Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Utah, United States
The 78 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Utah, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Traeger.
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 Utah
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Traeger Manufacturer & supplier of wood fired grill | $180M | 81 mo ago | Public | Jeremy Andrus CEO | 1987 | Amazon WebstoreCart FunctionalityAmplience+40 | — | — |
| 2 | Aqua-Yield Provider of Nano-based aquaimization technology to increase crop nutrition and fertilizer uptake | $23M | 45 mo ago | Series A | Mike Bullock President and Founder | 2014 | — | 37 patents Nanoparticle-coated controlled-release granular fertilizers for enhanced plant uptake | 1 job opening · 1 launch · 1 expansion |
| 3 | Jolt Provider of operations management software for restaurants and other businesses | $22M | 59 mo ago | Series B | Josh Bird Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+32 | — | — |
| 4 | Ovation Customer engagement platform for food business 64Funding top 28%Tech top 29%Growth top 35%Patents top 38% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 28% Techtop 29% Growthtop 35% Patentstop 38% Moattop 38% Talenttop 38% Innovationtop 41% AItop 45% Productbottom 48% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 39% Customersbottom 9% Funding: Raised $17.9M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 7 yrs (1.0/yr) Tech: 46 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $18M | 4 mo ago | Series A | Derek Morgan President | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | 45 patents Advanced firearm fire‑control components: triggers, hammers, compensators, and AK‑type mechanisms. | — |
| 5 | Boostly Provider of marketing and customer engagement solutions for restaurants | $6M | 16 mo ago | Series A | Shane Murphy Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+16 | — | — |
| 6 | Kudo Internet-first brand offering gummies and protein popcorn | $5M | 16 mo ago | Series A | Brydon Cotter Co-Founder & Chairman | 2020 | Shogun Page BuilderShopifyTailwind CSS+21 | 10 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 7 | Forever Feed Technologies Developer of automated on-farm feed mills | $3M | 25 mo ago | Seed | Jack Jong Co-Founder & CEO | 2023 | — | 9 patents Controlled-environment vertical farming systems for automated growth and harvest of living matter | — |
| 8 | Integrated Ordering Systems Provider of POS software solutions for restaurants | $1M | 141 mo ago | Deadpooled | Joshua Stephens Co-Founder & CEO | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Integrated Ordering Systems Enabling take out, catering and online orders within restaurant groups. | $1M | 141 mo ago | Deadpooled | Craig Bodily Co-Founder | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Thrive Smart Systems Provider of smart watering solutions for home gardeners | $1M | 14 mo ago | Seed | Bryan Brittain Co-Founder | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 11 | OmniLytics Developer of biotech phage products for crop science, food safety | $700K | 155 mo ago | Acquired | Justin Reber CEO & President | 1954 | — | 52 patents Bacteriophage applications for food safety, animal sanitation, and microbial control technologies. | — |
| 12 | Skip Provider of smart display for self-checkout at retail stores | $600K | 78 mo ago | Acquired | Chase Thomason Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | 3 patents Optimizing network traffic and transaction processing through advanced queuing algorithms. | — |
| 13 | Krado Provider of an app and sensor-based plant care solution | $250K | 60 mo ago | Seed | Jesse Montgomery Co-Founder | 2019 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowYouTube+18 | 4 patents Precision soil moisture sensing and controllable irrigation for agricultural water management | — |
| 14 | shophero ShopHero partners with established grocers to enable online shopping of their inventory. | $115K | 120 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2015 | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesCalendly+14 | — | — |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Utah
#1
Series A · Provo, Utah · founded 2016 · 26 employees$17.9Mraised▾
Customer engagement platform for food business. The customer engagement and experience platform provides a solution to engage the customer using chat. It leverages machine learning algorithms to understand what improvements can be made on and off-premises. It provides intelligent insights about the individual customers based on behavioral characteristics. It also used to take customer feedback and online reviews. The feature includes the facility to respond to reviews, text marketing, online reputation management, and measurement of customer service experience. The pricing model is based on monthly usage.
- Feb 2026Series A$3M
- Jun 2024Series A$9M
- Jun 2023Series A$4M
- Sep 2022Series A$2M
#2
Series A · Provo, Utah · founded 2017 · 1 employees$5.7Mraised▾
Provider of marketing and customer engagement solutions for restaurants. It offers customer engagement and retention tools that allows restaurants to collect, track, and analyze customer data, feedback, and reviews from multiple sources including kiosks, third party platforms, social media, and more. Restaurants can also send promotional messages to their customers automatically. Users can also track and analyze weekly and monthly ROIs and plan their loyalty programs.
