ANRI No.4 Investment Limited Partnership is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - Open Innovation Promotion No. 1 Investment Limited Partnership is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - Soichiro Kawai is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - Keisuke Sogawa is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - Kunihiro Tanaka is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - DEEPCORE TOKYO No.2 Investment Limited Partnership is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - Dawn Capital No.1 Investment Limited Partnership is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - SMBC Venture Capital Industry-Academia Collaboration No.3 Investment Limited Partnership is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - Shinsei Venture Partners II Investment Limited Partnership is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - The Future of Food 1st Investment Limited Partnership is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - Shinkin-Yaramaika Investment Limited Partnership is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - HULIC Startup No.1 Investment Limited Partnership is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• Investor - Sumitomo Corporation is listed as an investor or backer of HarvestX.
• investor - Mitsubishi Corporation signed an investment agreement with HarvestX for plant-factory automation expansion.

Context tags

• Greenhouse crop robotics - Peer Group - HarvestX builds robotic pollination systems for greenhouse environments.
• Robotic pollination - Workflow - HarvestX develops robotic strawberry pollination technology.
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Profile source supports this robotics context.
• Plant-targeted actuation - Capability - HarvestX actuates at the flower level for pollination.
• Agricultural robot OEM - Stack Layer - HarvestX builds complete robotic greenhouse systems.
• Soft crop handling - Capability - HarvestX handles delicate strawberry crops.
• Robotic fruit picking - Workflow - HarvestX robots detect and interact with strawberry-level fruit.
• Crop-level perception - Capability - HarvestX uses vision for flower and fruit detection.
• Greenhouses or indoor farms - Customer Environment - HarvestX targets greenhouse and controlled-environment agriculture.

Customers and deployments

• First Commercial Site Count - 1 first commercial implementation site - 2024-11-20 - Shunkado - automated strawberry cultivation - HarvestX announced its first commercial implementation of automated strawberry cultivatio…