Top 10 Startups developing AI for Agriculture in USA

Sep 08, 2025 | By Siddhant Patel

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Funding: $592.9M
Benson Hill Biosystems helps solve the world's greatest challenges by combining plant biology, data analytics and cloud computing. It uses ML for analyzing crop gene influence.
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Funding: $143.9M
Carbon Robotics makes advanced robotics dramatically more accessible to help solve some of society's most intractable problems. Carbon Robotics’ revolutionary, high-precision CV approach improves crop yield
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Funding: $70M
FarmWise builds adaptive robots to farm every single plant.
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Funding: $34M
Hippo Harvest develops an agriculture technology to help scale sustainable agriculture.
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Funding: $31.1M
Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries. Its LettuceBot uses cutting edge computer vision and robotics to identify over 1.5M lettuce plants per hour and act 90 times per second, all with 1/4-inch precision.
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Funding: $25.5M
Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines.
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Funding: $25.8M
Orchard Robotics develops an operating system that enables precision agriculture driven by robots and AI.
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Funding: $14.9M
Avalo is a plant biotech company using AI and evolution to make a more sustainable and resilient food system.
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Funding: $4.5M
Harvest CROO Robotics has developed a robot to help strawberry farmers pick and pack their crops.
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Funding: £2.9M
Fieldwork Robotics makes soft, selective, and autonomous harvesting robots.
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Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)pro