Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Boston, United States
The 163 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Boston, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Indigo.
Our analysis of 81 Food and Agriculture Tech companies
$13.5b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Boston
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indigo 🦄 Provider of biological and sustainability solutions for the agriculture industry | $1.4B | 33 mo ago | Series G | 708 708 → 1,393 (+97%) | Geoffrey Maltzahn Co-Founder | 355 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | 1 partnership |
| 2 | Ginkgo Bioworks 🦄 Autonomous labs for biotechnology, empowering scientists to design the living world | $796M | 30 mo ago | Public | 1,218 | Austin Che Co-Founder | 385 patents Engineering microbes for biosynthesis of drugs, flavors, proteins, and immune therapeutics | — |
| 3 | ezCater 🦄 Online catering marketplace for enterprises | $436M | 54 mo ago | Series D | 396 396 → 941 (+138%) | Briscoe Rodgers Co-Founder & Director | — | — |
| 4 | Motif FoodWorks Developer of alternative food ingredients | $345M | 49 mo ago | Series B | 85 | — | 30 patents Plant-based meat, dairy, and connective tissue analogs using heme protein technologies | — |
| 5 | TILT Holdings Cannabis industry solutions: vaporization, cultivation, production, and wholesale distribution | $211M | 39 mo ago | Public | 437 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Bevi Provider of smart water dispenser system provider | $136M | 46 mo ago | Series D | 102 | Sean Grundy Co-Founder & CEO | 3 patents Sealed flexible beverage pouch technology and automated manufacturing equipment | 1 job opening |
| 7 | Drizly Platform offering on-demand alcohol delivery application | $117M | 69 mo ago | Acquired | 112 | Cathy Lewenberg CEO | 2 patents Online alcohol e‑commerce platform enabling product distribution and checkout | — |
| 8 | LevelUp Mobile wallet provider and white label service | $103M | 106 mo ago | Acquired | 222 | — | 2 patents Interactive motion‑sensing systems for gaming and activity tracking | — |
| 9 | Joyn Bio Manufacturer of biofertilizers | $100M | 99 mo ago | Series A | 72 | Michael Miille CEO | — | — |
| 10 | Mori Natural protein solution protecting food, reducing waste, and improving supply chain | $86M | 51 mo ago | Series B | 85 | Livio Valenti Co-Founder | — | — |
| 11 | Seated Mobile application for restaurant reservation | $61M | 25 mo ago | Series C | 56 | Atallah Atallah Co-Founder | — | — |
| 12 | Traive Provider of credit risk analysis and agricultural asset management solutions | $51M | 28 mo ago | Series B | 14 | Fabricio Pezente CEO | 2 patents Hierarchical ensemble machine‑learning inference architectures integrating multiple subsidiary models | — |
| 13 | Freight Farms Revolutionizing local food access with hydroponic container farms and software | $45M | 43 mo ago | Acquired | 81 | — | 76 patents Controlled-environment modular vertical farms with automated hydroponics and seedling systems | — |
| 14 | ArkeaBio Provider vaccine-based technology to control livestock methane emission | $38M | 8 mo ago | Series A | 8 | Colin South CEO | — | — |
| 15 | Exit41 Social ordering solutions for restaurant | $38M | 181 mo ago | Deadpooled | 14 | Chet Barnard CEO | 2 patents E‑commerce order processing and transaction management software systems | — |
| 16 | Unidine Food and dining management services provider | $37M | 151 mo ago | Series B | 2,518 2,518 → 1,429 (-43%) | — | — | 6 job openings |
| 17 | Sample6 Food safety laboratories and consulting group providing testing and training | $32M | 107 mo ago | Acquired | — | Tim Lu Co-Founder | 24 patents Phage-based biosensor technologies for rapid bacterial detection and environmental monitoring. | — |
| 18 | Corvium Develops and offers a food safety software | $30M | 81 mo ago | Series B | 35 | — | — | — |
| 19 | Bright Cellars Online retailer offering wine on a subscription basis | $25M | 52 mo ago | Series B | 48 | — | — | — |
| 20 | Spyce Inspiring healthier communities with fresh salads, warm bowls, and plant-forward options | $25M | 93 mo ago | Acquired | 11 | — | 3 patents Robotic kitchen systems for automated meal preparation and cooking | — |
