Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
YC-backed ag robotics startup building the Field Hand autonomous weeding robot and offering weeding-as-a-service to commercial growers, especially vegetable and organic farms. Public web profiles agree on the core product and team, though the company website also contains some template-like farm content, so some site pages appear less reliable than the YC/LinkedIn/company-profile sources.
Primary product
Field Hand autonomous intra-row weeding robot; weeding-as-a-service for farms
Founded
2023
Headquarters
1020 Industry Drive, Tukwila, WA 98188, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Agriculture, Construction, Mining Machinery Manufacturing
Sub-industry
autonomous agricultural robotics / agtech
Offices
Business model
Stage
Seed / pre-seed (public profiles conflict)
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Mar 2025 · Y Combinator
Mission-driven, hands-on, and fast-moving startup culture focused on sustainable agriculture; public job copy emphasizes building from the ground up, getting hands dirty in the field, and shipping real hardware for real farmers.
Compensation
Public career pages list $20,000-$25,000 for several farm/operations roles, and a public software-engineer listing emphasizes meaningful equity but does not show a reliable salary band. No credible public compensation policy for robotics/engineering roles was found.
Benefits
Pricing
Recurring weeding-as-a-service / seasonal service contracts; no official public price card found.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Estimated ARR: about $440K (GetLatka estimate, dated 2025-09-14)
Estimated monthly visits
543
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Startuply.vc · May 2026
Startuply.vc described Red Barn Robotics as a weeding-as-a-service company for commercial vegetable growers, focused on recurring seasonal service contracts and a per-acre-style economics model while warning that hardware/service scaling is capital intensive.
AngelsRound · Apr 2025
AngelsRound described Red Barn Robotics as an autonomous weeding-robot startup with $5M+ in LOIs, a $500K pre-seed/seed round, and a target of $5M ARR in 24 months, starting with organic farms.
TechCrunch · Mar 2025
TechCrunch highlighted Red Barn Robotics as a YC W25 startup building 'a Roomba for weeds on a farm,' noting claims that the Field Hand robot is 15x faster than a human, costs about a quarter as much, and had already signed $5M in LOIs.
Founders Pack · Feb 2025
A long-form startup profile framed Red Barn Robotics as a YC W25 ag-tech robotics startup building the Field Hand autonomous weeding machine and emphasized the company's mission to eliminate labor-intensive weeding.
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