Start Pill
This article showcases our top picks for the best United States 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 United States 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.
Nature’s Fynd
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Nature’s Fynd is a food company that makes nutritional vegan protein from a microbe.
Plenty
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Plenty is a vertical farming company that brings fresh, pesticide-free produce to customers.
AppHarvest
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AppHarvest is an AgTech company that specializes in the fields of agriculture, farming, and technology.
Benson Hill
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Benson Hill is a provider of crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients.
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.
Indigo
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Indigo uses natural microbiology and digital technologies to improve grower profitability, sustainability, and consumer health.
Flourish Software
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Flourish Software is a supply chain management “seed to sale tracking” platform built for cannabis and hemp.
Hydrofarm
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Hydrofarm is a distributor and manufacturer of controlled environment agriculture equipment and supplies.
Greenlight Biosciences
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GreenLight Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on RNA research, design and manufacturing for human, animal and plant health
AmplifiedAg
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AmplifiedAg aims to provide global access to safe food.
Brightseed
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Brightseed features artificial intelligence that reveals powerful compounds hidden in nature.
Inari
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Inari presents high performing plant varieties that improve the economic and environmental realities of production agriculture.
Bushel
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Bushel is focused on building the digital infrastructure in the agricultural supply chain.
Wild Type
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Wild Type is an agtech platform that aims to create clean fish and meat.
American Robotics
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American Robotics is a Robot-as-a-Service company that develops FAA-approved pilotless, AI-powered drones for industrial purposes.
Taranis
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Taranis is an agriculture intelligence platform that uses computer vision, data science, and deep learning algorithms to monitor fields.
Upward Farms
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Upward Farms grows high ecological and quality standard leafy greens and fish to nourish people, families, and the planet.
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.
Sentera
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Analytics and machine learning insights for digital agriculture.
Verdant Robotics
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Verdant Robotics manufactures robotics machinery and components.
Hazel Technologies
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Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain.
Hydrosat
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Hydrosat is a satellite data company that turns space imagery into vital products for agriculture and related industries.
Shenandoah Growers
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Shenandoah Growers is a grower, packer, and shipper of fresh organic culinary herbs.
Monarch Tractor
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Monarch Tractor offers a platform that combines mechanization, automation, and data analysis to enhance farmer’s existing operations.
Puris
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Puris cultivates plant-based foods and ingredients from organic and non-GMO sources.
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.
Mori
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Mori is a developer of a protective silk coating product that extends the shelf life of perishable foods.
AdaViv
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AdaViv is a hardware-enabled, predictive agriculture company.
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.
Root AI
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Root AI is a research company aiming to create intelligent robots that will help growers build the farms of the future.
Anuvia Plant Nutrients
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Anuvia Plant Nutrients is an agricultural technology company developing a product to replace traditional fertilizer.
Arbol
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Arbol is an InsurTech platform for parametric products that pay quickly and fairly covering external risks such as unexpected weather.
FarmLogs
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FarmLogs’ platform exposes critical operational data insights to more than 1 in 3 US row crop farmers.
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.
The Good Food Institute
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The Good Food Institute focuses on developing sustainable and secure protein supply and supports innovators, investors, and companies.
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.
Tortuga AgTech
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Tortuga AgTech helps growers by using robots that performs a variety of labor-intensive tasks on the farm, with an emphasis on harvest.
CiBO Technologies
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CiBO Technologies develops a land information platform designed to facilitate agriculture scaling.
Oishii Farm
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Oishii Farm provides indoor vertical farming technology.
BIOMILQ
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We’re on a mission to provide the next generation every opportunity to thrive through better infant nutrition – human cultivated breastmilk!
Enko Chem
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Enko Chem utilizes predictive analytics to develop products for farmers that protect their crops from pests and disease.
Boomitra
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Boomitra uses artificial intelligence to grow more plants or crops with less resources.
Artemis
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Artemis operates an intelligence platform for indoor farms.
Burro
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Burro is a developer of an autonomous farming platform for use on farms and in other tough outdoor environments.
Telesense
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TeleSense is an AgTech company providing environmental monitoring and control solutions for the food and grain industry.
