Sunday, December 8, 2024

50 Agtech Startups to Watch Out For In 2018

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Nofence AS

Batnfjords?ra, 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Suja Juice

San Diego, California, United States

Suja began from a shared dream to help people transform their lives
through conscious nutrition.
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Grove

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Grove builds beautiful products to make local, healthy food
accessible to everyone on the planet.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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