Ag Ventures Alliance

AgriTX develops AGRITX-F65, a proprietary blend of pre/probiotics, vitamins, amino acids, and minerals applied to the eggshell microbiome of fertilized avian eggs to improve hatch rates, chick quality, and livability.

AgTechBiotechFoodTechStatesville, US

Frank Noca(Executive Officer)Kevin L. Parrish(Executive Officer, Director)Gina P. Sloan(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsHigh Country Impact FundInnova Memphis, Inc.

American Autonomy, Inc. (formerly Rantizo) develops software for the U.S. spray drone industry, including AcreConnect, which helps drone operators manage customer relationships, job creation, flight logs, application maps, billing, and FAA reporting.

AgTechRoboticsSaaSIowa City, US

Mariah Scott(CEO)

Co-investorsAgLaunch AcceleratorFulcrum Global Capital

Barnwell Bio runs a biosurveillance platform that analyzes environmental samples such as waste streams to detect pathogen trends and provide animal health data.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechFoodTechNew York, US

Casey McGinley(Executive Officer, Director)inMichael Rhys(Executive Officer, Director)inJake Byrnes(Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsAgLaunch AcceleratorDorm RoomTwelve BelowMax Ventures

Bioverse maps forest cover and species prevalence using satellite, drone, and AI/machine learning technologies to improve non-timber forest product harvesting, verify carbon and biodiversity credits, and support forest regeneration.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningClimate Tech

Barnowl AG builds robotic systems and automation infrastructure for agriculture.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningHardwareRoboticsBarnowlag, US

Sarah Hinkley(CEO / Co-Founder)inJaron Hinkley(Co-Founder)Bryan Stafford(Co-Founder)James Chivers(CTO)in

Co-investorsAgLaunch AcceleratorCORI InnovationFirstMile VenturesGreater Colorado Venture FundLeVert VenturesService Provider Capital+1 more

Bugbiome develops crop protection products for farmers that aim to work with natural systems.

AgTechBiotechClimate Tech

Dr Alicia Showering(Founder)in

Co-investorsAgLaunch AcceleratorAvonmore DevelopmentsCambridge Angels groupRockstart

ChopLocal is an online marketplace that connects consumers with local meat farms and butcher shops, allowing buyers to order meat directly and have it shipped to their door.

E-commerceFoodTechMarketplacesWayland, US

Jared Achen(Executive Officer, Director)Tawnya Achen(Executive Officer)

Croft provides software to manage the H-2A agricultural visa process, helping farm employers, workers, agents, and facilitators handle compliance, administrative paperwork, and collaboration.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningGovTechSaaSSioux Falls, US

Brady Hyde(Director)

Co-investorsAlloy PartnersBand of Angels

CryoBio develops a sprayable, food-safe biological formulation that protects crops from frost damage down to around 8°C of frost.

AgTechBiotechClimate Tech

Digital Metal is an online platform for ordering custom cast metal parts: users upload a STEP file to receive instant pricing, casting DFM analysis, and a 3D configurator for alloy, quantity, and finish, with parts shipped in 5-10 business days.

Advanced ManufacturingHardwareSaaS

Co-investorsSoundproof Ventures

Distynct offers the Barn Alarm, a device that gives farmers remote visibility of their farm operations without installing new wires or probes.

AgTechHardwareIoTAmes, US

BJ Brugman(Founder & CEO)Bradly J Brugman(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardJustin Van Wert(Director)Ben Williamson(Director)

Co-investorsInnoventures IowaISA VenturesNext Level Ventures

Earnest develops microbial seed coatings and agricultural biology products derived from prairie ecosystems to improve soil health and crop performance for farmers.

