Tellia Raises €4.3M Betting Farmers Will Talk to Software Before They'll Ever Type Into It

Tellia, a voice AI startup for agriculture, has raised 4.3 million euros, roughly 5 million dollars, in pre‑seed funding to scale technology that lets farmers, agronomists, and field teams capture and use their data simply by speaking, rather than typing it into a screen after the fact.

The round was led by Revent, a Berlin based venture capital firm, with participation from Grey Silo Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Cereal Docks Group, alongside Jeriko, operated by Techmind, and Fund F.

Tellia was founded in 2024 by chief executive Coline Labadie de Faÿ and co‑founder Vincent, who met through the Entrepreneur First program. The 13‑person company now operates on both sides of the Atlantic, running its commercial operations from San Francisco and its European base from Paris, a structure that pairs strong US commercial traction with the data protection and security standards expected of a company selling into European agricultural institutions.

Labadie de Faÿ framed the problem Tellia is built to solve as fundamentally an interface issue rather than a data collection issue. "The Ag industry keeps facing the same challenge: the people who spend their days in the field spend their evenings at a keyboard," she said. "That was never a data problem. It was an interface problem. Traditional software cannot accept it the way it actually comes out, spoken, in the field, in whatever language the team works in. So we did not build another platform that wants to own all the data. Instead, we built the interface. You talk, Tellia captures it, structures it, and interprets it into something the whole operation can act on."

In practice, Tellia's platform accepts voice notes, phone calls, and WhatsApp messages from farmers and field workers, then converts that unstructured spoken input into clean, structured records connected to the correct field or operation. Rather than forcing teams to work within a fixed template, the system adapts its structure to how each individual farm actually runs, and users can ask the system questions and receive instant answers drawn from their own previously captured data. The company also offers a partner API, letting other AgTech companies embed Tellia's voice capture technology directly into their own existing products, so their users only need to speak while Tellia handles capturing, organizing, and interpreting the information before sending structured records and recommendations back into the partner's product.

Tellia's early traction is concentrated most heavily in the United States, where the company launched first. According to the company, 80 percent of US field teams that adopt Tellia are using it daily within two months of onboarding, a retention figure that suggests the voice‑first interface genuinely reduces friction compared with the manual data entry it replaces. Its San Francisco operations have supported work with almond producer Campos Brothers Farms and the Duckhorn wineries. In Europe, Tellia is live with the Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin, the French national viticulture research institute, the agricultural cooperative Val de Gascogne, and German plant breeder KWS Saat.

With the new capital, Tellia plans to push its core voice AI technology further, build out what it calls the agentic layer sitting between field data capture and the rest of the broader AgTech stack, and grow its team across both the US and Europe. That agentic layer represents a meaningful expansion beyond pure data capture: rather than simply documenting what a farmer says, the company's longer‑term ambition is for the system to actively process and act on that information, feeding it directly into downstream agricultural decisions and workflows rather than leaving that interpretation entirely to a human reviewing the structured data afterward.

Tellia's raise arrives amid continued investor appetite for AI and technology‑enabled agriculture across Europe throughout 2026. Belgium's Rainbow Crops raised 9.7 million euros to advance its AI‑supported crop gene‑editing platform, London based Biographica secured 8 million euros for its AI platform targeting climate‑resilient crop varieties, and France's UBEES raised 8 million euros to expand its technology‑enabled regenerative agriculture and connected‑hive monitoring capabilities. Within that broader wave of AgTech investment, Tellia's pitch is distinct in that it isn't trying to become a new system of record competing with the platforms farms already use, but rather the voice interface that feeds structured data into those existing systems on a farmer's behalf. Whether that interface positioning proves durable as a standalone business, rather than a feature that larger AgTech platforms eventually build natively themselves, will likely depend on how deeply Tellia can embed itself into partner products and daily field workflows before competitors close the same gap.