| 21 | Tender Developer of plant-based meat substitute products 45Funding top 26%Talent top 28%Patents bottom 49%Moat bottom 49% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 26% Talenttop 28% Patentsbottom 49% Moatbottom 49% Marketbottom 44% Innovationbottom 44% Newsbottom 37% Globalbottom 31% Funding: Raised $24.5M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 6 yrs (0.8/yr) Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $24M | 8 mo ago | Series A | 41 | Christophe Chantre Co-Founder & CEO | 11 patents Advanced multi-stage filtration hardware and consumer-access first‑aid distribution systems | — |
| 22 | BevSpot Streamlining food and beverage management with inventory, ordering, and sales data | $22M | 92 mo ago | Series B | 29 29 → 56 (+93%) | Chidubem Ezeaka Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer | — | — |
| 23 | Smart Lunches Online ordering and delivery service at schools | $17M | 88 mo ago | Deadpooled | 29 | — | — | — |
| 24 | Dripos Provider of point-of-sale solutions for restaurants | $17M | 25 mo ago | Series A | 18 | — | — | — |
| 25 | Dexai Robotics Robotic arm for automating activities in commercial kitchens and the food industry | $15M | 46 mo ago | Series A | 19 | David M.S. Johnson Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 26 | FYTO Develops systems for growing crops automatically | $15M | 47 mo ago | Series A | 20 | Jason Prapas Founder & CEO | 11 patents Automated harvesting systems for aquatic plants and crops | — |
| 27 | Spoiler Alert B2B marketplace for food businesses to sell surplus food | $14M | 54 mo ago | Series A | 32 32 → 60 (+88%) | — | — | 1 award |
| 28 | Moltin Platform offering a headless commerce solution | $13M | 99 mo ago | Acquired | 26 | — | — | — |
| 29 | AVA Provider of AI-based food recommendation platform | $13M | 115 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 6 | — | 159 patents Blockchain infrastructure: consensus, state replication, wallet extensions, NFC payments, P2P data dissemination | — |
| 30 | Promoboxx Connecting brands and retailers with hyperlocal marketing and sales enablement | $13M | 79 mo ago | Series A | 48 48 → 42 (-12%) | — | — | 5 partnerships |
| 31 | Modiv Media Interactive media-based delivery and self-checkout solutions | $12M | 203 mo ago | Acquired | 8 | — | 34 patents Real-time targeted digital advertising with geofencing, loyalty and payment integration | — |
| 32 | TruEnergy Manufacturer and retailer of sports drinks | $12M | 40 mo ago | Series A | 3 | — | — | — |
| 33 | Ark Biotech Manufacturer of bioreactors for producing cultivated meat | $11M | 25 mo ago | Series A | 22 | Yossi Quint Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 34 | Purple Carrot Online platform to purchase plant-based meal kits | $9M | 97 mo ago | Acquired | 74 74 → 93 (+26%) | — | — | — |
| 35 | Objective Logistics Company providing technology solutions to optimize operational logistics | $8M | 155 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 25 | — | — | — |
| 36 | Kuvée Internet first brand offering smart wine dispensers | $8M | 118 mo ago | Deadpooled | 4 | — | — | — |
| 37 | Kodama AI Developer of AI-robotic-based forestry management solutions | $7M | 8 mo ago | Series A | 8 | Matt Verminski Co-Founder | — | 1 job opening |
| 38 | OpenCity Online chat platform for customers | $6M | 21 mo ago | Series A | 33 | Nick Belsito Founder | — | — |
| 39 | Chloris Geospatial Provider of an AI and web-based platform for measuring carbon stock | $6M | 12 mo ago | Series A | 14 | — | — | — |
| 40 | Lighter Grocery list building and recipe recommendations platform | $6M | 80 mo ago | Series A | 15 | Micah Risk Co-Founder & President | 20 patents Portable ignition devices and accessory tray designs for handheld lighters | — |
| 41 | Tablelist App for Advance Reservation at Restaurants | $6M | 122 mo ago | Series A | 11 | — | — | — |
| 42 | smoodi Manufacturer of smoothie blending machine | $5M | 42 mo ago | Series A | 10 | Pascal Kriesche Co-Founder & CEO | 11 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | 1 partnership |
| 43 | ricult inc. Ricult is a Data Science company that develops AI/Data/Tech/Financial-based digital solutions for the… | $5M | 70 mo ago | Seed | 45 | — | — | — |
