69 Best Agricultural Biotechnology Startups to Watch in 2024

Indigo is an agricultural technology company utilizing natural microbiology and digital technologies to improve farmers' profitability, environmental sustainability and consumer health.

Total Raised: $620.50M

Last Funding: $175.00M (Series F)

Programming biolCellibre is a best-in-class manufacturing technology company.. Employing an organism-agnostic approach, we turn cells into specialized, sustainable factories for the manufacture of globally significant products at scale.ogy to turn cells into factories company

Total Raised: $18.21M

Last Funding: $6.71M (Unknown)

Sistema.bio is a manufacturer of prefabricated modular biodigester systems for farmers to produce fertilizer and biogas.

Total Raised: $15.00M

Last Funding: $15.00M (Unknown)

Inari is a biotechnology and agricultural technology company

Total Raised: $337.00M

Last Funding: $208.00M (Series D)

AgriProtein is a Cape Town-based developer of insect based nutrient recycling to create sustainable sources of protein for the mono-gastric animal feed industry.

Total Raised: $106.60M

Last Funding: $106.60M (Unknown)

Agriculture company developing novel methods of pest control

Total Raised: $85.00M

Last Funding: $85.00M (Series C)

Heraeus is a medical Devices founded in 1851 by Jan Rinnert.

Pairwise uses CRISPR, gene editing and natural diversity in agricultural crops to address global food challenges. The company is working to develop new varieties of crops.

Pivot Bio is a company that creates technology that is focused on nitrogen fixation in cereal crops through microbes.It was founded in 2010 and is located in Berkeley, California.

Apeel Sciences is a company that develops treatments to prevent spoilage of fruits and vegetables using molecules naturally found in peels, which maintain moisture and keep out oxygen.

An agricultural biotechnology company developing crop design platform to increase intrinsic crop yield

Pairwise uses CRISPR, gene editing and natural diversity in agricultural crops to address global food challenges. The company is working to develop new varieties of crops.

Calysta is a biotechnology company seeking to improve worldwide food security through making animal feed. The company is based out of Menlo Park, California and was founded in 2012 by Josh Silverman.

Tropic Biosciences is a genome editing company founded in 2016 by Gilad Gershon.

Sound Agriculture (formerly Asilomar Bio) is a company that produces agricultural products.

The EVERY Company (formally Clara Foods) is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.

Brightseed is a biotechnology company that uses Artificial Intelligence technology which discloses powerful compounds that are hidden in nature

Invaio is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company founded by Ignacio Martinez.

AgBiome is focused on the discovery and development of biological and trait products for crop production.