The $220 Million Inbox Problem
In March 2026, New Zealand livestock startup Halter raised a $220 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation. Largest agtech round of the year. You can guess what happened to their inbox.
In February, Singapore’s Polybee closed $4.3 million to put pollination drones into commercial greenhouses. One engineer there is choosing a cloud region, a telemetry stack and an edge device supplier right now. Almost nobody is emailing them.
That gap is the opportunity. The list below is useful and it is also the most contested set of accounts in the market. The real money is in learning how these 50 behave, then applying that to the thousands of funded agritech companies nobody writes listicles about.
The Top 50 Funded AgriTech Startups in 2026
Table A: 40 companies with a disclosed round between August 2025 and August 2026, by round size. Table B: 10 scaled platforms with no fresh round that are still buying. Every figure traces to a named public source, verified August 2026. The 20 largest fresh rounds are open below. Companies 21 to 50, the under-the-radar half your competitors are not emailing, are available through full access.
Table A: Fresh capital (Aug 2025 to Aug 2026)
| # |
Company |
HQ |
Category |
Latest disclosed round |
Likely buying trigger |
| 1 |
Halter |
New Zealand |
Livestock / virtual fencing |
$220M Series E, Mar 2026 ($2B valuation) |
US market build-out, device fleet scale |
| 2 |
Quantum Systems |
Germany |
Drones / aerial intelligence |
$178.1M, Feb 2026 |
Manufacturing scale, defence-grade compliance |
| 3 |
Tomorrow.io |
USA |
Weather intelligence |
$175M Series F, Feb 2026 ($1B valuation) |
Forecast compute, enterprise sales expansion |
| 4 |
Oishii |
USA |
Vertical farming |
$151.6M Series C, Q2 2026 |
New facility automation and energy systems |
| 5 |
Tropic Biosciences |
UK |
Gene-edited crops |
$105M Series C, Mar 2026 |
Lab informatics, regulatory data management |
| 6 |
Ecorobotix |
Switzerland |
Precision spraying |
$105M Series D+, Oct 2025 |
AI software hiring, fleet telemetry |
| 7 |
Asto CT |
USA |
Veterinary imaging |
$83.2M, Q2 2026 |
Imaging compute, clinical deployment |
| 8 |
Arya.ag (Arya Collateral) |
India |
Grain commerce / warehousing |
$80.6M Series D, Jan 2026 |
12,000 warehouse rollout, Smart Farm Centres |
| 9 |
Orbem |
Germany |
AI biological imaging |
$64.6M, Jan 2026 |
GPU capacity, hatchery deployments |
| 10 |
Hydrosat |
USA |
Thermal satellite intelligence |
$60M, Jan 2026 |
Geospatial storage, downstream analytics |
| 11 |
InnovaFeed |
France |
Insect protein / feed |
$59.5M, Q2 2026 |
Plant construction, industrial IoT |
| 12 |
Laxey |
Iceland |
Land-based aquaculture |
$54.4M, Q2 2026 |
Facility controls, water monitoring |
| 13 |
Sistema.bio |
Mexico |
Biodigesters |
$53M, Mar 2026 |
Field service software, LatAm expansion |
| 14 |
Pepper |
USA |
Food distribution commerce |
$50M, Feb 2026 |
Post-acquisition platform integration (Alima) |
| 15 |
GrubMarket |
USA |
B2B food supply chain |
$50M, Feb 2026 |
AI product build, roll-up integration |
| 16 |
BinSentry |
Canada |
Feed-bin monitoring |
$50M Series C, Aug 2025 |
Brazil market entry, sensor fleet |
| 17 |
Nitricity |
USA |
Nitrogen fertilizer |
$50M Series B, Sep 2025 |
Production scale-up, process control |
| 18 |
Breadfast |
Egypt |
Grocery / food commerce |
$50M pre-Series C, Feb 2026 |
Dark-store network, logistics tech |
| 19 |
NoFence |
Norway |
Virtual fencing |
$35M Series B, Sep 2025 |
US and European expansion |
| 20 |
SwarmFarm Robotics |
Australia |
Autonomous farm robots |
$30M Series B, Oct 2025 |
North America entry, fleet management |
| 21 |
WayCool |
India |
Food supply chain |
$22.7M, Mar 2026 |
Path-to-profit tooling, cost consolidation |
| 22 |
Orchard Robotics |
USA |
Crop vision AI |
$22M Series A, Sep 2025 |
Computer vision infra, grower rollout |
| 23 |
Varaha |
India |
Carbon removal / regen ag |
$20M Series B tranche, Feb 2026 |
MRV systems, expansion |
| 24 |
Carbon Robotics |
USA |
Laser weeding |
$20M Series D+, Oct 2025 |
Manufacturing, field telemetry |
| 25 |
Agtonomy |
USA |
Equipment autonomy software |
$18M Series B, Oct 2025 |
OEM partnerships, edge compute |
🔒
30 Companies Are Locked
The 20 under-the-radar funded startups everyone else is ignoring, plus all 10 scaled platforms still buying without a fresh round.