| 44 | RapidWorks Provider of ERP software solutions for heavy equipment job management and dispatching | $4M | 34 mo ago | Series A | — | Tim Curran CEO | — | 1 launch |
| 45 | GreenSight Agronomic Robotics, analytics, and automation solutions for golf, sports turf, agriculture, defense | $3M | 64 mo ago | Series A | 77 | — | — | 2 launchs |
| 46 | UnReal Milk Provider of plant-based dairy substitutes | $2M | 53 mo ago | Seed | 4 | Avhijeet Kapoor Co-Founder | — | — |
| 47 | AdaViv Provider of farm monitoring solutions | $2M | 59 mo ago | Seed | 28 | Ian Seiferling Co-Founder & CEO | 11 patents Precision agriculture: mobile and aerial crop monitoring and scouting data management systems. | — |
| 48 | RYZE Brand of coffee | $2M | 51 mo ago | Seed | 32 | — | — | 1 launch |
| 49 | Casatera Internet first brand offering tequila | $1M | 27 mo ago | Seed | 3 | John Donohue Co-Founder & CSO | — | — |
| 50 | Robotics 88 Platform provides autonomous drone solutions for wildland fire management | $925K | 34 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | Erin Linebarger Co-Founder & CEO | 103 patents Automated food manufacturing and dispensing equipment, including flexible processing and modular pumps. | — |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Boston
#1
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2020 · 41 employees$24.5Mraised▾
Developer of plant-based meat substitute products
- Oct 2025Series A$5.3M
- Mar 2024Series A$11M
- Feb 2022Seed$12M
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$256K
#2
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2022 · 8 employees$38.5Mraised▾
Provider vaccine-based technology to control livestock methane emission. It uses vaccine technology and integrates it into the delivery systems and farming practices for reducing livestock methane emissions.
- Sep 2025Series A$7M
- May 2024Series A$26.5M
- Dec 2022Seed$12M
#3
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2021 · 8 employees$6.6Mraised▾
Developer of AI-robotic-based forestry management solutions. It enables stakeholders to address the climate challenge of wildfires and their associated carbon emissions. It assists in reinventing the forestry supply chain to store carbon and reduce the risk of the forest fire. It also developed forest robotics systems for heavy equipment.
- Oct 2025Series A$7M
- Dec 2022Grant (prize money)—
- Dec 2022Seed$6.6M
#4
Indigo 🦄Series G · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2013 · 708 employees$1.4Braised▾
Provider of biological and sustainability solutions for the agriculture industry. The company offers biological products that harness the plant microbiome to protect crops. It also provides sustainability programs that help scale sustainable practices. These solutions aim to reduce emissions, conserve water, and improve farm profitability.
- Sep 2023Series G$250M
- Jun 2020Series F$360M
- Jan 2020Conventional Debt$25M
- Jan 2020Series F$175M
#5
Public · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2008 · 1218 employees$795.8Mraised▾
Autonomous labs for biotechnology, empowering scientists to design the living world. They provide autonomous labs and cloud lab services, enabling scientists to automate experimental work and focus on insight and creativity. The company offers solutions and datapoints services to design experiments and address research goals. Their autonomous systems lift the burden of manual lab work, empowering scientists to ask critical questions. They provide hardware, software, support, and cloud lab resources. The company's vision is to enable programming biology, curing diseases, and growing everything imaginable. This is a B2B tech company offering SaaS solutions for biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
- Dec 2023Grant (prize money)—
- Aug 2023Grant (prize money)$387.5K
- Jun 2023Grant (prize money)$650K
- May 2020Series E$70M
#6
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2020 · 14 employees$6Mraised▾
Provider of an AI and web-based platform for measuring carbon stock. It uses proprietary ML models to create biomass maps and to access field data based on LiDAR measurement. It offers estimates of forest carbon stock and change. It uses sensor-fusion technology and time series analysis methods to offer predictions.
