101 Best United Kingdom AgTech Startups – The Future of Farming

August 13, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best United Kingdom 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
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Top United Kingdom AgTech Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Multus Media

Multus Media

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Creating the next generation of animal-free growth media for the cultivated meat industry

Wefarm

Wefarm

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Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables users to share information via SMS.

Wefarm

Climate X

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Climate X is a data and analytics company that quantifies how climate-change related physical risks impacts.

Wefarm

The Small Robot Company

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The Small Robot Company is delivering per plant farming for the world’s largest crops.

Wefarm

Phytoform Labs

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Phytoform Labs is a biotechnology company that focuses on resilient and sustainable crops.

Wefarm

Entocycle

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Entocycle’s automated insect farm produces environmentally friendly insect protein to feed farmed animals.

Wefarm

AGRIVI

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AGRIVI is a global agritech company with the market leading farm management software

Wefarm

Setcoin Group

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Responsible ESG, commercial real estate, renewable energy, infratech, smart cities, agrotech, private equity investments

Wefarm

LettUs Grow

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LettUs Grow design aeroponic irrigation and control technology for vertical farms.

Wefarm

Better Dairy

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Building the future of food, starting with dairy.

Wefarm

Roslin Technologies

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Roslin Technologies is a UK-based agriculture biotechnology company.

Wefarm

Hectare Agritech

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Hectare is an agritech company focused on exploiting current inefficiencies and deficiencies in the farming industry supply chains.

Wefarm

RootWave

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RootWave is an electronic company that develops tools that kills weeds using electricity.

Wefarm

Biomicrogels Group

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Biomicrogels Group is the developer and patent holder for biomicrogels capable of addressing the global environmental problems

Wefarm

DryGro

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DryGro is an agriculture technology company that grows animal feed crops on arid, otherwise unproductive land.

Wefarm

BirdsEyeView Technologies

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InsurTech, Managing General Agent, Geospatial Analyics

Wefarm

SENS Foods

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SENS Foods aims to make sustainable insect protein super-tasty and the most affordable high-quality protein.

Wefarm

Bx Technologies

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Bx Technologies is a software platform connecting growers and corporates with the goal of reversing climate through food production

Wefarm

Greengage Lighting

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Agri-Tech company providing LED lighting induction systems.

Wefarm

Animal Alternative Technologies

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Scalable, complete Cultured Meat production systems to tackle global sustainability challenges

Wefarm

Nosh Technologies

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Nosh Technologies operates as a deep tech company that develops applications to optimize food management and food waste at home.

Wefarm

Tasker

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Field Service Management B2B SaaS

Wefarm

PBD Biotech

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PBD Biotech specialises in novel phage-based diagnostics for the veterinary, agriculture and human health sectors

Wefarm

Optimiz

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We provide a multisided platform to automate cargo claims for cargo owners, cargo insurers and cargo carriers.

Wefarm

E-Nano

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E-Nano brings robotics potentials into the real world of Sports Turf management and Agro-Industry.

Wefarm

Wheyhey

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Wheyhey is a London based health food brand.

Wefarm

HayBeeSee

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We are introducing fundamental change to “agronomy” and farming best-practice utilising state-of-the-art robotics and AI with CropHopper®.

Wefarm

Outfield

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Bringing the future to fruit farming

Wefarm

Phytoponics

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Phytoponics designs and manufactures Deep Water Culture (DWC) hydroponic growing systems for supply to commercial produce growers.

Wefarm

Light Science Technologies

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Light Science Technologies operates as a light technology company.

Wefarm

Albotherm

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Albotherm offers a smart transitioning coating technology.

Wefarm

Yellow Cake plc

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Yellowcake Plc invests in uranium projects in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Wefarm

Beta Bugs

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Beta Bugs is a cutting edge biotechnology company that produces enhanced insect strains for the growing insect farming industry.

