Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Auckland, New Zealand
The 88 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Auckland, New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Halter.
Our analysis of 414 Food and Agriculture Tech companies
$46.7b in tracked funding; 86% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Auckland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Halter 🦄 Revolutionizing pasture management with virtual fencing and animal monitoring technology | $81M | 3 mo ago | Series E | Craig Piggott Founder & CEO | 2016 | WebflowSalesforceAmazon Web Services+26 | — | — |
| 2 | Sunfed World Brand of meat products | $7M | 91 mo ago | Series A | — | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Hectre Provider of orchard management solutions using sensor-based devices | $5M | 32 mo ago | Seed | Matty Blomfield Co-Founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — | 3 awards |
| 4 | Engender Technologies Developer of sperm sorting technology for the dairy industry | $4M | 120 mo ago | Acquired | Brent Ogilvie Co-Founder & Managing Director | 2011 | — | 2 patents Microfluidic particle orientation and sorting technologies | — |
| 5 | WayBeyond Provider of crop management software and climate monitoring systems to farmers | $3M | 40 mo ago | Series A | Darryn Keiller Founder & CEO | 2021 | HubSpot CMS HubAmazon Web ServicesPreact+20 | 9 patents Air quality and environmental monitoring sensors for detecting gases and pollutants | 3 launchs |
| 6 | Supie Membership-based platform offering multi-category grocery products | $2M | 55 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Figured Cloud-based software for farm planning and accounting management | $2M | 102 mo ago | Seed | Andrew Watters Co-Founder | 2014 | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26 | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 8 | RipeTime Analytics technology for ripeness detection in fruits and vegetables | $2M | 116 mo ago | Deadpooled | John Shannon CEO | 2015 | — | 4 patents Gas sensing and measurement devices for detecting specific gas concentrations | — |
| 9 | Opo Bio Developer of cell-based cultivated meat products | $920K | 13 mo ago | Seed | Laura Domigan Co-Founder & CSO | 2022 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Biotelliga Provider of sustainable waste and water treatment technologies | $103K | 156 mo ago | Funding Raised | Damien Fleetwood CEO | 2004 | — | 50 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
Top 11 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Auckland
#1
Halter 🦄Series E · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2016 · 160 employees$81.3Mraised▾
Revolutionizing pasture management with virtual fencing and animal monitoring technology. This company provides a cutting-edge operating system for pasture-based farms, leveraging technology to enhance productivity and sustainability. Their core offering includes virtual fencing, pasture management tools, and animal health monitoring, all accessible through an intuitive mobile and desktop app. The system uses lightweight, solar-powered collars to transmit animal data, enabling farmers to remotely manage herds, optimize grazing, and improve mating results. This innovative approach reduces farm workload, increases pasture utilization, and supports better animal welfare. The company's solution brings animal and pasture data together, empowering farmers to make informed decisions and achieve greater efficiency. It is a tech company offering a SaaS solution that transforms traditional farming practices through data-driven insights and automation. They are focused on creating a positive social impact by promoting sustainable agriculture and improving the lives of farmers and their animals.
- Mar 2026Series E$220M
- Jun 2025Series D$100M
- Mar 2023Series C$53M
- Apr 2021Series B$23M
#2
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2022 · 9 employees$920.5Kraised▾
Developer of cell-based cultivated meat products. It claims to offer a variety of protein-rich foods using cell cultivation. It sources cells after verifying the health status of the livestock
- May 2025Seed—
- Nov 2022Seed$920.5K
#3
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015 · 46 employees$5.4Mraised▾
Provider of orchard management solutions using sensor-based devices. The software platform allows digital record-keeping for daily operations as well as inventory management. The data for pests, diseases, hazards, and diseases. The software also has a digital bin card system for working offline. The platform provides a graphical and tabular representation of historical data for performance benchmarking purposes.
- Oct 2023Seed$3M
- Oct 2021Seed$2.4M
#4
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2021 · 32 employees$3.2Mraised▾
Provider of crop management software and climate monitoring systems to farmers. Its solutions include collecting data, managing crops with data, and managing growing practices with data. It also offers solutions for agriculture planning software, crop tracker, and farm management tool.
- Jan 2023Series A$3.2M
#5
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015 · 15 employees$6.8Mraised▾
Brand of meat products
- Nov 2018Series A$6.8M
#6
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2018 · 21 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Membership-based platform offering multi-category grocery products. It offers meat & seafood, dairy & egg products, bakery & pantry products, snacks & sweets, drinks & beverages, and more. The company-curated products from growers, food producers, and food brands. The company also allows listing the products on the platform.
- Nov 2021Seed$2.5M
#7
Acquired · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2011$4.5Mraised▾
Developer of sperm sorting technology for the dairy industry. The technology separates male and female sperm cells using a laser-based sorting technique. This provides precision breeding solutions to improve animal welfare and farm economics. The company recruits expertise in microfluidics, photonics, biology and microfabrication. The aim is to deliver next generation precision breeding technologies.
- Jun 2016Series A$4.5M
#8
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2014 · 78 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Figured is an online cloud-based farm management software for financial planning and accounting management of farm operations. The software can be used for both field crops and livestock animal farms. The software has modules for cash flow tracking through tracking livestock movement, copping production, operating expense recording, profit calculation, and estimation of future available cash, future planning along with compliance reporting, and collaboration among the various users. Various production reports for business intelligence such as dollars spent per hectare, per KG milk solids, and per carcass weight can be generated for the recorded data on the platform. The software can be used in conjunction with Xero, an online accounting software for small businesses.
- Dec 2017Seed$2.5M
#9
Deadpooled · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015$2Mraised▾
RipeTime is a company developed an analytics technology to detect the ripeness of fruits and vegetables to reduce wastage across the value chain. The company uses sensors to detect different gases present in the stored fruits sample to predict the ripeness. It has conducted successful trials for Kiwi fruits and others.
- Oct 2016Seed$2M
#10
Funding Raised · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2004 · 3 employees$103Kraised▾
Provider of sustainable waste and water treatment technologies. It offers solutions for wastewater management, including the remediation of sewage lagoons and the implementation of treatment plants. The company also provides water supply management systems using technologies like reverse osmosis and filtration. In solid waste management, it offers clean waste destruction and management technologies, such as gasification, to eliminate pollution from landfills. Additionally, it deploys pellet plants to convert forestry and agricultural waste into renewable fuel, and biodigestor technologies to convert organic waste into soil amendment. Anaerobic digestion solutions are also offered to convert organic waste into biogas for electricity generation.
- 2013Grant (prize money)$103K
- 2010Grant (prize money)—
#11
Public · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2013 · 139 employees—raised▾
My Food Bag delivers a week's worth of chef-designed dinner recipes, and ingredients to make them with. A recipe development team and a recipe testing team create recipes about eight to 10 weeks out from when they would be delivered. It offers various kinds of food bags depending on family size and dietary preferences. Have 25,000 customers in 13 Australasian cities as of 2015.
- Oct 2016Series A—
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How research on Food Tech in Auckland is moving
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- University of Auckland40
- Auckland University of Technology13
- Intuition1
- Food processing1
- Harm1
- Perspective (graphical)1
- Human health1
- Food safety3
- Product (mathematics)2
- Traceability2
- Enforcement1
- Sustainability1
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