It’s time for AGTECH innovation!
Congratulations to the winner of the 'Best Israeli Agtech Company' of 2022!
Startup Competition Finalists
for the 'Best Israeli Agtech Company'
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Investors Event
30 startups presented their latest innovation
to a crowd of investors and multinational corporations.
Stage 1: Pre seed - seed
Stage 2: rounds a-c
Meet the exhibiting startups
AGRIDRONES was founded in 2017 to develop innovative spraying solutions. AGRIDRONES develops systems for dispersing advanced and precise materials with management suite that provide the spraying companies the ability to spread materials in high efficiency and accuracy, analyze and keep spreading data while saving a lot of manpower.
AgrIOT is focused on providing accurate fertilizer recommendations for a range of crop varieties on various scales through the use of big data, cloud infrastructure, and sensorless IOT technology, as well as advanced optics, digital image processing, and an agronomic decision support system (DSS).
Agwa has developed a first of its kind vegetable-growing home appliance - AgwaGarden. Agwa’s AI driven cloud Virtual Agronomist monitors and remotely controls every aspect that’s relevant for growing vegetables, herbs and bulbs. Perfect solution for feeding the 21st century population with fresh, chemical free and eco friendly produce.
Arugga is developing autonomous robots which will treat and monitor every plant in the greenhouse. Our robots will provide a solution to one of the major challenges faced by growers - labor shortage and cost.
Automato is the only company that develops robots for soil greenhouses (85% of market) to face the emerging labor shortage in agriculture, started robot sales in its 15B$ market beginning in Spain.
Investment Stage: Seed
Website: https://automatorobotics.com/
Contact: dror.erez@automatorobotics.com
BetterSeeds makes use of genome editing technology (CRISPR-Cas9) in order to produce new varieties, incorporating game changing traits which are not available today across all crops due to the limitations of conventional breeding. We enable broad use of CRISPR across crops.
Investment Stage: Round B
Website: https://www.betterseeds.com
Contact: yarden.dloomy@betterseeds.com
BioDalia is a Contract Manufacturer for fermentation based products and Contract Research Organization for fermentation process development. We offer fermentation and downstream process development and scale up from lab scale fermenters to industrial scale.
Bioled provides a precise light spectrum, based on AI, a proprietary code, and hardware, that enables optimal lighting for all crops. Bringing our expertise and our partner's world-class research, we deliver the right wavelength and radiation intensity for any crop.
BioTip provides a simple to use detector for microbial food spoilage. With BioTip's technology, we can be sure that the food we eat is fresh and safe, eliminating waste and reducing expenses.
BugEra develops novel Black Soldier Fly (BSF) strains; utilizing genetic engineering we enable novel and sustainable oils to biofuel and novel biopesticides, specifically targeted and biodegradable
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bugera-biotechnology/
Contact: yoav@bugera-bio.tech
Bumblebee AI is a groundbreaking startup developing a bio-mimicking pollination technology. Understanding the inherent inefficiencies of honeybee usage for agricultural crops, our goal is to help growers increase their crops’ productivity & quality, gain control over the entire pollination process and support sustainability goals.
The Clarifruit fruit and vegetable fresh produce quality control software solution facilitates an objective, consistent, and cost-effective quality management process. This increases fruit and vegetable quality control inspector productivity by x3 and empowers the world’s fresh produce growers, marketing companies, wholesalers, and retail.
ClimateCrop is the first to discover a protein that improves photosynthesis efficiency by enabling the plant to store more transient starch in the leaves.
CropX provides the only DIY farm management platform that offers holistic insights enabling smart irrigation, fertilization and crop protection. Serving over 4,500 customers with 12,000 installations across 49 countries since launch, CropX has demonstrated 50% water and 20% agrochemicals savings, and 10% yield increase for all crop types.
DOTS is a revolutionary enabler of continuous, real-time soil nitrate monitoring set to optimize fertilizer usage, prevent waste, and protect the environment.
DriftSense has developed the first science-based prediction tool for growers, to know exactly when to make their most critical decision: when to apply pesticides to each plot for optimal precision
Edete has developed the world’s first commercially ready Artificial Pollination as a Service, using all-natural pollen and changing the delivery vector from bees, insects and wind to machines.
