This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois 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 Illinois Agriculture Technology Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Aqua Cultured Foods
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Fermentation based whole cut seafood alternative.
Hazel Technologies
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Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain.
Aker Technologies
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Aker is an agriculture data company providing crop intelligence and in-season analytics.
Nature’s Fynd
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Nature’s Fynd is a food company that makes nutritional vegan protein from a microbe.
Evergreen Climate Innovations (formerly Clean Energy Trust)
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Evergreen Climate Innovations supports entrepreneurs and startups that are bringing impactful climate technologies to market.
Promus Ventures
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Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.
Chicago Botanic Garden
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The Chicago Botanic Garden is a botanic garden and plant research company.
Local Foods
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Local Foods helps bring farm-to-table to life by connecting small providers with shoppers all across Chicago.
Harvest Moon Sustainable Ventures
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Harvest Moon creates high quality full spectrum oils and distillatefor use in everyday healing hemp products
DICKEY-john
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DICKEY-john provides testing and controlling equipments.
smartvet
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smartvet is a Mobile Veterinary Practice Company.
Agrowhere
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Agrowhere offers interactive maps tied to a geodatabase offering landowners insights on land and drainage issues.
Premier Cooperative
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Premier Cooperative is an Illinois farmer owned cooperative providing agricultural commodities and energy products.
Urban Vine
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Urban Vine provides urban farming and urban agriculture services.
AgriWater Tech
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AgriWater Tech is a designer of a zero-waste ionizer device that helps clean water for agricultural, residential, and commercial use.
Praedictus Climate Solutions
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Developed software tools to provide real-time crop projections.
AgTech Holdings
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AgTech Holdings aims to accelerate efficiency and profitability for the controlled environment agriculture industry.
Earnest Agriculture
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Waste recycling, soil amendment manufacturing, microbe research
Germin8 Ventures
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Germin8 Ventures is a venture capital firm actively investing with domain expertise and strategic backing in FoodTech and AgTech.
R7
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R7 Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies building transformational technologies.
Sente Foundry
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Sente is an international startup investment and innovation platform.
Dipalo Ventures
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Early stage connected hardware and hard tech investments in the US Midwest, de-risked via design and engineering focused Residency.
TellTail
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TellTail is a software that will address critical needs within the pig production industry.
Agvance
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Agvance is a computer software company that offers integrated business solutions.
Precision Planting
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Precision Planting develops precision seed spacing and depth control products for growers to solve agronomic issues.
Petrichor
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Petrichor is a cloud-based platform for agribusiness risk management, trade execution, and supply chain management.
PanAmerican Seed
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PanAmerican Seed is a breeder and producer of quality seed varieties for both wholesaler and retailer.
Spectrum Technologies
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Spectrum Technologies is a edge measurement information technology Company.
Crop IMS
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Crop IMS is an agtech products and equipment company.
Topflight Grain
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Topflight Grain is an agricultural cooperative that produces cereals with rich soils and innovative farming techniques.
