Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Cambridge, United States
The 40 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Cambridge, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Inari.
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 Cambridge
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inari 🦄 Developer of technology to improve crop breeding and seed production 64Funding top 16%Product top 18%Moat top 28%Market top 39% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 16% Producttop 18% Moattop 28% Markettop 39% Talenttop 41% Growthtop 45% AItop 45% Techtop 49% Globalbottom 45% Innovationbottom 44% Patentsbottom 30% Funding: Raised $564M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 8 yrs (0.9/yr) Product: 4 distinct product lines · Company stage: Series G rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $564M | 19 mo ago | 143 | Ignacio Martinez Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+25 | Top 5M | 6 patents Power line communication: multicarrier signal processing and sliding‑window demodulation protocols. | — |
| 2 | CiBO Technologies Scaling regenerative agriculture through advanced technology, data, and trusted advisor network | $77M | 58 mo ago | 37 37 → 44 (+19%) | Bruno Basso Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | AgZen Developer of spray and formulation technology to reduce pesticide pollution 50AI top 15%Funding top 25%Innovation top 34%Patents top 36% All 10 signals ▾AItop 15% Fundingtop 25% Innovationtop 34% Patentstop 36% Talenttop 38% Moattop 42% Newstop 48% Globalbottom 36% Techbottom 31% Marketbottom 25% AI: Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Funding: Raised $23.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $24M | 5 mo ago | 8 | Sreedath Panat Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+11 | Top 10M | 15 patents Precision monitoring and control of fertilizer and spray application on crops | — |
| 4 | Culture Pop Soda Internet-first brand offering carbonated water | $21M | 17 mo ago | 36 | Tom First Founder | Cart FunctionalityShopifyVisa+32 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 5 | Crop Enhancement Sustainable, plant-based crop protection solutions reducing the need for pesticides | $16M | 76 mo ago | 8 | — | — | — | 62 patents Non‑toxic seed coating formulations for crop protection and growth enhancement. | — |
| 6 | Suvie Provider of automated refrigerator and cooker for businesses | $8M | 69 mo ago | 29 | Kevin Incorvia Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 7 | Robigo Manufacturer and supplier of crop-protection biologicals | $8M | 12 mo ago | 9 | Jai Padmakumar Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+17 | Top 50M | 7 patents Plant‑engineered microbial vectors for RNAi delivery in crop protection and trait modulation | — |
| 8 | Ohza Internet first brand of alcoholic cocktail kits | $4M | 62 mo ago | 12 | — | ShopifyBootstrapShop Pay+37 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 9 | Agxio Offers AI based farm management solutions | $4M | 53 mo ago | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Takachar Developer of portable systems converting agricultural and forest residues into bioproducts | $2M | 48 mo ago | 10 | Vidyut Mohan Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | Top 10M | 16 patents Optimizing multi-chamber biomass reactors for efficient biofuel conversion processes. | — |
| 11 | Butcher Box Online retailer of meat and seafood products via subscription service | $2M | 45 mo ago | 162 | Michael Salguero Founder & CEO | ShopifySentryZendesk+39 | Top 500k | — | 1 award |
| 12 | Desora Provider of a connected barbecue | $2M | 116 mo ago | 7 | Michel Maalouly Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | 11 patents Modular cooking appliances with integrated fuel refuel chutes and embedded temperature sensors. | — |
| 13 | Cellay Manufacturer of oligonucleotide FISH probes for chromosome enumeration and analysis | $1M | 202 mo ago | 11 | Ed O'Lear President & CEO | — | — | 45 patents In‑situ nucleic‑acid detection kits for prostate cancer biomarkers and outcome prediction | — |
| 14 | AutoPickr Platform offering robotic picking solutions for multiple industries | $900K | 36 mo ago | 5 | Robyn Sands CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Seia Bio Provider of nano-based technology for crop coating | $550K | 22 mo ago | — | Ariel Furst Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | durafizz.com Developer of multi-category novel food products | $490K | 179 mo ago | — | David Soane Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Tilden Cocktails Internet first brand offering cocktail kits | $470K | 58 mo ago | 3 | Vanessa Royle Co-Founder & CEO | ShopifyTailwind CSSShop Pay+30 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 18 | Of Course Meals Meal Kits delivery | $200K | 174 mo ago | — | Thomas Furber CEO & Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Food for All Marketplace connecting surplus food with consumers, reducing waste and promoting sustainability | $150K | 87 mo ago | 14 | David Rodríguez Sanchez Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Sprouts Developer of automated indoor growing systems | $100K | 147 mo ago | — | Jennifer Farah Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | 2 patents IoT-enabled controlled environment systems for automated sprout and plant incubation | — |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Cambridge
#1
Series B · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2007 · 8 employees$23.5Mraised▾
Developer of spray and formulation technology to reduce pesticide pollution. It develops additives and sprayer retrofits that allow agrochemical droplets to stick to plants and avoid spoilage. It helps farmers in reducing pesticide usage while maintaining crop health.
- Mar 2026Series B$10M
- Jan 2025Series A$10M
- 2022Seed$3.5M
#2
Inari 🦄Series G · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2016 · 143 employees$564Mraised▾
Developer of technology to improve crop breeding and seed production. The company utilizes innovations in genomics, artificial intelligence, and gene editing to analyze plant DNA. It aims to identify edits that will positively impact specific locations within a crop's DNA. The company focuses on enabling plants to make efficient use of resources.
