X

Startup Types

Innovator Showcase

We are constantly on the lookout for great innovators and innovations. Our Innovator Spotlight section is where we will include a list of agriculture and food innovators that we think you should know about. See any missing? Think you should be included? Please let us know here.

4P Foods

4P Foods is evolving the local food hub model and has delivered over 40,000 bags of food from over 130 local farms to over 250 zip codes in the DC Metro area.  4P Foods is nearing $1MM in top-line sales with nearly 50% gross margin for 2017 and nearing break-even in just under 4 years.

Read More

Abbots Butcher

Abbots Butcher creates plant-based meals with the main ingredient being the protein that has been harvested from golden peas. Their plant-based meats are the modern-day essentials that make plant-based cooking delicious and intuitive. Every ingredient used to craft Abbots Butcher products are produced from non-GMO ingredients making it preservative free.

 

 

Read More

AeroFarms

We grow delicious, nutritious leafy greens and herbs without sunlight and soil. Our crops get the perfect amount of moisture and nutrients misted directly onto their roots in a completely controlled environment. With our patented award winning technology, we take indoor vertical farming to a new level of precision and productivity with minimal environmental impact and virtually zero risk.

Read More

Aeroptic LLC

From enhancing precision agriculture efforts in the Corn Belt to improving crop yields in emerging nations, Aeroptic is focused on helping the world unlock the power of aerial imagery in geospatial information systems. Modern precision agriculture relies on site-specific management tactics to maximize yield and resources while reducing environmental impacts and improving yields.

Read More

Agralogics

Silicon Valley, meet Central Valley. Agralogics’ team uniquely combines deep agricultural, data science and technology expertise. Access, analyze and collaborate using data-driven insight important to your work. Agralogics’ Collaboration Platform is built specifically for your activities around growing, processing and selling food.

Read More

AgriData

Manage your farm and your business with accurate and comprehensive intelligence. Maximize revenue by remedying low yield areas. Minimize costs associated with future contract settlements, labor, chemicals and crop insurance. Measure your crop with unmatched precision. Evaluate attributes such as maturity, defects, diseases, and pests.

Read More

AgroSmart

From research and development to retailers, we apply data science to bring intelligence, sustainability, and transparency in different parts of the food value chain. We capture data from different sources to generate intelligent agronomic models based on the genetic material, soil type and microclimate of each field.

 

Read More

AgShift

AgShift is a deep learning based solution to make food inspection autonomous, consistent, and standardized.

Re-imagining visual inspections and quality assessments with deep learning to reduce global food waste.

Read More

AgTools

Empowering the Ag Industry with real data. AgTools provides game-changing intelligence to the agriculture market through up-to-the-moment statistics that affect time, cost, supply, demand, alternatives and more throughout the produce chain of food from farm to table on all levels. AgTools is a revolutionary solution that serves as a key component to address major communications gaps between Farmers and food retailers.  We reduce waste, increase profits and streamline the growing cycle for Farmers to have better operational success.

Read More

AgVoice

AgVoice is a mobile voice-interaction service designed for food and agriculture professionals to capture insights on the go. Combining the learnings from 12 months of exploration and customer feedback, it is scheduled for launch in 2018. AgVoice is designed for use across the food and agriculture ecosystem, including livestock and crop production, agronomy, animal health and wellness, and machinery repair.

Read More

Agworld

Agworld is a global leader in collaborative farm management, enabling farmers, advisors and third parties to work together as one on a single platform. Agworld’s industry-leading standardized database makes it quick and easy to create accurate, reportable farm data. With over 50,000 farms and more than 28 000 users across 15 countries, Agworld has the experience, capacity and market presence to support the delivery of innovation to farmers, agronomists and those that serve them.

Read More

Arable

A global solution to managing weather risk and crop health, delivering real-time, actionable insights from your field.

The field-level weather and crop monitoring device that collects over 40 field-specific data metrics.

