Best Crop Tech Companies in Los Angeles, United States
The 47 best Crop Tech companies in Los Angeles, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ProducePay.
Our analysis of 50 Crop Tech companies
$5.7b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Crop Tech companies in Los Angeles
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ProducePay Provider of financial and supply chain solutions for the produce industry | $104M | 30 mo ago | Series D | Benjamin Dusastre Co-Founder & CFO | 2014 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+30 | — | — |
| 2 | Opti-Harvest Agricultural innovation company maximizing crop yield, water efficiency, and sustainability | $19M | 43 mo ago | Series B | Jonathan Destler Founder & Head of Corporate Development | 2016 | — | 48 patents Optimized canopy light delivery and growth stimulation for vineyards, integrated with agri data analytics. | 1 launch |
| 3 | Leaf Online platform offering farm data | $18M | 24 mo ago | Series A | Bailey Stockdale Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | 54 patents AI-driven personalization and analytics for web multimedia content and user-generated platforms | — |
| 4 | Notis Global Cultivation, processing (extraction) and development of cannabidiol based products | $9M | 133 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jeff Goh CEO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Paragon Coin Supply chain tracking solution for the cannabis industry | $6M | 105 mo ago | Funding Raised | Jessica VerSteeg Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Kind Manufacturer of multicore flexible cables and related wiring products | $3M | 120 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | — | 87 patents Spherical-surface lip balm applicators and manufacturing methods for cosmetic delivery devices. | — |
| 7 | CanIDeal Cloud-based mobile software system for B2B cannabis trading | $400K | 104 mo ago | Funding Raised | Joseph Farruggia CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Rain Systems Provider of solutions for hydrogels to hold water in turf grounds | $150K | 98 mo ago | Seed | Elaine Sibert Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 9 | UAV IQ Drone-based precision agriculture solutions provider | $140K | 112 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — | — |
| 10 | GroLens Provider of farm management solutions for cannabis growers | $100K | 95 mo ago | Seed | Ron Johnson Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Crop Tech companies in Los Angeles
#1
Series D · Los Angeles, California · founded 2014 · 256 employees$104.5Mraised▾
Provider of financial and supply chain solutions for the produce industry. It offers capital, strategic sourcing, and end-to-end visibility. The company provides working capital to scale operations. It also facilitates connections between buyers and sellers. The platform enables real-time data access for informed decision making.
- Feb 2024Series D$38M
- May 2021Series C$43M
- Dec 2019Conventional Debt$190M
- Oct 2018Series B$14M
#2
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2018 · 46 employees$18.3Mraised▾
Online platform offering farm data. It is a food and agriculture data infrastructure company that helps to empower software developers to solve health, economic, and environmental challenges. The product offering of the company includes machine data, field boundaries, and imagery. Offers pricing-based modules.
- Jul 2024Series A$11.3M
- Mar 2022Seed$5M
- Sep 2020Seed$2M
#3
Series B · Los Angeles, California · founded 2016 · 3 employees$19.4Mraised▾
Agricultural innovation company maximizing crop yield, water efficiency, and sustainability. We develop and market climate-smart products leveraging patented light filtration technology to help growers maximize production, optimize resources, and increase water-use efficiency. Our solutions are designed for commercial growers of high-value specialty crops, enabling them to better utilize sunlight, a fundamental and renewable resource. We offer versatile and durable products specifically designed to integrate smoothly into commercial farming operations. Our products enhance plant physiology, horticulture, and optical physics, promoting sustainable agriculture and mitigating adverse environmental impacts. We provide solutions for vineyards, citrus, nut trees, and avocados, optimizing water use and shortening the time to full production. Our offerings include light management systems, rain protection, and self-training for trellised fruit crops. We focus on accelerating growth in new crops and improving production in mature ones, offering installation guides, training, and ongoing support.
- Jan 2023Series B$1.6M
- Oct 2021Series B$3.6M
- Oct 2021Series B$14.2M
#4
Deadpooled · Los Angeles, California · founded 2014 · 9 employees$8.8Mraised▾
Notis Global engages in cultivation of cannabis, processing and extraction of CBD oil and development of cannabidiol (non-psychoactive, other constituent being cannabinoid which is psychoactive) based products. The company actively acquires companies which have obtained cannabis cultivation as well as dispensation licenses in their respective geographies.
