MITTI LABS RAISES $9.5 MILLION TO BUILD WATER RESILIENCE IN ASIA'S RICE FIELDS
Mitti Labs has raised $9.5 million in Series A funding to scale its GeoAI platform, which uses satellite data to optimize rice farming. The technology aims to reduce water consumption and methane emissions while maintaining crop yields for smallholder farmers.
Why it matters
This represents a significant intersection of climate tech and food security, addressing the environmental impact of the world's most water-intensive staple crop.
With the world's staple crop under mounting climate & water stress, funding accelerates the deployment of its rice GeoAI platform to millions of smallholder fields
BENGALURU, India and NEW YORK , Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Deep-tech company Mitti Labs today announced a $9.5 million Series A round from investors including Aramco Ventures as lead investor, alongside Lightspeed India , Godrej Industries Group , Cisco Foundation , Francis Family Fund , and Volta Circle .
With this new funding, the company will expand its geographical footprint in India and launch greenfield projects in the Philippines and Indonesia. In parallel, Mitti Labs will scale its GeoAI platform , a satellite technology that fuses high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data with field-collected ground truth and physical models to generate digital twins of Asia's rice fields at the resolution of individual plots.
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