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Carbon Robotics

carbonrobotics.com
HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
200
Robotics/Engineering

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Carbon Robotics is a Seattle-based agricultural robotics company building physical-AI systems that reduce farm labor, herbicide use, and weed-control costs. Its machines combine computer vision, deep learning, robotics, high-resolution cameras, onboard computing, and precision lasers to identify and eliminate weeds in commercial fields.

Primary product

LaserWeeder G2, a tractor-pulled AI-powered laser-weeding implement. The company also offers Carbon Autonomy/Carbon ATK, an autonomous tractor kit for existing farm equipment.

Founded

2018

Headquarters

2211 Elliott Ave, Suite 300, Seattle, Washington 98121, United States

Team size

200-300

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Agriculture technology and automation machinery manufacturing

Sub-industry

Agricultural robotics, precision agriculture, autonomous farm equipment, and AI/computer vision

Offices

Seattle, Washington, United States
Richland, Washington, United States
Salinas, California, United States
Netherlands manufacturing facility

Business model

Hardware sales
Annual software and support services
Autonomous equipment usage-based services
Enterprise sales to commercial growers

Funding

Stage

Late-stage venture / growth-stage private company

Total raised

$177M

Latest round

Series D-2 extension · Oct 2025

Latest amount

$20M

Series D-2 extension

Oct 2025 · Giant Ventures

$20M

Series D

Oct 2024 · BOND

$70M

Series C strategic financing

May 2024 · NVentures

Series C / additional financing

Jan 2022

$30M

Series B

Aug 2021 · Anthos Capital

$27M

Series A

Sep 2019

$8.9M

Seed / early financing

Jan 2019

People & investors

Leadership

Paul Mikesell

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Alexander Sergeev

Chief Technology Officer

Nick Kirsch

Chief Engineering Officer

Kevan Krysler

Chief Financial Officer

Joon T. Ho

Vice President of Finance

Sam Robertson

Vice President, Corporate Development & Strategy

Brett Goodwin

Vice President of Marketing

Investors

Anthos Capital
BOND
Fuse Venture Capital
Giant Ventures
Ignition Partners
NVentures
Revolution
Sozo Ventures
Voyager Capital

Work & culture

The company describes itself as a no-nonsense, engineering-first team with a bias for action, practical decision-making, high autonomy, and strong customer focus. Engineering coverage emphasizes cross-functional collaboration across software, hardware, robotics, embedded systems, machine learning, and manufacturing, with frequent field testing and rapid iteration.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

The company advertises competitive total compensation, employee stock options, fully paid health coverage, and a 401(k). Publicly accessible role-specific salary ranges were not identified.

Benefits

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families
401(k) plan
Employee stock options
Generous paid time off
Office, hybrid, and remote options depending on role

Product & market

Pricing

Contact-sales capital equipment model. Public reporting indicates LaserWeeder units cost approximately $520,000 to $1.6 million depending on configuration; Carbon Autonomy/ATK pricing is not publicly listed. Public third-party descriptions indicate additional software/support fees and usage-based or service pricing may apply to autonomy offerings.

Differentiators

  • —Commercially deployed laser weeding rather than a field-demo-only prototype
  • —Sub-millimeter weed targeting designed to kill weeds at the meristem without disturbing crops or soil
  • —Large Plant Model trained on more than 150 million labeled plants
  • —Data flywheel: deployed machines continuously contribute field data to improve Carbon AI
  • —Broad crop and geographic coverage across approximately 15 countries
  • —Integrated hardware, AI, robotics, manufacturing, field service, and farm-operations support
  • —Chemical-free and no-till weed control aimed at labor shortages, herbicide resistance, and organic farming

Technology

Computer vision
Deep learning and machine learning
Carbon AI
Large Plant Model (LPM)
Robotics and autonomous navigation
High-resolution cameras
High-powered diode lasers
Onboard GPU computing
C++
Golang
Python
Flutter
Dart
TypeScript
React
PostgreSQL
AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
Docker

Customers

Hungenberg Produce
Babé Farms
Hussey & Co
Primaflor
Riviera Farms
Rio Farms
Planète Végétal
GL Estrup Gartneri
Limsfjord danske rodfrugter
Larrère Farms
Tripod Farmers
Grimmway Farms
Taylor Farms
Braga Fresh
Gills Onions

Competitors

Blue River Technology / John Deere
FarmWise
Stout Industrial Technology
Greenfield Robotics
Traditional herbicide programs
Mechanical cultivation equipment
Manual farm labor

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$100M-$110M annually; the company announced more than $100M in revenue for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026.

Estimated monthly visits

66.6K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Latest news

Carbon Robotics Appoints Chief Financial Officer and Announces More Than $100M in Annual Revenue

Business Wire · Mar 2026

Carbon Robotics appointed Kevan Krysler as CFO and announced that revenue exceeded $100 million for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2026. The announcement also highlighted customers in 15 countries and the company’s Large Plant Model.

Carbon Robotics Launches the Large Plant Model

Business Wire · Feb 2026

The company announced a foundational Large Plant Model trained on 150 million labeled plants. The model powers Carbon AI and is intended to let farmers adapt plant profiles and begin weeding new crops or fields more quickly.

Carbon Robotics Raises $20M as LaserWeeder Maker Plans a New AI Robot for Farms

GeekWire · Oct 2025

Carbon Robotics raised a $20 million Series D-2 extension led by Giant Ventures to develop another AI-powered agricultural robot. The report said the company had raised approximately $177 million and employed about 260 people.

Carbon Robotics Releases New Line of Laser Weed-Zappers for More Types of Farms and Budgets

GeekWire · Feb 2025

The company launched the LaserWeeder G2 product line, described as faster, lighter, and more modular, with configurations intended for more crops, farm sizes, and budgets. The report cited Nvidia GPUs, millions of processed images per hour, and a dataset of more than 40 million plants at that time.

Carbon Robotics Raises $70M for AI Robots That Blast Weeds with Lasers

GeekWire · Oct 2024

Carbon Robotics announced a $70 million Series D led by BOND, bringing reported funding at the time to $157 million. Proceeds were intended to scale LaserWeeder, expand internationally, develop products, and build manufacturing capacity in Richland, Washington.

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Jobs and careers at Carbon Robotics

13 jobs at Carbon Robotics

Senior Field Service Engineer

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Staff Application Engineer

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Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer

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Senior Staff Firmware Engineer

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Senior Opto-Mech Engineer

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Senior Staff Software Engineer

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Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer

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Staff Backend Software Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer

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Head of Hardware Production and Supply Chain Operations

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Senior People Operations Specialist I

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Director, Hardware Engineering

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Director, FP&A

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