AgTech Startups

This page describes RME's (Rocky Mountain Equipment) "Right by You" Ag Society Grant, a community investment program that awards grants to agricultural societies in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. It is a grant/community-support page rather than a page describing a standalone company product.

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A chemical manufacturer and distributor supplying high-quality chemical and organic products across agriculture, food ingredients, industrial chemicals, leather tanning, and water treatment markets. It serves industrial customers, with a notable market presence in South Africa's leather tanning sector.

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Rollrite designs and manufactures covering solutions for transportation fleets to enhance operator and pedestrian safety while improving productivity. The company serves fleet operators and transportation businesses.

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Root Applied Sciences develops microbial detection and disease forecasting technology for agriculture, helping growers identify and prevent crop diseases. The company combines soil microbiology expertise with IoT and analytical instruments to deliver actionable pathogen detection and risk assessment for farmers.

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Rotecna manufactures feed dispensing equipment for swine farming operations, including dosifiers for pregnant sows, lactating sows, and growing pigs. The company designs automation systems to optimize feed distribution across farm feeders.

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Rotex Group manufactures APEX industrial screeners—precision separation and filtration equipment with gyratory reciprocating motion technology designed for high-efficiency particle classification in processing operations. The machines serve manufacturing and processing plants seeking to improve screening performance, reduce downtime, and increase safety.

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Rowe Farms produces and sells locally raised, grass-fed, antibiotic- and hormone-free meats, eggs, and organic products through retail stores and online delivery. Serving consumers in the Toronto and Guelph areas of Ontario, it works with local Ontario farmers under sustainability and animal welfare protocols.

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Royal Reesink designs and integrates warehouse automation systems, from hardware like storage cranes and conveyors to warehouse management software, serving retail, manufacturing, pharma, and food logistics operations. The company operates under the brand Syncore and has operations in the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland.

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The New Royal Bluff Orchards operates tree fruit orchard properties spanning 675 acres in Eastern Washington. The company manages orchard operations and has raised investor funding to finance its expansion.

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RubilabsVet is a mobile platform for Nigerian poultry farmers that provides financing and parametric insurance for day-old chicks, feeds and vaccines, plus quality inputs, in-app veterinary advisory, farmer clusters, batch traceability and guaranteed buyer offtake. It aims to reduce flock mortality and connect farmers to fair markets across the poultry production cycle.

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A seed systems company in Rwanda focused on seed production, quality control, and industrialization of seed systems for agricultural markets.

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Rúmina builds technology solutions for dairy cattle farming, including a management platform, real-time herd health and reproduction monitoring, mastitis and udder-health control, automated pre-milking teat preparation, and a data-intelligence platform with a farm benchmarking index. It serves dairy producers and industry professionals in Brazil and Latin America.

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Ruminant Biotech develops a rumen bolus that releases bromoform to reduce methane emissions from cattle by approximately 70%, supporting low-carbon livestock farming. The product targets dairy and beef producers seeking to lower greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining pasture-based grazing systems.

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Ruumi provides a mobile app and data platform for farmers to manage sustainable grazing practices and track environmental metrics, while giving supply chains visibility and compliance data on farming sustainability efforts. The company serves livestock farmers and their buyers across the UK and Ireland.

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SaiBot (RVX) offers an AI-enabled collaborative robot for rubber tree plantations that combines physical latex harvesting with on-chain mining, and issues NFTs representing real-world latex assets plus mining power. It runs a peer-to-peer marketplace for trading latex assets and pays holders yield from latex production and computing rewards.

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S2G Investments is a venture capital firm that invests in market-based solutions across food and agriculture, oceans, and energy, focusing on interconnected, commodity-driven, policy-sensitive sectors with hard-to-abate emissions. It backs entrepreneurs and leadership teams pursuing innovative technologies and business models aimed at improving environmental and human health outcomes.

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SafePAS develops analytical testing technologies that bring measurable data to the point of decision, serving public safety and agriculture. Its tools help law enforcement improve roadside drug screening reliability and help farmers make soil and fertilization decisions.

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Safi Organics manufactures carbon-rich organic fertilizer from agricultural waste such as rice husk, using a decentralized, village-level production process aimed at small-scale rural farmers. Based in Kenya, it serves over 20,000 farmers and is developing AI and IoT tools to help identify soil nutrient deficiencies.

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Sahyadri Farms grows and processes fruits, vegetables, and value-added products including fresh produce, dried fruits, juices, and bioactive ingredients. The company operates across agriculture, post-harvest processing, and food safety in India.

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Salad Africa is an agriculture-focused fintech that provides financing to smallholder farmers and agribusinesses, including interest-free crop production financing and invoice factoring, to move staple food crops from farm to market. Through its SourcePro platform it connects farmers, suppliers, transporters, and buyers with quality assurance, starting in Nigeria.

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Salford Group manufactures agricultural equipment including tillage machinery, air booms, cultivators, and application and spreader systems for row-crop and organic farming operations. The company sells through a dealer network and also owns the BBI Spreaders, Valmar Airflo, and AerWay Advanced Aeration product lines.

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Salish Soils transforms organic waste—including food scraps, green waste, and biosolids—into regenerative soil products and compost, serving communities seeking circular economy solutions. As an Indigenous-led company rooted in Coast Salish traditions, it combines waste diversion with soil manufacturing, land restoration, and Indigenous employment in British Columbia.

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SalvageSale is an online sealed-bid marketplace that connects insurance companies and other asset sellers with buyers for salvage and reclaimed insurance assets. The platform serves insurance carriers by managing salvage disposition, supporting adjusters, and maximizing recovery value across multiple sectors.

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SAM-DIMENSION develops AI-based systems for crop protection that give farmers precise, actionable insights for sustainable plant production, combining computer vision, machine learning and remote sensing. Its technology, including the SAM-CAM AI, is designed to integrate into existing agricultural processes and operate reliably under real field conditions.

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