HexGn Research · 2017
50 AgriTech Players to Watch — 2017
HexGn’s 2017 watch-list of 50 AgriTech companies — who they were, where they were based, and what they did.
This is an archived HexGn research list from 2017, preserved for reference. It captures the AgriTech companies our analysts flagged as ones to watch that year — a snapshot of where the sector’s momentum was building. For a current read on AgriTech across the India–Gulf corridor, see our Research & Intelligence practice.
The list
50 AgriTech names, ranked
Impossible Foods
Redwood City, California, United States
Impossible Foods develops a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants.
FarmLogs
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
FarmLogs’ platform exposes critical operational data insights to more than 1 in 3 US row crop farmers.
TerrAvion
San Leandro, California, United States
High-quality Real-time aerial imagery for operational use.
Farmers Business Network
San Carlos, California, United States
Farmers Business Network connects farmers to share knowledge and gain trusted insights about their farms, inputs, and practices.
Modern Meadow
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Modern Meadow is biofabricating a revolution in materials and ingredients for consumers and the planet.
Soylent Corporation
Los Angeles, California, United States
Soylent is a food supplement that can be personalized for different body types and customized based on the individual’s taste.
ProducePay
Los Angeles, California, United States
ProducePay provides a wide array of payment solutions to the fresh-produce industry and its agents.
BrightFarms
New York, New York, United States
BrightFarms is pioneering the future of local, low-impact farming.
Apeel Sciences
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Apeel creates products from natural plant extracts that reduce reliance on pesticides and increase produce quality and crop yield.
Granular
San Francisco, California, United States
Granular is a software and analytics platform that helps farmers operate more efficiently and make better business decisions..
Blue River Technology
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Beyond Meat
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
Beyond Meat is planting The Future of Protein. Delicious, 100% plant-based products without the health and other downsides of animal protein.
Indigo
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Indigo harnesses nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet.
Ripple Foods
Emeryville, California, United States
Ripple Foods makes non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar.
Taranis
Israel, Asia
Taranis is an Israeli AgTech venture disrupting crop loss management with a big data predictive analytics SaaS platform.
Mavrx
San Francisco, California, United States
Mavrx uses imagery and data to bring actionable insights to the global agriculture industry.
Edyn
Oakland, California, United States
Edyn is a smart gardening system that monitors and tracks environmental conditions.
AgriMetis
Lutherville Timonium, Maryland, United States
AgriMetis develops natural product derived compounds to protect crops from weeds, fungal diseases, and insect pests..
Prospera Technologies
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Prospera is an agriculture technology data company that develops intelligent solutions.
Freight Farms
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Freight Farms offers high-volume crop production units made from upcycled shipping containers to support farming in any climate.
Gamaya
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Large-scale diagnostics of farmland using hyperspectral imaging and artificial intelligence.
AgBiome
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
AgBiome is a product-oriented biotechnology company focused on delivering early-stage research and discovery to the agriculture industry.
Arable
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Arable is an agricultural business intelligence solution founded on in-field measurements.
Memphis Meats
San Francisco, California, United States
Memphis Meats is a cultured meat company that aims to produce pork and beef without the animal.
CropX
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
CropX an ag-analytics company, develops cloud based software solutions integrated with wireless sensors, which boosts crops yield.
Agrible
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Agrible develops products and analytical tools that deliver field-specific data to help with decision making in the agriculture industry.
Hampton Creek
San Francisco, California, United States
Beyond Eggs is a food technology company specializing in the development of plant-based egg ingredients.
EpiBiome
South San Francisco, California, United States
A precision microbiome engineering company developing alternatives to small-molecule antibiotics for use in agriculture and human health.
Resson
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients.
Agrilyst
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Agrilyst is the intelligence platform for indoor farms, and helps greenhouse operators run their operations more efficiently by pulling in data from sensors in the greenhouse and information about crop yields and other metrics.
Trace Genomics
San Francisco, California, United States
Advanced prevention and management of agricultural diseases.
Terramera
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Replacing conventional chemical pesticides with high performance plant based products for agriculture.
Agronomic Technology Corp
New York, New York, United States
Agronomic Technology (dba Adapt-N) cloud-based recommendation platform for farmers and agronomists.
We Farm
London, England, United Kingdom
WeFarm enables smallholder farmers across Africa and Latin America to share and access vital information on farming via SMS and online.
Grove
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Grove builds beautiful products to make local, healthy food accessible to everyone on the planet.
Luvo
United States
Luvo produces and markets healthy food products such as main meals, snacks, flatbreads, yogurt bars, and frozen entrees.
Spensa Technologies
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Spensa offers painless, cost-effective precision pest management tools for modern agriculture.
Slantrange
San Diego, California, United States
The Most Powerful Information Tool the Farm Has Ever Seen.
TruLeaf
Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
TruLeaf Smart Plant Systems are an innovative technology that leverages multi-level farming for biomedical and food markets..
Brami
New City, New York, United States
Brami reprocesses an ancient Roman snack for modern consumers.
SkySquirrel Technologies
North America
SkySquirrel Technologies Inc. is a crop-analytics company that develops drone-based technology for monitoring crop health.
Shenandoah Valley Organic
Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
Shenandoah Valley Organic is a Organic chicken production company.
IntelinAir
San Jose, California, United States
IntelinAir is an agriculture focused aerial imagery analytics company that delivers actionable intelligence to help farmers make decisions.
Strider
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Fundbox l Strider.ag is a precision agriculture platform for pest control.
Gro Intelligence
New York, New York, United States
Gro Intelligence builds data analytics products that change the way the world understands agriculture.
S4
Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
S4 provides risk management solutions to transfer ag financial risk from row crop farmers to financial markets.
CropIn Technologies
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Cropin provides Farm-Businesses/Growers with farm management software and mobile apps, which enable them to do connected, and data driven farming.
Wexus Technologies
San Francisco, California, United States
Wexus Technologies, Inc. is a San Francisco-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) company focused in energy efficiency for agriculture.
Benson Hill Biosystems
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Benson Hill Biosystems is an agricultural biotechnology company focused on the development of traits to increase intrinsic crop yield.
Provivi
United States
Provivi is developing biopesticides for agriculture, commercial, household, and public health pest management.
Want the current corridor view on AgriTech?
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