# Electric Plant Company Launches From Stealth With $11.2M in Funding and a Foundation AI Model for Plants, Bombadil

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- Published: 2026-10-20T16:00:00+00:00
- Category: Business
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electric Plant Company today emerged from stealth with $11.2 million in seed funding and the debut of Bombadil, the first AI foundation model for plant electrophysiology. Trained on more than 4 million hours of recordings across 100 species and a range of environments, Bombadil is the most species-diverse foundation model ever built on biological signals. It reads a

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