This article showcases our top picks for the best California based Agriculture Technology companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Agriculture Technology industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top California Agriculture Technology Startups
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SESO
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SESO provides a workforce platform focusing on the agricultural industry.
Wildtype
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Wildtype is a cellular agriculture company that develops technology for cultivating seafood.
Apeel Sciences
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Apeel Sciences develops plant-derived shelf life extension technology for fresh produce that improves quality and reduces food waste.
Advanced Farm Technologies
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Advanced Farm Technologies is a robotics company focused on automating agricultural tasks.
Pivot Bio
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Pivot Bio is an agricultural tech company improving the microbiome by taking nitrogen from the air and making it available for plants.
SVG Ventures
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SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment firm that invests in early-stage ag-tech and food tech companies.
Silo
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Silo is a wholesale food marketplace that enables customers to buy and sell produce, protein, dairy, and shelf-stable food quickly.
Ceres Imaging
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Ceres Imaging is a California-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that serves farmers and agribusinesses.
Vence
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Vence was founded to improve the affordability and availability of sustainable animal protein.
Monarch Tractor
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Monarch Tractor offers a platform that combines mechanization, automation, and data analysis to enhance farmer’s existing operations.
Arable
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Arable is a developer of a software for agriculture that helps digitize and optimize decisions from seed breeding to food production.
Brightseed
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Brightseed features artificial intelligence that reveals powerful compounds hidden in nature.
FarmWise
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FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
OnePointOne
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OPO has developed a fully automated vertical farming system to improve the health of humanity through plant-based foods and medicines.
INTERSTELLAR LAB
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Interstellar Lab is developing and building modules for sustainable living on Earth and life-support in space.
Verdant Robotics
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Verdant Robotics manufactures robotics systems; the company’s current platform delivers transformative agricultural services.
Trace Genomics
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Trace Genomics helps agronomists and their growers maximize the value of every acre.
Specright
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Specright is a platform that enables companies to manage and map product and packaging data across the supply chain.
The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science)
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The Climate Corporation is a technology platform helping people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change.
Plenty
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Plenty is a vertical farming company that brings fresh, pesticide-free produce to customers.
Atlas AI
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Atlas AI is an analytics platform that guides the deployment of investment and other resource allocation decisions in the emerging markets.
Boomitra
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Boomitra uses artificial intelligence to grow more plants or crops with less resources.
AFN
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AFN is a digital publication covering investment and entrepreneurship in foodtech and agtech.
Farmland LP
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Farmland LP is a real estate fund that acquires conventional farmland and converts it into Organic, sustainably managed farmland.
Telesense
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TeleSense is an AgTech company providing environmental monitoring and control solutions for the food and grain industry.
Pattern Ag
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Pattern Ag provides soil microbiome analysis and recommendations for input optimization on farms.
Boost Biomes
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Boost Biomes develops microbial products to sustainably improve food production and shelf-life.
FarmX
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FarmX offers a precision agriculture platform for optimizing costs and increasing yields for farmers.
Leaf Agriculture
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Leaf’s universal farm data API helps developers build a better food system.
Traptic
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Traptic builds giant farming robots to save the world’s food production system from a critical labor shortage.
Farmers Business Network
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FBN is an AgTech and commerce platform that helps its members make confident decisions to ensure the economic viability of their farms.
Tiamat Sciences
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Tiamat Sciences makes plant-based growth factors & proteins for cell-culture
Unfold
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Unfold focuses on innovating vegetable varieties that deliver optimized quality and sensory experience in the vertical farming industry.
InnerPlant
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InnerPlant is an ag-tech company that features a data platform that increases field health and drives value throughout the supply chain.
Hippo Harvest
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Hippo Harvest develops an agriculture technology to help scale sustainable agriculture.
GroGuru
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GroGuru is an agriculture company that help farmers increase their crop yield using water in a sustainable way.
Sun World
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Sun World is a farming company specializing in fuel, oil, lubricants, and fertilizers.
LumiGrow
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Empowering Growth Through Connectivity is our mission, offering the industry’s leading smart horticultural lighting solutions.
Water Harvesting
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Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) based atmospheric water generation (AWG) products that deliver water recovery & humidity management solutions.
Planetarians
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Whole cut alt. meat combining the power of both worlds: plant-based proteins and fermentation.
AgShift
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AgShift is on a mission to reduce food waste across the food supply chain. Our medium of choice is AI.
Moasis
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Moasis is a developer of agricultural solutions that enable growers to maximize their crop yields.
Chi Botanic
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Chi Botanic is a cellular agriculture company that provides a synthetic biology pipeline to leverage the power of the plant cell.
ZeaKal
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Plant traits innovator helping crops capture more carbon and sunlight, leading to healthier, nutrient-rich food and feed.
Aessense Holding
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Aessense Holding is dedicated to providing solutions and technologies for both small and large scale growth in a sustainable manner.
Teksun Inc
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Teksun Inc puts Embedded Hardware, AI, Cloud, and Digital Transformation services to work in achieving innovative product development needs.
California Safe Soil
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California Safe Soil is a fresh food recycler that increases the productivity of farms at a low cost.
Bountiful
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Bountiful is an agtech company that helps farmers understand what impacts crop production in the field and at scale.
