11
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$46.4m
Money raised
Cropin, also known as Cropin Technology solutions, is a company that offers an intelligent and self-evolving system that delivers farming solutions to the agricultural sector.
Key people:
- Kunal Prasad *****.******@cropin.com
- Chittaranjan Jena ************.****@cropin.com
- Krishna Kumar *******.*****@cropin.com
2
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$2.0m
Money raised
Tazah Technologies is a Pakistan-based operator of a B2B marketplace platform designed to connect farmers to businesses.
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Key people:
- Mohsin Zaka ******@tazahtech.com
- Abrar Bajwa *****@tazahtech.com
1
Funding Rounds
$12.5m
Money raised
A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.
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7
Funding Rounds
$83.0m
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Molecular Assemblies, Inc. is an enzymatic DNA synthesis technology founded in 2013 by Curt Becker, Bill Efcavitch and William Efcavitch.
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- Bill Efcavitch ******@saavha.com
- Curt Becker linkedin
- William Efcavitch linkedin
3
Funding Rounds
$105.0m
Money raised
DJI is a Shenzen, China-based company developing and manufacturing drone and camera technology.
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Key people:
- Frank Wang *****.****@dji.com
4
Funding Rounds
$725.0k
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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.
Location:
Key people:
- Dr. Fatma Kaplan *******@pheronym.com
- Karl Cameron Schiller ********@pheronym.com
21
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$1.9b
Money raised
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.
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Key people:
- James Rogers *****@apeel.com
1
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A Canadian food biotech company focused on the development of hypoallergenic peanuts
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9
Funding Rounds
$331.1m
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Modern Meadow is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture and biofabrication to manufacture bioleather, "Zoa", out of cultured animal free collagen mixed with natural and man made materials.
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Key people:
- Gabor Forgacs
- Francoise Marga ******@modernmeadow.com
- Karoly Jakab ******@modernmeadow.com
1
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Hylio is a technology company making drones for aerial crop spraying.
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7
Funding Rounds
$114.3m
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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.
11
Funding Rounds
$50.0m
Money raised
An industrial biotech company developing a commercial bioprocess for manufacturing bio-based malonic acid.
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Key people:
- Eric Steen (entrepreneur) linkedin
- JAY D. KEASLING ********@berkeley.edu
- Jeffrey Dietrich *********@rarebird.coffee
4
Funding Rounds
$188.9m
Money raised
Labelbox is a training data platform with labeling tools, human workforce, data management, API, and automation features for computer vision.
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- Brian Rieger *******@labelbox.com
- Daniel Rasmuson
- Manu Sharma (entrepreneur) ****@labelbox.com
5
Funding Rounds
$191.8m
Money raised
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.
10
Funding Rounds
$704.5m
Money raised
Zipline is an automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and delivers medical products.
Key people:
- Keenan Wyrobek ******@flyzipline.com
- Keller Rinaudo linkedin
- Will Hetzler ****.*******@boulderingproject.com
11
Funding Rounds
$603.1m
Money raised
GrubMarket is the AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of the American food supply chain industry.
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- MIke Xu ***@grubmarket.com
- Mike Xu (entrepreneur) ***@grubmarket.com
8
Funding Rounds
$1.1b
Money raised
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.
Industries:
Key people:
- Karsten Temme *******@pivotbio.com
- Alvin Tamsir
10
Funding Rounds
$5.7m
Money raised
Bloomfield Robotics is a Pittsburgh-based agricultural technology company.
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- Harjatin Baweja linkedin
- George Kantor ******@ri.cmu.edu
- Tim Mueller-Sim ***@bloomfield.ai
5
Funding Rounds
$57.1m
Money raised
Metabolon is a company developing metabolomics analytical methods and software for biomarker discovery
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5
Funding Rounds
$3.4m
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S4 is a Buenos Aires-based agricultural technology company providing risk management, data analytics, and growth prediction platforms.
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9
Funding Rounds
$382.3m
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Ynsect is a company that develops ingredients for aquaculture, pet food and fertilizer using insect protein.
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Key people:
- Jean-Gabriel Levon
- Fabrice Berro
- Antoine Hubert *******.******@ynsect.com
4
Funding Rounds
$55.5m
Money raised
Ceres Imaging is a California-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that serves farmers and agribusinesses.
1
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$50.0k
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Spectrabotics is a company developing a data collection and analytics platform.
