AgTech Startups

Costa Group is an Australian fresh produce company that grows and supplies avocados, berries, bananas, citrus, grapes, mushrooms, and tomatoes to markets in Australia and internationally. It operates farming across Australia and overseas locations including China, Laos, and Morocco.

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Cotierra operates decentralized biochar production that converts coffee residues into biochar directly on farms to sequester carbon, restore soil health, and improve farmer margins. It works with coffee companies and provides an IoT-enabled MRV system that tracks carbon removal and regenerative agriculture outcomes with real-time field data.

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Cotter Agritech makes sheep handling equipment, including the Cotter Crate handler with add-ons such as curved lead-ups and holding pens, aimed at sheep producers. Its products are grant-eligible in Ireland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

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Cowlar makes wearable monitoring devices that attach to dairy cows' necks to track temperature, activity, and behavior, providing farmers with alerts and recommendations to improve reproduction rates, detect disease, increase milk yield, and prevent theft.

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Cowmed provides continuous livestock monitoring for dairy cattle, using collars and sensors to detect estrus (optimal insemination timing), identify early signs of disease before clinical symptoms, and track feed intake for nutrition management. The Brazil-focused solution turns herd data into practical alerts and decisions for dairy producers.

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Cowtribe is Africa's first on-demand veterinary vaccine distribution platform that provides accessible and affordable animal health services to smallholder farmers. The company delivers vaccines and related healthcare solutions to livestock keepers across the continent, addressing supply chain challenges in hard-to-reach areas.

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Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group) is a global conglomerate operating eight main business lines across 23 countries with nearly 300 production plants. Its activities span agriculture and food, retail, telecommunications, and other sectors, with a stated focus on sustainability and social development.

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Capitânia is an asset manager with over 20 years of experience managing private credit, infrastructure, real estate, and agribusiness funds, including Fiagro vehicles that allow investors to gain exposure to agricultural land. The firm serves investors in Brazil's capital markets.

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Crop2Cash provides digital tools and financial services for smallholder farmers in rural Nigeria, including AI agricultural advice, an inputs marketplace, digital payments, and offline data collection for field agents. It serves the agricultural sector, connecting farmers to information, inputs, and financial identity.

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Cropify develops technology to grade pulses and grains, aiming to replace subjective manual testing in the grading process. It targets the agricultural grain supply chain, offering grading solutions intended to improve efficiency and support customers' sustainability goals.

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Cropmind develops AI models for automated agricultural analysis, specifically designed to count plant buds and optimize vineyard management. The company targets wine producers and agricultural operations seeking data-driven crop monitoring.

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Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts) is an agricultural testing laboratory and agronomy advisory company offering soil fertility, water quality, food safety, pesticide residue, fertilizer, animal feed, and plant disease analysis. It serves corporate clients and smallholder farmers across East Africa with an AgTech platform that includes mobile soil testing labs, data-driven agronomic recommendations, satellite imagery, and IoT sensors.

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An informational site publishing guides about controlled-environment and vertical farming, covering topics such as year-round indoor crop production, environmental control, water and energy efficiency, and urban food security. The content is educational rather than describing a specific product or service.

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Croptix develops in-field optical sensor technology for detecting plant health and crop disease, aiming to replace traditional laboratory-based diagnostic practices. The company serves growers, farmers, and crop researchers with a hardware-and-software platform for crop management.

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Crover builds a robotic system that uses "grain-swimming" technology to move beneath stored grain and monitor it in real time. It serves farmers, grain storage operators, and traders in the agricultural supply chain to reduce storage losses and maintain grain quality.

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Crowde is an Indonesian peer-to-peer lending platform that connects farmers with capital providers, offering financing schemes for agricultural projects and supplying farming inputs. It also runs a marketplace where buyers can purchase harvests from its partner farmers and suppliers can sell their produce.

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CryoBio develops a sprayable, food-safe biological formulation that protects crops from frost damage down to around 8°C of frost. The product targets farmers and growers as a lower-cost alternative to existing frost protection systems.

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Cryogenetics provides technology and services for preserving aquatic genes, including fish reproduction improvement and cryopreservation, serving research, conservation, and the aquaculture industry. It works with clients, partners, and research institutions across major aquatic regions worldwide.

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Cultipharm produces and customizes botanical extracts and active ingredients grown through vertical farming in a controlled indoor laboratory (fitotrone). It offers traceable, customizable "Superactive" botanical ingredients and works on preserving ancient or endangered plant species.

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Cultivaet is an AI startup building data-driven tools that help farmers, agronomists, and the food industry adopt sustainable farming practices and traceability. It focuses on the Middle East, with a stated emphasis on farmers in Egypt.

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Cultra offers a platform for growers and agronomists to upload soil lab data, track nutrient trends, and generate agronomic recommendations with less manual work. It focuses on soil health analysis to support more efficient food cultivation.

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Culttivo offers online credit products for coffee farmers in Brazil, including financing for production costs and for stored coffee inventory. It handles credit analysis and paperwork digitally, providing credit limits based on the size of the producer's output or coffee stock without requiring property as collateral.

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Cultura Fresh is a hydroponic vegetable farm that grows and delivers packaged fresh produce, including several lettuce varieties, cauliflower, and broccoli, to major national retailers. It is based in Klapmuts in South Africa's Western Cape and has operated since 2016.

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Cultyvate offers a precision irrigation platform for sugarcane cultivation, including "Sugarcane Supply as a Service" programs aimed at improving cane supply and crushing-day economics for sugar mills. It serves sugar mills and their cane supplier base, with deployments led by agripreneurs.

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