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101 Most Innovative California Based Farming Companies & Startups

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This article showcases our top picks for the best California based Farming companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Farming 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 Farming Startups

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Pattern Ag

Pattern Ag

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Pattern Ag provides soil microbiome analysis and recommendations for input optimization on farms.

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Arable

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Arable develops a software for agriculture that helps digitize and optimize decisions from seed breeding to food production.

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Monarch Tractor

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Monarch Tractor offers a platform that combines mechanization, automation, and data analysis to enhance farmer’s existing operations.

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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.

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SESO

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SESO provides a workforce platform focusing on the agricultural industry.

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Sound Agriculture

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Sound Agriculture uses molecular discovery to create climate resilient crops, enhancing harvest yields for growers.

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FarmWise

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FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.

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Full Harvest

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Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce

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Verdant Robotics

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Verdant Robotics manufactures robotics systems; the company’s current platform delivers transformative agricultural services.

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Trace Genomics

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Trace Genomics is an agricultural company.

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Granular

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Granular is a software and analytics platform that helps farmers operate more efficiently and make better business decisions.

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TerViva

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TerViva is a food and agriculture company.

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Telesense

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TeleSense is an AgTech company providing environmental monitoring and control solutions for the food and grain industry.

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BeeHero

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BeeHero is a developer of beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination.

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Biome Makers

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Biome Makers develops neural biocomputing applications that enable sustainable and productive farming.

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FarmTogether

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FarmTogether is a technology-enabled farmland investment platform that allows direct ownership of institutional quality farmland.

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Boomitra

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Boomitra uses artificial intelligence to grow more plants or crops with less resources.

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Unfold

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Unfold focuses on innovating vegetable varieties that deliver optimized quality and sensory experience in the vertical farming industry.

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FarmRaise

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FarmRaise is a digital platform that offers financial resources for farmers and ranchers to make on-farm improvements.

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Kadenwood

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Kadenwood is a consumer products lifestyle company that focuses on shaping CBD into a trusted and safe mainstream wellness category.

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Advanced Farm Technologies

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Advanced Farm Technologies is a robotics company focused on automating agricultural tasks.

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Lumo

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Lumo is a smart irrigation system that enables growers to save water, improve crop quality and reduce costs.

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FarmX

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FarmX offers a precision agriculture platform for optimizing costs and increasing yields for farmers.

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Flow Cannabis Co.

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Flow Cannabis Co. offers a wide range of California’s top-selling cannabis CPG brands and a series of services

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Plenty

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Plenty is a vertical farming company that brings fresh, pesticide-free produce to customers.

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BioConsortia

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BioConsortia is developing highly effective microbial consortia for increasing agricultural yields.

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GroGuru

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GroGuru is an agriculture company that help farmers increase their crop yield using water in a sustainable way.

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Crop Enhancement

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Crop Enhancement develop sustainable agrochemical formulations that employ environmentally friendly chemistry to improve crop yields.

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AeroBloom

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AeroBloom addresses food security with proprietary aeroponics tech that achieves double the crop yield of hydroponic cultivation.

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Opti-Harvest

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Opti-Harvest is an agricultural innovation company focused on solving several critical challenges faced by agribusinesses.

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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.

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The Sun Valley Group

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The Sun Valley Group is the supplier of Cut Flowers in the United States

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Traptic

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Traptic builds giant farming robots to save the world’s food production system from a critical labor shortage.

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ProducePay

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ProducePay is an agriculture fin-tech start-up providing financing, analytics, and marketplace tools for the fresh produce market.

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Henry’s Originals

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Henry’s Originals is a producer of handcrafted cannabis products.

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PastureMap

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PastureMap helps ranchers and farmers make profits building healthy grasslands.

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Superior Farms

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Superior Farms is a food production firm that supplies sustainable lamb and lamb meat products.

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OnFarm

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OnFarm creates seamless software, analytics, and APIs solutions from disparate agriculture data sources.

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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.

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Boson Motors

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Smart Electric Utility Vehicles and Powertrains

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Contra Costa Farms

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Contra Costa Farms is a medical cannabis dispensary that crafts cannabis cultivation, processing, manufacturing for distribution.

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AgroVision

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AgroVision is a grower, packer, and shipper of fruits and vegetables.

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StockGuard

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StockGuard offers a production yield insurance to protect livestock producers from unexpected financial losses.

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Local Urban Vegetables

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Local Urban Vegetables is an AgTech startup that provides vertical farming technology.

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Go Green Agriculture

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Go Green Agriculture develops technology that makes food safer and more sustainable for humankind.

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Materra

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Materra is a farming company that specializes in building and maintaining farmland with an emphasize on quality and sustainability.

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Farm Dog

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Providing in-field transparency to the new sustainable supply chain.

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Kultevat

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Kultevat develops the Russian Dandelion to become the leading source of domestic rubber.

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HarvestPort

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HarvestPort is an innovation hub and marketplace for agricultural resources.

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Future Acres

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Future Acres is an agricultural robotics company whose mission is to help carry farms into a sustainable future.

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Sempera Organics, Inc.

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Sempera Organics is a biotechnology firm that specializes in fungi-based wellness ingredients and products.

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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.

