Technology as Resilience

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Labor Shortages

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.

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Why Now?

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.

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specialty crop expenses go to labor (USDA)
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acres of California Farmland lost since 1984
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increase in regulatory costs for lettuce growers (Cal Poly)
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more acres in the Central Valley at risk (PPIC)
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years of no new major water storage developments in California (UC Davis)
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U.S. small farms gone since 2017

Yet, only <2% of specialty crop production is automated today (Western Growers)

The gap is enormous—and startups are the ones who must close it.

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Welcome to Reservoir

We’re a symbiotic venture capital fund & operating company accelerating field tech solutions to build stronger farms & rural economies.

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 events—all centered on startup-driven innovation and localized economic and community benefits.

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Reservoir Co

Technical foundations and services that help startups move faster in the &1.8T specialty crop market. 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.

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Reservoir VC

Reservoir VC backs pre-seed founders in robotics, autonomy, precision tools, and AI-enabled software for specialty crops.
These technologies form the backbone of the next wave of efficiency, resilience, and climate-smart growth in agriculture.

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