Read More

Augean Robotics

Burro follows you to learn a path, then reruns it autonomously with any cargo, from materials to sensors to implements. In countless tasks on farms, outdoors, and elsewhere, people spend 20-30% of their day walking material back and forth rather than doing the high value-high dexterity tasks they are trying to accomplish. If you or your workforce does something similar, you should check out a Burro.

Read More

Bear Flag Robotics

Think outside the cab. Bear Flag Robotics is developing self-driving technology for tractors and implements. Our mission is to lower the cost of farming through automation. Bear Flag software autonomously plans and executes routes using state of the art perception sensors and robotic actuators. Growers that invest in automation today will see real efficiency gains and cost savings by multiplying the power of their human resources.

Read More

Biolumic

The World’s First UV Crop Enhancement System. Biolumic’s focus is on unlocking the unrivaled potential of UV light exposure for large growing concerns across the globe.

Read More

Biomemakers

Decoding Microbial Interactions and developing smart microbiome-based solutions for Future Agriculture.

Read More

Boost Biomes

Boost Biomes vision is to harness the potential of microbiomes. Microbes are the most efficient chemists on the planet. When working together in a microbiome, their efficiency is greater than the sum of their parts. They play critical roles in areas ranging from agriculture to human and animal health. Harnessing their potential will be imperative to a future of sustainability on a fixed planet.

Read More

BovControl

Empowering Livestock. A tool for collecting and analyzing data to improve the performance of meat, milk or genetics production. Our BovControl Ecosystem allows you to collect data in the field through the BovControl application for smartphones. Then simply analyze results in the control panel and make the best decisions.

 

Read More

Bowery

Our indoor farms create the ideal conditions for growing the purest produce imaginable. Our post-organic produce is the next evolution in farming. Every crop planted in a Bowery farm is precisely cared for, without any pesticides. By controlling the entire process, we ensure quality and traceability at every step from seed to store.

Read More

Bright Farms

The inspiration for BrightFarms grew out of our desire to grow food in the same communities where it’s consumed— food that’s fresher, tastier, and better for the environment. Our farms are designed with hydroponic systems that allow for water recirculation. Our hydroponic systems use a mineral-based nutrient solution to nourish our produce in a soilless environment. That means that we use less water than conventional agriculture and there is no agricultural runoff.

Read More

California Safe Soil

CSS provides a unique full-cycle process that will assist our supermarket customers to recycle their organics, improve store hygiene, and reduce costs, in addition to helping our agricultural customers save money, increase crop yield, and reduce nitrate runoff. We are committed to produce a safe, low cost, high volume, and high quality liquid fertilizer product, Harvest-to-Harvest™

Read More

Cambridge Crops

Cambridge Crops is a team of scientists located in Massachusetts which aim to increase the shelf lives of food products as well as reach new markets and reduce waste. Cambridge Crops main goals are to minimize global food waste, limit greenhouse gas emissions and water waste caused by the food supply chain, and to reduce the resilience on non-biodegradable plastic packaging.

Read More

Ceres Imaging

Aerial spectral imaging for agriculture. Our technology detects water, fertilizer, pest and disease issues weeks before the naked eye. Our sensors capture images at multiple wavelengths ranging from visible the light spectrum to the far infrared light. Then our systems weave together hundreds of images and the individual frames make a seamless mosaic of your field.

Read More

Clara Foods

Clara Foods blends the ancient art of fermentation with todays technology to make the future of protein. They begin by mixing two ingredients found in nearly every good kitchen. Sugar and yeast. Next, they use advanced yeast engineering and fermentation technologies to selectively cultivate the perfect strain of yeast. Lastly, Clara ends with protein, tailor-made for its purpose. Whether egg albumen for baking, environmentally friendly antimicrobials or pure, clean protein Clara Foods products meet many protein needs .

 

Read More

Concentric Power

Concentric Power is a next generation provider of smart microgrid systems that adapts proven technology to create firm on-site, dispatchable power using modular cogeneration systems. Combining engineering, operations, maintenance and finance expertise, Concentric removes all barriers for large energy consumers in the ag and industrial sectors to fully optimize their energy efficiency and to control costs.

