Tagged: agtech
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Agros
Agros is a Singapore-based agtech company that helps smallholder fruit and vegetable farmers across Southeast Asia switch from diesel to solar-powered irrigation. It bundles hardware (its Agrosolar water pumps), flexible post-harvest financing (Agros Finance), and agronomy advisory into a one-stop platform, aiming to double farmer incomes while cutting fuel costs and carbon emissions. Founded in 2019 by Max Nelen, it operates in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Indonesia and has supported over 6,000 farmers.
Warren Wang
Warren Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Rebulk (YC S25), a Kansas City-area startup building an operating system for bulk materials - using cameras, LiDAR, and computer vision to measure and track piles of feed, grain, sand, and biomass that never fit into boxes or barcodes. An Indonesian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. on Christmas Day 2016, Warren went from launching drone delivery at Chick-fil-A and leading product at agtech company Milk Moovement to investing at Dynamo Ventures before starting his own company. Rebulk began life as dScribe AI, a video transcription tool, and pivoted after Warren and his co-founder kept hearing the same complaint from industrial operators: nobody actually knows how much bulk material is on site.
Rebulk
Rebulk is a Y Combinator (S25) startup that measures and monitors bulk inventory - feed, sand, grain, logs, biomass and other materials that never fit into boxes or barcodes. Using fixed cameras, drones, LiDAR and computer vision, Rebulk stitches 2D imagery into 3D volumetric models to give industrial teams precise, repeatable volume and weight data instead of rough estimates and manual checks. Founded in Olathe, Kansas by Warren Wang and Cole Robertson, the company pivoted from video transcription (as dScribe AI) to bulk inventory tracking and now runs pilots with partners including Cargill and Charm Industrial.
Eratani
Eratani is an Indonesian agritech company that digitizes smallholder rice farming through one integrated platform. It connects previously isolated farmers to affordable financing, high-quality inputs, agronomic advice and buyers for their harvest - covering the full cycle from upstream to downstream. Founded in 2021, Eratani works with more than 34,000 rice farmers across Java and Sulawesi, manages over 13,000 hectares of paddy, and reports lifting yields by roughly 29% and farmer incomes by about 25%.
Number 8 Bio
Number 8 Bio is a Sydney-based agtech and climate startup building BetterFeed, a low-cost feed additive and slow-release rumen bolus that cuts enteric methane from cattle and sheep by up to 90% in trials while recapturing wasted feed energy to lift animal productivity. After pivoting from yeast biomanufacturing to synthetic-chemistry small molecules, the company targets grass-fed grazing systems - about 95% of Australia's livestock - and has raised roughly A$18 million to move toward commercial release.
Sumer Johal
Sumer Johal is a technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 25 years building digital-first organizations across agtech, bioenergy, semiconductors, financial services, and consumer retail. He grew up in a farming family in Punjab, India, studied computer science and electrical engineering at MIT, and has spent the past decade focused on food and agriculture. He founded the food-industry big-data company Agralogics, launched and led AgStack at the Linux Foundation, ran the precision-agriculture company Semios (which rebranded as Almanac), and became CEO of Full Harvest, the B2B produce marketplace, as it moved into AI-driven agentic orchestration for the food supply chain.
Agro.Club
Agro.Club is a New York-based agri-tech company that runs a full-stack B2B grain marketplace connecting farmers, crop buyers, food companies and input suppliers on a single digital platform. Founded in 2018 by Egor Kirin, it pairs crop marketing, logistics and market data with embedded fintech tools such as invoice financing and factoring, aiming to make grain trade more efficient, transparent and secure across North America, Europe and South America.
BioLumic
BioLumic is a New Zealand-founded agricultural biotechnology company that uses precisely tuned ultraviolet light treatments to program desirable traits into seeds and seedlings without genetic modification. Applied in seconds, its patented 'light recipes' switch on plants' natural genetic expression to deliver double-digit yield gains, stronger disease resistance and stress tolerance across crops including corn, soybean, rice and ryegrass. The company partners with seed producers to commercialize non-GMO, climate-smart traits at scale.
