Agriculture Startups

GrubMarket is a food tech company operating a B2B and B2C marketplace in the U.S. and Canada, offering both wholesale produce delivery at discounted prices and AI-powered SaaS software solutions for food supply chain businesses including inventory management, warehouse operations, and eCommerce platforms.

32 investors

Living Carbon develops precision-bred tree varieties and reforestation techniques to convert marginal land into carbon-sequestering ecosystems. The company targets climate mitigation through enhanced photosynthesis and biodiversity restoration.

16 investors

Shinkei deploys robotics and computer vision hardware on commercial fishing vessels to process seafood at sea, improving quality and traceability while reducing America's seafood import reliance. The company vertically integrates the supply chain from harvest to consumer, offering real-time visibility and quality control through onboard and fleet-wide software systems.

16 investors

Pyka designs and manufactures autonomous electric aircraft along with the underlying flight control software, avionics, motors, batteries, and carbon-fiber airframes. Its planes serve cargo transport and agricultural crop protection customers across four continents and have received FAA regulatory approvals.

15 investors

Alga Biosciences develops feed additives that reduce methane emissions from cattle — cutting cow burps to combat climate change.

12 investors

Bear Flag Robotics develops autonomous driving technology that equips farm tractors and implements so growers can automate and optimize common field tasks. It also provides analytics to help farmers gain insights about their crops and operations, addressing farm labor shortages and worker safety.

12 investors

Four Growers develops robotic harvesting and analytics technology for greenhouse growers, starting with a tomato harvesting robot that can also perform quality checks and packaging. The company aims to reduce greenhouse production costs and serve as an automated crop management provider.

9 investors

Entocycle builds automated, vertically farmed insect production systems to make insect protein at industrial scale. The protein serves as an alternative to soymeal and fishmeal for farmers raising fish and free-range poultry.

8 investors

Bountiful builds a data-science platform that uses machine learning combined with weather, satellite, geographic, and historical data to help specialty-crop farmers forecast yields more accurately. It targets agricultural producers and buyers, aiming to reduce waste and add clarity to the food supply chain.

6 investors

Hedgehog uses AI and proprietary bioreactors to optimize fungal cultivation for producing food, biochemicals, animal feed, enzymes, and other products from fungi that can recycle waste. The company serves food and agriculture industries by unlocking new fungal-based product possibilities.

6 investors

Releaf Earth is a climate tech company that converts food waste, specifically palm kernel shells, into biochar for carbon removal and agricultural use. It focuses on carbon sequestration and supporting farmers and rural communities in Africa.

5 investors

Silurian develops customized foundation models for simulating the impact of weather on assets and infrastructure. The company serves energy and government sectors.

5 investors

Care Weather operates a low-cost flat-panel radar satellite system that gathers high-precision weather observations for governments and maritime shipping operators. The satellite design achieves cost advantages through vertical integration, improved power generation, and orbital positioning closer to Earth's surface.

4 investors

MilkRun connects small farmers directly with local customers through a proprietary delivery platform, bypassing traditional distribution intermediaries. The company delivers fresh produce, eggs, milk, meats, and artisan products to subscribers in Seattle, Portland, and Austin.

4 investors

Precip provides hyper-local rainfall measurement and forecasting using AI, delivering up-to-the-hour precipitation data at 1km resolution without requiring physical weather stations. The service targets industries and organizations that need accurate rainfall data for operational decision-making and scheduling.

4 investors

UrbanKisaan develops machine learning models and hardware systems for accelerated plant breeding. The company creates foundation models that predict plant traits from genetic sequences and environmental data, paired with controlled-environment chambers that compress traditional multi-year breeding cycles into months by enabling rapid generations and continuous phenotype data collection.

4 investors

Instacrops provides farmers with a dashboard that aggregates data from IoT sensors placed in fields alongside satellite and drone imagery to generate farm health analytics. The platform helps agricultural producers in Latin America optimize crop yields.

3 investors

TerrAvion provides high-revisit-rate aerial imagery for agriculture, delivering weekly in-season imagery to help growers and agronomic partners make quantitative crop decisions. It offers the imagery through a service with an open API and in-field support under a co-delivery model with agronomic partners.

3 investors

FarmLogs makes software for farmers to track field performance, reduce waste, and improve profitability. It provides farm management and analytics tools for agricultural operations.

2 investors

Nexa develops implantable microchips and herd management software for farmers to monitor cattle health and detect disease early. The platform combines subcutaneous sensors with a mobile/web interface to provide real-time health insights and breeding optimization for dairy and cattle operations.

2 investors

Ohmic Biosciences develops engineered proteins and synthetic biology solutions to address diseases in crops. The company creates durable treatments applicable across different agricultural products.

2 investors

Ovipost builds automated insect farms that convert cheap agricultural byproducts into protein-rich insect biomass. The company targets the animal feed industry, aiming to provide an alternative to fishmeal and other expensive feed proteins.

2 investors

Shielded combines a company's internal datasets with external information sources to map how external prices and events affect margins and cash flow, continuously tracking supply chain and financial risks. The platform automatically quantifies risks and opportunities, flags pricing discrepancies, contract deviations, and billing errors, and sends proactive alerts about market events, supplier issues, tariffs, and regulations.

2 investors

ThriveAgric operates a marketplace for buying and selling agricultural commodities locally and internationally, while providing smallholder farmers in Africa with financing for inputs and extension services to improve crop production. It serves rural farmers across Africa in the agricultural sector.

2 investors