Press & News

We couldn’t agree more with Landus President and CEO Matt Carstens when he’s quoted “Getting the farmers voice around ag innovation is essential”. We see Landus practicing what they preach in their new Innovation Center, and are proud to see TerraClear mentioned: “a company out of Washington state, came in to demonstrate a rock picker […]

Whether it’s a drone in the air, a soil sampler in the field or picking tools of all sorts it’s a service Agricultural robots have opened the door for more farm operations to be contracted out to service companies.  The pace of new robotic-based agricultural platforms being developed and tested on North American fields is […]

RALSTON: The new Landus Innovation Center in Ralston showcased one of its partners emerging technologies in a recent demonstration to area farmers. TerraClear, a Bellevue, Washington start-up, brought its state-of-the-art rock picker to Landus. The rock picker, which is compatible with a compact track loader or skid steer loader, can selectively pick up rocks 6 […]

Tim Hammerich of FoA (Future of Agriculture) hosted a virtual Ag Robotics Roundtable to discuss the challenges and opportunities of automation in agriculture. President Trevor Thompson represented TerraClear at the event alongside other Ag leaders. Listen to the podcast for a chance to hear more about: Leaders by order of appearance:

When Bellevue entrepreneur Brent Frei returned to his family’s farm four summers ago, where he was born and raised, his father asked if he could help out by collecting loose rocks in the fields. So Frei grabbed his gloves and spent the next several days tromping through dusty fields in central Idaho’s dry heat. Rocks […]

TerraClear was featured by StartUs Insights as one of the Top 5 Computer Vision Startups Impacting Agriculture. TerraClear – Clearing Rocks Farmers have to deal with many land-related issues before actually sowing crops. A particularly painful and time-consuming task is to clear the sowing field of rocks. Delegating such basic tasks to robotics and automation will save […]

TerraClear recently raised a Series A round of funding for their robotic rock picker. Check out The Next Byte Podcast, as they discuss TerraClear’s innovative Rock Picker and the technology that is solving farmer’s most troublesome and constant problem, rocks. Note: During Series A funding, TerraClear raised $25 million. Brent Frei’s last name is pronounced […]

TerraClear is a startup with a goal to create a fully autonomous rock picker eliminating the need for the manual (and back-breaking) job across farm fields.  The idea for TerraClear came from Brent Frei’s experience growing up on his family’s farm in Idaho, and with three decades of experience in the software industry, he applied […]

New funding: TerraClear, the ag tech startup that’s using artificial intelligence and robotics to help farmers deal with costly and time-consuming rocks in their fields, has raised $25 million in new funding, the company announced Wednesday. The tech: Founded in 2017 by Brent Frei, the former CEO of Onyx Software and co-founder of Smartsheet, TerraClear splits its operations […]

TerraClear, a robotics company working toward building a fully autonomous rock picker, announced on Wednesday Series A funding of $25 million. The company has developed a system that uses a drone to map the size and location of rocks in a field and a rock-picking implement to clear the rocks from the field. The early […]

Farmers and venture capital investors are responding favorably to an evolving technology solution to streamline an age-old dilemma — rocks in the field. Picking up rocks is traditionally tedious and backbreaking work, but very necessary given the ever increasing cost and sophistication of field equipment in harm’s way. In the past year, a company called […]

Team Builds on Successful Spring Season to Expand Availability of Rock Picker Grangeville, ID and Bellevue, WA, May 26, 2021 – TerraClear, an applied AI and robotics company, announced Series A funding of $25 million led by Madrona Venture Group, bringing the company’s total funding to $38 million. Rocks in fields break machinery, slow precision farming, and […]