Tevel
Tevel develops flying autonomous robots for orchard harvesting. Its tethered drone system uses computer vision, AI and delicate end effectors to pick fruit at the right time, helping growers address labor shortages and improve harvest timing.
Market context
Tevel is one of the clearer agriculture robotics companies tackling a specific labor-intensive orchard workflow rather than general farm automation. It stands out for combining aerial robotic picking with commercial grower deployments across multiple geographies.
Facts
- Website: https://www.tevel-tech.com/
- HQ: Gedera, Israel
- Founded: 2017
- Segment: agricultural robotics
- Known funding rounds: 2
Investors
- AgFunder - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-01-26 - latest 2026-03-26
- Maverick Ventures Israel - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-01-26 - latest 2026-03-26
- OurCrowd - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2021-01-26 - latest 2026-03-26
- Kubota Corporation - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-26
- Sound Media Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-26
- Club degli Investitori - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-26
- Forbon - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-26
- Kubota - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-26
Flying fruit-harvesting robot company
Tevel develops Flying Autonomous Robots that use computer vision, AI and guidance systems to harvest fruit in orchards.
- Target environment: Orchards, fruit farms, high-value crop rows and seasonal agricultural labour environments.
- Deployment model: Robotic harvesting systems deployed with aerial robots, perception software and orchard operation support.
- Customer context: Fruit growers, orchard operators, agricultural producers and farms facing labour shortages during harvest windows.
- Workflow context: Fruit detection, ripeness assessment, aerial picking, harvest data capture and orchard productivity support.
- Commercial maturity: Commercializing agriculture robotics company with flying harvesting robots deployed or tested across multiple fruit-growing regions.
- Market position: Agriculture robotics company focused on aerial fruit harvesting rather than ground-based farm machinery.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on fruit type, picking accuracy, harvest speed, orchard structure, weather tolerance, safety and seasonal economics.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes fruit harvesting robots, aerial manipulation, precision agriculture, orchard automation and farm labour robotics.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-03-26 - Funding - Tevel secures $18M Series C funding for flying robot harvesters - Tevel raised $18 million in Series C funding to support its flying autonomous fruit-harvesting robots. The company said the capital will help it address labor shortages in fruit supply chains as it expands commercial deployment of the system. The round is the…
- 2023-05-29 - Partnership - Tevel partners with Unifrutti and expands to South America - Tevel partnered with Unifrutti and deployed its autonomous harvesting system in apple orchards in Linares, Chile. The deployment used eight Flying Autonomous Robots mounted on a ground harvesting platform developed by Darwin Harvesting Group. The rollout expa…
- 2023-02-14 - Product Launch - Tevel debuts Alpha-Bot harvesting system at World Ag Expo and wins Top-10 New Product recognition - Tevel introduced its Alpha-Bot robotic harvesting system at World Ag Expo in Tulare, California. The system combined eight Flying Autonomous Robots with an S&S Alpha-1 platform harvester and was tailored for modern U.S. orchard row formats. The launch shows a…
- 2022-11-14 - Award - Tevel is named finalist for the 2022 Atlas Award - Tevel was selected as a finalist for the 2022 Atlas Award in the food tech category. The recognition was tied to its autonomous harvesting solution rather than a new product release or customer deployment. It matters as a visibility and credibility signal, th…
- 2022-08-16 - Deployment - Tevel partners with HMC Farms to pilot autonomous fruit harvesting in California - HMC Farms partnered with Tevel to pilot its Flying Autonomous Robots in California stone-fruit orchards. Tevel said the system had already harvested peaches, nectarines, and plums during its first U.S. customer work. The deployment is one of Tevel's clearest…
- 2022-04-19 - Deployment - Tevel begins fully automated robotic harvesting in Europe - Tevel said its Flying Autonomous Robots system was set to begin fully automated harvesting in Italy from June 2022. The deployment was focused on apricot harvesting and marked one of the clearer early European commercial operating milestones for the platform.…
- 2021-01-26 - Funding - Tevel raises $20M Series B for flying autonomous fruit-picking robots - Tevel raised $20 million in Series B funding for its autonomous flying fruit-picking robots. Public investor disclosures tied the round to backing from Kubota, Forbon, Maverick Ventures Israel, OurCrowd, AgFunder, and Club degli Investitori. The round helped…
Team
- Yaniv Maor - Founder - Founder associated with Tevel's aerial harvesting robot system and orchard automation strategy.
Context tags
- Fruit harvesting robotics - Peer Group - Tevel builds fruit harvesting aerial robots for orchard environments.
- Soft crop handling - Capability - Tevel harvesting handles soft fruit with care.
- Robotic fruit picking - Workflow - Tevel robots detect, grasp and pick fruit from trees.
- Autonomous navigation - Capability - Autonomous orchard navigation between trees and rows
- Autonomous fleet operation - Capability - Multiple tethered robots operating in coordinated orchard fleet
- Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Builds complete fruit harvesting robotic systems
- Vineyard or orchard robotics - Peer Group - Tevel robots operate in orchards and fruit-growing environments.
- Agricultural robot OEM - Stack Layer - Tevel builds complete aerial fruit harvesting robot systems.
- Agriculture robotics builder - Peer Group - Core peer group: fruit harvesting autonomous robotics
- Orchard fruit harvesting - Workflow - Flying autonomous robots for orchard fruit picking
- Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Customer deployments in multiple countries
- Crop-level perception - Capability - Tevel uses vision-based fruit detection and crop-level perception.
- Plant-targeted actuation - Capability - Tevel actuates at the fruit and branch level for selective harvesting.
- Farms and orchards - Customer Environment - Deployed in orchard and farm environments
Customers and deployments
- Deployment Event - 1 source-backed deployment event - 2022-04-19 - Tevel begins fully automated robotic harvesting in Europe - source posture: Third Party Reported
Articles
- 2026-04-08 - A wider map for agricultural robotics - The biggest rounds are still modest, but 2026 funding is spreading across orchard harvesting, weed control, greenhouse automation and machine autonomy. - Korthos: /re…
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