Wefarm

Iceni labs

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Mission Critical Science. We develop new technologies and work with our partners to commercialise innovations and inventions.

Wefarm

FungiAlert

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FungiAlert a disease management device designed to offer detection of plant pathogens.

Wefarm

CropDesk Technologies

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CropDesk Technologies provide easy access, comprehensive data and management systems for agri-food industries.

Wefarm

Olombria

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Olombria is an agricultural technology that curates fly behaviour, to increase pollination and ensure greater crop yields.

Wefarm

Central Plains Group

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Central Plains Group develops sustainable farming solutions and low-cost farming technology.

Wefarm

Arnia

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Arnia provides a bee friendly hive monitoring system.

Wefarm

AgsenZe

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AgsenZe is an Internet of Things company for smart agriculture and farming.

Wefarm

Crop Intellect

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Crop Intellect operates a research and development company that develops agricultural technologies that improves crop productivity.

Wefarm

Crover

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The first provider of an autonomous grain storage monitoring solution for grain merchants and co-operatives

Wefarm

Nafici Eenvironmental Research Ltd

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Nafici Eenvironmental Research focuses on the research and development of straw and transforms it efficiently into paper pulp.

Wefarm

Agronomex

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Trading and procurement platform addressing the huge problem of agricultural food waste

Wefarm

Eurasian Fertilizers Group

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Eurasian Fertilizers Group focuses on exploring and developing NPK fertilizer mineral.

Wefarm

AgriLedger

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AgriLedger is a social enterprise project using distributed ledger technology and mobile apps for agricultural producers.

Wefarm

Mothive

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Mothive is an automated agronomy service to help farm managers maximise efficiency, reduce waste and improve the predictability of crops.

Wefarm

Space Ventures Investors

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SVI supports innovative early-stage and growth-stage companies operating in the space ecosystem.

Wefarm

Earth Capital

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EC is a global private equity investment manager totally focused on Sustainable Development within the climate change nexus.

Wefarm

Optimal

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Deploying fully autonomous greenhouses outside every city on earth

Wefarm

Vestinwolf Holdings

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Financial Holding Company

Wefarm

CyStellar

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CyStellar is a geospatial intelligence company on a mission to deliver real-time insights for the insurance sector.

Wefarm

Agrimetrics

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Agrimetrics is a big data platform for agri-food value chain, from farm through to consumer.

Wefarm

Mantle Labs

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Mantle Labs is a leading remote sensing company providing digital agriculture solutions related to crop monitoring.

Wefarm

Hanway Associates

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Strategy and corporate advisory for the cannabis sector

Wefarm

Muddy Machines

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Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labor-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork.

Wefarm

North Court Fruit Farm

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North Court Fruit Farm is a farm in Old Wives Lees, England.

Wefarm

Agrolabs

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We help greenhouse farmers grow more and better

Wefarm

KODGAV UK

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KODGAV UK is an Agtech platform dedicated to streamlining the supply chain of African organic commodities using digital innovations.

Wefarm

Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

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AHDB is a statutory levy board, funded by farmers, growers, and others in the supply chain and managed as an independent organization.

Wefarm

Nova Extraction

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Off-grid, mobile hardware for supercritical CO2 extraction

Wefarm

Farmsio

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Farmsio acts as a bridge between the Agriculture sector to solve the farming challenges with the climate Smart Farm Management Software.

Wefarm

Saturn Bioponics

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Saturn Bioponics provides crop production systems to improve profitability by increasing yields and reducing labour and resource costs.

Wefarm

Germains Seed Technology

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Germains Seed Technology is a seed technology delivering firm offering Conventional and Organic Seed Treatments.

Wefarm

Pharm2Farm Ltd.

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Pharm2Farm Ltd. produce and sell these products through an exclusive licence to this technology from NTU.

Wefarm

Liberty Produce

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Agritech

Wefarm

BigSIS

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Sustainable Insect Control Solutions

Wefarm

InventoryClub

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InventoryClub provides alternative finance to the African agribusiness sector

Wefarm

Herdsy

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Herdsy automates and analyses farm animal data and converts it into valuable profit decisions for farmers.