AgTechBiotechRantoul, US

Eddy Mejia(Co-founder)inDr. Gabe Price(Co-founder)

Co-investorsAgLaunch AcceleratorBoot64 VenturesAdams Street PartnersAndreessen HorowitzAtlas VentureBattery Ventures+4 more

EarthSense develops AI and robotics solutions for agriculture to address sustainability and productivity challenges.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningRobotics

Chinmay Soman(Founder)in

Co-investorsADB VenturesAgLaunch AcceleratorAurum Venture PartnersBread And Butter Ventures, LlcGen CapitalIllinois Ventures+2 more

Eiwa provides a platform for agricultural research trials that automates field data collection using drone imagery and a mobile scouting app, including an analytics library for crop metrics such as canopy, plant counting, plant height, and crop senescence.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS

Co-investorsGLOCAL LatamInnventureCultivation CapitalSerra Ventures

EmGenisys provides a machine-learning platform that analyzes embryo health and viability from a 30-second video of embryos in culture media, generating reports to help select the healthiest embryos for transfer.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningBiotech

Co-investorsTall Grass Ventures

HealthtechBridgewater, US

Seunghee Ham(Director)Raul Rabadan(Director)Oliver Elliott(President, Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of Issuer)Reuben Danzing(Chief Financial Officer of Issuer)

Genvax Technologies develops mRNA and nanoparticle-based vaccines for livestock, focusing on custom, herd-specific formulations that aim to improve speed and precision compared to conventional vaccine platforms.

AgTechBiotechHealthtechAmes, US

Joel Harris(Co-founder)inDr. Hank Harris(Co-founder)DL Hank Harris(Director)Scott Holmstrom(Director)

Co-investorsNext Level Ventures

Global Neighbor uses patented directed energy technology to control weeds and stimulate crop growth without chemicals, offering products such as a harvest weed seed control unit (bSCU) and a seed priming system for farmers.

AgTechCleantechDeep TechHardwareXenia, US

Jon JacksonNeil SaterJonathan Jackson(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardJames A Ellis(Director)inDean Didato(Director)

Co-investorsClean Energy VentureInnova Memphis, Inc.Texas HALO FundTitletownTech

Grain Weevil makes a robot that moves and manages grain inside storage bins, letting farmers maintain grain conditions and quality without physically entering the bin.

AgTechHardwareRoboticsAurora, US

Chad Johnson(Co-Founder & CEO)Benjamin Johnson(Executive Officer)Ben Johnson(Co-Founder / Chief Innovation Officer)

Co-investorsHomegrown CapitalInnova Memphis, Inc.Invest Nebraska

Green Acres Milling is a milling company focused on regenerative and sustainable food supply chains, emphasizing soil health and restoration.

AgTechFoodTechImpact & Social GoodAlbert Lea, US

Kewaskum, US

Tracey Wiedmeyer(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardBen Voss(Director)

Co-investorsC2 VenturesTundra AngelsTwo Ravens

Gripp is a mobile and desktop app for tracking equipment and assets, logging issues, running inspections and maintenance, and messaging teams, with automatic language translation for frontline workers.

AgTechIoTSaaS

Co-investorsAgLaunch AcceleratorAlloy PartnersTundra AngelsTwo Ravens

Holganix makes Bio 800+ soil products containing over 800 species of beneficial microorganisms that improve soil health, allowing farmers and turf professionals to reduce fertilizer and water use while increasing crop yields and carbon capture.

AgTechCleantechClimate TechImpact & Social GoodGlen Mills, US

Barrett A Ersek(Executive Officer, Director)Barrett Ersek(Founder & CEO)Gene Godick(Executive Officer)Bryan Hansel(Head of Revenue Strategy)David Stark(Executive)Kaitlyn Ersek(Chief of Staff)

Co-investorsiSelect FundCultivation Capital

Horizen is an AI-native operations platform for agricultural distributors that unifies sales, inventory, purchasing, finance, and fulfillment in one system with permissioned AI agents built into every module.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningSaaS

Ichor develops agricultural crop protection inputs, running field trials that show its product (ICH) performing on its own and in combination with existing commercial products such as fungicides.

