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
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Pattern Ag provides soil microbiome analysis and recommendations for input optimization on farms.
Arable
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Arable develops a software for agriculture that helps digitize and optimize decisions from seed breeding to food production.
Monarch Tractor
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Monarch Tractor offers a platform that combines mechanization, automation, and data analysis to enhance farmer’s existing operations.
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.
SESO
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SESO provides a workforce platform focusing on the agricultural industry.
Sound Agriculture
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Sound Agriculture uses molecular discovery to create climate resilient crops, enhancing harvest yields for growers.
FarmWise
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FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
Full Harvest
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Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce
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 is an agricultural company.
Granular
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Granular is a software and analytics platform that helps farmers operate more efficiently and make better business decisions.
Telesense
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TeleSense is an AgTech company providing environmental monitoring and control solutions for the food and grain industry.
BeeHero
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BeeHero is a developer of beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination.
Biome Makers
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Biome Makers develops neural biocomputing applications that enable sustainable and productive farming.
FarmTogether
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FarmTogether is a technology-enabled farmland investment platform that allows direct ownership of institutional quality farmland.
Boomitra
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Boomitra uses artificial intelligence to grow more plants or crops with less resources.
Unfold
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Unfold focuses on innovating vegetable varieties that deliver optimized quality and sensory experience in the vertical farming industry.
FarmRaise
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FarmRaise is a digital platform that offers financial resources for farmers and ranchers to make on-farm improvements.
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.
Advanced Farm Technologies
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Advanced Farm Technologies is a robotics company focused on automating agricultural tasks.
Lumo
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Lumo is a smart irrigation system that enables growers to save water, improve crop quality and reduce costs.
FarmX
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FarmX offers a precision agriculture platform for optimizing costs and increasing yields for farmers.
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
Plenty
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Plenty is a vertical farming company that brings fresh, pesticide-free produce to customers.
BioConsortia
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BioConsortia is developing highly effective microbial consortia for increasing agricultural yields.
GroGuru
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GroGuru is an agriculture company that help farmers increase their crop yield using water in a sustainable way.
Crop Enhancement
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Crop Enhancement develop sustainable agrochemical formulations that employ environmentally friendly chemistry to improve crop yields.
AeroBloom
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AeroBloom addresses food security with proprietary aeroponics tech that achieves double the crop yield of hydroponic cultivation.
Opti-Harvest
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Opti-Harvest is an agricultural innovation company focused on solving several critical challenges faced by agribusinesses.
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.
The Sun Valley Group
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The Sun Valley Group is the supplier of Cut Flowers in the United States
Traptic
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Traptic builds giant farming robots to save the world’s food production system from a critical labor shortage.
ProducePay
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ProducePay is an agriculture fin-tech start-up providing financing, analytics, and marketplace tools for the fresh produce market.
Henry’s Originals
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Henry’s Originals is a producer of handcrafted cannabis products.
PastureMap
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PastureMap helps ranchers and farmers make profits building healthy grasslands.
Superior Farms
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Superior Farms is a food production firm that supplies sustainable lamb and lamb meat products.
OnFarm
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OnFarm creates seamless software, analytics, and APIs solutions from disparate agriculture data sources.
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.
Boson Motors
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Smart Electric Utility Vehicles and Powertrains
Contra Costa Farms
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Contra Costa Farms is a medical cannabis dispensary that crafts cannabis cultivation, processing, manufacturing for distribution.
AgroVision
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AgroVision is a grower, packer, and shipper of fruits and vegetables.
StockGuard
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StockGuard offers a production yield insurance to protect livestock producers from unexpected financial losses.
Local Urban Vegetables
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Local Urban Vegetables is an AgTech startup that provides vertical farming technology.
Go Green Agriculture
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Go Green Agriculture develops technology that makes food safer and more sustainable for humankind.
Materra
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Materra is a farming company that specializes in building and maintaining farmland with an emphasize on quality and sustainability.
Farm Dog
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Providing in-field transparency to the new sustainable supply chain.
