Best Crop Tech Companies in Western Australia, Australia
The 40 best Crop Tech companies in Western Australia, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Nemgenix.
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 Western Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nemgenix Developer of plant-resistant traits | $593K | 164 mo ago | Funding Raised | Sean Hird Co-Founder & CEO | 2007 | — | — |
| 2 | Laconik AI & data science-based farm mapping solution provider | $250K | 82 mo ago | Funding Raised | Darren Hughes Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 3 | Farmsave Online marketplace for buying broadacre agrochemicals | $40K | 112 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Dirk Butter Co-Founder | 2006 | — | — |
| 4 | Ovass Software platform for connecting sensor data with other data sources for actionable insights | $40K | 113 mo ago | Seed | David Newman Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — |
| 5 | Aero Vines Provides aerial mapping services for vineyard growers | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2016 | — | — |
| 6 | AgConnect Integrated platform to monitor and control pivot irrigation systems | — | — | Unfunded | Alex Mills Founder | 2014 | — | — |
| 7 | Aglytica A cloud-based platform to gather farm data | — | — | Unfunded | Keith Symondson CEO | 2020 | — | — |
| 8 | Agrimaster Provider of farm financial management software | — | — | Unfunded | John A Owner | 2001 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowStripe+17 | — |
Top 4 Crop Tech companies in Western Australia
#1
Funding Raised · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2017 · 2 employees$250Kraised▾
Laconik specializes in providing artificial intelligence and data-science based farm mapping solutions. It offers a product called Play'N To Win that combines various and current disparate sources of location information to create variable-rate fertilizer maps. It also offers N mapper that the nitrogen content of wheat farms using remote sensing information.
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$250K
#2
Funding Raised · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2007$593Kraised▾
Developer of plant-resistant traits. It is involved in the development of novel crop traits for plant-parasitic nematodes and aphids resistance. It plans to utilize a technology that exploits the cellular mechanism called RNA interference(RNAi). In RNAi gene expression is inhibited, silenced through the destruction of micro RNA.
- Dec 2012Grant (prize money)$207K
- Jan 2010Grant (prize money)$386K
#3
Acqui-Hired · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2006 · 5 employees$40Kraised▾
Online marketplace for buying broadacre agrochemicals. It is marketplace for buying broadacre agrochemicals. The company enables farmers to order the product with its brand name and quantity. The company aggregates the orders of respective brands and negotiates with suppliers and dealers of those brands for discounted pricing. The supplier has to deliver the products at rural depots near the order clusters and the respective farmers / buyers can pick up their orders.
- Apr 2017Seed$40K
#4
Seed · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2014$40Kraised▾
Ovass has developed a software platform for connecting sensor data with the public weather data for providing actionable insights for the agriculture industry. The platform can integrate with as many sensors and can connect through many sources such as WiFi and the internet. The information from the sensors is streamed from 1 min to 1-hour delay and can be seen by the user on the software dashboard. It was one of the finalists in the DataStart competition 2016.
- Apr 2017Seed$40K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Crop Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
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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.