AgTech 12

Agrofocal 

Agrofocal is building a crop monitoring system that is easy to mount on any farm vehicle and that provides insights on yield and crop health in real time. These insights will enable farmers to make informed decisions that will increase production, reduce costs, and lessen environmental impact.

Agscent

Agscent Pty Ltd is a a bio/agritech company founded on farm in regional NSW, Australia, pioneering breath-based livestock diagnostics. We are set to revolutionize pregnancy testing, disease diagnostics and methane measurement with an affordable, cutting-edge nanotechnology platform.

With reproductive management being one of the most important economic variables in livestock production, Agscent's technology is initially focused on reproduction. Agscent has developed a non-invasive, rapid, cost-effective and easy to use breath diagnostic device for the primary producer sector. This technology will improve breeding productivity for primary producers and provide a safer option for pregnancy testing.

Alpine Bio

Alpine Bio is pioneering molecular farming—using plants as living bioreactors to produce high-value proteins at unmatched scale, cost, and sustainability. By engineering crops to express complex proteins traditionally made via fermentation or extracted from animals, Alpine Bio is establishing molecular farming as the third pillar of biomanufacturing, alongside microbial fermentation and cell culture.

BioBond Adhesives

BioBond is a materials technology startup developing next generation, cost-effective, high-performance, USA made plant-based adhesives and protective coatings for the packaging, construction, automotive, textiles, furniture, marine and aerospace markets.

Carboniferous

 Carboniferous is a carbon dioxide removal company (CDR) that uses crop residues to sequester carbon. Carboniferous has demonstrated our unique CDR pathway, which leverages anoxic and hypersaline conditions, to give value for otherwise discarded agricultural wastes. 

Heritable Agriculture

Born at Google X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory, Heritable Agriculture's focus is to expand opportunities in agriculture by leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence and gene editing. After 5 years honing our technologies at Google, we are now proud to be an independent entity.

Our products bring the best of AI to agriculture.

 Whether your needs are phenotype prediction, causal gene identification, or the design of effective genome edits, our technology provides unprecedented accuracy and resolution.

PhytoGenesis

Based on 20 years of work at the University of Kentucky and $11M in grants to bring it to commercial readiness, PhytoGenesis is a fundamentally different solution for protecting the world's crops from fast-evolving pathogens. For Ag investors, the biocontrol market is structurally problematic because a product that works in potatoes doesn't then work for corn or fresh produce. Each crop and pathogen needs its own solution, limiting upside.

PhytoGenesis' product, PreviSAR, is a single biobased solution for all crops. It primes an innate defense pathway native to all plants called Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR). It only needs to be applied once per season, and when applied to any leaf, it spreads through the whole plant. The result is a very meaningful savings to the farmer. PreviSAR can also be combined with existing crop protection products, be they bio or chemical.

Vivid Machines

Vivid Machines is at the forefront of AI-powered solutions that help orchards and vineyards precisely manage crops and accurately forecast yields to reduce labor and increase quality production.

Using AI cameras that mount onto farm equipment, the Vivid XV3 inspects every tree or vine in real-time, providing insights on buds, blossoms and fruit, while also detecting diseases and analyzing canopy health. Growers and their equipment get the insights they need to precisely prune, thin, irrigate and fertilize to optimize crop yield while reducing labor. 

4AG Robotics

4AG builds robots that pick, trim, and pack mushrooms with the overarching goal of providing farmers with robotics solutions to fully automate their current farming operations and consistently deliver great quality, yield, and value.