Read More

Concept Clean Energy

Concept Clean Energy is a full-service renewable energy firm that brings together cutting-edge technologies to help clients create solutions that deliver excellent financial and environmental results. Current projects include large-scale solar, demand management, co-generation and energy storage.

Read More

CropX

CropX offers an integrated hardware and software system for measuring soil moisture, temperature and electrical conductivity and sending that data to the cloud where it can be accessed from any mobile or fixed device.

Read More

Edenworks

Edenworks grows delicious produce and fish in aquaponic ecosystems. We are inspired by nature and believe that by harnessing nature’s complexity, we can share its abundance.

Read More

Especially Puglia

Especially Puglia was founded by Michele Iadarola’s desire to bring the culinary traditions he learned from his native Puglia, Italy to others. Puglia is considered to be one of Italy’s most fertile regions and is known for its olive trees. Using the resources Puglia has to offer, Michele Iadarola’s created extra virgin olive oils from independent organic farms and artisanal pantry products from to your table.

Read More

Farm from a box

Farm from a box was created in 2009 and gives communities the tools required to grow their own food and earn an income by doing so. Farm from a Box is an entire ecosystem in a modified shipping container that enhances agricultural productivity; from renewable power and micro-drip irrigation to Information and Communications Technology. Farm from a Box is community farming reinvented with a smart farm technology approach.

Read More

Farms to Incubators

Telling the stories of women entrepreneurs in AgTech. From Farms to Incubators is a multimedia journalism project telling the stories of minority women entrepreneurs who are playing a significant role in the fast-growing industry of AgTech in California’s Salinas Valley.

Read More

FarmWise

Farming every plant, every dayOur adaptable machinery helps you nurture each plant, grow healthier crops, and enjoy better profits. Our autonomous vegetable weeder helps you get rid of herbicides, save time, have better products and greater yields.

Read More

Fed40

  • 830 South Ronald Reagan Blvd #142, Longwood, FL 32750
  • Go To Website

Fed 40 is a revolutionary mobile app designed to disrupt hunger in America. The Fed 40 app is being called the food pantry of the future and is transforming the lives of children and families in need.

In addition to immediate food assistance, we’ve introduced FedConnect which is a feature that empowers recipients to enroll in critical programs that address poverty by creating self-sufficiency. Through FedConnect recipients enroll in job skills programs, computer skills training, ESL courses, and other vital services that address the root causes of poverty.

Read More

FieldIn

Data clarity on every acre. FieldIn is an end-to-end pest management software solution for professional growers of specialty crops. We help growers and large grower organizations save money on more efficient crop protection practices, reducing overall use of pesticides and eliminating spray mistakes.

Read More

Food-Origins

All stakeholders in specialty crops can now understand the value of their opportunities. Experimental fields, farm owners, farm managers, harvesters, retailers, and consumers can now rely on data to ensure that their food is some of the most enjoyable ever. Our proprietary sensing technology allows us to gather and parse data in new and disruptive ways. With unprecedented precision, we can trace value from harvest to table, allowing new levels of transparency and traceability.

Read More

Fora

Fora was launched in New York City by two friends with a passion to create an alternative to butter. Both founders Aidan and Andrew’s mission for Fora was to create a more sustainable food plant-based food system. With this mission in mind, Fora then created a dairy-free butter which consists of good fats, aquafaba, seasoning, and coconuts which are a great source of saturated fat. Fababutter has four times smaller carbon footprint compared to dairy butter. This is because cows occupy large amounts of land and water that pollutes our air. Fababutter is better for the environment and healthier too!

 

 

Read More

Freight Farms

TheLeafy Green Machine™is a fully assembled, vertical hydroponic farming system built inside a 40-ft. shipping container. The LGM is capable of growing lettuces, herbs, and hearty greens at commercial scale in any climate or location. Container farming enables any individual, community, or organization to grow fresh produce year-round.

While our Freight Farmers have different backgrounds, they all want to shorten the distance that food travels from farm to table. Our farmers rely on the Leafy Green Machine™ as a source of high-quality and sustainable produce, 365 days a year.

