Best Crop Tech Companies in New South Wales, Australia
The 96 best Crop Tech companies in New South Wales, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Loam Bio.
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 New South Wales
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2te Platform offering orchard management solutions | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2018 | Matthew Durack Co-Founder | — |
| 2 | 8Corners B2B marketplace connecting farmers and buyers dealing in agriculture products | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2020 | Maree Santarossa Founder | — |
| 3 | AgAerial Images Provider of farm mapping and soil testing services | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2000 | Peter Borella Co-Owner | — |
| 4 | AgCrowd Equity-based crowdfunding platform for the agriculture and renewable energy industries | — | — | Funding Raised | — | 2017 | Nick Thyne Founder | — |
| 5 | AgDraft Online platform connecting agriculture workers and farmers | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2018 | Ella Delaney Founder | — |
| 6 | AgriGen Provider of DNA testing for food, agriculture, and environmental applications | — | — | Unfunded | 4 | 2004 | Ross Brierty CEO | — |
| 7 | agripower Agripower is a manufacturer of silicon fertilizers and soil amendment products for utilization in field… | — | — | Private | 23 | 2008 | — | — |
| 8 | BioAg Provider of fuel delivery and sales services for diesel and gasoline | — | — | Unfunded | — | 1999 | Steven Haswell Managing Director | — |
Top 12 Crop Tech companies in New South Wales
#1
Series A · Wagga Wagga, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 26 employees$12.1Mraised▾
Provider of WiFi network solutions for farmers. It uses antennas and multi-career software to provide long-range wifi for voice, audio, and data. It provides connectivity solutions for machinery and operators. Its product portfolio includes zetirover, and zeticell.
- Aug 2025Grant (prize money)$3.3M
- Dec 2022Series A$12M
- Mar 2019Seed$75K
#2
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2022 · 5 employees$892Kraised▾
Developer of electric weeding technology. It leverages electrons to eliminate the need for herbicides. It harnesses the power of rapid electrical pulses to destroy plant cells.
- Feb 2025Grant (prize money)$157.1K
- Sep 2023Seed$892K
#3
Series B · Orange, New South Wales · founded 2019 · 119 employees$119.5Mraised▾
Pioneering carbon farming through microbial technology, improving soil health and carbon sequestration. The company collaborates with farmers and scientists to provide carbon farming solutions, enabling large-scale, high-quality carbon removal. Their biological seed treatment technology helps plants convert atmospheric CO2 into stable soil carbon. Through soil carbon farming projects, grain farmers can monetize stored soil carbon while improving soil health. They offer microbial seed treatment for broadacre crops designed to improve soil health, increase stable soil carbon, and improve plant yields. The company focuses on sustainable solutions, driving innovation from the lab to the farm. They provide resources for growers, including articles, tools, podcasts, and videos. The company is dedicated to unlocking a new agricultural asset and connecting farmers with their team. They are involved in academic collaborations and research, standing at the forefront of cutting-edge science. This is a B2B model, offering products and programs related to carbon farming and soil health.
- Feb 2023Series B$72.6M
- Oct 2021Series A$30M
- Jun 2020Series A$6.9M
- 2020Seed$10M
#4
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014 · 32 employees$7.8Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based farm water monitoring system. It monitors and reports farm water ecosystems delivering real-time reporting on water trends, consumption, and alerts. It also provides a rain gauge for automating rainfall entry to make stocking decisions.
- Jun 2024Series A$3M
- Dec 2022Series A$2M
- Oct 2021Series A$2.7M
- Aug 2014Seed$46.5K
#5
Series B · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2015 · 26 employees$23.1Mraised▾
Grain management software solutions connecting farmers, traders, and site operators. The company provides a platform for managing grain from paddock to payment, tracking stored grain inventory, and facilitating grain trading with access to finance. It offers solutions for farmers, site operators, traders, and brokers, digitizing grain management processes. The platform connects the supply chain network, making grain management easier with features like inventory management, workflow automation, and data services. It is a SaaS platform that uses Blockchain technology to ensure transparency and security. The company aims to improve rural communities by providing innovative solutions for the agriculture industry.