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Leaf Agriculture

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Leaf’s universal farm data API helps developers build a better food system.

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Heritage Holding of California

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Heritage Holding of California is a private held company.

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Tule

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Taking the guesswork out of irrigation. Precise measurement of how much water your crops are using. 24 hour remote monitoring.

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Ikänik Farms

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Ikänik Farms is engaged in cultivation, manufacturing, retail, and global distribution of cannabis and hemp CBD.

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Hocomo Hemp

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Hocomo Hemp works with deeply rooted family run farms, merged with the new genetic research advances and fresh thinking.

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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.

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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.

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Rio Vista Farms

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Rio Vista Farms is a cannabis micro-business that provides quality and safe cannabis products to adults.

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Specialty Crop Company

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Specialty Crop Co is a farming company

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Scanit Technologies

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Scanit Technologie provides a way to physically detect airborne disease before infection enabling preventative action.

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AminAg

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AminAg acquires, develops, and operates agricultural property with a primary focus in the permanent crop sector.

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Plant Culture Systems

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Plant Culture Systems offers a vertical farm solution that includes hydroponic growing chambers for any crop.

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Ovipost

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Ovipost is a new startup looking to optimize the right conditions for a cricket grower to get the most yield from a generation of eggs.

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FloraPulse

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FloraPulse makes water-stress sensors that help vineyards save water and make better quality red wine.

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Lucky Bolt

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LuckyBolt is a mission-driven company focused on making it easy and affordable to maintain a healthy diet.

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Kentucky Fresh Harvest

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Kentucky Fresh Harvest Provides Innovating Agriculture Services.

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From The Field Trading

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From The Field Trading offers gourmet, single-origin, and equitably sourced Bourbon vanilla beans.

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Local Grown Salads

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Everyday, we grow, harvest, package, and deliver Organic Ready-To-Eat Salads to National Retailer with our Vertical Growing System.

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Muzzi Family Farms

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Muzzi Family Farms is dedicated to growing, processing, and providing quality fresh and frozen vegetables to food service providers.

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Tiny Farms

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Technology for farming edible insects

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PickTrace

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PickTrace is a fast growing software company that provides workforce and harvest management solutions for large-scale farms

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inHouse Produce Inc

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Growing food where it is served

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Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative

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Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative is a Meat Processing Company By Ranchers, For Ranchers.

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HiKoa

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HiKoa is an Agricultural Firm.

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Cuc Bio

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Cuc Bio is a organic grocery store.

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Fresh Origins Farm

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Fresh Origins Farm produces microgreens, petite greens, edible flowers, tiny veggies, and crystallized flowers.

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LANG AG LANG HONEY, WALNUTS, CHERRIES, POLLINATION

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Lang Ag. is a full-service apiary, fruit nut farm, and custom farming service solution.

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Green House Organix Technologies Inc.

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Green House Organix Technologies offers a range of products, designed to enhance both the growth and healthy development of plants.

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Prima® Wawona

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Prima® Wawona is the world’s leading grower and marketer of peaches, plums, and nectarines.

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Plant Aid

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Plant Aid offers services such as plant cleaner, household cleaner, non-toxic cleaner, and eco-friendly cleaner.

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Central Coast Agriculture

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Central Coast Agriculture is a progressive farm focused on utilizing science & sustainability to grow quality, modern crops in California.

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Alora

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Alora is an ocean agriculture company building the technology of today to bring peace tomorrow.

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HeavyConnect

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HeavyConnect provides cloud-based digital compliance documentation solutions for the food supply chain.

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VCA Antech

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VCA Antech is the leading provider of pet health care services in the country with a nationwide clinical laboratory system.

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Stout Industrial Technology

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OEM of Intelligent Farm Machines

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VAS

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VAS is the global market leader in connected farm management systems.

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PureSense

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PureSense offers real-time water and soil monitoring solutions for cultivators to optimize their crops.

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Terrafort Fund

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Terrafort Fund is an an agricultural company focused on the developing Central and South American tropics.

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Frontier Farmland

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Frontier Farmland is a farmland investment and management company focused on accelerating the next generation of farm management.

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The Garlic Company

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The Garlic Company produces and supplies garlic products to foodservice, industrial and retail customers.

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Hollandia Produce

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Hollandia Produce is a hydroponically greenhouse-grown vegetables provider that grows, ships, and distributes organic labels.

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NGIN Network for Global Innovation

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NGIN is a global ecosystem for cleantech entrepreneurs that accelerates commercialization of impact technologies.

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Tend

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Tend is a small startup that builds tools to help small scale farmers grow quality food and run successful farming businesses.

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Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds

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Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds is the world’s largest vertically integrated grower and processer of almonds and pistachios.

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Alto Ingredients

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Alto Ingredients, formerly Pacific Ethanol, is a leading manufacturer of specialty alcohols and essential ingredients.

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Wiseconn

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WiseConn is aware of the reality of declining resources

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Frutura

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Frutura is a global sales and marketing network committed to supplying international customers with premium fruit, 365 days a year.

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South Paw Farm

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South Paw Farm grows a diversity of organic and year-round produce for people in Maine.

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AFN

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AFN is a digital publication covering investment and entrepreneurship in foodtech and agtech.

Written by Mark Smith

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