Best AgriTech Companies in United States
The 410 best AgriTech companies in United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ricult inc..
AgriTech in the United States is moving fast enough that ranking all 410 companies we track by disclosed equity funding actually tells you something useful right now. Total disclosed funding across the directory sits at $8M, which sounds modest until you clock that ricult Inc. leads at $5M and Blue Ocean Gear follows at $3M, meaning two names are absorbing the lion's share while the rest of the field is still in pre-seed territory. The global market was pegged at roughly $17.4B in 2019 and is forecast to reach $41.2B by 2027 at a 14.38% CAGR, so the runway is real even if domestic funding totals don't yet reflect it.
What's driving the quarter? Farm management software and agricultural venture capital are the hot search themes, and you can feel why. India's Brio Hydroponics scaling a high-yield model for large growers signals that precision production techniques are crossing borders fast, and cold-chain innovation like Akofresh's mobile storage trailer shows post-harvest infrastructure is finally getting venture attention globally. Outdated policies remain a structural drag domestically, but investors like Boost VC and MassChallenge are still writing checks. The opportunity is real. The funding gap is just as real.
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Ranked: Best AgriTech companies in United States
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ricult inc. Ricult is a Data Science company that develops AI/Data/Tech/Financial-based digital solutions for the… | $5M | 69 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | WixSentryYouTube+13 | — | — |
| 2 | Blue Ocean Gear Develops fishing gear products | $3M | 13 mo ago | Funding Raised | Kortney Opshaug CEO and Founder | 2015 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+18 | — | — |
| 3 | Farm Jenny Provides farm monitoring and management services to agriculture & livestock sectors | $430K | 78 mo ago | Seed | Rob Crouthamel Co-Founder & COO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Leon & George Retailer of plant saplings | $120K | 108 mo ago | Seed | Ron Radu Co-Founder | 2016 | Amazon Web ServicesVue.jsReact+23 | — | — |
| 5 | Acuity Agriculture Developer of wireless sensors designed to make farming more productive and sustainable. | $100K | 122 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Pearl's Premium Produces and supplies farm consumables | $50K | 187 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2008 | Cart FunctionalityDrupalPHP+9 | 14 patents Formulations of low‑maintenance lawn seed mixtures for improved turf establishment | — |
| 7 | bugeater foods BugEater Foods is a product development company that makes cricket protein-based food products. | $20K | 117 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Haystack Automation solutions provider for agriculture businesses | — | 50 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | — | 8 patents Context-aware real-time video overlay generation and dwell-time driven search result ranking | — |
Top 9 AgriTech companies in United States
#1
Funding Raised · San Mateo, California · founded 2015 · 9 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Developer of Internet of Things (IoT) sensor-rich tracking buoys for an ocean-based commercial activity designed for ocean stewardship by pushing the limits of technology. The company's patented depth-rated buoy allows fishers, aquaculture farmers, and other ocean industries in the remotest of locations to track and monitor data for nautical equipment, which helps to save time, recovery costs, and data loss caused, thereby enabling fishermen to run more efficient and cost-effective operations, and helping to protect the ocean environment.
- May 2025Grant (prize money)$648.9K
- Mar 2025Grant (prize money)$648.9K
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$648.9K
- Aug 2023Grant (prize money)$648.9K
#2
Seed · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2016 · 45 employees$5Mraised▾
Developer of a diagnostic, financial, and predictive analytics platform designed to help farmers increase farm productivity and access affordable loans. The company's platform uses a combination of traditional and alternative data sources like satellite imagery, agronomic models, and weather data to inform farmers on when to irrigate and harvest their fields, provides product price information, and determines whether a farmer is willing and able to repay a loan, enabling farmers to implement best practices and get better access to credit and crop buyers as well as helping banks in giving out loans faster, and helps food processing mills in optimizing their supply chains and promoting sustainability.
#3
Seed · Mars, Pennsylvania · founded 2017 · 2 employees$430Kraised▾
Developer of wearable technology and sensor-based equipment designed for animal farming operations. The company's equipment provides behavior-tracking wearables for animals, sensors around the farm, and a subscription option that provides alerts and recommendations to smartphones based on machine learning and predictive analytics to monitor farm animals, enabling farmers to save animals and improve productivity.
#4
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 11 employees$120Kraised▾
Leon & George is a retailer of plant saplings. The company operates an offline store along with an online store. Few of the plants available are fiddle leaf fig tree, desert cactus, dragon tree, pink rubber tree and others.
- 2017Seed$120K
#5
Seed · United States · founded 2014 · 5 employees$100Kraised▾
Developer of wireless sensors designed to make farming more productive and sustainable. The company devices use the latest advancements in sensor technology, wireless communications, and management software, thereby, enabling farmers to become more efficient with their time.
#6
Funding Raised · Wayland, Massachusetts · founded 2008 · 2 employees$50Kraised▾
Manufacturer of a lawn seed mixture intended to save water. The company's lawn seeds grow slowly which makes lawn mowing only a monthly task, rather than weekly they grow 4-foot roots, enabling customers to save 75 percent on their water bills.
- Oct 2010Grant (prize money)$50K
#7
Deadpooled · Lincoln, Nebraska · founded 2014 · 3 employees$20Kraised▾
Producer of cricket based food products intended to turn insects into safe, healthful staple food products that taste good. The company's product is a cricket based meal supplement protein shake that uses a finely mill cricket powder, enabling consumers to avail healthy and nutritious food products.
#8
Seed · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2018 · 1 employees—raised▾
Developer of a soil carbon verification technology designed to reduce soil carbon measurement costs and scale global carbon sequestration. The company's service leverages elements of dry combustion, spectroscopy, remote sensing, and automation, enabling farmers to increase measurement accuracy, return on investment, and soil carbon market scalability.
#9
Funding Raised · New England, North Dakota · founded 2017 · 2 employees—raised▾
Developer of high hydrostatic pressure technology designed to retain the uncooked flavor of sea foods while extending its shelf-life and storage capabilities. The company's technology utilizes both undervalued and resurgent local fisheries, expands the culinary footprint of shellfish sustainably, and adds value to the existing fisheries, enabling users with sustainable shellfish products of higher quality, higher yield and better flavor than traditional high-heat processing.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of AgriTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
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How research on Agritech is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Agritech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 652 United States-affiliated papers.
- International Food Policy Research Institute25
- University of California, Davis22
- Cornell University22
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign17
- Agricultural & Applied Economics Association17
- Robot1→19
- Agriculture24→127
- Robot4→21
- Climate change2→17
- Agroforestry3→15
- Productivity2→13
- Agriculture35→83
- Food security7→25
- Productivity2→10
- Agricultural economics2→10
- Internet of Things1→8
Where agritech is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing agritech patents in the United States
United States agritech patent filing is accelerating — 24 filings from 35 assignees (2016–2025), led by Microsoft, Vision Robotics, Koselka Harvey; annual filings 1→5.
- Microsoft7
- Vision Robotics5
- Koselka Harvey5
- Wallach BRET5
- IBM4
- X DEV3
- Gerrish Steven R3
- CROP One Holdings2
Common questions
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