Clean Energy Trust
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Clean Energy Trust supports early-stage startups working on solutions for clean energy, decarbonization, and environmental sustainability.
Vence
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Vence was founded to improve the affordability and availability of sustainable animal protein.
Re-Nuble
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Re-Nuble is an agtech company that transforms unrecoverable vegetative food into a platform of sustainable technologies for soilless farming
Bloomfield Robotics
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We build tools that help farmers, breeders, and scientists better understand plant growth using a combination of computer vision and AI.
Pattern Ag
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Pattern Ag provides soil microbiome analysis and recommendations for input optimization on farms.
TrueAlgae
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TrueAlgae is an AgTech startup and brings the multi-faceted benefits of natural, regenerative, sustainable microalgae to the world.
Gardyn
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Gardyn reimagines the future of food: all the fresh produce you need to feed your family at home. No space, time or green thumb required
iFoodDS
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iFoodDS is a provider of food supply chain safety, traceability, and quality solutions for farmers, shippers, distributors, and retailers.
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.
Babylon
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Indoor farming as a service. Powered by Babylon’s remote management platform.
Aqua Cultured Foods
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Fermentation based whole cut seafood alternative.
Andes
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Andes is harnessing the power of bacteria and seed integration for a regenerative agriculture revolution.
Eden Green Technology
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Eden Green Technology provides a greenhouse-as-a-service model that allows grocers to vertically integrate their supply chains.
Unfold
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Unfold focuses on innovating vegetable varieties that deliver optimized quality and sensory experience in the vertical farming industry.
Illumitex
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Illumitex is a manufacturer of precision LEDs, LED lights, LED grow lights, and digital horticulture solutions.
Boost Biomes
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Boost Biomes develops microbial products to sustainably improve food production and shelf-life.
Open Book Extracts
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Open Book Extracts is an integrated grower, processor, and manufacturer of premium plant-based products.
HerdDogg
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HerdDogg is a global herd health and data science platform.
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.
Cloud Agronomics
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Breakthrough intelligence to power the future of sustainable food and carbon sequestration.
WaterBit
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WaterBit’s automated irrigation solution empowers growers to remotely monitor and control precision irrigation to their crops.
Teralytic
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Teralytic is an AgTech firm that helps farms increase yield and reduce costs by combining soil science, IOT sensors, and machine learning.
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.
Boragen
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Boragen develops synthetic chemistry platforms designed to produce next-generation fungicides.
Agerpoint
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Agerpoint® is an innovator in geospatial intelligence that develops technologies to digitize, analyze and comprehend natural environments
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.
Devenish Nutrition
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Devenish Nutrition is a farming and food company,
Guardian Agriculture
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Guardian Agriculture is an eVTOL-powered crop protection company.
LumiGrow
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Empowering Growth Through Connectivity is our mission, offering the industry’s leading smart horticultural lighting solutions.
Traive
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Traive is a lending platform that connects lenders to farmers to provide financial products and services for the agricultural supply chain.
Aanika Biosciences
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Aanika Biosciences is a biotechnology company that provides food security services for large agricultural and food companies.
GrainChain
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GrainChain creates an exchange platform with blockchain-based solutions for prompt payment and accountability.
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.
Copperstate Farms
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Copperstate Farms is an Arizona-based, vertically integrated cannabis company providing economic growth.
Agrizon
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Agrizon is an specialized cross border e-commerce that connects and delivers worldwide brands of ag inputs with farmers and companies.
Maka Autonomous Robots
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Maka Autonomous Robots develops robots for agriculture-related applications.
Aker Technologies
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Aker is an agriculture data company providing crop intelligence and in-season analytics.
Lisi Global, Inc.
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Ag Tech firm deploying Direct|Turf, their patented, non-chemical technology to control soil pests in golf and sports turf.
Symbrosia
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Reducing livestock methane emissions with the world’s mightiest seaweed.
FarmLink
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FarmLink is an AgTech company that enables the next transformation in agriculture and land conservation.
MyLand Company
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MyLand helps improves the soil to increase yields, reduce third-party supplements, and forge a path towards greater farming independence.
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