Why We Are Investing in Tellia: Putting Voice AI at the Service of Farmers
Tellia Fundraising
AGTECHIA
9/7/20262 min read
San Francisco & Paris — September 2026. We are thrilled to announce our investment in Tellia's $5 million pre-seed funding round! At Jeriko (the deal-by-deal VC fund dedicated to sustainable food and agriculture, powered by Techmind), we joined forces with lead investor Revent, alongside Grey Silo Ventures (the CVC arm of Cereal Docks Group) and Fund F.
Why We Are Investing in Tellia: Putting Voice AI at the Service of Farmers
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The Problem: Data Friction in the Field
Despite the growing number of AgTech platforms, most still rely heavily on screens, complex forms, and manual data entry. They were designed for offices, not for the reality of field operations.
Yet, the most critical agricultural data is created directly in the fields—disease sightings, spray decisions, crop scouting, and team assignments. Too often, this information remains trapped in paper notebooks, lost in messaging threads, or forgotten at the end of a long day.
Tellia reinvents how agricultural teams interact with software through a voice AI layer. The platform enables farmers, agronomists, and field teams to capture and structure information in natural language through simple phone calls, voice notes, SMS, or WhatsApp messages.
Tellia automatically converts these inputs into clean, structured records tied to the correct field, crop, and operation, while allowing users to ask questions and receive instant operational answers.
“The Ag industry keeps facing the same challenge: the people who spend their days in the field spend their evenings at a keyboard. 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.”
— Coline Labadie de Faÿ, CEO and Co-founder of Tellia
At Jeriko, we refuse to back technology that becomes an extra administrative burden for farmers. Our conviction is clear: the best AgTech innovations are those that adapt to how farmers actually work and give them their time back.
Tellia's traction demonstrates immediate, strong adoption in the field:
Over 1 million acres covered across the US and Europe.
80% daily active usage among field teams within two months of onboarding.
Major deployments with leading US agricultural producers (Campos Brothers Farms, Duckhorn Wineries) and top European institutions and cooperatives (Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin - IFV, Val de Gascogne, KWS).
A Phenomenal Execution Team Building a Transatlantic Leader
The Tellia Team :)
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Our Investment Thesis: Field Reality and Farmer Utility First
The Solution: Voice as the Universal Interface
Founded by Coline Labadie de Faÿ and Vincent Trastour through Entrepreneur First, Tellia now operates with a 14-person team across San Francisco and Paris. We were deeply impressed by their ability to combine rapid US commercial execution with European standards for data security and confidentiality.
This funding will allow Tellia to accelerate the rollout of its agentic AI suite and integrate its voice layer directly into existing AgTech software platforms via API.
We are proud to support Coline, Vincent, and the entire Tellia team as they build technology that puts the farmer back at the center!
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