Best Crop Tech Companies in Beijing, China

Online distributor of groceries facilitating group buying. It provides a platform for farmers, retailer, and others in the food retail chain. Customers can buy farm produce in groups through neighbourhood stores listed on the platform.

Funding rounds

• Mar 2021Series D$750M
• Nov 2020Series C$196M
• Jul 2020Series C$80M
• Jun 2020Series C$81.4M

Founders & team

Wang PengCo-Founder

Investors

Zhen Fund, Qiming Venture Partners, Joy Capital, Alibaba Group, China Growth Capital, Alibaba

Rural financial services provider empowering communities in remote areas. The organization focuses on providing financial support and services to rural populations, particularly in areas with limited access to traditional banking. It operates across numerous villages, aiming to improve livelihoods and foster economic development. Through its initiatives, the company facilitates access to essential financial resources, promoting self-sufficiency and growth within these communities. The organization also emphasizes social impact through charitable programs, offering assistance to families facing hardship within its operational areas. This includes providing emergency financial aid and support through collaborative efforts with partners and employee contributions, demonstrating a commitment to the well-being of the communities it serves.

B2B platform offering multi-category farm products. The company offers an online fresh food aggregator platform designed to connect farmers and restaurants. The company allows customers including businesses and restaurants order directly from the farms, enabling farmers to sell vegetables directly to restaurants. The product catalog includes vegetables, fruits, meat, seafood, and more.

Online B2B marketplace offering agro products. Suppliers, agro product brokers and farmers can directly sell the farm produce over the platform to restaurants, wholesale businesses and supermarkets. Product portfolio includes fruits, vegetables, nuts, oils, sea food, and more.

Provider of disease and pest monitoring solutions. It offers hyperspectral cameras to collect farm data, and its proprietary drones to collect aerial farm data. The data collected from drones and on-field sensors are processed through a cloud and AI-based platform to provide variable rate recommendations for spraying crop protection products in required doses to prevent pest and disease infestation. Also, provides controlled spraying solutions and precision planting solutions.

Funding rounds

• Mar 2019Series A$14.9M
• Seed—

Founders & team

Gong HuazeCo-FounderChen YuCo-FounderLiu LongCo-Founder

Investors

GF Qianhe Investment, ECC Capital, Baidu Ventures, Frees Fund, Riverhillfund, Zhongke Chuangxing

Provider of farming services to farmers. The company claims to offer digital agricultural services for crops like rice, corn, wheat, etc. It offers services like data monitoring, order planting, modern cotton picking, machinery harvesting, fly protection, etc. Its features include digital job management, after-sales maintenance, insurance protection, quality order, etc.

Funding rounds

• Dec 2017Series A$10M
• Jun 2017Series A$7M

Founders & team

Meng FanqiCo-FounderYu YangCo-Founder & CEOHou XiaoxiaoCo-Founder

Investors

Zhiyi Capital, Shunwei Capital, GGV Capital, Yunqi Partners, Zhen Fund, Gobi Partners

YNC365 (CloudFarm) operates an online trading platform that sells fertilizers, seeds, pesticides, and agricultural machinery. Raised $16M in Jul 2015 from Chunxiao Capital. It has a network of 300+ centers and reaches 25,000 village service stations across 13 provinces, including core agricultural sites in the provinces of Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui.

Funding rounds

• Jul 2015Series B$16M
• Mar 2015Series A$10M

Founders & team

Shu WangFounder

Investors

Legend Holdings

Beehive is a drone technology company that claims to build a quadcopter drone called Worker Bee for agricultural spraying purposes. Its offering is available as drones for sale, and as flight services. It also offers drone piloting services.

Funding rounds

• Oct 2017Series A$9.4M
• Mar 2017Seed—

Founders & team

Wu GuoningCEO

Investors

Tendence Capital, JD Finance, Gobi Partners, Ningbo High-tech Zone Yonggang Modern Entrepreneurship Service

Cloud-based data aggregation and analytics platform for precision agriculture decision support

Founders & team

Zhang GongFounder & CEO

Investors

DCM Ventures, Grains Valley Venture Capital, Telstra Ventures

Dachuwang is a B2B online retailer for agricultural produce. Sells directly to small and medium sized restaurants. Has set up its own logistics and warehousing network. Raised $15M in Series A funding from undisclosed investors in Feb 2015.

Funding rounds

• Feb 2015Series A$15M

Founders & team

Dennis YuanFounder

Provider of an online business-to-business marketplace platform for vegetables. It enables catering businesses and restaurants to order raw materials like vegetables from vendors listed on the platform. It also offers meat, seafood, and kitchen supplies products on the platform.

Funding rounds

• Sep 2016Series B—
• Jun 2015Series A$6M
• Oct 2014Seed—

Founders & team

Huang LijunFounder & CEO

Investors

Fosun, Fosun Kinzon Capital, AXA

Nongguanjia is an online B2B platform which connects farmers and buyers of agricultural products. Headquartered in Beijing, it is now operational in Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Shanxi, Gansu, Yunnan and other provinces and cities. The app has four modules: loan provision for farmers, buying and selling agricultural products, content on agricultural technologies. It also allows farmers to connect with agricultural experts for queries related to farming. Nongguanjia operates in 69 counties of Hubei, central China, and includes around 2,500 “upstream merchants” (e.g. buyers) and 50,000 “downstream merchants” (e.g. farmers/producers).

Funding rounds

• Apr 2016Series A$4.6M

Founders & team

Wang LeiCEO

Investors

Fosun