Best Smart Farming Companies in United States
The 153 best Smart Farming companies in United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: granular.
Smart Farming in the United States is moving fast enough that ranking companies by disclosed equity funding actually tells you something useful right now. We're tracking 153 companies here, with total disclosed funding sitting at $28M, and one name accounts for nearly all of it: Granular has pulled in $27M, leaving the rest of the field, Farm Jenny at $430K, Acuity Agriculture at $100K, to fight for scraps. So where's the institutional weight? The global smart farming market was valued at roughly $14.5B in 2020 and is forecast to reach $48.4B by 2032 at a 15.16% CAGR. That trajectory is pulling capital in, even if U.S. early-stage rounds are still small.
The momentum is real at the app layer, where median install growth across 75 farming apps is running at plus-16% year-over-year. And if you look at what reliable crop management tools are actually doing on the ground, the demand story makes sense. The friction point is governance: the lack of standardized frameworks for data security and privacy is slowing enterprise adoption, and that's worth watching if you're evaluating any company in this directory. Investors like MassChallenge and THRIVE are still writing checks, which tells you the bet on U.S. smart farming infrastructure isn't fading.
Ranked: Best Smart Farming companies in United States
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | granular Granular is a software and analytics platform that helps farmers operate more efficiently and make better… | $27M | 129 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2009 | Apple iCloud MailApple Sign-inReact+11 | — | — |
| 2 | Farm Jenny Provides farm monitoring and management services to agriculture & livestock sectors | $430K | 78 mo ago | Seed | Rob Crouthamel Co-Founder & COO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Acuity Agriculture Developer of wireless sensors designed to make farming more productive and sustainable. | $100K | 122 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Haystack Automation solutions provider for agriculture businesses | — | 50 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | — | 8 patents Context-aware real-time video overlay generation and dwell-time driven search result ranking | — |
| 5 | 4ry 4Ry is a manufacturing company that offers aerosol personal care products, precision crop spraying, and green… | — | — | Private | — | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 6 | advanced agrilytics Advanced Agrilytics is a simple speculation or conventional practices. | — | — | Private | William Berg Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | 57 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 7 | Ag Spectrum Company Ag Spectrum Company was founded in 1984 by six men who were raised on family farms. | — | — | — | — | 1984 | — | 111 patents Saliva sample collection devices and nucleic acid preservation solutions for diagnostics | — |
| 8 | agbotic Agbotic is deploys intelligent automation to make the world's best food on the world's most ecological farms. | — | — | Private | John Gaus Founder | 2014 | — | 19 patents Autonomous precision farming machinery: AI control, self-locking gear, seeding and soil heating systems. | — |
Top 4 Smart Farming companies in United States
#1
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 379 employees$27.3Mraised▾
Developers of a farm management analytics platform designed to help farmers raise healthier crops with fewer resources. The company offers several tools including data-driven crop models, farmland research, and profit measurement down to the field level, enabling farmers and growers to build and sustain stronger businesses.
#2
Seed · Mars, Pennsylvania · founded 2017 · 2 employees$430Kraised▾
Developer of wearable technology and sensor-based equipment designed for animal farming operations. The company's equipment provides behavior-tracking wearables for animals, sensors around the farm, and a subscription option that provides alerts and recommendations to smartphones based on machine learning and predictive analytics to monitor farm animals, enabling farmers to save animals and improve productivity.
#3
Seed · United States · founded 2014 · 5 employees$100Kraised▾
Developer of wireless sensors designed to make farming more productive and sustainable. The company devices use the latest advancements in sensor technology, wireless communications, and management software, thereby, enabling farmers to become more efficient with their time.
#4
Seed · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2018 · 1 employees—raised▾
Developer of a soil carbon verification technology designed to reduce soil carbon measurement costs and scale global carbon sequestration. The company's service leverages elements of dry combustion, spectroscopy, remote sensing, and automation, enabling farmers to increase measurement accuracy, return on investment, and soil carbon market scalability.
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Smart Farming coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Precision Agriculture is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Precision Agriculture — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 2,521 United States-affiliated papers.
- Purdue University West Lafayette142
- Agricultural Research Service104
- National Research Council85
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln68
- Texas A&M University62
- Field (mathematics)3→61
- Scalability4→52
- Convolutional neural network1→46
- Identification (biology)1→44
- Crop1→34
- Sustainability1→56
- Sustainable agriculture2→53
- Irrigation12→61
- Agricultural engineering32→80
- Field (mathematics)21→67
- Sustainability4→41
- Food security1→22
- Field (mathematics)8→22
- Productivity2→16
- Sustainable agriculture3→14
Where precision agriculture 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 precision agriculture patents in the United States
United States precision agriculture patent filing is accelerating — 212 filings from 42 assignees (2016–2025), led by Stout Industrial TECH, American Science & ENG, BLUE River TECH; annual filings 7→16.
- Stout Industrial TECH28
- American Science & ENG24
- BLUE River TECH21
- Cohen Harris LEE18
- Agjunction17
- Valmont Industries15
- Stout Industrial Technology11
- AGCO9
Common questions
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