- Jun 2015Post IPO$8.6M
- Feb 2015Post IPO$150K
#5
Funding Raised · Los Angeles, California · founded 2017$6Mraised▾
Paragon is developing blockchain solutions for the cannabis industry. Offers a supply chain tracking solutions for the cannabis industry. Provides ParagonCoin for payment related services. Provides ParagonSpace, co-working spaces for the cannabis industry and ParagonOnline for legal services. Offers licensing, lab testing, transactions, supply chain and ID verification services through apps built in ParagonAccelerator.
- Oct 2017ICO$6M
#6
Deadpooled · Los Angeles, California · founded 2013 · 13 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of multicore flexible cables and related wiring products. They produce LT control cables with various conductor types and insulation materials, automotive cables for power, control, and data communication within vehicles, and earthing braids using high-conductivity copper. A stringent quality control process is implemented throughout the manufacturing process, from sourcing raw materials to final product delivery. The company focuses on meeting client specifications precisely.
- Aug 2016Seed$1.2M
- Jun 2015Seed$835K
- Feb 2015Seed—
- Oct 2014Seed$1.5M
#7
Funding Raised · Los Angeles, California · founded 2016$400Kraised▾
CanIDeal is a cloud-based mobile software for B2B cannabis trading. It offers accounting, reporting, tax information, delivery and security for transactions between growers, distributors, drivers, suppliers, and stores. Its app features include order tracking, brand discovery, and use charts, graphs, and data to improve sales, inventory management, and production control.
- Dec 2017Conventional Debt$400K
#8
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2021 · 6 employees$68Kraised▾
Online marketplace offering tech-enabled services to farming companies. They offer solutions catering to both the nutritional value of food while limiting food waste. It also offers solutions catering to food safety and quality assurance.
- Apr 2021Seed$68K
#9
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2016 · 4 employees$150Kraised▾
Rain Systems provides hydrogels solutions to hold water in turf grounds. Has developed a patented computer-controlled technology to inject hydrogel into the turf. Claims that the hydrogel can reduces water usage up to 50% by increasing water retention capacity. The hydrogel is biodegradable and can stay in turf up to 3-years.
- Jun 2018Seed$150K
#10
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2015 · 4 employees$140Kraised▾
UAV-IQ provides drone-based precision agriculture solutions. It provides on-demand farm data by generating the reports from data collected through drones. It also provides WineFlight, a cloud-based viticulture management platform for farmers to access their farm data, images, etc. along with actionable insights.
- Apr 2017Seed$100K
- Grant (prize money)$40K
#11
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2017 · 6 employees$100Kraised▾
GroLens provides farm management solutions for cannabis growers. It offers GroLens which enables users to track cannabis plants for its growth stages, activities, and growing processes. Also, helps users to trace activities and be in compliance with state laws. Additionally, it features inventory management, cost management, and cultivation management solutions.
- Sep 2018Seed$100K
#12
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2023—raised▾
Developer, designer, and operator of nature-based solutions. The platform offers nature-based solutions addressing the issues of climate change, carbon, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and economic inequity in rural communities.
- Aug 2023Seed—
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How research on Precision Agriculture is moving in the United States
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 2,521 United States-affiliated papers.
- Purdue University West Lafayette142
- Agricultural Research Service104
- National Research Council85
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln68
- Texas A&M University62
- Field (mathematics)3→61
- Scalability4→52
- Convolutional neural network1→46
- Identification (biology)1→44
- Crop1→34
- Sustainability1→56
- Sustainable agriculture2→53
- Irrigation12→61
- Agricultural engineering32→80
- Field (mathematics)21→67
- Sustainability4→41
- Food security1→22
- Field (mathematics)8→22
- Productivity2→16
- Sustainable agriculture3→14
Where precision agriculture 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 precision agriculture patents in the United States
United States precision agriculture patent filing is accelerating — 212 filings from 42 assignees (2016–2025), led by Stout Industrial TECH, American Science & ENG, BLUE River TECH; annual filings 7→16.
- Stout Industrial TECH28
- American Science & ENG24
- BLUE River TECH21
- Cohen Harris LEE18
- Agjunction17
- Valmont Industries15
- Stout Industrial Technology11
- AGCO9
Common questions
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