Read More

FreshAI

Farmstead is a Silicon Valley consumer technology company that builds smart digital products to modernize the grocery supply chain. Our first innovation is an AI-powered digital grocer that sources and delivers fresh, local food from farm to table in 60 minutes or less.

We reinvent the grocery experience by leveraging advancements in AI technology and the gig economy to meet consumers’ everyday grocery needs more sustainably.

Our mission is to make high quality food accessible to everyone.

FreshAI helps restaurants, grocers, c-stores and wholesalers cut food waste to zero while reducing stockouts and accurately predicting demand.

Read More

FreshBox Farms

FreshBox Farms’ indoor hydroponic farms are bringing fresh produce closer to your home by breaking down the old barriers set by traditional farming. Our produce is delivered to stores within 24 hours of harvest; often in the same day. Growing indoors at our farm in Millis, Massachusetts, means our greens are always in-season, and are available FRESH all year-round.

Read More

Full Cycle Bioplastics

Fully Cycle replaces traditional “take-make-dispose” consumption cycles with a superior Circular Economy solution. Its circular approach improves waste profitability, enables regenerative upcycling of compostable material and gives consumers a choice in sustainable packaging material.

Read More

GANAZ

Connecting Good Growers with Good Workers using communication tools build for farmers and farm workers. GANAZ enables employers to connect with large numbers of farm workers to recruit, engage and retain their multilingual labor force at the touch of a button.

Read More

GeoVisual Analytics

Artificial Intelligence for Optimal Harvests. Exploiting advances in computer vision, machine learning and emerging remote sensing capabilities, GeoVisual is leading a breakthrough in farm automation by enhancing the art of forecasting with the science of artificial intelligence.

Read More

Gotham Greens

Gotham Greens is a worldwide pioneer in the field of urban agriculture and a leading regional producer of hyper-local, premium-quality, greenhouse grown vegetables and herbs. Gotham Greens’ pesticide-free produce is grown using ecologically sustainable methods in technologically-sophisticated, 100% clean energy powered, climate-controlled urban rooftop greenhouses.

Read More

Grower’s Secret

Innovative Farming Solutions. Increase Yields – Farming advantage Growers Secret Nitrogen is low in salt, contains no nitrates, has no ammoniacal nitrogen, is 99.8% soluble, and can be used as a soil/foliar application. Grower’s Secret provides organic fertilizers that are pure and proven, reducing your risk come rain or shine.

Read More

HarvestPort

Stop shopping. Start farming. Farming is the most essential job on this planet, but it comes with unknowns. HarvestPort finds the the right inputs at the right prices, to help you plan for those unknowns. We handle the shopping, so you can handle the farming.

Read More

Hazel Technologies

At Hazel Tech, we are passionate about saving food and resources. We are dedicated to solving the problem of food waste in an eco-friendly and sustainable manner. Hazel’s® 1-MCP technology conditions the storage atmosphere to reduce respiration rate & increase resistance to ethylene.

Read More

iFood Decision Sciences

iFoodDecisionSciences develops dynamic data management software solutions for growers, harvesters, coolers, packers, processors, and shippers. They provide software-as-a-service applications for the specialty crop industry.

Read More

Impact Vision

Impact Vision is a software company based in San Francisco, CA that helps food processors, manufacturers, and retailers by using hyperspectral imaging. Hyperspectral imaging software provides food companies with information about the quality of their products to help determine the quality of the product. Impact Vision’s goal is to create the worlds largest database of spectral signatures so this information can be accessed anywhere.

Read More

Imperfect Produce

Imperfect, is working to eliminate food waste and build a better food system for everyone. Despite foods appearance, Imperfect believes no matter what it looks like, everyone deserves to have access to healthy food. Imperfect aims to recover ugly produce, reduce hunger, raise awareness, support farmers, create good jobs, and celebrate foods imperfections as well.