AgTech

Co-investorsOval Park Capital

AgTechBiotechAtlanta, US

Kyle Mohler(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardDean Didato(Director)Diane Allemang(Director)

Co-investorsElevate VenturesInnova Memphis, Inc.

Kalix Technologies makes portable PCR-based molecular diagnostic base units and test kits that detect DNA/RNA pathogens in samples such as blood, milk, feces, soil, and urine, delivering results in about an hour.

AgTechHardwareHealthtech

Co-investorsAgLaunch Accelerator

Lepidext develops a biocontrol product based on a naturally-occurring corn earworm virus isolate that increases sterility in infected insects, aimed at controlling corn earworm in agricultural crops.

AgTechBiotechLexington, US

Paul Mulhollem(Director)Angelika Fath-Goodin(Co-founder)Gary P Cullen(Director)Bruce Webb(Founder & President)

Co-investorsBluegrass Angel VentureCultivation Capital

AgTechWheatland, US

Natalie DiNicola(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew Crisp(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardDean Didato(Director)Charles Thomas Snipes(Director)

Co-investorsInnova Memphis, Inc.

Mach builds full-stack autonomy hardware and software for off-road and industrial vehicles, including phased array radar, stereo vision perception, mesh radio communications, and fleet management and navigation systems.

AgTechHardwareRobotics

Co-investorsNext Level VenturesThe Venture Collective

MicroMGx runs a high-throughput natural product discovery process that combines metabolomics and genomics (metabologenomics) to find bioactive compounds produced by microbes, supplying patented natural products to life science R&D organizations.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechEvanston, US

Regan Thomson(Co-founder & Board Member)William Metcalf(Chairman of the Board and CoFounder)Neil Kelleher(Director and CoFounder)Jack Kloeber(CEO and Co-Founder)Jennifer Kelleher(COO and Corporate Secretary)Neil L. Kelleher(Co-founder)

Co-investorsAgLaunch AcceleratorThe Innovation Space

Midland Seafood raises Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) indoors in the Midwest using a proprietary closed-loop, algae-based recirculating aquaculture system, and sells the fresh shrimp through a network of independent Midwest farmers.

AgTechCleantechFoodTech

Motion Grazer AI (SIM) builds vision-based sensing hardware and machine learning algorithms that assess sow reproductive potential, body condition, and locomotion for pork producers with sow breeding operations.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningHardwareEast Lansing, US

Michael Lavagnino(Director)Madonna Benjamin(Director)Daniel Morris(Director)John McIntyre(Founder/CEO and President)

Co-investorsMichigan Rise

Mycologics develops natural product-based biofungicides that target soil-borne and foliar fungal diseases in food and feed crops such as corn, sugar beets, and cucurbits.

AgTechBiotechClimate TechDurham, US

Anindya Chanda(Founder)in

Co-investorsAgLaunch AcceleratorIDEA NC

AgTechRice, US

Dana Persson(Chief Executive Officer and Director)Jonathan Olmscheid(Chief Financial Officer and Director)Melinda Dittmer(Director and Chief Operating Officer)

Co-investorsInnova Memphis, Inc.

Nutt Bio is developing a single-injection sterilant for male pigs that achieves the same outcomes as surgical castration, used to prevent boar taint.

AgTechBiotech

Phinite manufactures organic fertilizer from livestock waste in granular form for growers and dealers.

AgTechRaleigh, US

Jordan Phasey(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

BoardJeff Clark(Director)Keegan Wilson(Director)Michael McCord(Director)

Co-investorsIDEA NCOval Park CapitalSerra Ventures

Phospholutions develops phosphorus fertilizer technology, including its patented RhizoSorb additive and RhizoSorb 8-39-0 product, designed to increase phosphorus efficiency and replace dry MAP and DAP fertilizers.