- May 2025Series A$14.8M
- May 2024Seed—
- Mar 2023Seed$3.5M
- Oct 2021Seed$2.5M
#7
Series C · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2016 · 56 employees$61Mraised▾
Mobile application for a restaurant reservation. The platform offers a list of restaurants for the users to choose from. It also provides restaurant menu, customer ratings, reviews, and more. It allows users to view the list of restaurants, filter by categories, photos, and reviews to find the restaurant and make an appointment. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
- May 2024Series C—
- Aug 2020Series B$30M
- Nov 2019Series B$20M
- Jul 2019Series A$9.8M
#8
Series B · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2017 · 14 employees$50.9Mraised▾
Provider of credit risk analysis and agricultural asset management solutions. It offers tools for credit commercialization, risk analysis, and access to agricultural assets. The company delivers a platform for obtaining credit asset history, facilitating investment diversification. It utilizes data processing to generate scores and analyses. The company automates credit processes, providing governance for supply chain participants.
- Feb 2024Series B$20M
- Oct 2022Series A$10M
- Nov 2021Series A$17M
- Nov 2020Seed$2.5M
#9
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2016 · 33 employees$6.4Mraised▾
OpenCity is an online chat platform for customers for texting brick and mortar shops such as in the hospitality sector - Restaurants, Bars/Lounges/Clubs, Boutique Hotels, Florists, Car Dealers & Mechanics, Boutique Toy Shops and Attractions and Events. The turn-key platform provides support by messaging between customers and the restaurant, bars etc. using Google, Facebook and other messaging platforms (website, phone etc.) on a real-time basis and also has other features like - building customer profile, collaborative team inbox as well as chat history.
- Aug 2024Series A$5.6M
- Jan 2018Seed$820K
#10
Public · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2018 · 437 employees$210.8Mraised▾
Cannabis industry solutions: vaporization, cultivation, production, and wholesale distribution. The company supports the regulated cannabis industry through innovation, offering end-to-end services and customer solutions. Core businesses include vaporization hardware design, research, development, and manufacturing. The company cultivates and produces medical cannabis products, offering a variety of strains, cartridges, tinctures, and capsules. Wholesale distribution services augment competencies across the organization in research, manufacturing, packaging, and technology. The company focuses on consumer devices and packaged goods, cultivation and production, and wholesale distribution. The company provides high-performance, state-of-the-art solutions that allow cannabis oil and concentrate producers to focus on their craft.
- Mar 2023Post IPO$52.8M
- Nov 2019Post IPO$2.7M
- Dec 2018Post IPO$36.3M
- Nov 2018Post IPO$119M
#11
ezCater 🦄Series D · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2007 · 396 employees$435.9Mraised▾
Online catering marketplace for enterprises. The platform allows users to discover and order food from local caterers for corporate events and private parties. It provides concierge ordering, employee meal planning, event catering, and more.
- Dec 2021Series D$103.4M
- Apr 2019Series D$150M
- Jun 2018Series D$100M
- Jan 2017Series D$35M
#12
Series B · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2019 · 85 employees$345Mraised▾
Motif FoodWorks is a developer of alternative food ingredients. It develops meat alternatives, plant-based protein ingredients, and dairy-free proteins. It deploys fermentation and microbiology techniques to develop food ingredients free from animal content. The products use biotechnology and fermentation to derive proteins from dairy, egg, and meat.
- May 2022Series B—
- Jun 2021Series B$226.1M
- Aug 2019Series A$27.5M
- Feb 2019Series A$90M
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What Boston researches in food tech
UMass Boston, Boston University, and Boston Children's Hospital lead Boston's food-tech research, focusing predominantly on food security, health equity, and sustainability, with a cautiously concerned tone.
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