 

 

 

Read More

INPUTS

INPUTS is an online marketplace where farmers can purchase fertilizer, ag-chem, and other materials and services required for a successful season. INPUTS empowers you to buy with confidence, knowing that you are saving time and money while buying from local retailers. We back all purchases so you can shop with peace of mind. INPUTS was borne out of experience and roots in the agriculture industry. We saw a need for innovation in the procurement process and built a platform to meet that need. We understand farmers, from the soil auger to the financial risk. Our commitment is to build a platform that continually increases in value to the farmer.

Read More

Inteligistics

Inteligistics is a provider of innovative cold chain and supply chain visibility solutions for the food, logistics, healthcare and energy monitoring markets. They provide real time pulp temperature tracking, reporting and alerting across the value chain.

Read More

iTradeNetwork

Managing the challenge of fresh, reaching every segment of supply chain. The clock is ticking. Decisions need to be made quickly, data needs to be accurate, and your supply chain needs to be connected. Only iTradeNetwork is purpose built for the food supply chain, enabling the visibility, control and insights built on the largest end-to-end food-centric supply network in the industry.

Read More

Jewels of the Forest

Jewels Of The Forest’s mission is to feed the world one mushroom at a time. They currently produce the first vegan mushroom jerky to hit the shelves, which in turn is creating a whole new market industry in the vegan jerky sector.

Read More

Live Kuna

Live Kuna works specifically with farmers located in Ecuador to create healthy and delicious food. By doing so they have created an array of superfoods that give back to the community and while they continue to strive for sustainability and make sure their products are grown in ways that benefit our Earth.

 

 

 

 

Read More

Living Greens Farm

Living Greens Farm is a revolutionary air-grown technology organization located in Minnesota where crops have a difficult time growing and usually only grow a few months each year. Living Greens Farm knew they could find a better alternative hence the invention of the Aeroponics. Aeroponics is a revolutionary, indoor vertical farming approach that has allowed fresh greens and herbs to grow year-round instead of only a few months each year! All of Living Green’s lettuce and herbs are grown with zero pesticides or GMOs.

Read More

Local Roots Farms

We design, manufacture and operate the world’s most productive indoor modular farming solutions. We transcended commonplace hydroponic technology to create a proprietary growing system that’s actually scalable. Rooted in technological innovation, our standardized operating procedures yield predictable harvests and volumes without compromising our superior taste and texture.

Read More

Lotpath

Creating a smarter food supply, one app at a time. Lotpath creates custom software for all aspects of food production and distribution. Our customers are known as food industry leaders and innovators. Lotpath serves farmers, fresh produce packers and shippers, juice makers, food manufacturers, and others working hard to feed the world.

Read More

Lufa Farms

We’re out to create a better food system. We want to reconnect people with where their food comes from by growing veggies right here in the city on rooftops, partnering up with hundreds of farmers and food makers, and providing it all to you through our online farmer’s market. We built the world’s first commercial rooftop greenhouse on an industrial building in Montreal, Quebec, to prove that high-yield, year-round farming is a smarter, more sustainable, and commercially viable way to feed cities.

Read More

Lumen

A team of scientists, engineers and designer, aimed at improving the way people eat and manage their bodies in order to live a healthier life.

Read More

MagGrow

MagGrow is a spraying technology that helps farmers grow more by using less. MagGrow is a pioneering, patented magnetic spraying system for the horticulture & arable sectors of the agricultural industry. The MagGrow system is based upon the premise that magnetic fields, applied under appropriate flow and fluid conditions, can influence the physical properties of spray fluid and associated spray droplets in ways that facilitate more effective spray dispersion and target plant adherence.

Read More

Marrone Bio Innovations

Improving crop productivity and sustainability. At Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI), we create products from microorganisms isolated from samples collected from unique niches and habitats such as flowers, insects, soil and composts. Our proprietary technology enables us to isolate and screen naturally occurring microorganisms and plant extracts in a highly efficient manner and to identify those that may have a novel, effective and safe pest management or plant health promoting characteristics.

Read More

Metabrew

Metabrew‘s Coffee and Tea beverages are the first ready-to-drink nut-buttered drinks to market. Metabrew combines cold-brewed coffee/tea with MCT oil and superfoods, providing longer-lasting energy without negative side effects either now or down the line.

