OneSoil secures €1M to expand AI-powered farming assistant

Zurich-based
agritech company OneSoil, which develops AI-driven solutions for precision
agriculture, has secured €1 million in funding from existing investors,
including Yury Melnichek, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Cyprus-based
venture fund Melnichek Investments.

Founded
in 2017, OneSoil has developed a platform that enables farmers to monitor
fields, analyse productivity, create variable-rate application maps, conduct
soil sampling, and run field trials. Over the years, the company has built
extensive expertise in satellite imagery analysis and accumulated large
datasets that now underpin its latest innovation.

The
company recently launched AI Agronomist, an AI-powered assistant integrated
into the OneSoil app. Designed to process large volumes of field data, the
assistant provides farmers with daily summaries of field conditions through a
natural-language chat interface.

AI
Agronomist can identify areas requiring attention, such as zones affected by
flooding or at risk of pest outbreaks, and recommend appropriate actions.
Farmers can also query recent field changes or compare seasonal performance,
with the system generating responses based on satellite imagery and real-time
observations.

AI
Agronomist is essentially an additional brain for a farmer that remembers
everything, calculates quickly, and provides the information needed to make
operational decisions,

explained Stepan Zulynskyi, CEO of OneSoil.

From
a technological perspective, AI Agronomist operates as a multimodal AI agent
that combines multiple large language models and vision-language models. The
system integrates publicly available technologies with proprietary models
developed by OneSoil to identify field boundaries, detect crops, and analyse
productivity zones across agricultural areas. The assistant is trained on data
accumulated by the company since its founding.

The newly raised capital will support the further development of
AI Agronomist, expanding OneSoil’s precision agriculture platform with
AI-driven capabilities aimed at helping farmers make faster and more informed
operational decisions.