Planted Solar News

Latest Planted Solar news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $31.8M raised. 1 article tracked by The Robotics Media.

About Planted Solar

Planted Solar is an Oakland, California-based clean-energy company founded in 2020 by CEO Eric Brown. It combines planning software, dense terrain-following solar arrays, storage and autonomous field robots that install utility-scale solar directly on sloped terrain — no grading required. Customers include Google's Meitner Energy Center in Texas and Cultivate Power's community-solar projects in the Chicago metro, alongside behind-the-meter build-outs for neocloud data centers.

Key facts

• Headquarters: Oakland, California, United States
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2020
• Sectors: Battery Storage, Industrial Robotics, Renewable Energy
• Website: https://www.plantedsolar.com

Products by Planted Solar

• Sage (Robot, 2026) — Planted's next-generation autonomous solar-installation robot, slated to enter the field in late 2026 and expand the company's deployment fleet.
• Planted Terrain-Following Array (Robot, 2024) — High-density, terrain-following solar array system installed directly onto sloped terrain without grading, deployed by Planted's field-robot fleet.

Funding rounds

• Series B — $31.8M — 2026 — led by Piva Capital

Latest Planted Solar news

• Planted Bags $31.8M As Google Backs Robot-Built Solar Farms — Oakland's Planted raises $31.8M in a Piva-and-RA-Capital-led round to scale autonomous field robots that install utility-scale solar on sloped terrain...