Read More

Nom Nom Worlds Food

Nom Noms World Food is a healthy and wholesome food brand that really makes the most of authentic world flavors. Gentle and balanced enough for kids, but bursting with taste, flavor and texture for adults.

Read More

Ozuké

Women founded and self-described probiotic pickleteers, Ozuké makes organic raw krauts and kim chi, and brings a unique culinary flair to the healthful benefits of probiotics. Produced in its own zero-waste facility, Ozuké’s ingredients are sourced local to their headquarters in Boulder, CO.

Read More

Pheronym

Directed plant protection

Pheronym uses pheromones to control agricultural pests

Read More

Plenty

To harvest the cleanest produce, you have to reimagine how it’s grown. We grow food for people, not trucks.

Read More

Power Grow

Greenhouse as a Service. Powering The Future of Food with 100% Renewable Powered Greenhouses. By harnessing the power of renewable energy and greenhouse system optimization PowerGrow’s innovative Greenhouse as a Service model is changing  the way we feed the world!

Read More

PowWow Energy

PowWow provides a farming decision-support tool that leverages machine learning to solve practical problems in agriculture. It is perfectly suited for growers who want to increase their profit margins and pass a sustainable farm onto the next generation. At half the cost of traditional solutions, PowWow’s hardware-free platform provides unprecedented business insights into farming operations by making measurable improvements in crop production while reducing water and energy inputs.

Read More

ProducePay

Fuel your growth and expand your business relationships with ProducePay’s fast access to capital, real-time insights and trading platform. Our Mission is to help farmers feed the world in a sustainable way. We’re working to empower the people that grow, handle, and transport our food by providing them with financial resources, tech tools, and data insights.

Read More

Renewal Mill

Renewal Mill’s vision is to create a circular economy of food that closes the loop in today’s current supply chain, keeps valuable nutrition from going to waste, and reduces our impact on the environment. Renewal Mill is helping reduce global food waste by upcycling okara into a nutritious, versatile flour that’s better for you and better for the planet. Okara is a delicious superfood harvested from the pulp of organic soybeans that is created during soymilk production. By diverting fibrous byproducts from landfills, Renewal Mill reduces greenhouse gas emissions. By employing innovative sourcing and processing, they keep costs low and connect consumers to inexpensive, high-quality nutrition. Renewal Mill is committed to keeping things as naturally wholesome as possible.

Read More

Resson

Data-driven farming. Resson uses the rapidly expanding trend of drone application in agriculture and large scale cloud-based predictive analytics to optimize agricultural productivity. The RAMAS (Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System) integrates large scale cloud-based data analytics with sensor fusion and robotic platforms to provide agricultural producers with an unequalled view of crop production and field conditions.

Read More

Ripe.io

Ripe.io is altering the trajectory of the food system through blockchain technology and the Internet of Things. By designing a radically transparent digital food supply chain, ripe.io harnesses quality food data to create the Blockchain of Food – an unprecedented food quality network that maps the food journey to answer what’s in our food, where it comes from, and what has happened to it.

Read More

RootsTalk – AutoAgronom

Listening to the roots, transforming the way we farm. As a company that has championed the concern for a green environment, we are proud to present the auto-agronomist: system controller and method – to save huge amounts of water and fertilizer to plants.

Read More

RootWave

RootWave is the leading solution to organically kill weeds without using chemicals. RootWave uses electricity to boil weeds inside out from the root upwards. Electricides have many advantages over conventional and other alternative weed control technologies. Electricides treat deep into the roots making RootWave ideal for treating any weed, including tough invasive species.

Read More

Seal the Seasons

A certified B-Corporation, founded in North Carolina, Seal the Seasons is a frozen fruit and vegetable brand whose mission is to make local produce available year-round. By partnering with local farms to source, freeze and market their produce, Seal the Seasons is building a localized sustainable food system that works for everyone.

