Start Pill
This article showcases our top picks for the best California based AgTech companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the AgTech industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top California AgTech Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Bear Flag Robotics
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Bear Flag Robotics is an AgTech company developing autonomous technology for farm tractors to increase productivity and improve safety.
Pivot Bio
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Pivot Bio is an agricultural tech company improving the microbiome by taking nitrogen from the air and making it available for plants.
Plenty
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Plenty is a vertical farming company that brings fresh, pesticide-free produce to customers.
Farmers Business Network
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Farmers Business Network is a farmer-to-farmer network developed to help farmers optimize their financial performances.
Apeel Sciences
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Apeel Sciences develops plant-derived shelf life extension technology for fresh produce that improves quality and reduces food waste.
Specright
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Specright is a platform that enables companies to manage and map product and packaging data across the supply chain.
Brightseed
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Brightseed features artificial intelligence that reveals powerful compounds hidden in nature.
Wild Type
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Wild Type is an agtech platform that aims to create clean fish and meat.
Arable
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Arable is a developer of a software for agriculture that helps digitize and optimize decisions from seed breeding to food production.
The Climate Corporation
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The Climate Corporation is a technology platform helping people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change.
Verdant Robotics
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Verdant Robotics manufactures robotics machinery and components.
Monarch Tractor
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Monarch Tractor offers a platform that combines mechanization, automation, and data analysis to enhance farmer’s existing operations.
Ceres Imaging
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Ceres Imaging is a California-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that serves farmers and agribusinesses.
OnePointOne
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OPO has developed a fully automated vertical farming system to improve the health of humanity through plant-based foods and medicines.
Trace Genomics
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Trace Genomics helps agronomists and their growers maximize the value of every acre.
InnerPlant
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InnerPlant is an ag-tech company that features a data platform that increases field health and drives value throughout the supply chain.
Abundant Robotics
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Abundant Robotics solves important and large problems in Agriculture by delivering robotic systems for the hardest jobs in agriculture.
AgFunder
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AgFunder is VC focused on agrifood tech startups and built on an ecosystem of over 65,000 members and subscribers.
Boomitra
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Boomitra uses artificial intelligence to grow more plants or crops with less resources.
Telesense
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TeleSense is an AgTech company providing environmental monitoring and control solutions for the food and grain industry.
Vence
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Vence was founded to improve the affordability and availability of sustainable animal protein.
Pattern Ag
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Pattern Ag provides soil microbiome analysis and recommendations for input optimization on farms.
FarmX
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FarmX offers a precision agriculture platform for optimizing costs and increasing yields for farmers.
Atlas AI
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Atlas AI is an analytics platform that guides the deployment of investment and other resource allocation decisions in the emerging markets.
Andes
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Andes is harnessing the power of bacteria and seed integration for a regenerative agriculture revolution.
Unfold
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Unfold focuses on innovating vegetable varieties that deliver optimized quality and sensory experience in the vertical farming industry.
Boost Biomes
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Boost Biomes develops microbial products to sustainably improve food production and shelf-life.
Farmland LP
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Farmland LP is a real estate fund that acquires conventional farmland and converts it into Organic, sustainably managed farmland.
WaterBit
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WaterBit’s automated irrigation solution empowers growers to remotely monitor and control precision irrigation to their crops.
GroGuru
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GroGuru is an agriculture company that help farmers increase their crop yield using water in a sustainable way.
Leaf Agriculture
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Leaf’s universal farm data API helps developers build a better food system.
Advanced Farm Technologies
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Advanced Farm Technologies is a robotics company for the next frontier of farming.
AgShift
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AgShift is on a mission to reduce food waste across the food supply chain. Our medium of choice is AI.
LumiGrow
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Empowering Growth Through Connectivity is our mission, offering the industry’s leading smart horticultural lighting solutions.
INTERSTELLAR LAB
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autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space
Bountiful
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Bountiful is an agtech company that helps farmers understand what impacts crop production in the field and at scale.
ZeaKal
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Plant traits innovator helping crops capture more carbon and sunlight, leading to healthier, nutrient-rich food and feed.
Planetarians
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PLANETARIANS is the next platform for alternative meats: clean, water-efficient, cheap.
Tiamat Sciences
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Tiamat Sciences makes plant-based growth factors & proteins for cell-culture
Aessense Holding
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Aessense Holding is dedicated to providing solutions and technologies for both small and large scale growth in a sustainable manner.
Agragene
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Agragene is an agtech company that develops crop pests and eradicate mosquito-borne disease using biological insect control technology.
California Safe Soil
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California Safe Soil is a fresh food recycler that increases the productivity of farms at a low cost.
Stratio, Inc.
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Founded in 2013 with the mission to bring infrared sensing to the mass market.
HarvestPort
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HarvestPort is an innovation hub and marketplace for agricultural resources.
Chi Botanic
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Chi Botanic is a cellular agriculture company that provides a synthetic biology pipeline to leverage the power of the plant cell.
Moasis
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Moasis is a developer of agricultural solutions that enable growers to maximize their crop yields.