Gotham Greens
Gotham Greens is a Brooklyn-born indoor farming and fresh food company that grows pesticide-free leafy greens and herbs year-round in a national network of high-tech hydroponic greenhouses. Founded in 2009, it opened the first commercial rooftop greenhouse in the United States and has since scaled to more than a dozen facilities across nine states, producing roughly 100 million heads of lettuce a year using up to 90% less water and 97% less land than conventional field farming. Beyond greens, the company sells branded salad kits, dressings, dips and cooking sauces to more than 6,500 retail, restaurant and foodservice locations nationwide.
Nabaco® Inc.
Nabaco® Inc. is a San Marcos, Texas materials-science company that makes self-assembling natural barrier coatings to keep fresh produce fresh longer and cut food waste. Its flagship product, NatuWrap®, is a GRAS-listed edible coating built from clay and plant extracts that locks moisture in while keeping oxygen and microbes out - applied by spraying, dipping or brushing at a fraction of the cost of rival coatings. Founded on nanotechnology research from Texas State University, Nabaco is expanding into pre-harvest crop protection (Envello) and post-harvest processing aids (Vanterra) to protect food across the whole supply chain.
Egor Kirin
Egor Kirin is the founder and CEO of Agro.Club, a full-stack B2B agriculture marketplace that connects input manufacturers, distributors, farmers, and grain buyers across Europe, South and North America. After nearly a decade of executive roles at Monsanto and a stint leading marketing at EuroChem, he left corporate agriculture at 31 to build a technology and embedded-finance platform aimed at making the grain supply chain more efficient, transparent, and secure.
Jamie Strachan
Jamie Strachan is the CEO of Nabaco, a San Marcos, Texas agricultural-science company building natural, clay-based barrier coatings that extend the shelf life of fresh produce and cut food waste. A produce-industry executive with more than 20 years in the business, he previously ran Green Giant Fresh (Growers Express) and founded and chaired the leafy greens marketing effort in California. At Nabaco he is commercializing a patented, tasteless and odorless protection technology across pre-harvest, packaging, and post-harvest applications, including a distribution partnership with AgroFresh.
Flagship Pioneering
Flagship Pioneering is a Cambridge, Massachusetts life-sciences enterprise that invents, builds, and funds companies rather than merely investing in them. Founded in 1999 by Noubar Afeyan, the firm runs a systematic 'venture creation' engine - generating scientific hypotheses in-house, prototyping them in its own labs, and spinning validated concepts into independent operating companies in human health and sustainability. Its portfolio has produced more than 100 ventures, including Moderna, and it directs roughly $14 billion in capital.
Making Sense
Making Sense is a Palo Alto-headquartered software and technology consultancy founded in 2006 by brothers Cesar and Damian D'Onofrio. Using a nearshore delivery model spanning the United States, Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, the firm builds custom software, UX-driven products, cloud architectures, and AI systems primarily for mid-market and private equity-backed companies. With roughly 300-350 employees and clients that have included Dell, AMD, Rackspace, Bloomberg, and Royal Canin, Making Sense positions itself as a long-term technology partner that turns innovation into measurable business outcomes rather than a pure staffing shop.
AEssenseGrows
AEssenseGrows is a Silicon Valley precision AgTech company that builds automated aeroponic 'SmartFarm' platforms for commercial indoor growers. Founded in 2014 by Robert Chen, the company pairs its AEtrium aeroponic hardware with Guardian Grow Manager software and Aerix LED lighting to deliver zero-pesticide, sensor-controlled cultivation - claiming up to 40% faster plant growth and repeatable, data-logged 'grow recipes' for cannabis and fresh-produce producers worldwide.
