This Voice AI Startup Just Raised $5M to Give Farmers Their Evenings Back

Jan de Vries · 2026-09-08

Imagine spending all day in the field, getting your hands dirty, and then coming home to face hours of data entry. That's the daily grind for many farmers and agronomists. But a Paris-based startup called Tellia is out to change that with a simple idea: why not just talk to your software? Tellia, which was founded in 2024, has just raised a $5 million pre-Seed round to scale its voice-enabled data capture technology. The round was led by Revent, with participation from Grey Silo Ventures (the CVC of Cereal Docks Group), Jeriko (operated by Techmind), and Fund F. This fresh capital is earmarked to push their voice AI further and build out an agentic layer that sits right between the field and the rest of the AgTech stack. ### The Problem Isn't Data—It's the Interface Coline Labadie de Faÿ, CEO and co-founder of Tellia, puts it plainly: "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." She goes on to explain that traditional software just can't handle the way information actually comes out—spoken, on the move, in whatever language the team happens to work in. So Tellia didn't build another platform that hoards all your data. Instead, they built the interface itself. > "You talk, Tellia captures it, structures it, and interprets it into something the whole operation can act on," says Labadie de Faÿ. This funding round lets them grow their team both in the US and Europe, which is a big deal for a company that's less than two years old. ### A Wave of AgTech Investment Across Europe Tellia's raise isn't happening in a vacuum. There's been a steady stream of investment in AI-powered agriculture across Europe in 2026. For instance: - **Rainbow Crops** (Belgium) pulled in $11.3 million to advance its AI-supported crop gene-editing platform. - **Biographica** (London) secured $9.3 million for its AI platform focused on climate-resilient crop varieties. - **UBEES** (France) raised $9.3 million to expand its tech-enabled regenerative agriculture and connected-hive monitoring. When you add it all up, these comparable rounds total around $49 million in disclosed funding. That's a strong signal that investors see real potential in using technology to solve age-old farming challenges. ### Built Around How You Actually Work Here's what sets Tellia apart: they don't force you into a rigid template. No two farms run the same way, so Tellia shapes its structure around your specific operation. The result is an agricultural agent that's easier to use than traditional software, more complete, and genuinely more valuable when you're out in the field. ### What's Next for Tellia? The funding will accelerate the rollout of their agentic AI suite. Partners can embed it through a simple API—their users just talk, and Tellia captures, structures, and interprets the field data, delivering records and recommendations directly inside the partner's own product. The early feedback suggests this leads to richer data and higher daily usage, which is exactly what you want from a tool like this. It's still early days, but Tellia's approach feels refreshingly practical. Instead of asking farmers to adapt to technology, they're making technology adapt to farmers. And with this new funding, they're well-positioned to bring that vision to more teams across the US and Europe. If you're tired of spending your evenings at a keyboard, Tellia might just be the voice you've been waiting for.