Furrow Sense Series A

Agtech pitch deck example with numbers that reconcile

An agtech investor has been shown a water saving before and has learned to ask what it was measured against. Furrow Sense is invented, and every number in its ten slides ties back to one of three things: farms, hectares or the fee per hectare.

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FURROW SENSE

Eleven percent less water, six seasons running

Measured on 412 farms

Soil moisture sensing for Australian row crop, broadacre and horticulture growers.

Tess Warrigal

Co-founder, Griffith NSW

SERIES A, 2027

Slide 1 · cover · Open on the number the whole deck has to defend, not on the product.

The decision

An irrigator decides how much water to put on a paddock roughly twice a week, for about 22 weeks. Almost all of those decisions are made from a forecast, a dug hole and a memory of last season.

What that costs

Water is over applied

Guessing high is the safe error, so paddocks are watered past field capacity and the excess drains below the roots where nothing can use it.

Water is bought twice

On a temporary market in a dry year, water is the largest variable cost a grower carries. Over applying it is a cash decision, not only an environmental one.

Yield moves either way

Too little water costs yield, too much costs yield and nitrogen. The safe error is only safe because nobody measures the other side of it.

Nothing is written down

When the season ends there is no record of what was applied where, so next year starts from the same memory rather than from data.

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Slide 2 · intro · Why irrigation decisions are still guessed at, said from the paddock rather than from a market report.

THE PRODUCTS

Three things

One probe in the ground produces three different products. A grower can buy the first on its own, and about a third of them do for a season before adding the other two.

1
Moisture by depth

Readings at 10, 30, 60 and 90 centimetres, every 15 minutes, on a phone with no app to install.

2
Irrigation call

A water or wait answer for each paddock each morning, with the millimetres and the reason attached.

3
Season record

Every application logged by paddock, exported for the water authority and the agronomist at season end.

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Slide 3 · pillars · The three things a grower actually buys, kept separate because they are priced separately.

WHERE WE ARE

Six seasons of readings

412

Farms

Paying farms across the Riverina, the Darling Downs and the Sunraysia, at the end of the 2026 to 2027 season.

38,000

Hectares

Under monitoring, from a 40 hectare almond block to a 4,100 hectare cotton aggregation.

11%

Less water

Average reduction in megalitres applied per hectare, measured against the three year baseline of each farm.

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Slide 4 · metrics · The three headline numbers, with the water saving stated as a measured average and not a claim.

REVENUE

Six seasons, in dollars

21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27
0500100015002000
Revenue, thousands

SEASON REVENUE

$1.9M

2026 to 2027, up 28 percent

PER HECTARE

$50

Blended, hardware included

SUBSCRIPTION

$1.33M

70 percent of revenue, recurring

FARMS RETAINED

91%

Season on season, by farm

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Slide 5 · metrics · Revenue by season as bars, with the four numbers that explain the shape beside them.

Priced by the hectare

An annual fee per monitored hectare, billed at the start of the season. Probes are bought once and last about seven years.

Broadacre

Cotton, rice and cereals, 400 ha up

$22

per ha a year

One probe per 80 hectares

Moisture by depth

Daily irrigation call

Season record export

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Row crop

Vegetables and fodder, 40 ha up

$38

per ha a year

One probe per 25 hectares

Everything in Broadacre

Per bed moisture split

Agronomist login included

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Horticulture

Almonds, citrus and vines, 20 ha up

$72

per ha a year

One probe per 8 hectares

Everything in Row crop

Root zone depletion model

Salinity reading at depth

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Slide 6 · pricing · The per hectare price, with the minimum that makes each plan work said out loud.

From order to first call

Four steps, and the grower is present for one of them.

1

Paddock survey

Soil type and irrigation layout read from the maps the grower already has. One hour, no site visit.

2

Probes in

A contractor augers the probes in. Twelve probes on a 1,000 hectare farm takes half a day.

3

Readings flow

Readings start within an hour over the long range radio network, no farm internet needed.

4

First call

The water or wait call starts on day eight, once the probes have a week of local history.

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Slide 7 · process · Installation to first call in four steps, because a grower assumes this takes a week.

How the call gets made

Five decisions in a week, made two ways, on the same paddock.

From memory

From the probe

Forecast read on Sunday night, applied to every paddock the same way

A hole dug at the headland, because that is where the ute stops

Watering set to the longest run that fits the labour roster

Drainage below the root zone never seen, so never counted

Season ends with no record of what went where

Readings at four depths on every monitored paddock, every 15 minutes

Probe sited on the representative soil type, not the convenient corner

Run length set to refill the root zone and stop, in millimetres

Water passing 90 centimetres shows up as a line nobody can argue with

Season record exported to the agronomist and the water authority

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Slide 8 · comparison · How the irrigation decision is made today against how it is made with a probe in the ground.

The ask

Sized to put 60,000 more hectares under monitoring before the 2029 season.

$5M

Series A. Hardware takes the largest share because a probe is bought once and paid back over seven seasons, so growth is a stock of probes in the ground rather than a sales hire.