Read More

Seedwiz

Comparative agro-database of plant varieties. Optimize your plant variety according to your needs. Seedwiz allows the farmer to optimize the growing of plants subject to the genetic potential, farm location and environmental condition, growing season, means of production, market segment preferences, and more.

Read More

SensIT Ventures

SensIT Ventures utilizes proprietary technology to develop, build and sell custom chemical sensors that provide solutions of great value to the defense, healthcare, agriculture and food industries. Because the sensors are miniaturized, inexpensive and require minimal power, they can be widely distributed and embedded in complex systems.

The SensIT platform creates an unprecedented opportunity to sense, process and act on the rich datasets of chemical information present in our material world. How can we help you reduce costs, mitigate risks or open new markets?

Read More

SLANTRANGE

The Most Powerful Information Tool the Farm Has Ever Seen. SLANTRANGE systems create valuable new agricultural metrics through an innovative combination of remote sensing and in-field analytics. The SlantView analytics platform delivers the information you need at the time and place you need it. That means pushing powerful analytics tools out and away from the cloud and into the field where your decisions need to be made – an entirely new approach to crop measurement and analysis.

Read More

Soft Robotics

Soft Robotics designs and builds soft robotic gripping systems and automation solutions that can grasp and manipulate items of varying size, shape and weight with the same tool. We solve previously off-limits automation challenges for customers in food & beverage, advanced manufacturing and e-commerce.

Read More

Sophie’s Kitchen

Sophie’s Kitchen‘s original line of seafood alternative products is in nearly 2,000 retail doors nationwide, Sophie’s Kitchen is creating a new category of plant based meat alternatives.  Expanding beyond “seafood”, Sophie’s will apply its proprietary technologies and innovation pipeline, to leverage alternative plant sources while delivering a satisfying meat texture for the flexitarian market.

Read More

Soul Much

Soul Much started because Reyanne Mustafa and Kristian Krugman were working at a restaurant where they noticed pounds and pounds of nutritious grains such as brown rice and quinoa were being thrown away every night. These were not the scraps on customer’s plates, these were unserved grains straight from the rice cookers. They saw an opportunity to build a brand, to educate the world about food waste, and to show that profit and purpose can be two players on the same team. Every day they work to turn rescued food into delicious cookies.

Read More

Spoiler Alert

Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based technology company that offers software and professional services to help food businesses recover more value from unsold inventory. We work with operators of food distribution centers and partner with companies like Sysco and HelloFresh to enable item-level tracking and reporting of food recovery and waste diversion activities, while also facilitating food donations, discounted sales, and organics recycling to local, regional, and national networks of outlets. Our ultimate goal is to help companies analyze, manage, and mitigate the negative impacts of unsold inventory and waste. Spoiler Alert is venture-funded and was a member of the 2016 cohort of Techstars Boston and 2015 winner of MassChallenge. The company prides itself on its collaborative culture and mission-driven aspirations, and values transparency, personal growth, and results.

Read More

Square Roots

Finding the right solutions presents an extraordinary opportunity for entrepreneurial leaders who understand urban agriculture, local food systems, and the transparency and trust that personal relationships bring to food. We created Square Roots as a platform to empower these leaders so we can work together to tackle this enormous opportunity. We bring together technology, entrepreneurship, and a love for local, real food on our Urban Farming Campus. We also offer a Next-Gen Farmer Training Program, which creates opportunities for young people to become farmers and future leaders.

Read More

SWIIM

SWIIM provides a new standard in water measurement than allows growers to receive an accurate accounting of the water both delivered and consumed on their fields. This patented process was developed with the help of the USDA and is being used successfully by growers and water providers.

Read More

Tailwater Systems

Denitrification Systems for Agriculture and RO Concentrate Treatment. We design, build, install, and operate an environmentally-friendly procedure for removing nutrients and other regulated substances from drainage systems. We enable growers & property owners to avoid costly regulatory enforcement or clean up and abatement orders.

