Best Crop Tech Companies in South Holland, Netherlands
The 73 best Crop Tech companies in South Holland, Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Koppert.
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 South Holland
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AcreCX Decentralized commodities marketplace | — | — | — | Vijay Kandy Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Agrolux Manufacturer and supplier of LED grow lights for horticultural applications | — | — | 20 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 3 | Agtuall Provider of EO-based agricultural risk management solutions | — | — | — | Vikram Sarbajna Founder | — | — | — | 1 launch |
| 4 | Ambrosia Robotics Harvesting robots for the agriculture industry | — | — | — | Bart Kappel Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Artechno Growsystems Developer of automated vertical farming systems | — | — | — | Art Rijn Founder & Co-Owner | HubSpot CMS HubHubSpotcore-js+12 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 6 | BartsParts Online platform offering spare parts for agricultural machinery | — | — | 12 | Arno Verkleij Founder | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+25 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 7 | BG Products BV Provider of managed IT services and cybersecurity solutions | — | — | — | Frits Visser Co-Founder & CEO | Apache HTTP ServerPlausibleMicrosoft 365+4 | Top 10M | 38 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 8 | Biocontrole Manufactures and supplies biological pest control products | — | — | — | Harry de Rooij CEO & Director | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+19 | Top 5M | — | — |
Top 12 Crop Tech companies in South Holland
#1
Late Stage · Berkel en Rodenrijs, South Holland · founded 1967 · 2380 employees$150.5Mraised▾
Provider of biological crop protection and pollination solutions for growers. The company offers pest and disease control, plant health, application, and monitoring products. It serves growers of protected vegetables, ornamentals, fruits, outdoor vegetables, and arable crops. The company provides solutions using predatory mites, insects, parasitic wasps, beneficial nematodes, and microorganisms.
#2
Seed · Delft, South Holland · founded 2018 · 45 employees$274.4Kraised▾
PATS Indoor Drone Solutions develops a small autonomous, quadcopter drone which can be deployed within existing greenhouse infrastructure to keep crops insect free. The drone acts as an early warning system by continuously monitoring the environment to detect & chase harmful insects and eliminate the same (just like swallows and bats) thereby preventing them from reproducing and their larvae affecting the crops. The company claims that the solution is patented and developed in collaboration with Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. It is a part of Climate-KIC accelerator program 2018.
- Sep 2025Seed$3.2M
- Oct 2019Seed$274.4K
#3
Seed · Delft, South Holland · founded 2018 · 10 employees$171.7Kraised▾
Provider of farm management software solutions. Developer of robotic systems and image analysis software for monitoring crops in indoor environments. It provides data-driven greenhouse management solutions to optimize agricultural productivity.
- Feb 2024Seed—
- Jan 2019Seed—
- Jan 2019Conventional Debt$171.7K
#4
Funding Raised · Delft, South Holland · founded 2009 · 7 employees$4.8Mraised▾
Bird Control Group designs and manufactures systems useful for risk mitigation against invasion by birds in open field agriculture, aquaculture, aviation industries and other industries. Its product portfolio includes the agrilaser range comprising of the autonomous and handheld laser beam emitters. These emissions are perceived by birds as danger and hence the birds stay away from the fields. The agrilaser has a range of 2500m. It also has a consumer product - agrilaser Lite which can be used for repelling birds from households / recreational zones.
- May 2019Grant (prize money)$1.6M
- Jun 2017Grant (prize money)$1.6M
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$1.5M
#5
Late Stage · Kwintsheul, South Holland · founded 1980$4.7Mraised▾
Sustainable rooting and growing media for professional horticulture worldwide. The company develops sustainable, high-quality products and services in partnership with customers. They specialize in potting soil, substrates, rooting solutions, growbags, coco peat, and sustainable growing systems. The business focuses on innovation, continuously optimizing existing products and developing new solutions. They prioritize sustainability by using environmentally friendly raw materials and contributing to the communities in which they operate. The company offers knowledge resources, news, and a newsletter to support growers. They provide comprehensive service and support for professional horticulture needs.
#6
Seed · Maasdijk, South Holland · founded 2016 · 37 employees$339.1Kraised▾
Gearbox Innovations is a smart technology solution provider for agricultural companies. Caters to horticulture, manufacturing industry, and (plant) research industry. Claims to be developing an AI-driven grading robot for the farming industry.
- Feb 2019Seed$339.1K
#7
Deadpooled · Noordwijk, South Holland · founded 2015$57.2Kraised▾
Viridian Raven is a mapping, analysis and observation software for forest management. It uses satellite imagery from ESA and NASA to create forest maps for the user based on geo location. It then enables analysis of pest / insect outbreaks in the forest, fire and weather prediction, etc. Claims that the imagery is updated every 10 days. Clients are forest asset management companies and forestry departments of governments. Product is a cloud based SaaS offering.
- 2018Grant (prize money)$57.2K
- Oct 2015Seed—
#8
Seed · Delft, South Holland · founded 2018 · 3 employees$22.1Kraised▾
Mythronics provides an IoT and AI-based autonomous food monitoring platform for the agriculture and food industry. Provides inspection and data monitoring solutions that help in managing food waste, labor shortage, quality assessment, and decision-making. The system also has the capability to grade & sort vegetables or fruits and can be used to train machine learning classifiers with live camera & button clicks. Clients include Robo Valley, YES! Delft and more.
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$22.1K
- May 2018Seed—
#9
Early Stage · De Lier, South Holland · founded 1959 · 1070 employees$20Kraised▾
Provider of technology and services for horticulture, buildings, and indoor growing. The company delivers solutions for greenhouse climate control, monitoring, and water management. It offers building automation systems, control management, and smart sensors. The company also provides integrated climate control and project support for indoor growing.
#10
Deadpooled · Schiedam, South Holland · founded 2014$5Kraised▾
Aqgriplus(Aqgri+) has developed products for closed loop waste mitigation and cultivation for agribusinesses and urban population. The product portfolio includes aqgriplus station that uses aqgriponics. Aqgriponics is a closed system in which water from the fish tank is flown through the cultivation tank. Fish excreta and domestic waste is fed to worms for generation of vermicompost and compost tea. Compost tea and worms are used as fish feeds for closing the system. Aqgriplus station products can either be sold directly to the consumers or can be utilized in the system itself. It was among the six finalists in the World Bank Group Youth Summit, 2015.
- Aug 2014Grant (prize money)$5K
#11
Seed · Delft, South Holland · founded 2019—raised▾
Provider of robotics automated surveying solutions using drones for the agriculture industry. It provides drone-based solutions for precision agriculture, including weed and disease detection.
- Apr 2025Seed—
#12
Seed · Delft, South Holland · founded 2021—raised▾
Develops and produces spray coatings for greenhouses. It develops spray coatings for existing and new glass greenhouses, and claims that their current coating is sustainable and has light-enhancing properties. It has a patented spray coating that creates favorable light conditions possible inside a greenhouse.
- Feb 2024Seed—
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How research on Precision Agriculture is moving in the Netherlands
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 247 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- Wageningen University & Research136
- University of Twente27
- ISRIC - World Soil Information11
- Joint Research Centre10
- Eindhoven University of Technology9
- Agricultural engineering5
- Remote sensing4
- Productivity4
- Field (mathematics)4
- Pixel4
- Remote sensing8→18
- Sustainability1→8
- Crop yield1→7
- Crop2→7
- Field (mathematics)6→9
- Sustainability1→4
Where precision agriculture is researched across Netherlands
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
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