Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Hawaii, United States
The 41 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Hawaii, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: TruTag Technologies.
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 Hawaii
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TruTag Technologies Provider of anti-counterfeiting solutions for businesses | $64M | 57 mo ago | Series D | Michael O'Neill Co-Founder & CTO | 2011 | — | 39 patents Microtag-based product authentication and verification systems for packaged goods | — |
| 2 | Noa Botanicals Producer and supplier of cannabis products | $11M | 81 mo ago | Series A | Brian Goldstein Founder & ex-CEO | 2015 | WordPress Block EditorElementorCart Functionality+32 | — | — |
| 3 | PlantBaby Platform offering plant-based foods and beverages for infancy to adulthood | $4M | 18 mo ago | Seed | Lauren Abelin Co-Founder | 2020 | WebflowTypekitGoogle Font API+12 | — | — |
| 4 | Jun Innovation Manufacturer of super-cooling food storage device | $1M | 35 mo ago | Seed | Soojin Jun Founder | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Hawaiian Earth Recycling Hawaii's largest compost producer, recycling green waste into valuable soil products | $300K | 193 mo ago | Funding Raised | Lisa Soong CEO | 1993 | Cart FunctionalitySnipcartCraft CMS+16 | — | — |
| 6 | Farm Link Hawaii Oʻahu's best local groceries delivered: fresh produce, ethical meats, and more | $65K | 55 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyVimeo+18 | — | — |
| 7 | Diagenetix Real time DNA amplification technology | $49K | 121 mo ago | Seed | Scott Shibata Co-Founder | 2012 | — | 7 patents Portable nucleic acid amplification instruments and real‑time detection systems | — |
| 8 | Reeler Mobile App Online marketplace for fish | — | 48 mo ago | Seed | Spencer Vanderkamp Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — | — |
Top 8 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Hawaii
#1
Seed · Kauai, Hawaii · founded 2020 · 10 employees$4Mraised▾
Platform offering plant-based foods and beverages for infancy to adulthood. The products are designed with nutritional measures and free from dairy, gluten, refined sugar, GMOs, preservatives, artificial and natural flavors, and glyphosate. Its product offers plant-based milk, toddler milk, and more.
- Feb 2025Seed—
- Jun 2022Seed$4M
#2
Series D · Honolulu, Hawaii · founded 2011 · 28 employees$64.4Mraised▾
Provider of anti-counterfeiting solutions for businesses. They are involved in manufacturing microscopic edible barcodes for product authentication. The company develops and offers invisible, heat-resistant, and edible micro tags for product authentication, brand protection, and product traceability. These micro tags are made using spectrally coded silica and can be scanned using its proprietary scanners thus acting as a counter-measure for counterfeited luxury and branded products. The target industry includes pharmaceuticals and nutritional products, food & beverage products, electronics, and a range of luxury and licensed goods.
- Nov 2021Series D$14.7M
- Oct 2019Series C$7.5M
- Aug 2019Series B$25.5M
- Dec 2017Series A—
#3
Seed · Honolulu, Hawaii · founded 2015$1Mraised▾
Manufacturer of super-cooling food storage device. It has developed a supercooling food storage device that does not need ice. The device works on the supercooling technique by a combination of pulsed electric and magnetic fields. The technique lowers the water temperature to below freezing point without forming ice crystals, that damages the cell structure.
- Sep 2023Grant (prize money)$275K
- Jul 2021Grant (prize money)$100K
- Sep 2017Grant (prize money)$596.6K
- Apr 2017Grant (prize money)$49.7K
#4
Series A · Honolulu, Hawaii · founded 2015 · 24 employees$11.5Mraised▾
Producer and supplier of cannabis products. Its offerings include flowers, concentrates, tinctures, topicals. The company is involved in growing, producing, and supplying medical cannabis strains.
