Monday 19 October 2026 / Kodama
Kodama
Kodama builds physical AI and autonomy systems for forestry machines such as skidders, letting remote operators run them.
United StatesRobotics & industrialkodama.ai
$7.0M
Seed, 19 October
Lead investorBreakwater Ventures, Konvoy Ventures
Other investorsBlue Forest Asset Management, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Dangerous Ventures, M1C, NYA Ventures
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What makes it different
Its first product combines supervised autonomy with teleoperation and is in commercial logging use across the US Southeast, addressing operator labor reliability.
Kodama builds physical AI and autonomy systems for forestry machines such as skidders, letting remote operators run them.
Founders
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Merritt Jenkins
CEO, cofounder
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Matt Verminski
cofounder
Funding history
Monday 19 October 2026
$7.0M Seed, led by Breakwater Ventures, Konvoy Ventures