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Funding and backers

Total raised
$17M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
Series B
Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
Team
37
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -10% in a year
Hiring now
8
open roles
Backers
1
DCVC
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 25 Board appointment Sabanto Appoints Agriculture Technology Veteran John M. Raines to its Board of Directors · tmcnet.com Jul 15 Raised a round Series B · Pulse 2.0 Aug 18, 2022 Raised a round Series A $17M · Nasdaq 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series B Jul 2026 — — Pulse 2.0
Series A Aug 2022 $17M DCVC Bio, Hico Capital, Yara Growth Ventures, Ca Nasdaq
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How Sabanto hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Sabanto scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · Filed H-1B visas in the last two years

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Overview

Sabanto retrofits existing tractors with an autonomy kit for field work without a driver. Its Steward system handles tillage, seeding and mowing across many tractor brands. The company also runs autonomous farming as a service.

News

News Pulse 2.0 3 months ago
Sabanto Raises Series B To Scale Autonomous Farming Technology
Sabanto, an agricultural technology company developing autonomous retrofit systems for farm equipment, has raised an oversubscribed Series B funding round. The financial terms of the round were not disclosed. Leaps by Bayer led the financing, with partici
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Press release Nasdaq 4 years ago
Sabanto Raises $17M Series A To Drive Autonomy Into Agriculture
--Swarming farm autonomy company Sabanto, Inc. today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $17 M Series A funding round led by leading agtech venture firm Fulcrum Global Capital, with participation from DCVC Bio, Hico Capital, Yara Growth Ventures, Ca
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Blog 4 years ago
HICO Invests $4 million in Farm Machinery Startup
The post HICO Invests $4 million in Farm Machinery Startup appeared first on Sabanto.
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Blog 4 years ago
Ag Tech Firm Plans 10k acres of Soybean Planting with Driverless Tractors
The post Ag Tech Firm Plans 10k acres of Soybean Planting with Driverless Tractors appeared first on Sabanto.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Sabanto over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
21
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
C++
Node JS
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
ROS
ROS2
Databases
DynamoDB
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
AI & ML
ChatGPT
Claude
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Full Sabanto tech stack 21 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
8
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
74 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Robotics
33% ▼
Backend
17% ▲
DevOps
17% ▲
Hardware
17% ▼
Marketing
17% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Itasca Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Path Planning to stack Sep 2026
Added API Gateway to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
Chicago
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Chicago United States
HQ
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Robotics, Backend
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Ames United States
Regional office
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Robotics, Marketing
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Itasca United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Robotics
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $114k – $243k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Chicago
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
Node JS
DynamoDB
DevOps
AWS
Docker
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Amazon ECS
API Gateway
Robotics
Path Planning
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≈ $104k – $191k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ames
FMEA
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≈ $94k – $226k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Ames
Python
C++
Apply
≈ $91k – $218k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Itasca
Python
C++
Apply
≈ $97k – $234k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Chicago
Python
C++
ROS
ROS2
Apply
≈ $117k – $235k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Chicago
Python
C++
ROS
ROS2
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$17M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2026 — Details
Series A 2022 $17M Details