Best B2B AgriTech Companies in United States
The 384 best B2B AgriTech companies in United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: granular.
Ranking the best B2B AgriTech companies in the United States by disclosed equity funding, this directory tracks 384 ventures with a combined $33M on the books. That's a lean pool, and coverage is flat right now, but the hot themes tell a different story: farm management software, telematics for agriculture, and agtech startup funding are all picking up signal. Granular leads the pack at $27M raised, with Ricult Inc. pulling in $5M, and the rest of the field clustering well below that. No unicorns yet. And honestly, the gap between the top two and everyone else is striking enough to make you wonder where the next wave of capital is going to land.
As 2019 research on agri-tech adoption makes clear, technological uptake in farming tends to lag the investment cycle by years, which partly explains why so many of these 384 companies are still early-stage. The most active investors here, MassChallenge, AlphaLab Gear, and THRIVE, skew toward that pre-seed and seed bracket, which matches the funding distribution we're seeing. Globally, the broader agri-commerce market was valued around $1.5 trillion back in 2018, so the addressable opportunity for B2B AgriTech in the United States is real. Regulatory frameworks around data privacy and farm subsidies are shaping how these startups structure their go-to-market, too. I'd watch the farm management and telematics categories closest this quarter.
- Precision Reports
Ranked: Best B2B AgriTech companies in United States
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | granular Granular is a software and analytics platform that helps farmers operate more efficiently and make better… | $27M | 129 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2009 | Apple iCloud MailApple Sign-inReact+11 | — | — |
| 2 | 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 | — | — |
| 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 | Acuity Agriculture Developer of wireless sensors designed to make farming more productive and sustainable. | $100K | 122 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 5 | 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 | — |
| 6 | 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 | — |
| 7 | LEAF Shellfish Offers seafood processing services | — | 91 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ross Pearsall Co-Founder & Managing Director | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 8 | 1,4group 1,4GROUP is an agricultural company that manufactures and supplies dormancy and sprout-inhibiting products… | — | — | Private | — | 1992 | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | 18 patents Thermal fogging systems for stable aerosol delivery of crop protection chemicals | 1 job opening |
Top 7 B2B AgriTech companies in United States
#1
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.
#2
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 379 employees$27.3Mraised▾
Developers of a farm management analytics platform designed to help farmers raise healthier crops with fewer resources. The company offers several tools including data-driven crop models, farmland research, and profit measurement down to the field level, enabling farmers and growers to build and sustain stronger businesses.
#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 · 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.
#5
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
#6
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.
#7
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 B2B AgriTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
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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