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Brilliant Harvest funding, valuation and investors
AI customer experience platform for heavy equipment dealerships.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Seed
$4M USD · February 2026
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$4M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
seed · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Investors in latest funding
Other: Alpaca VC , FTW Ventures , Automotive Ventures , SVG Ventures , NYA Ventures , Builders VC , AltaML
Overview
Brilliant Harvest provides an AI-driven customer experience platform for heavy equipment dealerships. The Calgary-based company ingests complex technical manuals, work orders, and conversational data to give service, parts, and aftermarket teams instant accurate answers — increasing wrench time and service efficiency. It raised $4M USD in seed funding in February 2026 with new investors FTW Ventures, Alpaca VC, Automotive Ventures, SVG Ventures, and NYA Ventures alongside returning backers Builders VC and AltaML.
Why Brilliant Harvest is interesting
Calgary AgTech with 50%+ penetration of CNH Industrial's large dealer network — Alpaca VC joined a $4M seed in February 2026 as the company expands from agriculture into construction.
Product & use cases
AI platform that ingests heavy equipment technical manuals, work orders, and service data — giving dealership service and parts teams instant answers to complex technical questions.
- Service technician lookup of equipment manuals and repair procedures
- Parts counter staff answering customer technical queries faster
- Aftermarket team efficiency across multi-location dealer networks
Key facts
- Seed (Feb 2026): $4M USD with Alpaca VC, FTW Ventures, Automotive Ventures (BetaKit)
- 50%+ penetration of CNH Industrial large dealer network per Alpaca VC (LinkedIn)
- Multi-year renewals from Rocky Mountain Equipment and Titan Machinery
- Expanding to construction industry mid-2026 per CEO Remi Schmaltz
Funding history (newest first)
Seed
2026-02 $4M USD- Alpaca VC (participant)
- FTW Ventures (participant)
- Automotive Ventures (participant)
- SVG Ventures (participant)
- NYA Ventures (participant)
- Builders VC (participant)
- AltaML (participant)
Source: https://betakit.com/agtech-startup-brilliant-harvest-secures-4-million-usd-in-seed-funding/
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Deep penetration of CNH Industrial dealer network with multi-year renewals from Rocky Mountain Equipment and Titan Machinery — validated in a traditionally low-tech vertical.
Heavy equipment dealerships run on paper manuals and tribal knowledge — Brilliant Harvest's wedge is domain-specific AI that dealers actually renew. Expansion into construction (mid-2026) tests whether the model generalizes beyond agriculture.
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Salesforce Service Cloud incumbent
Generic CRM/service tools lack equipment-specific technical data ingestion.
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Manual dealer DMS systems incumbent
Legacy dealer management software without AI-powered technical search.
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Generic enterprise search adjacent
Horizontal document search lacks heavy equipment domain training.
Notable stories
- CEO Remi Schmaltz describes the company as 'farmers first and innovators second' — rooted in Alberta AgTech before expanding to construction.
- Alpaca VC's February 2026 investment was the NYC firm's first new deal of the year, fitting its physical-digital industries thesis.
- Named to Calgary.tech Startups to Watch 2025 before the seed round closed.
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