Zero Nox
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Zero Nox is to create and distribute the most advanced electric machinery for farmers and business owners across the world.
Dark Heart Nursery
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Dark Heart is California’s leader in cannabis genetics serving consumers and commercial growers with leading genetics in a variety of forms.
Opti-Harvest
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Opti-Harvest is an agricultural innovation company focused on solving several critical challenges faced by agribusinesses.
Agragene
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Agragene is an agtech company that develops crop pests and eradicate mosquito-borne disease using biological insect control technology.
Acre Venture Partners
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Acre is a venture capital fund investing in the future of food and agriculture
Upfront Ventures
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Upfront Ventures is the venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology companies.
Farm Dog
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Providing in-field transparency to the new sustainable supply chain.
Sempera Organics, Inc.
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Sempera Organics is a biotechnology firm that specializes in fungi-based wellness ingredients and products.
BeeHero
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BeeHero is a developer of beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination.
HarvestPort
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HarvestPort is an innovation hub and marketplace for agricultural resources.
Local Urban Vegetables
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Local Urban Vegetables is an AgTech startup that provides vertical farming technology.
Andes
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Andes empowers biology to enable positive action against climate change.
Stratio, Inc.
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Founded in 2013 with the mission to bring infrared sensing to the mass market.
Edyza
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Edyza is Internet of Things with High Density Connectivity and Computing (IOTHD) for industrial, commercial, and government markets.
Kakaxi, Inc.
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Kakaxi collects robust weather data with time-lapse video of plant growth to help farmers know more about farm and share the story of food.
Airlitix
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Airlitix provides Greenhouse Precision AgTech drone-based products and DaaS solutions to optimize crop management for profitable production.
Modular Science
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Modular Science aims to automate ninety nine percent of the processes involved in vegetable farming with modular machines for agriculture.
LahakX
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LahakX allows growers and applicators to deploy a flying fleet of spraying drones that makes crop protection sustainable and affordable.
Pontifax AgTech
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Pontifax AgTech is a pioneering growth capital investor in food and agriculture technology.
Pomodyne
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Pomodyne develops crop cultivation technology with the goal of revolutionizing fruit crop cultivation.
Agravitae
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Agravitae is a provider of agritech platform to sell beauty products.
SymSoil, Inc.
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Creates engineered soils for specific crops, including cannabis and vineyards.
ONIT Sciences
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ONIT Sciences is an agriculture technology company providing organic nano-input technologies to cannabis and hemp cultivators.
Go Green Agriculture
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Go Green Agriculture develops technology that makes food safer and more sustainable for humankind.
AgFunder
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AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world’s food system.
Pando Nutrition Inc.
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Engineering probiotic alternatives to antibiotics in livestock.
Plant Culture Systems
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Plant Culture Systems offers a vertical farm solution that includes hydroponic growing chambers for any crop.
Agricultural Gas
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Agricultural Gas is a provider of gas distribution services to increase crop yields and improve water-efficiency in open-field agriculture.
ClearAg
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ClearAg is the platform combines weather and agronomic data with proprietary land-surface modeling.
Botana
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Botana is a data analytics platform helping cannabis growers become more efficient and profitable.
Pago
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Pago is an ag labor platform for farm labor contractors and growers.
CropSwap
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CropSwap provides sustainable farmers with all of the tools they need to interact with clients in their community directly.
Jain Irrigation Inc.
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Jain is a fully integrated global food/plant production company.
Avolved
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Avolved develops smart plant growing systems to help serious commercial growers know what their plants know.
Ranch System
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Ranch Systems is an established high-technology company
FarmSolutions
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Farm Solutions is an agricultural technology company
Cloudponics
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Cloudponics is an agtech company and develops IoT in-home and professional grow systems like the GroBox and GroPro
GrowUp
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GrowUp creates and develops green wall systems for commercial and residential properties.
Syntheseas
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Syntheseas researches gene discovery for producing marine aquaculture crops.
Food-Origins
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Food-Origins is Specialty Agriculture, Food and Beverage Processing, Lean Manufacturing
Cellular Agriculture Society
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International Nonprofit Advancing Cellular Agriculture
Bowles Farming Company
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Bowles Farming Company is family owned and operated farm that produces tomatoes, melons, staple cotton, alfalfa and much more.
AgriTech Analytics
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AgriTech Analytics (ATA) is a certified Dairy Records Processing Center.
Acela Biotek
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Acela Biotek is a biotechnology company that offers innovative and sustainable solutions in agriculture using microbial technology.
Irrometer Company
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Irrometer is a manufacturing soil moisture measuring, controlling, and sampling instruments used worldwide for scheduling irrigation.
blue horizon International Foundation 501(c)(3)
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For a future where all the food will be made from plants. Our mission is to transform farms – from animals to plants.
Cannected
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Cannected is technology platform for indoor cannabis cultivators that streamlines operations and processes through automation
Agrothermal Systems
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Agrothermal Systems is pioneering the usage of heat treatments in agriculture as a means to increase yields,
Valley Truck & Tractor Company
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Valley Truck & Tractor Company operates as a premier dealer of agricultural machines, turf products, and compact construction equipment.
