Top Agriculture Startups in 2027

Afresh is on a mission to reduce food waste and increase access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh food supply chain. Our AI-powered solutions optimize the multi-trillion-dollar grocery industry's food ordering, production, and merchandising processes. We built the first platform capable of handling all of Fresh food’s complexities. We are relentlessly focused on helping grocers reduce waste, increase profitability, and bring better, fresher food to their communities. Afresh is currently deployed in hundreds of grocery stores across the United States and is on track to reduce 30 million pounds of food waste per year with our existing customers alone. By 2021, we're aiming to reduce food waste by a quarter billion pounds per year. We are a passionate team united by our mission to make an impact. As an Afresh employee, you’ll own meaningful work that will challenge you and change the future of how fresh, nutritious food makes its way through the supply chain. We hope you’ll join us!

The Hub Incubator Program Do you have a business or social enterprise or simply a great idea? Whether for-profit or not-for-profit, you can receive the support to grow or begin your enterprise. The Hub offers University of Guelph students and alumni funding, dedicated office space and access to experienced entrepreneurs. Take your enterprise to the next level by applying to the Hub. The Hub galvanizes ideas and helps develop them into high potential opportunities. The program is available to University of Guelph students and alumni working on innovative projects.

Overstory’s mission is to help solve our climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet’s vegetation. In our first step toward this mission, we are applying machine learning to satellite imagery to track forests and vegetation, helping to reduce the risk of wildfires and prevent biodiversity loss. We just raised a round of funding, led by Moxxie Ventures and Capital T. Other investors include: Pale Blue Dot, Omidyar Technology Ventures, Toba Capital, Overwater Ventures, Climate Capital and Techstars. If you want to have a real impact by working in climate tech, come join our talented, passionate team.

Comprehensive data platform that serves as the primary operating system for farmers providing everything for sustainable crop production, farm management and crop marketing technologies in one platform. The platform has over a dozen integrations ranging from equipment telematics, sensors, soil labs, CRM software, and other third party apps. Our precision ag technology built into our platform has a 91% whole farm retention rate and typically increases production by 10% while reducing green house gas emissions on average by .1Tonnes per acre. Recent, malt barley production using our patented variable rate technology increased profitable by 48% above other non-Decisive farms in the group. The increase in profitability came from increasing yield by 47% while lowering protein by 3% and plumpness by 7%.

Empowering farmers with remote-controlled electric robots to reduce costs, overcome labor shortages, and enable sustainable, self-reliant farming

Our work begins with farm planning. We dream big about what the land wants to be and how to implement regenerative principles and practices. Putting ideals into action is hard to do. We use a combination of community support, capital and markets to activate regenerative agriculture on the land. Our work learns from and contributes to an emerging and diverse community of funders, practitioners and purchasers.

Brekland is rethinking crop protection with biodegradable spray-on foams. Our first product prevents spring frost losses; our next product will turn foam into a smart carrier to add functionality and unlock new ag chemistries.

About our tech: With over 50 patents, ANELLO uses Silicon Photonics to dramatically reduce the size, weight, and power (+cost) of the fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG) typically required in submarines and large aircraft for measuring the most precise system balance for navigation. We call this new version of a FOG, a SiPhOG. We're building self-contained navigation systems (IMU&INS) with our SiPhOGs at a fraction of the size, weight, cost, and power of FOGs. We're bringing the navigation precision in GPS-denied environments that submarines have to autonomous devices for any use case (air, land, sea). Our products are dual use for commercial and defense customers. We are a profitable Series-B start-up shipping product for just the past 2.5 years, just 40 ppl. Our company culture is very collaborative and allows for the ability to own and contribute on multiple NPI products, while leaning more into other areas of technical interest. We have multiple products heading into high-volume production, with additional products at earlier stages of the lifecycle (including concept mode). We're backed by powerhouse companies like In-Q-Tel, Lockheed, and MESH. There is great interest in our technology and in a short time have strong revenue and designed into into many autonomous platforms in dynamic segments like Autonomous Maritime and Aerial, Construction/Mining, AgTech, Robotics. We have a very collaborative culture that promotes learning and innovation + we believe there is significant financial equity upside here given our revenue trajectory.

CropSights is a digital platform that helps growers make in-season decisions so you can unlock more value from your specialty crops.