69 Best Agricultural Biotechnology Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Agricultural Biotechnology Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 82 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $9.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $134.3m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Molecular Assemblies, Inc. logo

Molecular Assemblies, Inc.

Molecular Assemblies, Inc. is an enzymatic DNA synthesis technology founded in 2013 by Curt Becker, Bill Efcavitch and William Efcavitch.

7

Funding Rounds

$83.0m

Money raised

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Pheronym

Pheronym is a biotechnology company based out of Davis, California, which makes pheromones that control agricultural pests and can be used as a replacement for toxic pesticides.

4

Funding Rounds

$725.0k

Money raised

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Apeel Sciences

Apeel Sciences is a company that develops treatments to prevent spoilage of fruits and vegetables using molecules naturally found in peels, which maintain moisture and keep out oxygen.

21

Funding Rounds

$1.9b

Money raised

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Aranex Biotech

A Canadian food biotech company focused on the development of hypoallergenic peanuts

1

Funding Rounds

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Geltor

Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.

7

Funding Rounds

$114.3m

Money raised

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Lygos

An industrial biotech company developing a commercial bioprocess for manufacturing bio-based malonic acid.

11

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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The EVERY Company

The EVERY Company (formally Clara Foods) is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.

5

Funding Rounds

$191.8m

Money raised

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Pivot Bio

Pivot Bio is a company that creates technology that is focused on nitrogen fixation in cereal crops through microbes.It was founded in 2010 and is located in Berkeley, California.

8

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

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Formlabs

Formlabs is a 3D printing system company that provides digital fabrications for industries

8

Funding Rounds

$267.4m

Money raised

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Beta Hatch

Beta Hatch is an insect protein for farming company founded in 2015 by Virginia Emery.

6

Funding Rounds

$41.3m

Money raised

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DNA Script

DNA Script is a DNA synthesis company founded by Thomas Ybert, Sylvain Gariel, and Xavier Gordon in 2014, and headquartered in Paris, France.

6

Funding Rounds

$427.1m

Money raised

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Inscripta

A gene editing technology company founded in 2015 and based in Boulder, CO, USA.

13

Funding Rounds

$677.0m

Money raised

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Calysta

Calysta is a biotechnology company seeking to improve worldwide food security through making animal feed. The company is based out of Menlo Park, California and was founded in 2012 by Josh Silverman.

10

Funding Rounds

$274.2m

Money raised

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Equinom

Equinom is a computational seed breeding company providing multi-trait seed products specified for the food industry. The company offers pea, cowpea, chickpea, mung bean lentil, fava and sesame varieties.

4

Funding Rounds

$38.0m

Money raised

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Provivi

Agriculture company developing novel methods of pest control

2

Funding Rounds

$170.0m

Money raised

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Blue River Technology

An agriculture technology company that manufactures advanced farming machines. It is located in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 2011.

5

Funding Rounds

$50.6m

Money raised

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NovoNutrients

NovoNutrients produce microbes that break down industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and reassemble them into aquaculture feed.

7

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Agrivida

An agricultural biotechnology company producing renewable, biomass-based fuels and raw materials

5

Funding Rounds

$65.4m

Money raised

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Biosortia Pharmaceuticals

Biosortia is a therapeutics, agrochemical and cosmetics company developing products from microbial small molecules through microbiome mining.

8

Funding Rounds

$25.4m

Money raised

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Vestaron

Vestaron is a Kalamazoo, Michigan-based agricultural technology company manufacturing bioinsecticides from naturally occurring peptides

12

Funding Rounds

$273.6m

Money raised

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Aphea.Bio

A synthetic biology company making agricultural biologicals.

4

Funding Rounds

$37.7m

Money raised

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Sapphire Energy

Developing technologies to produce jet fuel and other biofuels from algae

2

Funding Rounds

$85.0m

Money raised

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AgBiome

AgBiome is focused on the discovery and development of biological and trait products for crop production.

7

Funding Rounds

$252.5m

Money raised

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Indigo

Indigo is an agricultural technology company utilizing natural microbiology and digital technologies to improve farmers' profitability, environmental sustainability and consumer health.

8

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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Recombinetics

Recombinetics is a biotechnology company that uses gene editing for agriculture and medicine

11

Funding Rounds

$67.4m

Money raised

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TerViva

TerViva is an Alameda, California-based food and agriculture technology company that produces pongamia trees with oil and protein-rich beans, similar to soybean, for plant-based food ingredients.

5

Funding Rounds

$109.7m

Money raised

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Terramera

A company replacing chemical pesticides with plant based products.

2

Funding Rounds

$54.8m

Money raised

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SwineTech

SwineTech is a company focused on the health of piglets founded in 2015 by Matthew Rooda.

5

Funding Rounds

$11.3m

Money raised

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Inari

Inari is a biotechnology and agricultural technology company

5

Funding Rounds

$452.1m

Money raised

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Hazel Technologies

Hazel Technologies is a biotechnology for foodwaste prevention company founded in 2015 by Patrick Flynn, Amy Garber and Adam Preslar.

5

Funding Rounds

$102.5m

Money raised

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Brightseed

Brightseed is a biotechnology company that uses Artificial Intelligence technology which discloses powerful compounds that are hidden in nature

3

Funding Rounds

$122.0m

Money raised

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Agragene

Agragene develops sterile male insects to replace chemical pesticides for the control of crop pests

2

Funding Rounds

$5.2m

Money raised

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MoA Technology

A plant genetics company with technologies in crop protection that aims to help farmers produce healthy food from sustainable crop systems.

7

Funding Rounds

$94.2m

Money raised

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Mootral

Mootral develops carbon reduction solutions for companies and governments. Its first solution is a natural feed supplement that significantly reduces methane emissions from ruminants.

