Grant Funded Agriculture and Farming Startups
The 38 grant-funded agriculture and farming companies in this dataset received awards between July 2021 and October 2022, with disclosed amounts ranging fr…
The 38 grant-funded agriculture and farming companies in this dataset received awards between July 2021 and October 2022, with disclosed amounts ranging from $50K (EarthSense, Champaign, Illinois) to $45M (Winrock International, Little Rock, Arkansas). Grants of this type carry a distinct signal from equity rounds — they typically reflect pre-commercial technology validation, mission-aligned mandates, or public-sector research priorities rather than near-term commercialization pressure. The top end of this dataset is concentrated: Winrock International at $45M, Maple Hill Creamery at $20M, Oxitec at $18M, and N2 Applied at $17M account for the bulk of disclosed capital. A separate cluster of exactly $100K grants — covering PheroSyn, OroraTech, Lepidext, Renaissance Fiber, OKO, and Holganix across six countries — reflects common government and foundation grant floor sizes for agtech exploration.
Canada is disproportionately represented, with Toronto (Flash Forest, Vivid Machines, CELL AG TECH), Halifax (Nexus Robotics, Milk Moovement), and Vancouver (Sentire, Terramera) each hosting multiple recipients. The UK contributes four entries — Earth Rover, Oxitec, PheroSyn, and Roslin Technologies — spread across London, Abingdon, Harpenden, and Edinburgh.
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What are the largest disclosed grant rounds in this dataset?
Winrock International (Little Rock, Arkansas) leads at $45M, awarded in September 2022. Maple Hill Creamery (Kinderhook, New York) received $20M the same month, and Oxitec (Abingdon, UK) received $18M in April 2022. N2 Applied (Oslo, Norway) received $17M in October 2021, rounding out the top four disclosed amounts.
How common are undisclosed grant amounts, and which companies have them?
Four of the 38 entries carry undisclosed amounts: Greater Chicago Food Depository (Chicago, Illinois), Groam (Zürich, Switzerland), Roslin Technologies (Edinburgh, UK), and Advanced Farm Technologies (Davis, California). That represents roughly 10% of the dataset.
Which cities appear most frequently among these grant recipients?
Toronto is the most represented single city, with Flash Forest, Vivid Machines, and CELL AG TECH all receiving grants in 2022. Chicago appears twice — Greater Chicago Food Depository and Urban Growers Collective — as does Halifax, Nova Scotia, with Nexus Robotics and Milk Moovement. Vancouver hosts both Sentire and Terramera.
What is the typical grant size for early-stage agtech companies in this data?
A pronounced cluster sits at exactly $100K: PheroSyn, OroraTech, Lepidext, Renaissance Fiber, OKO, and Holganix all received that amount between October 2021 and March 2022. Below that, EarthSense received $50K, while grants in the $200K–$710K range — including SomaDetect, Vivid Machines, and Flash Forest — represent the next tier.
How geographically diverse is this grant-funded agtech cohort?
The 38 companies span 14 countries across six continents. Beyond the US and Canada, entries include Satyukt and Weather Risk Management Services in India, OroraTech in Munich, EcoTree in Bretagne (France), OKO in Bamako (Mali), SiembraCo in Bogotá, THE EARTH SAYS in Santiago, and SEPPURE in Singapore — indicating broad international distribution of public and institutional agtech funding.
What technology categories are represented among these grant recipients?
Coverage is wide. Soil microbiome analysis appears with Biome Makers (West Sacramento); drone-assisted reforestation with Flash Forest (Toronto); field robotics with Nexus Robotics and Earth Rover; dairy quality sensing with SomaDetect; satellite-based crop monitoring with Cloud Agronomics and OroraTech; biological pest control with Oxitec and PheroSyn; and electrochemical nitrogen fixation with N2 Applied (Oslo).
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