# Kubota

> Kubota is a VC fund in Osaka backing AgTech and Agriculture. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osaka, Japan
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kubota
- Website: https://www.kubota.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kubotacorporation

Kubota is a VC fund in Osaka focused on AgTech and Agriculture. Kubota Corporation of Japan was established in 1890 and has become an international brand leader with a focus on contributing to society by offering environmentally compatible equipment designed to improve quality of life. Kubota Corporation has subsidiaries and affiliates that manufacture and/or market products that are sold in more than 130countries.Kubota was the first agricultural machinery manufacturing company in Japan to receive the prestigious "Deming Award," for manufacturing excellence. In 1992, Kubota Corporation received the "Sankei Newspaper Award" as part of the first Global Environment Awards, recognizing the Companyâ€:tm:s continuing contribution to protection of environment.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AgTech | 3 | 43% |
| Agriculture | 3 | 43% |
| Drones | 2 | 29% |
| Farming | 2 | 29% |
| Analytics | 2 | 29% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series B | 2 | 29% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 14% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 3 | 43% |
| India | 1 | 14% |
| Japan | 1 | 14% |
| France | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eiji Yoshioka | Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer | 1 | — |
| Gonshiro Kubota | Founder | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OceanWell | OceanWell is a California-based water technology company on a mission to help end the water crisis and adapt to climate change. The company's modular deep sea water farm technology harnesses hydrostatic ocean pressure to power the reverse osmosis and produce fresh water naturally. We do this with vastly improved energy efficiency, withoutharming marine life, creating a strong brine, or building an onshore plant. | $11M | Series A | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| Chouette | Chouette is an innovative start-up that specializes in the analysis of vines. They offer a vineyard monitoring tool dedicated to winegrowers. Their patented technology allows growers to have an automated drone with unparalleled autonomy, a high-precision sensor, and image processing algorithms specially developed to respond to the problems ofwine-growing environments. | $4.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 06, 2023 |  |
| Clarifruit | Clarifruit is disrupting the $2 trillion Fresh Produce supply chain by creating the world’s first automatic QC & data analytics platform. The Fresh Produce industry is experiencing a staggering 45% waste, caused by multiple reasons and market failures along the chain, in which the common denominator is lack of objective and consistent qualitystandards as well as hard-data upon to make decisions. Clarifruit’s QC platform can automatically identify, collect, and analyze real-time data about the fresh produce external and internal attributes. Solution results in objective, consistent, and cost- effective inspection that not only increases inspector productivity by x3 and reduces customer's current waste, but also empowers the world’s Fresh Produce growers, wholesalers, and retailers to make decisions based on high-quality data, resulting in better match of quality of supply to customer demand and ultimately favorable revenue opportunities. | $12M | Series A | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| ListenField | ListenField uses precision technology for sustainable farming for the agri-community.The company brings machine learning models to the agriculture community for better decision making. |  | Corporate Round | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| SeeTree | SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available. | $30M | Series B | Dec 08, 2020 |  |
| Tevel | Tevel Aerobotics Technologies is a robotics platform that creates an autonomous concept for orchard harvest and management. Tevel develops a fleet of drones for performing picking, thinning, and pruning tasks in orchards. Tevel’s airborne approach provides a holistic harvesting solution to the farmer. Tevel develops an innovative IP estate, whichis protected by a number of broad patents in different complementary fields: Tevel’s UAV concept and mechanics, mapping for harvesting and data collection, fleet management, and holistic farm management. They plan to create a unique service model that will free the growers from the need to recruit temporary labor force every harvesting season. | $20M | Series B | Oct 28, 2020 |  |
| Escorts | Escorts is an engineering company operating in the sectors of agri-machinery, construction, and material handling equipment. It is a partner of choice for farming and construction equipment in India.Escorts has helped accelerate India’s socio-economic growth through its presence across high-growth sectors of agri-machinery, construction andmaterial handling equipment and railway equipment.Escort was established in 1960. | $137.8M | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 20, 2020 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AgFunder](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agfunder) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Banque des Territoires](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banque-des-territoires) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Champel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/champel-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Club degli Investitori](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/club-degli-investitori) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Demeter](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/demeter-1e8a) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Firstime Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firsttime-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Kubota invest in?

Kubota invests primarily in AgTech, Agriculture and Drones startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Kubota?

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### Who are the partners at Kubota?

The team at Kubota includes Eiji Yoshioka (Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer) and Gonshiro Kubota (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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