- Jan 2025Series A$22M
- Aug 2024Seed$5.6M
- Aug 2022Seed$500K
#3
Series A · Provo, Utah · founded 2020$4.9Mraised▾
Internet-first brand offering gummies and protein popcorn. Its product offering includes sweet and salt popcorn, garlic popcorn, white cheddar, immune support gummies, sleep support gummies, collagen support gummies, and more.
- Feb 2025Series A$1.4M
- Mar 2024Series A$4.9M
#4
Seed · Provo, Utah · founded 2018 · 3 employees$1Mraised▾
Thrive Smart Systems provides smart watering solutions for home gardeners. It offers a suite of wireless sprinkler valve, smart sprinkler controller, and moisture sensors to collect soil data and remotely monitor the irrigation activity.
- Apr 2025Seed$1M
#5
Public · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 1987 · 690 employees$180Mraised▾
Manufacturer & supplier of wood fired grill
- Sep 2019Series D—
- Jun 2013Series D$180M
- Venture Debt—
#6
Seed · American Fork, Utah · founded 2023$3.4Mraised▾
Developer of automated on-farm feed mills. It offers a sustainable and planet-smart solution for dairy and beef producers to reduce water usage and methane emissions to produce nutritious fresh cattle feed.
- May 2024Seed—
- May 2024Conventional Debt$3.4M
- Aug 2023Seed—
#7
Series A · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2014 · 37 employees$23Mraised▾
Provider of Nano-based aquaimization technology to increase crop nutrition and fertilizer uptake. Its technology involves the addition of ultra-purified water, reducing the particle size of liquid fertilizer or nutritional by a physical process, and then wrapping the particle in an aqueous shield that the plants can easily absorb. This results in dramatic volume reduction and hence less material usage.
- Sep 2022Series A$23M
#8
Series B · Lehi, Utah · founded 2012 · 107 employees$21.6Mraised▾
Provider of operations management software for restaurants and other businesses. The software offers tools for task management, temperature monitoring, employee scheduling, and labeling. It helps businesses achieve team accountability, digital food safety compliance, and enhanced employee performance. The platform is available on smartphones and tablets.
- Jul 2021Series B$21.6M
- Oct 2018Series A$7.2M
#9
Deadpooled · Draper, Utah · founded 2009$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of POS software solutions for restaurants
- Sep 2014Seed$455.9K
- Nov 2013Seed$750K
#10
Deadpooled · Draper, Utah · founded 2009$1.2Mraised▾
IOS's proprietary system is a company that provides certified call center staff to ensure that all orders placed from phone within a restaurant does not get placed on hold, receive a busy signal, or are rushed through their ordering. IOS offers a services like outsourced phone order handling, online ordering, and comprehensive reporting for restaurant brands in United States. All orders placed through the system directly goes to the retail point of sale system, which is then processed by the restaurants. The restaurants also know more about their customers and their ordering habits through its analytic reporting.
- Sep 2014Seed$455K
- Nov 2013Seed$750K
#11
Acquired · South Jordan, Utah · founded 2016 · 14 employees$600Kraised▾
Provider of smart display for self-checkout at retail stores. It enables the buyers at retail stores to scan and pay the bills through the smart display. It also enables the users to search the products in the store and use available coupons etc. Additionally, provides access to previous purchase history and receipts. Claims to have been integrated with multiple loyalty and POS providers. Also, provides insights on customer buying behavior. Its clientele includes Macey's, Broulim's, Lee's, Honey Bee Produce, and Ridley's.
- Dec 2019Conventional Debt$600K
- Jan 2018Seed—
- 2016Seed—
#12
Acquired · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 1954 · 9 employees$700Kraised▾
Developer of biotech phage products for crop science, food safety. The company develops phage-based products for bacterial disease and pest control. It offers biological solutions as alternatives to synthetic chemicals. The company provides products for agriculture, food safety, and industrial applications. It also provides contract manufacturing of phage-related products.
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
What Utah researches in food tech
- Utah State University5
- University of Utah4
- Mutah University2
- Southern Utah University1
- Kutahya Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi1
Common questions
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