Kultevat
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Kultevat develops the Russian Dandelion to become the leading source of domestic rubber.
HarvestPort
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HarvestPort is an innovation hub and marketplace for agricultural resources.
Future Acres
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Future Acres is an agricultural robotics company whose mission is to help carry farms into a sustainable future.
Sempera Organics, Inc.
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Sempera Organics is a biotechnology firm that specializes in fungi-based wellness ingredients and products.
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.
Leaf Agriculture
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Leaf’s universal farm data API helps developers build a better food system.
Heritage Holding of California
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Heritage Holding of California is a private held company.
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.
Ikänik Farms
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Ikänik Farms is engaged in cultivation, manufacturing, retail, and global distribution of cannabis and hemp CBD.
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.
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.
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.
Rio Vista Farms
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Rio Vista Farms is a cannabis micro-business that provides quality and safe cannabis products to adults.
Specialty Crop Company
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Specialty Crop Co is a farming company
Scanit Technologies
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Scanit Technologie provides a way to physically detect airborne disease before infection enabling preventative action.
AminAg
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AminAg acquires, develops, and operates agricultural property with a primary focus in the permanent crop sector.
Plant Culture Systems
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Plant Culture Systems offers a vertical farm solution that includes hydroponic growing chambers for any crop.
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.
FloraPulse
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FloraPulse makes water-stress sensors that help vineyards save water and make better quality red wine.
Lucky Bolt
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LuckyBolt is a mission-driven company focused on making it easy and affordable to maintain a healthy diet.
Kentucky Fresh Harvest
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Kentucky Fresh Harvest Provides Innovating Agriculture Services.
From The Field Trading
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From The Field Trading offers gourmet, single-origin, and equitably sourced Bourbon vanilla beans.
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.
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.
PickTrace
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PickTrace is a fast growing software company that provides workforce and harvest management solutions for large-scale farms
Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative
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Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative is a Meat Processing Company By Ranchers, For Ranchers.
Fresh Origins Farm
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Fresh Origins Farm produces microgreens, petite greens, edible flowers, tiny veggies, and crystallized flowers.
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.
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.
Prima® Wawona
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Prima® Wawona is the world’s leading grower and marketer of peaches, plums, and nectarines.
Plant Aid
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Plant Aid offers services such as plant cleaner, household cleaner, non-toxic cleaner, and eco-friendly cleaner.
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.
Alora
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Alora is an ocean agriculture company building the technology of today to bring peace tomorrow.
HeavyConnect
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HeavyConnect provides cloud-based digital compliance documentation solutions for the food supply chain.
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.
Stout Industrial Technology
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OEM of Intelligent Farm Machines
VAS
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VAS is the global market leader in connected farm management systems.
PureSense
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PureSense offers real-time water and soil monitoring solutions for cultivators to optimize their crops.
Terrafort Fund
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Terrafort Fund is an an agricultural company focused on the developing Central and South American tropics.
Frontier Farmland
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Frontier Farmland is a farmland investment and management company focused on accelerating the next generation of farm management.
The Garlic Company
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The Garlic Company produces and supplies garlic products to foodservice, industrial and retail customers.
Hollandia Produce
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Hollandia Produce is a hydroponically greenhouse-grown vegetables provider that grows, ships, and distributes organic labels.
NGIN Network for Global Innovation
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NGIN is a global ecosystem for cleantech entrepreneurs that accelerates commercialization of impact technologies.
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.
Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds
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Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds is the world’s largest vertically integrated grower and processer of almonds and pistachios.
Alto Ingredients
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Alto Ingredients, formerly Pacific Ethanol, is a leading manufacturer of specialty alcohols and essential ingredients.
Wiseconn
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WiseConn is aware of the reality of declining resources
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.
South Paw Farm
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South Paw Farm grows a diversity of organic and year-round produce for people in Maine.
AFN
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AFN is a digital publication covering investment and entrepreneurship in foodtech and agtech.