9
Funding Rounds
$342.9m
Money raised
ProducePay is a new tech-based cash flow solution that provides domestic and foreign fresh produce farmers (growers) who ship to the U.S. with immediate access to distribution and financing. ProducePay's solutions provide the working capital fresh-produce growers? need to complete their harvest and grow. By leveraging our international network, ProducePay connects clients with interested fresh produce buyers and distributors. Interested distributors receive connection to a growing list of international farmers who might otherwise feel limited by current financing options.
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- Ben Dusastre ***@producepay.com
- Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck *****@producepay.com
7
Funding Rounds
$156.3m
Money raised
Iron Ox is a company developing robotic farms founded in 2015 by Brandon Alexander.
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- Brandon Alexander (entrepreneur) *******@ironox.com
- Jon Binney linkedin
11
Funding Rounds
$142.5m
Money raised
DroneDeploy is a cloud-based software that allows drones to take images and 3D models at any altitude.
Location:
Key people:
- Nicholas Pilkington ****@dronedeploy.com
- Jono Millin ****@dronedeploy.com
8
Funding Rounds
$267.4m
Money raised
Formlabs is a 3D printing system company that provides digital fabrications for industries
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- Maxim Lobovsky *****.********@formlabs.com
- Natan Linder *****.******@tulip.co
- David Cranor linkedin
6
Funding Rounds
$41.3m
Money raised
Beta Hatch is an insect protein for farming company founded in 2015 by Virginia Emery.
9
Funding Rounds
$801.9m
Money raised
Infarm is a developer of vertical farms designed for indoor growing.
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1
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$400.0m
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Dole Food Company is an american agricultural multinational corporation founded in 1851 by Samuel Northrup Castle.
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10
Funding Rounds
$121.7m
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iUNU is a Seattle-based agricultural tech startup founded in 2013.
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- Kyle Rooney ****@iunu.com
- Adam Greenberg (entrepreneur) ****@iunu.com
6
Funding Rounds
$427.1m
Money raised
DNA Script is a DNA synthesis company founded by Thomas Ybert, Sylvain Gariel, and Xavier Gordon in 2014, and headquartered in Paris, France.
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- Thomas Ybert ******.*****@dnascript.com
- Sylvain Gariel *******.******@dnascript.com
7
Funding Rounds
$94.4m
Money raised
AgriWebb creates farm management software.
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- John Fargher ****.*******@agriwebb.com
- Kevin Baum *****.****@agriwebb.com
- Philip Chan
11
Funding Rounds
$21.5m
Money raised
Operator of a workforce management platform designed to connect farmers and agribusinesses with farm workers.
4
Funding Rounds
$12.4m
Money raised
Nori is a company that hosts an open-source, blockchain-based market for purchasing carbon offsets.
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- Christophe Jospe **********@carbonalist.com
- Paul Gambill ****@paulgambill.com
- Aldyen Donnelly linkedin
13
Funding Rounds
$677.0m
Money raised
A gene editing technology company founded in 2015 and based in Boulder, CO, USA.
10
Funding Rounds
$274.2m
Money raised
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.
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- David McElroy *****@mcelroyconsultingllc.com
- Alan Shaw linkedin
- Josh Silverman twitter
4
Funding Rounds
$38.0m
Money raised
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.
Key people:
5
Funding Rounds
$198.8m
Money raised
Gro Intelligence is a company that supplies global agriculture data and builds predictive models
Industries:
Key people:
- Nemo Semret linkedin
- Sara Menker linkedin
- Sewit Ahderom *****.*******@gro-intelligence.com
3
Funding Rounds
$8.0m
Money raised
Improved Nature is a plant-based food technology company operating out of Garner, North Carolina that was founded in 2015 by Richard Hawkins, Steve Klawiter, Larry Chandler, Moshe Meidan and Sarid Shefet.
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2
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$81.0m
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Monarch Tractor offers a fully electric tractor platform.
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- Praveen Penmetsa *********@monarchtractor.com
- Carlo Mondavi ********@monarchtractor.com
- Zachary Omohundro **********@monarchtractor.com
4
Funding Rounds
$351.5m
Money raised
An infrastructure company for self-driving cars. It is located in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 2017.
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- Peter Ludwig *****@appliedintuition.com
- Qasar Younis *****@appliedintuition.com
2
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$170.0m
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Agriculture company developing novel methods of pest control
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- Frances H. Arnold *******@cheme.caltech.edu
- Pedro Coelho *******@provivi.com
8
Funding Rounds
$77.3m
Money raised
DroneSeed is a Seattle-based company that provides automated reforestation services.
