HexGn Research · 2018
50 AgTech Startups to Watch — 2018
HexGn’s 2018 watch-list of 50 AgTech companies — who they were, where they were based, and what they did.
This is an archived HexGn research list from 2018, preserved for reference. It captures the AgTech 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 AgTech across the India–Gulf corridor, see our Research & Intelligence practice.
The list
50 AgTech names, ranked
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 focuses on the microbes that have evolved in conjunction with plants over billions of years to optimize their health and maximize their productivity.
Impossible Foods
Redwood City, California, United States
Impossible Foods develops a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants.
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.
Pilotworks
New York, New York, United States
Pilotlight operates high fidelity culinary incubators across the United States. We provide specialized products and services to entrepreneurs in the food community to help them bring new companies and ideas to market.
Hampton Creek
San Francisco, California, United States
Hampton Creek is a food technology company specializing in the development of plant-based egg ingredients.
Memphis Meats
San Francisco, California, United States
Memphis Meats is a startup developing meat produced directly from animal cells without the need to raise and slaughter actual animals.
Plenty Inc.
South San Francisco, California, United States
Plenty is an agriculture technology company that develops plant sciences for crops to flourish in a pesticide- and GMO-free environment.
Soylent
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.
Gamaya
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Gamaya improves efficiency and sustainability of farming by offering compelling agronomy solutions, enabled by hyperspectral imaging and AI.
Zimplistic
Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Zimplistic is a product design company inventing intelligent kitchen appliances that promote healthy eating through simplicity & automation.
CropX
Netanya, HaMerkaz, Israel
CropX an ag-analytics company, develops cloud based software solutions integrated with wireless sensors, which boosts crops yield.
Modern Meadow
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Modern Meadow is biofabricating a revolution in materials and ingredients for consumers and the planet.
Innit
Redwood City, California, United States
The Innit platform combines personalized culinary and nutritional science with cutting-edge information technology to power the emerging Connected Food ecosystem.
Ceres Imaging
Oakland, California, United States
Ceres Imaging specializes in spectral imaging technology to help farms increase yields by more efficiently applying water and fertilizer.
Chef’s Plate
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chef’s Plate is an online platform that enables users to get fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and chef-inspired recipes to their homes.
Hargol FoodTech
Misgav, HaZafon, Israel
Hargol FoodTech is the world’s first commercial grasshopper farm! Grasshoppers are nature’s most efficient protein source.
BrightFarms
New York, New York, United States
A cutting-edge, scalable solution to Americans increasing demand for local and sustainable food, BrightFarms is pioneering the future of local, low-impact farming.
Provivi
Santa Monica, California, United States
Provivi is developing biopesticides for agriculture, commercial, household, and public health pest management.
Bowery Farming Inc
New York, New York, United States
Bowery Farming uses high-tech approaches such as robotics, LED lightning and data analytics to grow leafy greens indoors
Asilomar Bio
San Francisco, California, United States
Asilomar Bio creates products that improve crop yield and water efficiency in farming.
Clear Flight Solutions
Enschede, Overijssel, The Netherlands
Clear Flight Solutions is a Dutch company combining expert knowledge of unmanned aerial vehicles with extensive expertise in the ecological domain.
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.
honeygrow
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
honeygrow is a Philadelphia-based restaurant specialized in stir-fries, smoothies, salads, and honey bar treats.
Prospera Technologies
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Prospera is an agriculture technology data company that develops intelligent solutions.
Gobble
Palo Alto, California, United States
Gobble is a weekly dinner kit delivery service that helps busy people cook dinner in just 10 minutes with 1 pan.
Ripple Foods
Emeryville, California, United States
Ripple Foods makes non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar.
FarmLead
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
FarmLead is reinventing how grain is marketed and sold through the world’s fastest growing grain marketplace.
ProducePay
Los Angeles, California, United States
ProducePay provides a wide array of payment solutions to the fresh-produce industry and its agents.
Ninjacart
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Ninjacart is India’s Leading B2B agri-marketing platform that connects farmers to businesses.
Nofence AS
Batnfjordsøra, More og Romsdal, Norway
Nofence has developed and patented a solution for virtual fencing that has proven to work.
TerrAvion
San Leandro, California, United States
TerrAvion delivers a standard product which allows us to deliver every grower the best imagery solution for agriculture at the lowest price.
Abundant Robotics
Hayward, California, United States
Abundant Robotics is on a mission to deliver robotic systems for the hardest jobs in agriculture.
FarmLogs
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
FarmLogs’ platform exposes critical operational data insights to more than 1 in 3 US row crop farmers.
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.
Meicai
Haidian, Beijing, China
Meicai is a mobile e-vendor of agricultural products, which serves tens of thousands of small and medium-sized restaurants in China.
Mavrx
San Francisco, California, United States
Mavrx uses imagery and data to bring actionable insights to the global agriculture industry.
Gousto
London, England, United Kingdom
Gousto is an online web application that delivers ingredients of user-selected recipes, enabling the users to cook meals oneself.
Suja Juice
San Diego, California, United States
Suja began from a shared dream to help people transform their lives through conscious nutrition..
Grove
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Grove builds beautiful products to make local, healthy food accessible to everyone on the planet.
Taranis
Israel, Asia
Taranis uses deep learning on proprietary data sets that includes sub-mm aerial imagery, field sensors, satellite imagery, weather forecast and data from its field scouting app to predict and prevent crop disease and pest losses.
The Yield
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Yield is an Internet of Things (IoT) AgTech (Agricultural Technology) start-up.
Snap Kitchen
Austin, Texas, United States
Snap Kitchen is dedicated to bringing our customers flavorful, handcrafted food.
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.
Arable
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Arable is an agricultural business intelligence solution founded on in-field measurements.
Gro Intelligence
New York, New York, United States
Gro Intelligence is changing the way the world understands agriculture.
AgBiome
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
AgBiome discovers and develops innovative biological and trait products for crop protection.
CroFarm
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
CroFarm makes a supply chain that supports farmers and provides businesses with freshest produce in the most efficient manner.
Perfect Day Foods
Cork, Cork, Ireland
Perfect Day Foods is reinventing the way milk is produced industrially. They believe that factory farms, artificial insemination, and automated milking machines are not the way to go.
Trace Genomics
San Francisco, California, United States
Trace Genomics provides advanced solution for prevention and management of agricultural diseases.
Want the current corridor view on AgTech?
This is an archived 2018 HexGn research report, kept online for reference. For an up-to-date read on AgTech across the India–Gulf corridor — and what it means for your next move — talk to our research team.