YC Agriculture startups
32 Y Combinator companies in Agriculture, 3 of them from the last four batches. Its share of recent batches is 0.4%, down from 0.5% in the four batches before. About 21% are AI companies by YC’s tags.
- Signal
- Open
- Since 2025
- 6 vs 2 in 2023–24
- Acquired or public
- n/a
- Listed as inactive
- n/a
Share of each batch
Agriculture companies as a share of each YC batch since 2015.
Newest entrants
Too few Agriculture companies are five or more years old to show outcomes.
Building in Agriculture?
Open problems and funding on Questd for climate tech.
- General Catalyst · Five Critical Industries
- Founders Fund · Hard Tech Investment Thesis
- Khosla Ventures · Breakthrough Technology Thesis
- Techstars · $220K ($20K for 5% + $200K uncapped MFN SAFE)
Agriculture companies, newest first
32 companies
- Nitroduck
Monsanto for yummy crops, but without pesticides
Fall 2026Agriculture3Brno, South Moravian Region, Czechia - Molagri
Resistance free pesticides.
Summer 2026Agriculture4Toronto, ON, Canada - BrumbyAI
Robot Cowboys that Herd Cattle with AI Drones
Winter 2026Agriculture3Sydney, NSW, Australia - Nexa LabsAI
Implantable microchips and AI for cattle monitoring
Summer 2025Agriculture3San Francisco, CA, USAAcquired - Bindwell
Discovering new pesticides with AI
Winter 2025Agriculture24San Francisco, CA, USA - Red Barn Robotics
A Roomba for weeds on a farm.
Winter 2025Agriculture5Seattle, WA, USA - Feanix Biotechnologies
Farm Genetics Made Easy - Using DNA and Software
Summer 2023Agriculture5Asheville, NC, USA - Ohmic Biosciences
Genetically engineering plants for disease resistance.
Summer 2023Agriculture2San Francisco, CA, USA - Shinkei Systems
Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale.
Winter 2022Agriculture80Los Angeles, CA, USA - Instacrops
Helping farmers maximize crop yield
Summer 2021Agriculture34Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile - Micro Meat
Technologies for scaling up cultured/clean meat production
Summer 2021AgricultureMonterrey, N.L., MexicoInactive - UrbanKisaanAI
Foundation models and autonomous chambers for plant biology
Winter 2020Agriculture53Hyderabad, Telangana, India - Summer 2019Agriculture12Brisbane, CA, USAInactive
- Thrive Agric
ThriveAgric help Farmers in Africa access finance, insight and Markets
Winter 2019Agriculture227Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria - Enveritas
We verify global supply chains for issues like child slavery and…
Summer 2018Agriculture60New York City, NY, USA - Four Growers
Robots that feed the world - robotic harvesting and analytics
Summer 2018Agriculture14Pittsburgh, PA, USA - Beanstalk
Great tasting produce, farmed around the corner
Winter 2018Agriculture15Washington, DC, USA - Bear Flag Robotics
Autonomous driving technology for farm tractors.
Winter 2018Agriculture10New York City, NY, USAAcquired - Ovipost
Automated insect farming
Winter 2018Agriculture20LaBelle, FL, USAInactive - Entocycle
Automated factory to produce insect protein for farm animals.
Summer 2017Agriculture13London, England, United Kingdom - Modular Science
We're making it easier to do sustainable farming.
Summer 2017AgricultureSan Francisco, CA, USAInactive - BountifulAI
An Operating System for agriculture.
Winter 2017Agriculture4San Francisco, CA, USA - CowlarAI
Fitbit for dairy cows. Farms use cowlar's alerts & recommendations to…
Winter 2017Agriculture2Memphis, TN, USAInactive - Trade
We're building Africa's Commodity Exchange.
Winter 2017Agriculture3Broken Arrow, OK, USAInactive
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