Local Urban Vegetables
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Local Urban Vegetables is an AgTech startup that provides vertical farming technology.
Farm Dog
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Providing in-field transparency to the new sustainable supply chain.
Agravitae
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Agravitae is a provider of agritech platform to sell beauty products.
Silo
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Silo is a wholesale food marketplace that enables customers to buy and sell produce, protein, dairy, and shelf-stable food quickly.
Dark Heart Nursery
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Dark Heart is California’s leader in cannabis genetics serving consumers and commercial growers with leading genetics in a variety of forms.
Edyza
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Edyza is Internet of Things with High Density Connectivity and Computing (IOTHD) for industrial, commercial, and government markets.
Fresh Agriculture Technologies
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Our dream is to revolutionise the way people do fruit growing in the world, by arming the fruit growers with the tools to support them.
Water Harvesting
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Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) based atmospheric water generation (AWG) products that deliver water recovery & humidity management solutions.
WMG International
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WMG International is an ad tech company that creates ingenious and easy-to-use programmatic products for traffic monetization.
Hippo Harvest
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Hippo Harvest develops an agriculture technology to help scale sustainable agriculture.
Asilomar Bio
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Asilomar Bio creates products that improve crop yield and water efficiency in farming.
Kakaxi, Inc.
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Kakaxi collects robust weather data with time-lapse video of plant growth to help farmers know more about farm and share the story of food.
SymSoil, Inc.
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Creates engineered soils for specific crops, including cannabis and vineyards.
BeeHero
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BeeHero is a developer of beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination.
Pando Nutrition Inc.
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Engineering probiotic alternatives to antibiotics in livestock.
ONIT Sciences
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ONIT Sciences is an agriculture technology company providing organic nano-input technologies to cannabis and hemp cultivators.
Airlitix
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Airlitix provides Greenhouse Precision AgTech drone-based products and DaaS solutions to optimize crop management for profitable production.
ClearAg
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ClearAg is the platform combines weather and agronomic data with proprietary land-surface modeling.
SVG Ventures
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SVG Ventures is an investment advisory firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.
Gartenzwerg Technologies
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Smart Gardens with proprietary IoT technology and a gamified app enabling anyone to grow food from home effortlessly at the push of a button
Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley
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Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley is a venture capital firm that invests in the robotics, food, and AgTech industry.
Modular Science
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Modular Science aims to automate ninety nine percent of the processes involved in vegetable farming with modular machines for agriculture.
AminAg
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AminAg acquires, develops, and operates agricultural property with a primary focus in the permanent crop sector.
Agricultural Gas
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Agricultural Gas is a provider of gas distribution services to increase crop yields and improve water-efficiency in open-field agriculture.
Plant Aid
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Plant Aid offers services such as plant cleaner, household cleaner, non-toxic cleaner, and eco-friendly cleaner.
Loyal Penguin
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Loyal Penguin is a cannabis-focused firm that provides tailored, sustainable models for increased long-term growth.
AeroBloom
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AeroBloom features a patent-pending aeroponics system that reliably achieves at least double the crop yield of hydroponic cultivation.
Intelligent Light Source
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Intelligent Light Source is illuminating a new era of indoor growing by delivering the exact light needed to maximize plant yield.
Neatleaf
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Data-driven & autonomous agriculture for yield optimization.
Cavallo Ventures
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Cavallo Ventures is the venture capital arm of Wilbur-Ellis, a privately owned family business approaching its centennial anniversary
AFN
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AFN is a digital publication covering investment and entrepreneurship in foodtech and agtech.
Green House Organix Technologies Inc.
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Green House Organix Technologies offers a range of products, designed to enhance both the growth and healthy development of plants.
HeavyConnect
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HeavyConnect provides cloud-based digital compliance documentation solutions for the food supply chain.
Tend
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Tend is a small startup that builds tools to help small scale farmers grow quality food and run successful farming businesses.
LANG AG LANG HONEY, WALNUTS, CHERRIES, POLLINATION
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Lang Ag. is a full-service apiary, fruit nut farm, and custom farming service solution.
Tensorfield Agriculture
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Tensorfield Agriculture is building the next generation of agricultural machines with a focus on applications for specialty row crops.
Asynos
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Hyperconnected assets and processes in supply-chains
Supply Change Capital
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Early stage venture capital firm investing at the intersection of food, culture, and technology
Persistence Data Mining
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Persistence Data Mining is setting the standard on soil health analytics.
Zag
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The Zag technology and services solution is available on a private label basis to affinity and membership organizations.
ROOT
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ROOT is a smart, connected device that allows you to grow a variety of plants in your home with minimal upkeep.
Aerial Intelligence
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It provides insights and analytics for the agricultural commodities supply chain.
UAV-IQ Precision Agriculture
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AgTech company leveraging expertise in large-scale drone operations and precision agriculture to develop and scale solutions for growers.
Jain Irrigation Inc.
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Jain is a fully integrated global food/plant production company.
Grupo Flor
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Grupo Flor is a family of cannabis companies where visionary entrepreneurs have access to the entire cannabis supply chain.
