Best Crop Tech Companies in Sydney, Australia
The 45 best Crop Tech companies in Sydney, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: AgriDigital.
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 Sydney
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AgriDigital Grain management software solutions connecting farmers, traders, and site operators 45Innovation top 23%Product top 30%Talent top 38%Tech top 41% All 9 signals ▾Innovationtop 23% Producttop 30% Talenttop 38% Techtop 41% Fundingtop 47% Globalbottom 37% Growthbottom 35% Marketbottom 34% Newsbottom 22% Innovation: 12 product lines · Deep-tech classification: Blockchain Product: 12 distinct product lines · Company stage: Series B rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $23M | 51 mo ago | Series B | Ben Reid Co-Founder | 2015 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+27 | — |
| 2 | The Yield Developer of SaaS-enabled hardware and full stack system for precision aquaculture 35Talent top 38%Tech top 45%Funding top 46%News bottom 48% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Techtop 45% Fundingtop 46% Newsbottom 48% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 37% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Tech: 42 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 35/100 | $14M | 75 mo ago | Series A | Ros Harvey Founder | 2014 | Cart FunctionalityMagentoMySQL+37 | — |
| 3 | FarmBot Provider of cloud-based farm water monitoring system 55Tech top 33%Innovation top 34%Product top 36%Talent top 38% All 9 signals ▾Techtop 33% Innovationtop 34% Producttop 36% Talenttop 38% Growthtop 45% Fundingtop 48% Marketbottom 39% Globalbottom 37% Newsbottom 22% Tech: 57 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Ses Innovation: 12 product lines rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $8M | 26 mo ago | Series A | Andrew Coppin Co -Founder and Managing Director | 2014 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+44 | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 4 | Agronomeye Provider of an agricultural imagery visualization and analysis platform 14Talent top 38%Funding top 49%Product bottom 48%Tech bottom 34% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 49% Productbottom 48% Techbottom 34% Globalbottom 29% Marketbottom 24% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $3.5M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 14/100 | $4M | 34 mo ago | Series A | Stu Adam Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — |
| 5 | Lleaf Provider of light diffusers for indoor farms and greenhouses 6Funding bottom 46%Global bottom 38%Market bottom 20% All 3 signals ▾Fundingbottom 46% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 20% Funding: Raised $3.5M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 4 yrs (0.2/yr) Global: Investors from 3 countries beyond Australia rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 6/100 | $4M | 47 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | — | — |
| 6 | Hillridge Provider of AI-based crop insurance platform for farmers | $2M | 47 mo ago | Seed | Dale Schilling Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 7 | Azaneo Developer of electric weeding technology 7Funding top 50%Global bottom 36%Market bottom 20% All 3 signals ▾Fundingtop 50% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 20% Funding: Raised $892k across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) Global: Investors from 2 countries beyond Australia rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 7/100 | $892K | 18 mo ago | Seed | — | 2022 | — | 1 launch |
| 8 | InvertiGro Provider of indoor vertical farming solutions | $652K | 64 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ben Lee Co-Founder & Co-CEO | 2012 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+20 | 1 partnership |
| 9 | FarmPay Manufacturer of reverse vending machines and high-speed sorting solutions | $100K | 117 mo ago | Seed | Naomi Stuart Founder | 2016 | — | — |
Top 12 Crop Tech companies in Sydney
#1
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
#2
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
#3
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
#4
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
#5
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
#6
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
#7
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—
#8
Funding Raised · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2012 · 31 employees$651.7Kraised▾
Provider of indoor vertical farming solutions. It designs, builds, and installs smart, flexible, and scalable indoor vertical farming solutions for commercial agriculture businesses. It offers environmentally-controlled vertical farming solutions suitable to grow leafy greens, micro greens, berries, fruits, vegetables, and medicinal plants.
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$651.7K
#9
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016$100Kraised▾
Manufacturer of reverse vending machines and high-speed sorting solutions for used beverage containers. It develops, manufactures, sells, and services these machines for various clients, including convenience stores, supermarkets, and return point operators. The product line includes standalone, modular, and multi-feed machines, catering to diverse needs. The company also provides digital tools and maintenance services. Its machines are designed to meet the specifications of deposit return schemes.
- Nov 2016Seed$100K
#10
Deadpooled · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017$46.5Kraised▾
AdaptiGrow is a manufacturer of indoor hydroponic system. It offers AdaptiGrow planter, an automated indoor hydroponic system equipped with sensors to collect environmental data. It allows users to remotely monitor the system through mobile phone. Claims to be suitable for schools and indoor home gardens.
- Aug 2017Seed$46.5K
#11
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · 23 employees—raised▾
Automated agricultural disease detection solution for growers. It uses technology to detect air-borne diseases. It also leverages its patented technology for air sampling, disease mapping, ground-based insights, and weather data combined with live spore counts.
#12
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 5 employees—raised▾
Developer of a business-to-business operating system intended for cannabis manufacturers, cultivators, and vertical integrators. The company's tools provide services for indoor operations, from planning and design to cultivation, compliance, post-production, manufacturing, distribution, and sales by gathering enormous amounts of data throughout a product's lifecycle and using artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify operational anomalies, it empowers organizations to revolutionize production capabilities and mitigate risks, enabling producers to manage, optimize and scale their operations across plants, people and locations.
- Apr 2022Seed—
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How research on Precision Agriculture in Sydney is moving
A read on the academic research around Precision Agriculture in Sydney — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 75 papers.
- The University of Sydney23
- University of Technology Sydney19
- University of Sydney16
- UNSW Sydney14
- Western Sydney University7
- Water content4
- Field (mathematics)2
- Data acquisition2
- Identification (biology)2
- Wireless sensor network2
- Multispectral image8
- Remote sensing5
- Agricultural engineering5
- Vegetation (pathology)4
- Convolutional neural network4
- Production (economics)5
- Field (mathematics)4
- Key (lock)3
- Variety (cybernetics)2
- Animal production2
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