Fermata provides Machine Vision solutions for Crop Producers to reduce crop losses and significantly decrease the need for pesticide and chemical usage.
FreezeM operates in the insect arena, focusing on the breeding stage of the Black Soldier Fly - an insect which can meet 2 humanity's challenges - hunger and waste reduction.
Harnessing the power of AI to promote Aquaculture from prediction based to a real time data driven industry.
Groundwork BioAg produces highly concentrated mycorrhizal inoculants for commercial agriculture. As the first company to crack the code on cost-effective mass production of mycorrhizae, our inoculants are boosting yields and permanently sequestering carbon in soils across 15 major agricultural countries.
Investment Stage: Round B
Website: https://www.groundworkbioag.com/
Contact: yana@groundworkbioag.com
MetoMotion’s Greenhouse Robotic Worker (GRoW) is a platform for harvesting greenhouse crops and analyzing data for yield estimation and stress detection. GRoW addresses the most acute problem growers face today: the labor crisis. GRoW is a fully autonomous system that identifies ripe fruit, picks them, and packs them directly into a box.
PickApp is a data-driven management and decision support solution that revolutionizes labor-intensive farming. PickApp measures farmwork activity throughout the entire growth cycle and leverage data to reach peak performance.
Plant-DiTech is enhancing researchers’ ability to secure agriculture growth by introducing the PlantArray platform which enables Scientists, Breeders and AG-researchers to efficiently estimate, within days, the yield potential of many plants and their response to various stresses
Leading Ag-Nature-tech company- transforming tree-farming with its innovative "Intelligence Platform for Trees". This platform harnesses artificial intelligence and machine-learning tech to provide farmers, as well as carbon removal developers, with deep insights into their farms and forests, enabling them to optimize their supply chain
Highly accurate Shelf Life prediction system for Fresh Produce
Investment Stage: Seed
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ripe-guard/?originalSubdomain=il
Contact: itamar@ripeguard.com
Growin’s crowd-wisdom System is Multipurpose, scalable, soil-less, closed loop water system and season-less. The system is designed to predict and generate high quality yield in short-growth harvest cycles. The robotic ready system ensures superior food safety and minimal environmental impact near or amid consumer population centers.
The solution that we are offering to deal with insects is natural coating, which is nature friendly, made from natural ingredients, Bio-based and approved to be eaten, have unique surface properties that repel the clinging of any pests on it.
Investment Stage: Seed
Contact: mahmoud@slibio.com
SOLVEAT is introducing the “next generation” of functional food, utilizing a technological platform for a delicious integration of proprietary and active herbal compositions into various foods, applying the highest scientific, clinical and quality standards.
Taranis provides AI-powered crop intelligence solutions, delivering critical insights into crop health to maximize productivity and yield. We’re 100% focused on helping ag retailers and advisors demonstrate value for growers and build better relationships through full-service, leaf-level data capture.
Tevel Aerobotics Technologies is filling the extreme shortage in agricultural labor using fruit-picking Flying Autonomous Robots™. Tevel's robots are driven by state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and computer vision algorithms to identify and gently pick fruit.
Investment Stage: Round B
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tevel-aerobotics-technologies
Contact: danielle.e@tevel-tech.com
Smart solution for focus heating at greenhouse for both vertical growing and germination Energy efficient and GHG reduction while increasing yield
Viridix is a precision irrigation decision support system powered by Root Sense soil moisture sensor that save water, increase yield and raise profits.
The technology of XtrION addresses the future global shortage of food caused by the rapid growth of the population and the lack of necessary growing areas and resources in some parts of the world. XtrION's system controls the rate of nutrients enter the plant and by that increase growth rate
Investment Stage: Seed
Contact: matan@xtrion.ag
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Treetoscope offers a SaaS irrigation management platform, based on direct plant sensing technology.
Our groundbreaking ag-tech enables the unprecedented measurement of real-time actual water use of trees. Through the Treetoscope solution, growers gain great value as a result of the affordability, scalability, and ease of deployment.