Arable
Arable is a San Francisco-based agricultural technology company that builds solar-powered, in-field IoT sensors and a cloud analytics platform to give growers real-time crop intelligence. Its flagship Arable Mark device measures more than 40 weather, plant, soil and irrigation metrics from above the crop canopy, and machine-learning models turn that data into decisions on irrigation, crop stress and yield. Deployed across roughly 19 countries, six continents and more than 20 crop types, Arable serves customers from Driscoll's and Treasury Wine Estates to Valley Irrigation.
Pierre-Antoine Mariage
Pierre-Antoine Mariage is the founder and CEO of Botalys, a Belgian agtech company that grows rare medicinal plants like Korean ginseng and Fjord Rhodiola indoors using a proprietary hydroponic technology, supplying ultra-pure botanical ingredients to the nutraceutical, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.
Calysta
Calysta is a San Mateo, California biotechnology company that uses a patented gas-fermentation platform to turn methane into FeedKind, a single-cell protein for aquaculture, livestock and pet feed - and increasingly human food. Its bacteria eat natural gas instead of arable land, plants or animals, producing protein with a low environmental footprint. Backed by Cargill, BP and Temasek and partnered with Adisseo through the Calysseo joint venture, Calysta opened the world's first industrial-scale single-cell protein plant in Chongqing, China in 2022.
Fieldin
Fieldin is a US-Israeli agtech company building a smart farming operations platform for large, high-value crop growers - the people who run California's almond orchards, lettuce fields and vineyards. It stitches together IoT sensors, mobile apps, a cloud control center and, since acquiring Midnight Robotics, retrofit autonomy kits that turn ordinary tractors into self-driving machines. The pitch: connect every spray, harvest and tractor pass to real-time data so growers can cut costs, prove compliance and eventually take the driver out of the cab.
Full Harvest
Full Harvest built the first business-to-business online marketplace connecting farmers with commercial produce buyers to sell fruits and vegetables of every grade, including surplus and imperfect produce that would otherwise rot on the farm. Founded in San Francisco in 2015 by Christine Moseley, the company raised roughly $45 million to digitize a produce supply chain that had run largely offline, tackling the fact that more than a quarter of edible produce never leaves the farm. In its latest chapter, Full Harvest is repositioning around FullHarvest.ai, an agentic orchestration layer that applies a decade of produce data and network relationships to coordinate the volatile, fragmented food supply chain.
Hippo Harvest
Hippo Harvest is a California controlled-environment agriculture company that grows USDA-certified organic leafy greens inside greenhouses run by warehouse-style robots and machine learning. Founded by two veterans of the ROS robotics world, it repurposes Amazon-fulfillment-style autonomous mobile robots as 'tractors' that deliver water and nutrients plant-by-plant, claiming greens grown with roughly 92% less water, 55% less fertilizer and 94% less land than field agriculture - at prices meant to match outdoor-grown produce.
Loam Bio
Loam Bio is an Australian agricultural biotechnology company using naturally occurring microbial fungi to help crops store more stable, long-lasting carbon in soil. Founded in 2019 by a group of farmers and climate scientists, it coats seeds with its CarbonBuilder inoculum so plants pull atmospheric CO2 into recalcitrant, mineral-bound soil carbon, and pairs the biology with its SecondCrop program that helps growers measure, verify and sell soil carbon credits. Backed by more than US$119M from investors including Lowercarbon Capital, Wollemi Capital and Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, Loam is scaling from its Orange, NSW base into the United States.
Precision AI
Precision AI is a Canadian-American agricultural technology company building autonomous, AI-guided aerial sprayers that identify and treat individual weeds at broad-acre scale. Its flagship Stratus AirSprayer pairs onboard computer vision with a powered flexwing airframe to spray herbicide plant-by-plant, aiming to cut chemical use by up to 95% while keeping yields intact. Founded by three-time entrepreneur Daniel McCann, the company is backed by more than $16M in funding from investors including At One Ventures, BDC Capital, Farm Credit Canada and Cooperative Ventures (CHS and GROWMARK).
