Top California Agriculture Startups (51)

We’re on a mission to eliminate waste for good, starting with the food that ends up in landfills. Did you know that more than half of the food in landfills comes from home kitchens (ReFED)? And food in landfills turns into methane – which is 80x more potent than CO2 over a 20-year period (IPCC). At Mill, we’re working to...

BEAM Circular is building a vibrant regional ecosystem for the circular bioeconomy in California’s agricultural heartland. Anchored in the North San Joaquin Valley, we are facilitating collaboration through the BioEconomy, Agriculture, & Manufacturing (BEAM) Initiative to scale the most promising innovations in bioindustrial manufacturing and to transform waste from food and agricultural systems into economic and environmental opportunity. Our work...

CropX Technologies is one of the world's fastest-growing providers of AgTech solutions, deployed in over 50 countries and across all arable continents. Our flagship product, the CropX agronomic farm management system, synthesizes data from soil to sky to offer advanced soil and crop intelligence and a suite of digital agronomic decision and planning tools, all on an easy-to-use app capable...

Andes empowers biology to enable positive action against climate change

Agtonomy brings intelligent automation to agriculture, turf, and other demanding industries through Physical AI and software services. By partnering with trusted equipment manufacturers, we deliver factory-fit technology that transforms industrial machines into smart, efficient solutions built for safety and performance. Our team combines expertise in technology, product development, and industry knowledge to address critical challenges like labor shortages, sustainability, and...

Helping farmers control pests and disease using ultraviolet light in place of chemical pesticides

Plantible Foods is a B2B food technology company with the goal to develop the most functional and applicable plant-based protein in the world using scalable and sustainable aqua-farming and extraction technologies

Agrinos, An American Vanguard Company, is a biological crop input provider committed to improving the productivity and sustainability of modern agriculture worldwide. Our products help farmers by providing increased crop yield and productivity, improved crop quality, enhanced efficiency of conventional fertilizer and a reduced environmental footprint. As world population grows rapidly and natural resources become increasingly strained, we need innovative,...

AgFunder is an online Venture Capital Platform based in Silicon Valley. AgFunder invests in exceptional and bold entrepreneurs who are aiming to build the next generation of great agriculture and food technology companies. As a Platform-VC, we've leveraged technology, media and research to build a global ecosystem of over 50,000 members and subscribers, including over 5,000 investors. We build technology...

Biome Makers is a global agtech company modeling soil functionality to enhance the productivity of arable soils. We connect soil biology into decision-making processes in agriculture to benefit farmers and reverse the degradation of arable soils, encouraging carbon sequestration in soil. Through our leading soil tech platform, BeCrop, we measure the biological quality of the soil and deliver agronomic insights...

WiseConn is aware of the reality of declining resources and we have developed a technology to measure and control water and other fluids in such diverse areas such as agriculture, mining and hydrology. The WiseConn platform consists of a wireless hardware installed on the field and software that is accessible through the Internet, allowing users to view their process and...

Making all farm data integrations easy, seamless, and in a standardized format through a single API | https://withleaf.io/

Nectar's mission is to help the beekeeping industry ensure honey bee health to secure our food supply. Using sensors and artificial intelligence, we help commercial beekeepers raise healthier honeybee colonies, provide growers analytics to optimize their pollination supply chain and bring agrifood stakeholders the biodiversity data to optimize toward a resilient food supply chain.

The GroGuru technology measures soil moisture and soil salinity in real-time and gives you feedback anytime, any place, from any device.

BeeHero maximizes crop yields through precision pollination, combining sophisticated machine learning algorithms with low-cost sensors to stimulate full output potential during peak pollination cycles. By tracking and optimizing pollination in real-time, BeeHero ensures hyper-efficient pollinators that can increase crop yields by 30% on average. Beehero’s platform already enables commercial growers to optimize crop-yield for 70% of major commercial crops. Based...

Agrodity E-Marketplace is a sophisticated digital platform for agricultural commodity trading, like wheat, corn, and soybeans, designed to streamline every aspect of the transaction lifecycle. It offers an integrated suite of services, including contract and bid management, financial and escrow operations, entity oversight, accounting and billing reconciliations analytics, and comprehensive tools for risk, fraud, and regulatory compliance. Built on neutrality,...

SlantRange remote sensing and analytics systems deliver the data that drives precision agriculture. We provide a comprehensive, highly scalable, and patented crop data system that accurately collects and processes remotely sensed data, performs advanced analytics, and quickly visualizes and surfaces actionable insights for input suppliers and growers alike. Our solution is flexible and has been adapted to the specific information needs and...

LumiGrow revolutionized horticulture in 2008 with the introduction of the first smart LED grow lights in North America. Today, LumiGrow leads the world forward in grow light innovation with their TopLight and BarLight smart fixtures designed to maximize a growers’ profits. The LumiGrow lights are wirelessly controlled by our smartPAR software to optimize yield, quality, and custom plant traits. LumiGrow...

FieldKit is an open-source software and hardware platform (environmental sensors, app, and FieldKit.org website) that allows individuals and organizations to collect and share field-based research data and tell stories through interactive visualizations. Designed to be easy to deploy customizable, FieldKit can be adapted to meet the needs of diverse research teams, from biology and ecology to marine and environmental sciences,...

Wexus Technologies, Inc. is focused on one of the great challenges of our time: optimizing our energy, water and food resources in the face of growing populations and climate change. Our Wexus (Water-Energy-Nexus) software platform uses IoT technology, predictive intelligence, and flexible SaaS plans to make complicated utility data simple, usable and actionable to automate labor and reporting, reduce waste and...