AgTechCleantechClimate TechNew MaterialsState College, US

HUNTER SWISHER(Executive Officer, Director)inRICHARD DEFLURI(Director)CHRIS ABBOTT(Director)ANDREW SPAHR(Director)

BoardMATTHEW RHODES(Director)in

Co-investors1855 Capital PartnersOspraie Ag ScienceRadicle GrowthTekfen Ventures

Poultry Patrol makes SMR, an autonomous robot for poultry farms that patrols barns to increase bird movement, detect feed spills and water leaks, and report mortalities.

AgTechHardwareRobotics

AgTechAmes, US

Todd Krone(Director)Jason Cope(Treasurer & Secretary)Scott Uknes(Executive Officer, Director)Carl Cox(Executive Officer, Director)Kavilash Chawla(Executive Officer)Crystal Bruntz(Executive Officer)

Quercus uses generative AI to develop biology-based crop protection products aimed at being safe, specific, and environmentally responsible.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningBiotech

Co-investorsMissouri Technology CorporationService Provider CapitalSerra Ventures

Quorum Bio develops genetic engineering tools for precision fermentation, enabling the production of complex natural products using engineered non-model microbes.

AgTechBiotechFoodTech

Sudharsan Dwarknath, Ph.D(Co-Founder & CEO)Yasuo Yoshikuni, Ph.D(Co-Founder & Advisor)Sudharsan Dwaraknath(Founder)in

Co-investorsFTW VenturesJuniperOverwater Ventures LlcChemistryCraft VenturesPace Capital

Co-investorsAgLaunch Accelerator

Re Envision Ag develops a planter system built around its SeedSpike row unit, designed to reduce soil compaction and tillage while widening the planting window for no-till and cover-crop farming.

AgTechClimate TechHardware

Co-investorsInnova Memphis, Inc.

Co-investorsElevate Ventures

Co-investorsInnoventures Iowa

Seismi develops continuous, non-invasive sensors that monitor vital signs such as heart rate and respiratory rate in pets and livestock through fur and bedding.

AgTechHardwareHealthtech

Co-investorsHAXAgLaunch Accelerator

Sentinel offers a platform that uses imagery, crop data, and trial-backed science to give farmers crop nutrition insights, helping them apply nitrogen and other nutrients at the right time and amount.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningSaaS

Smooth Ag makes the Ranch Rover, an autonomous feed vehicle that hauls over a ton of feed across rugged terrain while monitoring herd health, detecting wildlife, and assessing pasture conditions.

AgTechHardwareRobotics

Co-investorsAgLaunch AcceleratorDolby Family Ventures

SoilWarrior makes a configurable strip-till and precision nutrient placement system for farms, offering equipment such as strip-till machines, row units, and accessories for fertilizer and cover crop application.

Advanced ManufacturingAgTechHardware

Spornado offers a crop disease early-detection system that uses air samplers and targeted DNA testing to identify low levels of airborne fungal pathogens for farmers and agricultural operations.

AgTech

Stig makes Auto-Bin, a modular grain bin monitoring and automation system that uses CO₂, LiDAR, temperature, moisture, and weather sensors to track grain conditions and automatically control aeration fans.

AgTechHardwareIoT

SunFarmor makes pre-engineered solar generator systems designed for non-expert landowners such as row crop farmers, greenhouse, dairy and livestock operators, and brownfield or landfill owners.

AgTechCleantechEnergy

SwineTech builds technology for pork producers, including SmartGuard, a voice-recognition and wearable system that reduces piglet crushing, and PigFlow, a workflow and execution-management platform for coordinating daily work across pork production operations.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningSaaSSolon, US

Abraham Espinoza(Co-founder)Matthew Rooda(Co-founder & CEO)John Rourke(Co-founder)

BoardGlenn Argenbright(Director)Jan Bouten(Director)inRussell Gilliam(Director)

Co-investorsBerkeley CatalystInnova Memphis, Inc.ISA VenturesCultivation Capital