Solena
Solena is an agricultural biotechnology company that reads the microbiome of farm soil the way a doctor reads a blood panel. Farmers mail in a soil sample; Solena sequences the DNA of the microbes living in it, scores the soil's biological health with its MISS index, and its Prometheus platform turns that data into AI-driven prescriptions for what to apply, when, and how much. The goal is fewer synthetic inputs, healthier soil, better yields, and eligibility for carbon and regenerative-agriculture incentives.
Verdant Robotics
Verdant Robotics is a Hayward, California agtech company building AI-driven precision farming robots. Its flagship SharpShooter is a tractor-pulled implement that uses computer vision and a bank of aiming nozzles to treat individual plants - weeding, thinning, fertilizing and spraying with millimeter accuracy - instead of blanketing whole fields. The pitch to growers of high-value specialty crops like carrots, lettuce and onions: cut chemical inputs by more than 96%, reduce hand-weeding costs, and collect plant-level data along the way. Founded in 2018 and led by roboticist Gabe Sibley, the company raised a $46.5M Series A in 2022 and commercially launched the SharpShooter in 2024.
Steve Sibulkin
Steve Sibulkin is the CEO and board member of BioLumic, a New Zealand-and-US agtech company that uses precise UV light signals to switch on genetic traits in seeds without genetic modification. A repeat CEO with a background bridging advertising strategy and agriculture, he earlier co-founded and led Agronomic Technology Corp, maker of the Adapt-N nitrogen tool, which was acquired by fertilizer giant Yara International. He now leads BioLumic's push to commercialize xTraits, light-programmed seed traits it says can cut years and up to 90% of the cost out of traditional trait development across corn, soybean, rice and forage.
Blooms
Blooms is an AI-driven trade finance platform that gives Latin American fresh-produce exporters faster access to working capital, cross-border factoring, and multi-currency payments as they ship fruits and vegetables into the US and Canada. Founded by fintech veteran Francisco Mere, the company purchases exporters' US receivables, absorbs the credit risk stateside, and advances up to 80% of an invoice within 24 hours - smoothing the cash-flow gap that has long strangled growers who sell perishable goods across borders. It raised a $2.6M seed round in May 2025 led by agritech VC SP Ventures.
FarmQA, Inc.
FarmQA is a Fargo, North Dakota software company that builds a connected digital-agronomy platform for the people who advise farmers. Its mobile scouting app and web console let agronomists and crop consultants scout fields, coordinate soil sampling, plan fertility, and write variable-rate prescriptions from one system. Founded in 2015 out of a conversation between farm-equipment maker Howard Dahl and Appareo founder Barry Batcheller, FarmQA now manages roughly 37 million acres for more than 500 organizations and closed a $4M seed round in 2025.
FarmRaise
FarmRaise is a San Diego-based agtech company building vertical software for U.S. farms and the organizations that serve them. Its flagship app, FarmRaise Tracks, turns messy shoebox-of-receipts farm bookkeeping into organized income, expense, mileage and inventory records, while a program-management platform helps USDA, ag nonprofits and corporate partners run farmer enrollment, grants and conservation payments. Founded in 2020 by Stanford classmates Jayce Hafner and Sami Tellatin with product lead Albert Abedi, the company raised a $7.2M seed round led by Susa Ventures and serves more than 20,000 farmers and innovators.
HarvestAi
HarvestAi is a Potsdam-based agritech company that builds AI software for high-tech greenhouses. Its web platform combines computer vision, machine learning and plant-physiology modeling to predict crop growth, harvest dates and yields, giving greenhouse operators forecasts that its team says exceed 90% accuracy. Growers use it to negotiate sales earlier, plan labor and logistics, and cut waste and energy costs. Founded in 2020 and led by CEO Dr. Georg Caspary, the company has raised roughly EUR 2.97M in seed funding and won first prize in Food/Agritech at Slush.