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Key people:
- Grant Canary *****@mastreforest.com
9
Funding Rounds
$969.3m
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Farmers Business Network is a company that utilizes data to provide enterprise solutions for farmers.
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7
Funding Rounds
$5.0m
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NovoNutrients produce microbes that break down industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and reassemble them into aquaculture feed.
4
Funding Rounds
$37.5m
Money raised
PURIS is an American food company producing plant-based, non-GMO food ingredients. Puris was founded in Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1985, and is now headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company is focused on pea production for the creation of pea-based protein, fiber, and starch ingredients.
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5
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$433.8m
Money raised
Momo is a Ho Chi Minh City-based electronic wallet and payments app allowing users to pay online and transfer money to each other digitally.
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2
Funding Rounds
$201.6m
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An agricultural technology company developing a variety of drones and smart agriculture products.
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Key people:
- Justin Gong ******@xa.com
- Bin Peng
1
Funding Rounds
$169.0k
Money raised
SpaceFab.US is a Laguna Niguel, California-based designer and manufacturer of general access satellites for Earth observation and space telescope customers.
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5
Funding Rounds
$29.2m
Money raised
A container farming technology company. Its headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts and the company was founded in 2010.
6
Funding Rounds
$617.5m
Money raised
Bowery Farming is a New York-based agriculture company focused on building indoor vertical farms.
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- Brian Falther linkedin
- Irving Fain ******@boweryfarming.com
- David Golden *****@standardbots.com
3
Funding Rounds
$33.7m
Money raised
Eden Farm is an agriculture company helping farmers to sell their fruits and vegetables to the local business-to-business market in Indonesia.
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5
Funding Rounds
$65.4m
Money raised
An agricultural biotechnology company producing renewable, biomass-based fuels and raw materials
Industries:
Key people:
- Michael Raab (entrepreneur) *******.****@agrivida.com
8
Funding Rounds
$25.4m
Money raised
Biosortia is a therapeutics, agrochemical and cosmetics company developing products from microbial small molecules through microbiome mining.
3
Funding Rounds
$131.3m
Money raised
Cibus is a company founded in 2001 by Rory Riggs, Peter Beetham and Greg Gocal.
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- Rory Riggs ******@cibus.com
- Peter Beetham ********@cibus.com
- Greg Gocal
3
Funding Rounds
$44.7m
Money raised
SeeTree is an Israeli AgTech company co-founded in 2017 by Barak Hachamov, Guy Morgenstern, and Israel Talpaz.
Location:
Key people:
- Israel Talpaz ******@seetree.ai
- Barak Hachamov linkedin
- Guy Morgenstern ***.***********@seetree.ai
12
Funding Rounds
$273.6m
Money raised
Vestaron is a Kalamazoo, Michigan-based agricultural technology company manufacturing bioinsecticides from naturally occurring peptides
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1
Funding Rounds
$1.9m
Money raised
Karana is a Singapore-based company that optimizes natural SE Asian ingredients like jackfruit and banana blossoms for use in food service and other applications.
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15
Funding Rounds
$297.6m
Money raised
MycoTechnology is a privately owned company that was founded in 2013 and based in Aurora, Colorado.
2
Funding Rounds
$53.0m
Money raised
Also known as Beijing Nxin Internet Technology, Nxin operates an agricultural internet platform providing data, e-commerce and financial service for the agricultural industry.
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1
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$437.5k
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Farmers Edge is a Winnipeg-based company founded in 2005 by Wade Barnes.
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4
Funding Rounds
$37.7m
Money raised
A synthetic biology company making agricultural biologicals.
5
Funding Rounds
$14.6m
Money raised
A technology company offering a pocket-sized portable near infrared spectrometer for discovery the makeup of materials.
10
Funding Rounds
$255.8m
Money raised
PrecisionHawk is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based drone company developing drone and data products for the energy, agriculture, and telecommunications industries.
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2
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$3.5m
Money raised
KnipBio is a biotechnology company making fish feed alternatives for sustainable global aquaculture that is headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts and founded by Larry Feinberg and Chris Marx in 2013.
4
Funding Rounds
$232.5m
Money raised
Stable is a risk management platform that helps businesses manage their exposure to volatile commodity prices.
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- Richard Counsell *******@stableclub.com
- Jamie Schiel *****@stable.auto
- Rohan Puri *****@stable.auto
2
Funding Rounds
$133.0m
Money raised
Country Delight is an Indian dairy delivery platform.
2
Funding Rounds
$85.0m
Money raised
Developing technologies to produce jet fuel and other biofuels from algae