Voice AI Just Raised $5M to Get Farmers Out of the Office

Jan de Vries · 2026-09-08

A Paris-based startup called Tellia just raised $5 million to solve a problem most of us never think about: farmers spending their evenings glued to a keyboard instead of resting after a long day in the field. ### The Problem: Data Entry Is Killing Farm Productivity Think about it. You've been outside since sunrise. You've walked miles, checked crops, dealt with equipment, made dozens of decisions on the fly. And now? You're supposed to sit down and type all of that into some clunky software. That's not a data problem. That's an interface problem. Coline Labadie de Faÿ, Tellia's CEO and co-founder, put it perfectly: > "The Ag industry keeps facing the same challenge: the people who spend their days in the field spend their evenings at a keyboard. That was never a data problem. It was an interface problem. Traditional software cannot accept it the way it actually comes out, spoken, in the field, in whatever language the team works in." ### What Tellia Actually Does Instead of building another platform that wants to own all your data, Tellia built an interface. You talk. It listens. It captures, structures, and interprets what you said into something the whole operation can actually use. Here's the kicker: it works in whatever language your team speaks. No forcing everyone into English or French or Spanish. You speak naturally, and Tellia figures it out. The company shapes its structure around how each farm actually operates. No two farms run the same way, so why should the software be rigid? That flexibility makes it easier to use than traditional farm management tools. ### The Funding and What Comes Next The $5 million pre-Seed round was led by Revent, with participation from Grey Silo Ventures, Jeriko, and Fund F. That's a solid group of backers who clearly see the potential. So what happens with the money? Tellia plans to: - Push their voice AI further - Build an agentic layer that sits between the field and the rest of the AgTech stack - Grow their team in the US and Europe Partners can embed Tellia through a simple API. Their users just talk, and Tellia handles the rest, delivering records and recommendations directly inside the partner's own product. That means richer data and higher daily usage without forcing farmers to learn yet another tool. ### The Bigger Picture Tellia's raise comes amid a wave of investment in AI and agtech across Europe. Belgium's Rainbow Crops pulled in $10.5 million for AI-supported crop gene-editing. London-based Biographica secured $8.7 million for climate-resilient crop varieties. France's UBEES raised $8.7 million for regenerative agriculture and connected-hive monitoring. Add those up and you're looking at roughly $45.8 million in disclosed funding across just a handful of rounds. That's serious money flowing into technology that could reshape how we grow food. ### Why This Matters Agriculture is one of those industries where technology often feels like a burden rather than a help. Too many platforms, too much training, too many hours lost to data entry. Tellia flips that. It meets farmers where they are, literally. In the field. Speaking naturally. Getting work done. That's the kind of innovation that actually sticks.