40%35%25%
Hardware
Sales
Research

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Slide 9 · investment · The five million as a donut, so the hardware share is obvious at a glance.

Book a paddock survey before the season

Probes have to be in the ground before the first irrigation. The contractor calendar fills by August.

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Slide 10 · closing · End on the one thing a grower can do next, with a date attached.

The structure

What each slide is doing, so you can reuse the order even with different content.

Slide 1cover
Open on the number the whole deck has to defend, not on the product.
Slide 2intro
Why irrigation decisions are still guessed at, said from the paddock rather than from a market report.
Slide 3pillars
The three things a grower actually buys, kept separate because they are priced separately.
Slide 4metrics
The three headline numbers, with the water saving stated as a measured average and not a claim.
Slide 5metrics
Revenue by season as bars, with the four numbers that explain the shape beside them.
Slide 6pricing
The per hectare price, with the minimum that makes each plan work said out loud.
Slide 7process
Installation to first call in four steps, because a grower assumes this takes a week.
Slide 8comparison
How the irrigation decision is made today against how it is made with a probe in the ground.
Slide 9investment
The five million as a donut, so the hardware share is obvious at a glance.
Slide 10closing
End on the one thing a grower can do next, with a date attached.

Slide by slide

Slide one puts the water saving and the number of seasons on the cover. Slide two describes the irrigation decision and the four things guessing it costs. Slide three separates the three data products, because a grower can buy the first alone. Slide four is the three headline numbers with their definitions. Slide five is six seasons of revenue as bars with four stat cards. Slide six is the price per hectare in three bands. Slide seven is the four steps from order to first call, with the grower present for one of them. Slide eight sets the old way of deciding against the probe on five weekly decisions. Slide nine is the five million ask as a donut. Slide ten closes on booking a paddock survey before the season starts.

How to adapt this deck

A company selling into one crop rather than three cuts the pricing slide to a single band and uses the space for agronomy, since a single crop buyer wants depth rather than range. A business with no hardware at all removes the donut and the install process and replaces both with a data partnership slide, because the capital question changes shape entirely. A company selling to corporate farms rather than family farms moves the season record slide forward, since compliance reporting is what a corporate buyer signs for and water saving is what a family farm signs for.

What this audience asks for

The Australian agricultural statistics agency publishes farm survey data on water use and irrigation practice, which is where a credible baseline for a saving claim comes from and where an investor will go to check one. Its farm performance work is also the source most agricultural funds use when they test whether a claimed saving is large enough to change a farm decision. Alongside that, the government business planning guidance is a useful reminder that a price per unit stated plainly does more work in a funding conversation than a market size, particularly in a sector where the buyer is one person making one decision twice a week.

What makes this deck work

The water saving names its own baseline

Slide four says 11 percent is measured against each farm’s own three year baseline, not against a control paddock or a modelled figure. That one clause is the difference between a number an agronomist will argue with and a number they will dismiss, and it is why the claim sits on the cover.

Three numbers multiply into the fourth

412 farms, 38,000 hectares and a blended 50 dollars a hectare produce the 1.9 million dollar bar on slide five, and the stat card beside the chart says so. A revenue chart that cannot be rebuilt from the traction slide is a chart an investor has to take on trust.

The ask is a stock of probes, not a hiring plan

The donut on slide nine puts 40 percent into hardware, and the label explains why: a probe is bought once and paid back over seven seasons, so growth here is physical rather than a sales hire. A use of funds slide that explains its own largest slice does most of the work of the ask.

Questions people ask

What goes in an agtech pitch deck?

The decision a grower makes and how they make it today, what the product actually measures, the farms and hectares under it, the revenue that follows from both, the price per hectare and the use of funds. This example uses ten slides and no market size slide at all.

How do I show a yield or water saving credibly?

Name the baseline, the period and the number of farms in the same sentence as the percentage. This deck says 11 percent against each farm’s own three year history across 412 farms. A saving with no baseline reads as a brochure number and will be discounted to zero by anybody who buys farm technology.

Should an agtech deck show price per hectare?

Yes, and with the minimum hectares that make each band work. Growers and investors both price the business that way. This example shows 22, 38 and 72 dollars a hectare a year across broadacre, row crop and horticulture, with the probe density that justifies the difference.

How many slides for a seed or Series A agtech deck?

Ten to twelve. This one is ten. Hardware businesses are tempted to add engineering slides, and the better place for those is an appendix. The main deck should survive being read by somebody who has never augered a probe into a paddock.

Does an agtech deck need a chart?

One, usually revenue or area under management by season. This example uses a six season bar chart with four stat cards beside it, which is the layout that lets the chart carry the trend while the cards carry the definitions. A second chart usually repeats the first.

What do investors ask that founders do not expect?

How many farms left. Retention in farm technology is seasonal rather than monthly, so a churn rate means very little. This deck answers with 91 percent of farms retained season on season on the stat card, which is the shape of the question an agricultural investor actually asks.

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