Meeting Agriculture’s Moment—with Deep Tech Innovation
Labor shortages. Rising costs. Resource constraints.
Agriculture faces mounting pressures that demand innovation at startup speed. Reservoir helps founders build, test, and scale technologies that farmers can put to work—faster, fitter, and with lasting impact.Why Now?
The challenges are real, and the window to respond is narrow:40%
specialty crop expenses go to labor (USDA)1,366%
increase in regulatory costs for lettuce growers (Cal Poly)50+
years of no new major water storage developments in California (UC Davis)The result:
1.6M+
acres of California Farmland lost since 1984<1M
more acres in the Central Valley at risk (PPIC)141k
U.S. small farms gone since 2017Yet, <2% of specialty crop production is automated today (Western Growers)
The gap is enormous—and startups are the ones who must close it.
Our Model
Reservoir Farms
Living on-farm incubators where startups and growers co-develop solutions.
Each farm supports deep tech product development, field trials and scientific validation, demonstrations, workforce development, and community events—all centered on startup-driven innovation.
Reservoir Co
Technical foundations and services that help startups move faster.
We provide access to APIs, data, hardware, and dev tools that accelerate innovation in autonomy, robotics, precision, and AI. We create applications and services that strengthen the broader AgTech ecosystem.
Reservoir VC
Pre-seed investments in robotics, autonomy, precision tools and AI.
These sectors represent the foundation of the next wave of efficiency, sustainability, and scalability in specialty crop production. Reservoir VC helps founders turn breakthrough tech into deployable solutions.