- Jan 2025Series G$144M
- Jan 2024Series F$103M
- Oct 2022Series E$124M
- May 2021Series D$208M
#3
Seed · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2020 · 9 employees$8.1Mraised▾
Manufacturer and supplier of crop-protection biologicals. The company develops sustainable living pesticides. The pesticide is sprayed on the plants and acts as a shield or a protective layer in protecting them from pathogens.
- Sep 2025Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- May 2023Grant (prize money)$275K
- Feb 2023Seed$6.8M
- Nov 2021Seed$1.2M
#4
Series B · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2020 · 36 employees$21Mraised▾
Internet-first brand offering carbonated water
- Mar 2025Series B$15.2M
- Jan 2024Series B$21M
#5
Series C · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2014 · 37 employees$77.4Mraised▾
Scaling regenerative agriculture through advanced technology, data, and trusted advisor network. The company provides a software platform that enables organizations to design, deploy, and manage sustainability programs. It offers solutions for agribusiness, biofuels, government, food and beverage, nonprofits, and sustainability consultants. The platform provides modeling and reporting capabilities, data and API access, program syndication, incentive stacking, and program reporting. It leverages a trusted advisor network to manage grower engagement. The company's technology combines AI, computer vision, and scientific modeling to simulate soil carbon, GHG emissions, and crop yields. It offers software solutions, including program management, modeling and reporting, and data and API access. The company's platform helps scale regenerative agriculture offerings, increase efficiencies, reduce program management costs, automate and digitize processes, catalyze low CI crops, and turn strategy into action. It is a SaaS based platform.
- Oct 2021Series C$30M
- May 2020Series B$10M
- Jan 2020Series B$7.1M
- Mar 2017Series B$30.3M
#6
Funding Raised · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2022$550Kraised▾
Provider of nano-based technology for crop coating. The company's key focus is manufacturing custom-coated microbes to provide natural solutions as an alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. It has developed a nano-coating technology to protect beneficial microbes like nitrogen-fixing bacteria during processing, storage, and transport. It allows the microbes to be more resilient to heat, humidity, and desiccation, making them easier to manufacture, distribute, and apply on farms compared to unprotected microbes.
- Nov 2024Grant (prize money)$275K
- Jul 2024Grant (prize money)$175K
- 2023Grant (prize money)—
- Apr 2023Grant (prize money)$100K
#7
Series B · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2011 · 8 employees$16.5Mraised▾
Sustainable, plant-based crop protection solutions reducing the need for pesticides. They are creating a new class of safe and sustainable pest control products for growers. Their CropCoat platform offers a nontoxic solution that leaves no residue, ensuring no impact on crop quality or taste, and is safe for both plants and growers. All ingredients are exempt from tolerance, facilitating crop exports. The ingredients are part of the organic national program, preserving the environment. It delivers broad-spectrum pest and disease control with the performance of a synthetic and the sustainability of a biological. They develop products based on environmentally friendly botanical extracts that enable farmers around the world to respond to the increasing consumer demand for sustainably produced foods. They are focused on sustainable agriculture practices and environmental protection.
- Apr 2020Series B$8M
- Jan 2019Series B—
- Sep 2016Series B$8.5M
- Mar 2012Series A—
#8
Funding Raised · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2018 · 10 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Developer of portable systems converting agricultural and forest residues into bioproducts. The technology transforms waste biomass into marketable products for rural communities. It provides equipment that upgrades residues into fertilizer blends, chemicals, and biofuels. The solution decentralizes bioproduct production using hardware and control systems.
- Aug 2022Grant (prize money)$100K
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$106.5K
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$450K
#9
Seed · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2018 · 7 employees$3.7Mraised▾
Agxio offers AI-based farm management solutions. It enabling the robotic platform to evaluate critical data to produce predictive models to solve real-world problems.
- Mar 2022Seed$2.7M
- Jun 2020Seed$932.2K
#10
Series A · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2015 · 29 employees$8.1Mraised▾
Provider of automated refrigerator and cooker for businesses. The user can load the food and add water, the robot automatically detects and refrigerates the food. It automatically switches from cooling to cooking. It offers four different cooking methods and four different compartments. It also offers smart meal subscriptions with frozen meat, seafood, and more. The user can scan the QR code through the smart cooker and it automatically detects and set the precise parameters.
- Nov 2020Series A$8.1M
#11
Seed · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2022 · 5 employees$900Kraised▾
Platform offering robotic picking solutions for multiple industries. Its technology has applications in multiple industries, including agriculture. It leverages machine vision technology to avoid hazards, identify crops, and even determine if they are ready to be harvested.
- Aug 2023Seed$900K
#12
Seed · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2015 · 162 employees$2Mraised▾
Online retailer of meat and seafood products via subscription service. The company provides various cuts of beef, pork, poultry, and seafood. Products are sourced from farms and fisheries. The business offers customizable subscription plans with delivery options.
- Nov 2022Seed$2M
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- University of Cambridge30
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- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust1
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