- May 2022Conventional Debt—
- May 2022Series B$17.6M
- Feb 2018Series A$5.5M
#6
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2015 · 8 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Provider of an agricultural imagery visualization and analysis platform. It allows the 3D display, visualization, and analysis of farmland resources and maps, for the planning and management of farm activities like irrigation, redevelopment proposals, and financial decisions. It caters to landowners, management companies, and agronomists.
- Oct 2023Grant (prize money)$750K
- Dec 2022Series A$3.5M
#7
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014 · 46 employees$14Mraised▾
Developer of SaaS-enabled hardware and full stack system for precision aquaculture. It offers SaaS-enabled sensors that collect and stream data over the network to the cloud which deploys its own developed analytics engine which provides useful data for precision aquaculture through multiple user interfaces.
- May 2020Series A$7.2M
- Apr 2017Series A$4.9M
- Apr 2016Seed$1.9M
- Nov 2015Grant (prize money)$957K
#8
Series A · Pyrmont, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 7 employees$10Mraised▾
ShoreTrade is an online marketplace for seafood. It allows fishermen, fisheries to list out their fishes, and other seafood products. It also enables wholesalers and suppliers to purchase the products from its online platform. They also offer product logistic services for local and international orders placed on the platform. The orders can also be placed from its mobile application that is available for Android and iOS users.
- Mar 2021Series A$8M
- Oct 2018Seed$2M
#9
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016 · 5 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Provider of light diffusers for indoor farms and greenhouses. It offers luminescent diffusers to deal with the issue of growth, yield, and crop control. Its products are designed to increase the photosynthesis activity of plants and crops. It is also used to stimulate phytochromes. It is mainly used for fruits, flowers, and aquatic plants.
- Sep 2022Seed$3.5M
#10
Seed · Orange, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 2 employees$464.7Kraised▾
Provider of farm analytics and monitoring solutions. It allows data stacking and allows users to compare, visualize and analyze information from different sources. Compare historic weather data with yield records, paddock satellite images with cattle weights, futures prices with weather forecasts.
- Dec 2023Seed—
- Apr 2021Seed$464.7K
#11
Acquired · Surry Hills, New South Wales · founded 2006 · 29 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Streamlining wholesale food ordering for restaurants with a comprehensive online platform. It is a B2B marketplace connecting food service businesses with numerous wholesale suppliers. The platform offers price transparency, efficient ordering management, and accounting solutions, including Xero integration, to save time and money. It empowers businesses to centralize orders, access business insights, and receive dedicated customer support. The platform aims to digitize the food service industry, offering features for inventory management and menu costing. It provides a user-friendly interface, live chat support, and detailed FAQs. It is a SaaS platform that simplifies wholesale ordering, offering a login portal for venues and suppliers. The platform supports restaurants, cafes, caterers, pubs, clubs, and schools/childcare facilities.
- Aug 2021Series A$4.5M
- Apr 2019Seed$994.3K
#12
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 12 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based crop insurance platform for farmers. It offers protection against losses due to bad weather. It takes weather data, machine learning, and personalization based on farm produce to provide insurance and self-executing contracts based on blockchain. It helps farmers mitigate the financial impact of poor weather on crops or livestock.
- Sep 2022Seed$1.5M
- Dec 2020Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Crop Tech coverage by sub-theme.
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Funding & growth over time
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How research on Precision Agriculture is moving in Australia
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 461 Australia-affiliated papers.
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation55
- University of Southern Queensland29
- The University of Adelaide29
- Agriculture and Food28
- The University of Sydney23
- Agricultural engineering2→10
- Water content1→7
- Remote sensing1→5
- Crop yield1→5
- Field (mathematics)2→5
- Multispectral image2→23
- Crop3→16
- Support vector machine1→9
- Canopy3→10
- Field (mathematics)1→7
- Context (archaeology)1→4
Where precision agriculture is researched across Australia
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.