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| # |
Company |
HQ |
Category |
Total raised |
Why they still matter |
| 41 |
DeHaat |
India |
Full-stack agri platform |
$270M+ |
Rs 3,000 crore+ FY25 revenue, profitable, acquisitive |
| 42 |
Solinftec |
Brazil |
AI farm operations |
$162M |
860 employees, 22M+ acres under management |
🔒 All 10 quiet buyers are part of the locked set.
Also selling to growers, co-ops and agribusiness? Pair this with an
agriculture industry email list. These 50 vendors are a subset of a much larger buying universe.
The Category Pitch Matrix
“AgriTech” is seven segments sharing a keyword.
Precision ag and sensing
Ecorobotix, AgZen, Hydrosat, Tomorrow.io
BuyingGeospatial storage, GPU inference, edge devices
Open withCost per acre covered, or field latency
AvoidGeneric “AI for agriculture.” They quantify ROI. Bring a number
Farm management SaaS
xFarm, CropIn, AgriWebb
BuyingIntegration middleware, offline sync, localization
Open withA specific integration gap
AvoidPitching them analytics. They are the analytics
Marketplaces and supply chain
Ninjacart, DeHaat, GrubMarket, Arya.ag
BuyingLogistics routing, payments, warehouse systems
Open withUnit economics per transaction
AvoidAdding cost per order without removing two others
Agri-fintech, insurance, carbon
Agrolend, Traive, Varaha, Apollo
BuyingUnderwriting data, risk models, MRV, compliance
Open withDefault rate, verification cost, audit trail
AvoidTreating them as agriculture companies. They are lenders with a crop problem
Livestock and animal health
Halter, NoFence, BinSentry, Orbem
BuyingFleet management, low-coverage connectivity, power systems
Open withUptime and field failure rates
AvoidCloud-first assumptions. Half their compute works offline
Biologicals and genetics
Tropic, Biographica, Resurrect Bio, SenseUP
BuyingLIMS, bioinformatics compute, regulatory tooling
Open withTime to approval, cost per screened candidate
AvoidCommodity cloud pitches. Corteva, Syngenta and BASF partnerships mean enterprise security arrives early
Robotics and controlled environment
Carbon Robotics, SwarmFarm, Polybee, Oishii
BuyingSimulation, fleet orchestration, safety certification
Open withHours of autonomous operation, cost of a field callout
AvoidGeneral-purpose tooling. Every one of these is narrow on purpose
These 50 sit in 18 countries. If your motion is single-market, filter before you send:
USA,
UK,
Canada and
Australia lists each carry an agritech segment.
The Number Three Trackers Can’t Agree On
Pull WayCool’s total funding from three reputable sources and you get three answers.
| Source |
Total funding |
Rounds counted |
| Inc42 |
$303.56M |
17 |
| Tracxn |
$388M |
29 |
| CB Insights |
$309.46M |
22 |
Same company, same week, a spread of $84 million. It repeats at the top: Crunchbase logged Tomorrow.io’s February Series F at $175 million; PitchBook logged a $210 million Series F as Q2’s largest agtech round. Both credible. But if your scoring model treats total funding as a hard field, it is scoring noise.
Key Takeaway
Total funding is a vanity metric for prospecting. Last round size, last round date and current hiring activity predict whether a company takes your call this quarter.
This is also why databases scraped once and sold forever fail here. BharatAgri shut down in November 2025. Freight Farms went to Growcer, Trym into Canix, Acclym to CropX, AgBiTech to BASF. Five records a stale list still shows as live prospects.
A contact record without a verification date is a guess with a name attached. Hence
data verification and
data enrichment as continuous processes, and our side-by-side with
ZoomInfo and Apollo.
Where This Leaves Your Pipeline
Fifty names is a research exercise. A territory is 5,000.
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5,412
AgriTech companies with verified contact intelligence
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50,125
Decision-makers, verified August 2026, refreshed every 30 days
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Each record carries the fields that drive timing: funding stage, last round size and date, lead investors, M&A status, active hiring roles, pilots in progress, patents and grants.
One client put the real unlock in a line: they stopped pitching enterprise pricing to seed-stage founders. That is the Barbell Rule, learned the expensive way.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which agritech startup raised the most funding in 2026?
Halter raised a $220 million Series E in March 2026 at a $2 billion valuation, the largest agtech round of the year.
How many funded agritech companies exist globally?
Tracxn counts 29,786 agritech companies worldwide, of which 6,317 are funded and 2,194 have reached Series A or beyond.
When is the best time to pitch a startup after a funding round?
Days 90 to 180 after the announcement, when budget is allocated and the roadmap is firm, while most competitors have moved on.
Who are the decision-makers at funded agritech startups?
At $50M+ companies, VPs of Engineering, Heads of Platform, and procurement leads. Below $20M, the founder or first technical hire signs.
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