5

Funding Rounds

$10.8m

Money raised

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Pairwise Plants

Pairwise uses CRISPR, gene editing and natural diversity in agricultural crops to address global food challenges. The company is working to develop new varieties of crops.

2

Funding Rounds

$115.0m

Money raised

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Cemvita Factory

Cemvita Factory is an Houston-based clean technology company founded by Moji Karimi and Tara Karimi.

1

Funding Rounds

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Boost Biomes

A biotechnology company providing a discovery platform focused on microbial products for agriculture, human, and animal health.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Safetraces, Inc.

Safetraces, Inc. is a Pleasanton, California-based biotechnology company developing an indoor air quality verification that actively measures pathogen risk.

3

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

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Tropic Biosciences

Tropic Biosciences is a genome editing company founded in 2016 by Gilad Gershon.

4

Funding Rounds

$38.5m

Money raised

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PlantResponse

PlantResponse is a biotechnology company developing soil health solutions and products for crop nutrition.

3

Funding Rounds

$90.4m

Money raised

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BiOWiSH Technologies

A company that develops biotechnology solutions for agriculture & environmental management

10

Funding Rounds

$54.6m

Money raised

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Bactana

A company that develops a microbiome discovery platform for animal health.

4

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

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Front Range Biosciences

Front Range Biosciences is an agriculture science for cannabis company founded in 2015 by Nick Hofmeister, Christoper Zalewski and Jonathan Vaught.

3

Funding Rounds

$21.5m

Money raised

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Trait Biosciences

Trait Biolabs is working to make safer hemp and cannabis products by modifying cannabinoids to make them water soluble.

3

Funding Rounds

$22.1m

Money raised

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Cellibre

Programming biolCellibre is a best-in-class manufacturing technology company.. Employing an organism-agnostic approach, we turn cells into specialized, sustainable factories for the manufacture of globally significant products at scale.ogy to turn cells into factories company

3

Funding Rounds

$33.2m

Money raised

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FYTO

FYTO is a technology company that develops systems that grow high quality crops using much less resources.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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AgriProtein

AgriProtein is a Cape Town-based developer of insect based nutrient recycling to create sustainable sources of protein for the mono-gastric animal feed industry.

1

Funding Rounds

$106.6m

Money raised

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Phytoform Labs Ltd

Phytoform Labs is a biotechnology company.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.8m

Money raised

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Beeflow

Beeflow is a company focused on improving bees' immune system and teaching bees to pollinate targeted crops to increase bee population and crop yields.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.3m

Money raised

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BioConsortia

An agricultural biotechnology coompany developing microbial consortia for improved agricultural yields

3

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

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Phage Technologies S.A

Phage Technologies is an animal and human food technology company developing diagnostic tools for food-borne bacteria.

1

Funding Rounds

$40.0k

Money raised

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Invaio

Invaio is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company founded by Ignacio Martinez.

3

Funding Rounds

$88.9m

Money raised

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Holganix

Holganix is a Pennsylvania-based producer and supplier of plant-based bio-stimulant soil supplements.

1

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised

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Carbo Culture

Carbo Culture captures and sequesters carbon from agricultural waste by turning it into biochar, a material that can be used to amend soil and help plant growth.

4

Funding Rounds

$48.4m

Money raised

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3Bar Biologics

3Bar Biologics is a microbe delivery and manufacturing company that partners with microbe discovery and commercialization companies.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Smart Diagnostics Systems

Smart Diagnostics Systems is a Jefferson City, Missouri-based biotechnology and diagnostics company developing diagnostics for the detection of dangerous microorganisms.

1

Funding Rounds

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Advanced Animal Diagnostics

A company developing diagnostic products to cure on-farm animal diseases

1

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

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Zero Gravity Solutions

An agricultural biotechnology public company that commercializes technology derived from and designed for Space to world agriculture

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0

Money raised

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Cooks Venture

Cooks Venture is the first vertically integrated agricultural company to operate solely on regenerative agriculture.

4

Funding Rounds

$76.0m

Money raised

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Targeted Growth

A biotechnology company that develops products for improved and enhanced yield in agriculture

2

Funding Rounds

$32.3m

Money raised

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Symbrosia

The company is working with ranchers to use red algae as a feed additive. Including red algae reduces methane emissions from livestock by up to 90%.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

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Sistema.bio

Sistema.bio is a manufacturer of prefabricated modular biodigester systems for farmers to produce fertilizer and biogas.

3

Funding Rounds

$27.0m

Money raised

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TOOPI Organics

Technology to transform human urine into an alternative to agricultural fertilizer.

4

Funding Rounds

$25.2m

Money raised

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Avesthagen

A company developing technologes for predictive, preventive and personalized healthcare and food security

1

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

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Willow Biosciences Inc.

Willow Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on the development of a disruptive bio-based process for the production of high purity cannabinoids. Its Burnaby lab houses state-of-the-art molecular biology, tissue culture, plant cultivation and analytical chemistry capabilities focused on correlating the physical and chemical characteristics of cannabis plants with their unique genetic makeup.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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Amfora

Amfora is building a platform of technologies that enhance the nutritional density of food and feed crops. The company is applying these technologies to develop a pipeline of products aimed at meeting the growing global demand for foods that are high in protein while enhancing sustainability.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

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Modular Science

Modular Science is a robots and machine learning for agriculture company founded in 2014 by Kristopher Overbo.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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Ostara

Ostara is a Vancouver-based company founded in 2005.

5

Funding Rounds

$49.0m

Money raised

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Little Fly Labs

Little Fly Labs is a company developing therapies for mosquito-borne viruses founded by Edward Cheung, Richard Sayre and Kimberly Harrison.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised