Planted, a California-based company specializing in autonomous power deployment, said it has raised $31.8 million to scale its operations. The new capital will expand its robotic fleet and support the launch of Sage, its next-generation robot, which the company said will be deployed later this year. Planted said demand is outpacing its current capacity, and the funding round was led by Piva Capital and RA Capital Management Planetary Health, with participation from Gigascale Capital, Khosla Ventures, Google, and Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
The company combines planning software, high-density terrain-following solar arrays, storage, and field robotics into one system. Planted said this approach delivers twice the energy per acre and allows construction on parcels that legacy trackers cannot use. Its most recent build, a 28-MW behind-the-meter project serving a neocloud data center, went from first call to power in 10 months, with field construction completed in under three months. Planted deployed more than 10 MW in 2025 and said it is on track for 100 MW in 2026, a 10x jump in a single year, with a project pipeline of more than 20 GW.
The funding signals investor confidence that autonomous construction can address bottlenecks in land, steel, labor, and interconnection. CEO Eric Brown said solar needs to be deployed about five times faster than today to hit 2050 scale projections, and that the way to close the gap is to turn power plant construction into a manufacturing problem. Ricardo Angel of Piva Capital said Planted dramatically reduces land, steel, and labor bottlenecks, while Mike Schroepfer of Gigascale Capital said the model is already proven in the field. The company also said its projects carry independent engineering validation and project financing.
What remains unknown is the valuation implied by the round, the specific ownership stakes taken by investors, and the commercial terms of the financing. The dossier does not provide revenue figures, profitability, or unit economics for the robotic fleet. It is also unclear how Sage differs technically from the current robots, or whether the 20 GW pipeline consists of signed contracts or earlier-stage development prospects. The evidence comes from a single secondary source, Power Magazine, so independent confirmation of the funding amount and operational metrics is not yet available.