AI spraying start-up AgZen closes $10m Series B round with Syngenta’s support

MIT spin-out AgZen closed its Series B funding with $10 million, led by returning investor DCVC Bio and participation from Astanor Ventures, Material Impact, and Syngenta Group Ventures, bolstering the agtech start-up’s commercial scale-up.

Founded in 2020, AgZen offers a spraying optimisation technology, called RealCoverage, which uses AI to adjust spraying in real-time to precisely apply crop protection products, reducing input costs and improving yields, as previously reported. AgZen also revealed that it will expand into spreading with RealNutrition, set to launch later this year.

AgZen’s RealCoverage covered nearly a million acres in 2025 and is expected to expand to 2 million acres through contracted business. Farmers saved up to 50% on chemical usage and reported cleaner fields and higher yields, the company shared.

AgZen will use the Series B funding to support commercial expansion in North America, Argentina, and Australia, and bolster the company’s product development pipeline, which stretches into 2028, Vishnu Jayaprakash, CEO and co-founder of AgZen, told AgTechNavigator. The agtech company is “sold out for the year” and still sees plenty of room to grow, he added.

“The pull from the market has been phenomenal. What we expected was that farmers would love it and would want a lot more of the product. What we did not fully expect was how much the industry would want it, and how quickly they would want it, and how quickly they would want us to integrate with their business operations. ... Given that increased demand, both our existing investors and new investors all decided to come in and say, ‘Hey, let’s raise some more fuel for the rocket ship and keep going,’” Jayaprakash elaborated.

AgZen partners to help farmers save on chemicals

As part of its commercialisation strategy, AgZen is partnering with crop protection companies, like Syngenta and Corteva, to bring its technology to their customers and recognising opportunities across the value chain, Jayaprakash explained.

“Everyone in the value chain wants a piece of this and wants to be part of bringing this to market and part of helping us expand,” he elaborated.

This also comes as farmers across the globe are set to face a challenging 2026, as geopolitical conflicts, like the Iran war, are set to raise fertiliser prices and energy costs. AgZen’s technology can help farmers manage crop input expenses, Jayaprakash noted.

“The amount people spend on their chemicals is basically the profitability on their farm. Those two numbers are getting more and more equivalent every year, and if we can help make all of those things more efficient, it is going to directly impact the bottom line of growers,” he added.