Read More

Teralytic

Teralytic works hard to make it easy for farmers. Traditionally, soil testing is a manual and time-intensive process that can take days or weeks. But with Teralytic’s sensors constantly checking and reporting on soil quality—24 hours a day and 365 days a year—farmers can now respond to changes in the fields faster, before  they become problems. Teralytic provides strategy recommendations customized to each crop, from the topsoil to below the roots, with real-time alerts sent to farmers’ phones or desktops.

Read More

TerViva™

The TerViva™ mission is make better use of land given declining natural resources and rising demand. The TerViva™ solution is a hardy, high yielding oilseed tree crop called pongamia. TerViva™ is currently establishing pilot projects and commercial size acreage in Hawaii and Florida — geographies where the need for a new crop and the proper climate for pongamia intersect. TerViva™ is a portoflio company of several high profile investors, including The Yield Lab, an ag-tech business accelerator based in St. Louis and the Elemental Excelerator, a business incubator working with mission driven start ups focusing on improving infrastructure, building community and sustainability.

Read More

Tiny Farms

Tiny Farms is a platform for producing cricket protein as a high quality replacement for traditional livestock and fish products in pet food, animal feed, and human food – with a fraction of the footprint in terms of land, water, feed consumption and GHG emissions. We are addressing the urgent global need for low carbon, resource efficient sources of protein.

Read More

TMD Technology Solutions

TMD Technology Solutions is an independent company specializing in unique software applications developed for a variety of industries. Current offerings target food and agriculture companies, as well as nonprofit foundations involved in large-scale giving campaigns.

Read More

Tortuga AgTech

We build frontier technology to help growers provide healthy, sustainable fresh produce for everyone. We’re building harvesting robotics to help softfruit and horticultural vegetable growers overcome the global ag labor crisis, reduce costs, improve yields and pricing, and control risks.

Read More

TracMap

Precision farming made simple with TracMap GPS guidance and job management system. Get the right vehicle, in the right place, doing the right job. Track vehicle progress and review completed job data. TracMap Online, our cloud based job management system, and TracMap in-cab GPS display units, work together to give you total visibility and more control of your operation.

Read More

Traptic

Feed the World with Farming Robots. At Traptic, we build farming robots. We are a venture-backed Bay Area startup that is saving US fruit and vegetable growers from a critical labor shortage. We deploy robotics, computer vision, and custom graspers in a novel machine that will harvest delicate crops quickly, cost effectively and at extremely high quality.

Read More

UNIBEST International

Understanding the true availability of nutrients in field moist soils and their movement in agricultural systems can help growers and agronomist best approach precision and variable rate fertilizer application decisions on the farms they manage. UNIBEST Ag Manager™ data and data modeling, is changing the way our agricultural industry looks at nutrient availability within the specific soil types that define each unique cropping system.

Read More

Vinsight

Actionable intelligence for your crop. Data and platform agnostic, yield forecasts are made utilizing remote sensing imagery, field practices, historical data and weather. We have recently broken out weather data to provide additional insight to users. Our product showcases yield forecasts for a selected area/date/crop as well as relevant weather trends.

Read More

Waterbit

Waterbit delivers the right amount of water at the right place at the right time. Remote irrigation planning and control made simple.

Read More

Wexus

Make your farm more competitive, profitable, & valuable with Wexus’ technology platform. There is no equipment necessary to get started and connects with your utility data to track irrigation pumps, buildings, processing equipment & solar arrays via the cloud technology as well.

 

Read More

WISRAN

WISRAN measures time variations of farming activities to manage revenue leakage. Provides customers with live financial metrics, including the labor and equipment costs of each tasks during operation.

Read More

Zest Labs

Zest Labs is an AgTech company specializing in post-harvest shelf-life and freshness management solutions that reduce food waste and improve product margins and profitability for growers, processors, distributors, 3PLS and retailers.

Read More

Zoni Foods

Zoni Foods is reinventing cooking to make it easy for everyone to eat healthy, plant-based food. Zoni does this by making frozen plant-based stovetop meal kits that go from freezer to plate in 10 minutes. Each of their kits contains one serving of minimally-processed plant proteins, starches and a unique sauce that cook on the stove in one pan.

Read More