- Nov 2019Series A$750K
- Nov 2016Conventional Debt$4.8M
- Jul 2016Series A$3.9M
- May 2016Seed$2.1M
#5
Seed · Honolulu, Hawaii · founded 2015 · 11 employees$65Kraised▾
Oʻahu's best local groceries delivered: fresh produce, ethical meats, and more. It is a marketplace connecting consumers with local farmers and producers, offering a wide selection of Hawaiʻi-grown food and goods. They provide convenient online grocery shopping with home delivery across Oʻahu and pickup options. The company focuses on fresh produce, ethical meats, dairy, pantry staples, prepared foods, snacks, drinks, and more, all sourced locally. They support the local food system by partnering with small and medium-scale farms, ranches, and food makers. They aim to make local food accessible to everyone, accepting SNAP-EBT and offering discounts to eligible customers. The platform offers features like cart, login, account management, delivery date selection, and search. They also provide recipes and producer spotlights to enhance the shopping experience. The business model emphasizes sustainability, community support, and access to quality local food.
- Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$20K
- Sep 2021Grant (prize money)$748.9K
- 2017Seed$65K
- Grant (prize money)$498.8K
#6
Funding Raised · Wahiawa, Hawaii · founded 1993$300Kraised▾
Hawaii's largest compost producer, recycling green waste into valuable soil products. They transform recycled materials into resources that support a healthier island environment. Committed to sustainability, they divert, recycle, and compost green waste to reduce landfill use. They produce locally-made value-added end products such as compost, mulch, wood chips, soil amendments and erosion socks. These products revitalize soil, promote stronger and healthier growth, improves aeration/water retention and enhances nutrient availability, improving soil structure. They offer material drop-off services and bulk ordering for pickup. They provide soil and compost for amending raised beds and gardens, leveling lawns, top dressing, wall construction, lawn installation, drainage, path/walkways, and beautification/weed control. They accept Visa and Mastercard. They are a licensed facility monitored by the State Department of Health. They offer facility tours.
- Jul 2010Grant (prize money)$300K
#7
Seed · Honolulu, Hawaii · founded 2012$49Kraised▾
Diagenetix has developed a Gene-based DNA amplifier called Smart-Dart. Like all Gene-based solutions it is highly sensitive, accurate, and adaptable. Smart-Dart is based on an isothermal amplification method, which when combined with Diagenetix's molecular probe, hardware, and a smart-phone or tablet results in a mobile, real-time diagnostic platform. The app is currently only available for Android. Has currently raised more than $20k on its Indiegogo goal of $20k. Currently undergoing incubation at the R/A Techstars-accelerator.
- Jul 2016Grant (prize money)$49K
- Feb 2015Seed—
- Sep 2014Seed—
#8
Seed · Kailua, Hawaii · founded 2020—raised▾
Online marketplace for fish. Its marketplace connects consumers and restaurants to the freshest fish and allows users to purchase fish directly from the fishermen.
- Aug 2022Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food and Agriculture Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Food Technology is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Food Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 4,142 United States-affiliated papers.
- Cornell University153
- Purdue University West Lafayette134
- University of Georgia82
- Michigan State University81
- University of California, Davis79
- Food safety4→52
- Food processing2→31
- Food science1→13
- Contamination1→12
- Food products1→12
- Food safety16→214
- Food processing12→174
- Agriculture14→135
- Production (economics)7→122
- Food security3→117
- Food safety56→397
- Food security40→307
- Agriculture35→233
- Food processing54→215
- Food systems28→180
Where food tech is researched across United States
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.
Who's filing food tech patents in the United States
United States food tech patent filing is cooling — 817 filings from 475 assignees (2016–2025), led by Whirlpool, Sharkninja Operating, Provisur Technologies; annual filings 80→68.
- Whirlpool185
- Sharkninja Operating151
- Provisur Technologies51
- Smartwash Solutions39
- SAFE Foods32
- LYCO MFG32
- Massachusetts INST Technology20
- Ecolab USA18
Common questions
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