Best Crop Tech Companies in Victoria, Australia
The 82 best Crop Tech companies in Victoria, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ryzo.
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 Victoria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryzo Carbon farming platform simplifying regenerative agriculture for farmers and project developers 14Talent top 38%Product top 46%Funding top 48%Tech bottom 43% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Producttop 46% Fundingtop 48% Techbottom 43% Globalbottom 25% Marketbottom 21% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Product: 1 published app · Company stage: Series B rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 14/100 | $50M | 50 mo ago | Series B | Philip Mulvey Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowCloudflare Turnstile+12 | — |
| 2 | Digital Agriculture Services SaaS-based data-driven precision agricultural solutions for farmers 53Global top 33%Talent top 38%AI top 45%Funding top 49% All 7 signals ▾Globaltop 33% Talenttop 38% AItop 45% Fundingtop 49% Marketbottom 47% Techbottom 40% Newsbottom 22% Global: Serving 60+ countries worldwide · Investors from 1 country beyond Australia Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $12M | 39 mo ago | Series A | Jonathon Clark Co-Founder | 2017 | PHPApache HTTP ServerAmazon Web Services+14 | — |
| 3 | Bio-Gene Developer of bio-insecticides for crop protection, grain storage, and public health 32Moat top 32%Funding top 34%Patents top 34%Innovation top 38% All 8 signals ▾Moattop 32% Fundingtop 34% Patentstop 34% Innovationtop 38% Talenttop 45% Globalbottom 40% Marketbottom 37% Techbottom 15% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 5/10 · IP moat: 48 patents Funding: Raised $4.0M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 10 yrs (0.8/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100 | $4M | 13 mo ago | Public | Tim Grogan CEO & Managing Director | 1995 | — | — |
| 4 | AgriChain Software solution for agriculture supply chain | $4M | 76 mo ago | Series A | Drew Ditterich Co-Founder & COO | 2013 | SentryNode.jsChart.js+24 | 3 launchs · 2 partnerships |
| 5 | Smart Paddock Livestock health management solutions provider | $2M | 84 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+19 | — |
| 6 | IIF Provider of multiple finance services for farms | $1M | 39 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | — |
| 7 | Agtuary Online platform for farmers and lenders to manage agribusiness and financial data | $75K | 56 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | — | — |
| 8 | Riperobotics Developer of fruit-picking robots | $75K | 56 mo ago | Seed | Hunter Jay Founder & CEO | 2019 | WebflowjQueryHSTS+6 | — |
Top 12 Crop Tech companies in Victoria
#1
Public · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 1995$4Mraised▾
Developer of bio-insecticides for crop protection, grain storage, and public health. The company focuses on creating pest management solutions derived from nature. These products address insecticide resistance with minimal impact on human health and the environment. The company's products have applications across crop protection, grain storage, public health and consumer uses.
- May 2025Grant (prize money)$542K
- May 2025Post IPO$2.1M
- Jan 2025Grant (prize money)$1.9M
- Nov 2023Post IPO$1.3M
#2
Series B · Footscray, Victoria · founded 2018 · 9 employees$50Mraised▾
Carbon farming platform simplifying regenerative agriculture for farmers and project developers. This SaaS platform empowers farmers to adopt sustainable land management, rebuild soil health, and promote biodiversity. It offers tools for soil carbon assessment, project management, and emissions accounting. The platform supports carbon project management from baseline to crediting, helping farmers claim carbon credits. It provides resources like a soil property observation tool, learning hub, and publications. The goal is to restore agricultural environments, climate, and community through regenerative farming practices. It is a B2B platform that offers subscription based services.
- Apr 2022Series B$50M
#3
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017 · 40 employees$12Mraised▾
SaaS-based data-driven precision agricultural solutions for farmers. It leverages its data models and an AI-powered rural intelligence platform that integrates rural data from public sources and real-time agricultural insights from CSIRO to provide insights on location intelligence, farm performance, valuations, and productivity levels.
- Mar 2023Series A$3M
- May 2020Seed—
#4
Seed · Victoria · founded 2021 · 5 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Provider of multiple finance services for farms. It provides capital for cash flow and risk management. It supports farmers within the livestock, oyster, beekeeping, fruit, eggs, and cropping sectors.
- Mar 2023Seed$1.1M
#5
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2013 · 22 employees$4Mraised▾
AgriChain is a software solution for the agriculture supply chain. It enables various stakeholders of the supply chain to connect and transfer information. Its features include stock management, contracting, supply chain tracking, logistic automation, broker integration, traceability, and more. It also uses blockchain technology for storing information. Its app is available on Android and iOS platforms.
- Feb 2020Series A$4M
#6
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017 · 7 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Smart Paddock provides livestock health management solutions. It offers a multisensor ear tag to track the heart rate, temperature, location, and movement of animals. The data collected will be analyzed to generate insights of animal health and location. The user can access the data through its web and mobile applications.
- 2019Seed$1.7M
- Aug 2017Seed$75K
#7
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2020 · 12 employees$75Kraised▾
Online platform for farmers and lenders to manage agribusiness and financial data. It allows users to maintain up-to-date financial records and business documents while applying for new loans or insurance. It also allows lenders to provide zero friction communication and open access to farm finance by aggregating business, financial & agronomic data in one place. It also provides insights by using tools and analytics.
- Oct 2021Seed$75K
#8
Seed · Ardmona, Victoria · founded 2019 · 6 employees$75Kraised▾
Developer of fruit-picking robots. It develops a fruit-picking robot that identifies different types of fruits with different levels of ripeness and harvests ripen fruits. It also delivers the harvest to storage and distribution centers.
- Oct 2021Seed$75K
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)—
#9
Deadpooled · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016$50Kraised▾
SenseAg is a precision agriculture company focusing on intelligent insights derived from farm data collection and analytics. The company's offering includes a cloud-based platform which can work with a companion on-field wireless sensor network (IoT) to capture essential farm parameters including soil moisture, temperature, wind direction, and intensity, etc. The company uses proprietary machine learning algorithms to crunch the data and derive actionable insights presented to the farmer through multi-platform companion web app. The startup won the top prize in Global IBM Data Competition in NYC in Sep, 2016.,
- Sep 2016Grant (prize money)$50K
#10
Deadpooled · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016$40Kraised▾
Applant is developing a vertical aeroponic farming system with real-time monitoring and controlling provisions for growing fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs in homes. Its vertical farming system is marketed as aTree, which uses Aeroponics technology (gravity fed irrigation) to grow plants by misting their roots. The company claims that its product will be able to grow the fruits and vegetables allyear round.
- Jul 2017Seed$40K
#11
Acquired · Carlton, Victoria · founded 2003 · 55 employees—raised▾
Provider of services for carbon farming project design and implementation. They assist farmers, foresters, and traditional custodians in developing and executing carbon projects. The company guides clients through project planning, reporting, and audit management. It helps partners build resilience and regenerate landscapes through carbon farming practices.
- May 2022Seed—
#12
Seed · Geelong, Victoria · founded 2018 · 3 employees—raised▾
Traceability solutions provider for fruits. It offers AI-enabled cloud analytics for tracking farm produce. Enables users to predict optimal harvest, manage business efficiency around storage and distribution, and monitor shipping & arrivals. Operates through subscription plans.
- Apr 2021Seed—
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What Victoria researches in precision agriculture
- Agriculture Victoria13
- University of Victoria3
- Victoria University of Wellington3
- Victoria University1
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