Best Crop Tech Companies in Austria
The 49 best Crop Tech companies in Austria in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: LAT Nitrogen.
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Our analysis of 100 Crop Tech companies
$8.2b in tracked funding; 87% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Crop Tech companies in Austria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LAT Nitrogen Provider of nitrogen based crop nutrition | $9M | 40 mo ago | Funding Raised | Leo Alders Chief Executive Officer | 2023 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365PHP+16 | — | 1 partnership |
| 2 | Agrobiogel Developers of bio-based super water-absorbing hydrogels | $3M | 37 mo ago | Funding Raised | Johannes Schwarz Co-Founder | 2021 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyYouTube+18 | — | — |
| 3 | Insort Innovative food safety, analyzing, and sorting technologies for a sustainable future | $1M | 60 mo ago | Acquired | Matthias Jeindl CEO & President | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | 35 patents Optical sorting and quality inspection systems for bulk agricultural and food products | — |
| 4 | Farmdok Develops farm business management software | $799K | 93 mo ago | Seed | Johann Prankl Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | 5 patents Detecting and monitoring agricultural vehicle field operations for precision farming. | — |
| 5 | farmNOW Provider of shared vertical farms for urban spaces | $229K | 31 mo ago | Deadpooled | Alexander Juranek Co-Founder | 2021 | — | — | 1 launch |
| 6 | Ponix Systems Provider of notary and legal document services | $115K | 92 mo ago | Funding Raised | Alexander Penzias Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Syn Trac Manufacturer of electric off-highway vehicles | $114K | 85 mo ago | Funding Raised | Simon Altmann Managing Director | 2015 | DrupalPHPYouTube+9 | 83 patents Modular agricultural vehicle docking, hydraulic drive, and steering systems integration | — |
| 8 | Refarmo Develops software platform and algorithms for precision irrigation plans using satellite imaging | $59K | — | Funding Raised | Tomaz Scavnicar Founder | 2017 | — | — | — |
Top 11 Crop Tech companies in Austria
#1
Funding Raised · Linz, Upper Austria · founded 2023$8.7Mraised▾
Provider of nitrogen based crop nutrition. They claim they offer a range of products and solutions designed to support agricultural growth and industrial processes.
- Apr 2023Grant (prize money)$8.7M
#2
Funding Raised · Tulln, Lower Austria · founded 2021$2.5Mraised▾
Developers of bio-based super water-absorbing hydrogels. It offers a novel bio-based absorbent and agrochemical storage system for agricultural purposes. It claims that its products increase soil water holding capacity, organic matter/humus, and fertility & convert unproductive soils like sand soils into productive soils.
- 2023Grant (prize money)$54.6K
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$2.5M
#3
Acquired · Kirchberg An Der Raab, Styria · founded 2011 · 30 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Innovative food safety, analyzing, and sorting technologies for a sustainable future. The company pioneers advanced solutions for the food processing industry, ensuring quality and minimizing waste. Specializing in Chemical Imaging Technology (CIT), they detect and remove defects with accuracy. Their machine series redefines efficiency and precision in food sorting and analysis. They offer versatile inspection technology with unmatched food safety, automation, and quality monitoring. They are committed to advancing food processing technology globally, focusing on innovation and integrity. They provide solutions for efficient and safe sorting, inline analysis, efficient monitoring, state-of-the-art technology, and optimized food safety. They are dedicated to sustainability and social responsibility, supporting initiatives like education for underprivileged children. They are a technology company that is part of a group of innovators shaping the future of the food industry.
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$59.4K
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- Oct 2018Grant (prize money)$56.8K
- Jul 2018Grant (prize money)$58.4K
#4
Deadpooled · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2021$228.7Kraised▾
Provider of shared vertical farms for urban spaces. It develops and operates micro-farms for urban residents to grow their own produce, such as green leafy vegetables, medicinal and aphrodisiac herbs, fruits, vegetables as well as edible flowers. Users can book and rent space on the farms using the web-based software.
- Jan 2024Grant (prize money)$228.7K
#5
Seed · Wieselburg, Lower Austria · founded 2015 · 6 employees$798.9Kraised▾
Farmdok develops farm business management software. The software contains modules for farm mapping, field activity recording, inventory and produce supply chain management, financial management, etc. The software is web based and also available as a mobile app. Pricing is free for a single user on <100 hectares and priced per hectare per set of 5 users for farmers per annum.
- Nov 2018Grant (prize money)—
- Aug 2018Seed$798.9K
- Mar 2017Seed—
#6
Funding Raised · Bad Goisern, Upper Austria · founded 2015 · 11 employees$113.7Kraised▾
Manufacturer of electric off-highway vehicles. It offers an automated docking process, an automatic coupling of an additional motor, hydropneumatic chassis with independent suspension, hydrostatic-mechanical VDS transmission & more.
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$56.8K
- Mar 2019Grant (prize money)$56.9K
#7
Funding Raised · Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria · founded 2014 · 5 employees$115.2Kraised▾
Provider of notary and legal document services. These services include apostille, authentication, divorce documentation, real estate transaction paperwork, estate administration documents, powers of attorney, and signature verification. The company also offers digital notarization services for remote document signing. It assists clients with the legal preparation and execution of various documents.
- Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$56.9K
- Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$58.3K
#8
Funding Raised · Graz, Styria · founded 2017$59.2Kraised▾
Refarmo develops cloud based software platform and image processing and data analytics algorithms to prepare precision irrigation plans for the client farmer's fields. It uses white label satellite imagery for the same. The plans include water requirement of soil with color coded maps which can be used by the client farmer to deploy deep root / sprinkler irrigation systems and control water volume in mm. The platform is available on SaaS model and is a web based platform agnostic application. The company has developed a similar solution for golf courses.
- Grant (prize money)$59.2K
#9
Funding Raised · Tulln, Lower Austria · founded 2021—raised▾
Developer of seed injection technology for biologicals application in agriculture. The technology enables the industrial application of biologicals in farming crops. It empowers soil, promotes plant health, and boosts crop resilience. The company serves seed producers, biological producers, and farmers.
- Mar 2026Grant (prize money)—
#10
Seed · Spittal An Der Drau, Carinthia · founded 2018—raised▾
Online platform for remote-controlled agriculture. The platform allows users to create and manage virtual vegetable gardens. Users can plant and grow their own organic vegetables, which are then delivered to them. The platform combines remote-controlled agriculture with gamification elements.
- Mar 2025Seed—
- Oct 2023Seed—
#11
Seed · Traiskirchen, Lower Austria · founded 2015—raised▾
Groprospectors specializes in provider soil sensors for the agricultural sectors. It offers a Topsoil Mapper soil sensor that measures the electrical conductivity of the soil, soil EM data, topography, NPK data, and others. It also offers airborne geophysical exploration services for environmental monitoring, underground pipeline infrastructure monitoring, and others.
- Dec 2019Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Crop Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time flat
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth flat
How research on Precision Agriculture is moving in Austria
A read on the academic research around Precision Agriculture — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 99 Austria-affiliated papers.
- BOKU University27
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis14
- Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety8
- GeoVille5
- Austrian Institute of Technology5
- Production (economics)7
- Agricultural productivity7
- Context (archaeology)4
- Water content4
- Scale (ratio)4
- Irrigation6
- Remote sensing6
- Field (mathematics)5
- Key (lock)5
- Productivity5
- Agricultural productivity4
- Production (economics)4
- Sustainability3
- Scalability2
- Embedded system2
Where precision agriculture is researched across Austria
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.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.