Breaking Ground, Breaking Soil: The Hottest Startups in AgTech Hiring Now
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Across the $7.4B global agtech market, entrepreneurs are crafting solutions to some hefty challenges.
Faced with the prospect of feeding nearly 10 billion people by 2050—which would require a 60% increase in food production—tech companies are working to boost food production and fish supplies without damaging ecosystems or encroaching too much land.
Companies are helping farmers face down a global farm labor shortage by deploying automation and robotics. They’re also leveraging things like satellite imagery, genomics, and drone-based precision farming to raise healthier livestock and crops.
Check out our list of the top agtech companies hiring now.
Works to improve food quality, reduce waste and ensure an abundant future for our planet501-1000 Employees- B2B
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- 4.5Highly ratedApeel Sciences is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 4.5 out of 5 stars
- 4.2Work / Life BalanceEmployees rate Apeel Sciences 4.2/5 on Glassdoor for work / life balance
- 4.2Strong LeadershipEmployees rate Apeel Sciences 4.2/5 on Glassdoor for faith in leadership
- Website
- https://www.apeel.com/
- Employees
- 501-1000
- Locations
- Goleta
- About
Apeel uses materials that exist in the peels, seeds, and pulp of all fruits and vegetables to create a protective extra peel that seals moisture in and keeps oxygen out. That means our produce stays fresh, nutritious, and delicious twice as long.
Apeel is comprised of highly talented and driven team members who are excited by the opportunity to challenge the status quo, are obsessed with solving problems, and are truly committed to living and breathing our values in their everyday work.
We believe that our culture of supporting and empowering our employees is absolutely fundamental to our company’s success and continued growth, and that this in turn enables us to continue investing in our employee base.
- Industries
- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- http://tracegenomics.com/
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Burlingame
- About
Help us in restoring the planet's soil.
Do you thrive in a creative, inclusive and problem-solving environment? Do you want to have a meaningful impact on the future of food? Would you like to make a difference in the lives of agronomists, farmers and the agriculture industry?
If you’re willing to dream big, work hard and take risks, come join us at Trace Genomics. We’re a highly diverse team focused on solving one of the world’s biggest challenges—the degradation of a third of the planet’s soil.
- Industries
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
Technology for Clean Food. Creating a world with affordable, clean food for everyone51-200 Employees- Website
- http://terramera.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- Vancouver
- About
Our mission is simple: To use technology to unlock the power in nature, so we can live healthier, make clean food affordable and feed the world.
We are committed to cultivating safe, healthy homes and environments, and making organic food and sustainable farming cheaper, more productive and abundant.
We know we can create tremendous value while leaving our planet better than we found it.
- Industries
- Renewable Energies
- B2B
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://www.producepay.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- Los Angeles
- About
ProducePay is helping farmers feed the world by solving the two deepest pain points in the agricultural industry: access to working capital financing and produce procurement.
Our product is at the intersection between tech, finance, and agriculture. Based in Downtown Los Angeles, we’ve raised over $85MM to create the agricultural trade’s first ever online trading platform for perishable food and have built a financial solution for hundreds of growers, distributors, and receivers across the world.
- Industries
USDA-Funded Ag-Tech To Extend Produce Shelf-Life In Supply Chain (B2B)11-50 Employees- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Chicago
- About
Hazel hates waste. Over 30% of produce harvested is never consumed. We think that’s unacceptable.
At Hazel Tech, we are passionate about saving food and resources. We are dedicated to solving the problem of food waste in an eco-friendly and sustainable manner.
Our product, FruitBrite™, is a packaging insert that extends the shelf life of ethylene sensitive produce, especially tropical produce varieties and commercial melon cultivars.
- Industries
- Website
- http://www.smallhold.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- Brooklyn
- About
Mushrooms for the people.
We started growing mushrooms in 2017 because we were intrigued by their mysterious nature and thought they might be the key to feeding the world. Since then, we've invented proprietary technologies and a robust supply chain to build small, high-output local farms across the country.
We believe that whatever the future may bring, the closer we get to our food—and the more love we put into growing it—the better we will treat each other and our environment.
- Industries
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Richmond
- About
Babylon® began with the idea of growing food where it was never thought possible.
Founders Alexander Olesen and Graham Smith met at the University of Virginia where they first designed a low-cost Micro-Farm™ to provide nutritious produce for food-insecure refugees in the Middle East.
Their goal was to bring the benefits of sustainable hydroponic farming to anyone who needed it. As a result, they developed technology that would automate the complex aspects of indoor farming by simplifying crop production and making it accessible to anyone.
- Industries
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- http://www.farmart.co/
- Employees
- 201-500
- About
FarMart is a B2B food tech platform enabling businesses to source the best quality products at the lowest prices.
We leverage technology, trust in local farming communities and employ under-utilized assets of agri-input dealers at the first mile to make the sourcing efficient.
Farmart is a great organization to work in. It has an open door policy wherein you can reach out to anyone be it the CEO or anyone else for that matter. It in a pretty flat organization where hierarchies don't matter that much. Pretty chilled out place to work in.
- Industries
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://scanworld.be/
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- Belgium
- About
Agriculture is both one of the major contributor to climate change, and one of its first victims. Coincidentally, agriculture is also a key lever to enable a smooth transition to a more sustainable world - but that will require data-driven decisions.
ScanWorld delivers Level 2 hyperspectral imagery, twice a week, for any point of the globe. This enables a wide range of applications such as soil organic carbon estimation, early disease alerts, or even water and fertilisers management.
Today we use third-party spacecraft complemented with aerial imagery. As of 2023, we'll start deploying our own constellation of small satellites in low-Earth orbit.
- Industries
- Space Satellites
- B2B
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Website
- http://precisionhawk.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- About
AIRBORNE INTELLIGENCE.
PrecisionHawk provides the capability to gather actionable, extremely high-resolution remote sensing data through the most easy-to-use, low-cost and reliable unmanned aircraft available today.
The unmanned aircraft system, a small robotic plane, can collect high-resolution remote sensing data to provide invaluable, real-time data for such applications as land surveying, agriculture, security, forestry, chemical, and field conditions.
- Industries
- Unmanned Air SystemsHybrid Vehicles
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