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.