Agtech intelligence company Taranis banks $30M Series C with tech giants

Agricultural imaging and analytics firm Taranis has raised $30 million in a Series C round co-led by Vertex Growth — an affiliate of Singapore sovereign fund Temasek — and Orion Fund, a subsidiary of Malaysian conglomerate, the Kuok Group.

Taranis’ core service to farmers centers around pest control. Its AI2 SmartScout Solutions leverages a database of more than 1 million threat species to create prescription plans that customize treatments. With its combined images from drones and planes that can cover 100 acres in six minutes, the company says it’s now capable of capturing 0.3 millimeter pixel resolution images of fields.