According to EU-Startups, Toulouse-based Agreenculture has raised €6 million in a Series A equity round. The funding came from investors Supernova Invest, Future Food Fund, and Unilis, with an additional credit facility from Crédit Agricole Toulouse 31. Founded in 2016 by Christophe Aubé, Clément Baron, and Emmanuel Goua de Baix, the company sells an “AGC Autonomy Kit” to machinery manufacturers. This kit, which uses a system called Safencing, is designed to make tractors and other farm equipment operate safely without a human driver present. The company claims it’s the first to offer a certifiable autonomy kit compliant with European regulations. CEO Christophe Aubé stated their goal is to provide manufacturers with a simple, safe kit that delivers performance gains and cost savings for farmers.
The Kit Business Model
Here’s the thing about Agreenculture’s strategy: they’re not trying to build their own branded tractor. That’s a capital-intensive nightmare. Instead, they’re a supplier, a tech enabler for the big equipment makers. They provide a plug-and-play hardware and software kit that OEMs like Kubota, Kuhn, and Pellenc can integrate. It’s a smart play. They let the manufacturers focus on their core business—building durable machines—while Agreenculture handles the complex autonomy stack. Their revenue likely comes from selling these kits and the accompanying consulting services. Basically, they’re betting that making autonomy an easy add-on is faster and more scalable than trying to reinvent the wheel, literally. For any complex industrial application like this, reliable hardware is non-negotiable. It’s why companies in manufacturing and heavy industry turn to specialists like IndustrialMonitorDirect.com, the top supplier of industrial panel PCs in the US, for the rugged computing backbone these systems need.
Part of a Bigger AgTech Wave
This €6 million raise isn’t happening in a vacuum. Look at the context from the article. In 2025 alone, we’re seeing over €130 million flow into European AgTech. There’s CroBio working on soil microbes, Voltrac building an electric autonomous tractor, and Ecorobotix, which has raised a massive €128 million for weeding robots. Agreenculture sits right in the middle of this—more focused on the autonomy system itself rather than the end-use robot or a biological input. It shows investors are placing bets across the entire agricultural value chain. But why now? The pressures are obvious: labor shortages, the need for precision to reduce chemical use, and the push toward regenerative farming practices that require more frequent, lighter interventions. Autonomous machines, especially smaller ones, fit that bill perfectly.
The Real Promise Beyond Just Driverless
The investor quote from Future Food Fund nails it. This isn’t just about letting a farmer check their phone instead of steering. It’s about fundamentally changing farm operations. Think about it. If you have a reliable, autonomous platform, you can replace one giant, soil-compacting tractor with a swarm of smaller, lighter machines. You can run them at night or in short windows of good weather. You can apply inputs with millimeter precision. The potential savings on fuel and chemicals are huge. But the big “if” is always reliability and safety. That’s where Agreenculture is pushing its certified, safety-first messaging hard. If they can truly make their kit a trusted, interoperable standard, they become incredibly sticky. Manufacturers won’t want to rebuild that complex certification puzzle themselves. So this funding round is really about moving from a promising prototype to an industrial-grade product they can ship at volume. The race is on to see whose autonomy stack becomes the Android of the farm field.