Wefarm

Farming Dynamics

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Software and data science so growers can ​build and sustain stronger businesses.

Wefarm

Internet of Trees Ltd.

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Development of IoT-based products for forestry. Early warning system for forest fire detection.

Wefarm

Poultry Sense

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Poultry Sense provides farmers with proven hardward and software technology solutions.

Wefarm

Zayndu Ltd

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Non-Toxic Sterilisation of Seeds for Agriculture

Wefarm

Agrosight

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AgroSight is an analytics company that helps agronomists and farm units to integrate new streams of unique and valuable data.

Wefarm

Potato Marketing

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Potato Marketing is a potato marketing firm.

Wefarm

London Seed Centre

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London Seed Centre maintains an extensive and unique collection of cannabis genotypes.

Wefarm

Petiole

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Petiole is a mobile platform for instant measurements in agriculture

Wefarm

FOTENIX

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Fotenix is a developer of crop analysis tools designed to increase efficiency in the agri-food industry.

Wefarm

Farm-r

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Farm-r is a marketplace platform that allows you to rent out your under-utilized farm machinery to farmers who need to use it.

Wefarm

The James Hutton Institute

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The James Hutton Institute delivers fundamental and applied science to drive the sustainable use of land and natural resources.

Wefarm

Concept Dairy

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Bringing transparency pricing to the dairy markets using an AgTech / FinTech solution facilitating economic sustinability for farmers

Wefarm

Eden Research plc

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Eden Research is the only listed UK-based company focussed upon the development of Biopesticides for sustainable agriculture.

Wefarm

Kingslands.com

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Farm Supplies Made Simple!

Wefarm

AlphaBio Control

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AlphaBio Control operates at the forefront of agricultural science.

Wefarm

Crop Performance

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Crop Performance provides predictive analytics for sustainable agriculture to transition growers to regenerative practices.

Wefarm

Pondus

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Poultry industry autopilot for productivity and animal welfare.

Wefarm

Aruba Executive Search

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We help CEOs, Founders and Execs of Tech firms across the UK Europe & US, by introducing them to Game-Changing C-Suite, VP & Director Talent

Wefarm

Satshot

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Satshot is a online web based mapping system used in the agriculture industry.

Wefarm

Hedira

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Hedira allows users to keep houseplants alive by analysing their species and the space in which the plant is put in the home.

Wefarm

Ziva Robotics

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We build autonomous robotic vehicles that provide accountable, accessible & affordable security!

Wefarm

Nemgenix

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Nemgenix is an international agricultural biotechnology company

Wefarm

Fendercare Marine

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Fendercare Marine is a supplier of marine products and STS services services worldwide.

Wefarm

Farmscan AG

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Farmscan AG s a specialist technology company developing precision control systems for manufacturers of Agricultural equipment.

Wefarm

ADIA Robotics

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Making drones smarter

Wefarm

EcoNomad Solutions

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EcoNomad Solutions is an agritech startup for the sustainability of smallholder farming around the world.

Wefarm

Rothamsted Research Ltd.

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Rothamsted Research is a non-profit research centre that focuses on strategic agricultural science to the benefit of farmers & society.

Wefarm

New Zealand Wine

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New Zealand Winegrowers is the national organization for grape and wine sector in the region.

Wefarm

Trials Equipment

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Trials Equipment is a designer and supplier of agricultural machinery based in Braintree, United Kingdom.

Wefarm

Agfluencers

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We know all inspiring women in sustainable agriculture

Wefarm

Acacia

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Acacia supplies interior plants,fresh cut flowers,replica plants,office plants, Christmas trees & exterior landscaping to private/businesses

Wefarm

Plotty

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A community platform for gardeners to grow their own food, diversify their crops and exchange seeds.

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