2021 Winners

Pultneyville, NY
Agri-Trak helps specialty crop farms solve one of agriculture’s greatest challenges: managing increasingly complex labor, food safety, and chemical compliance requirements while remaining profitable.

Agri-Trak website

Katonah, NY
Asarasi The Tree Water Company & Nekter Pop harnesses pure, renewable water sustainably harvested from maple trees to create premium, USDA-certified organic beverages.

Asarasi website

Ithaca, NY
Ascribe Bioscience is an Ithaca, NY-based agricultural technology company developing natural crop protection solutions. Ascribe’s biofungicide, harnesses small molecules from the soil microbiome to create effective, environmentally friendly disease control solutions that help farmers grow more resilient crops and harvest higher yields.

Ascribe Bioscience website

New York City, NY
Beemmunity uses microparticle detoxification to provide solutions that protect and preserve pollinator species, changing the impacts of agrochemicals, preserving pollinator species for future generations.

Rochester, NY
Crystal Creek has a patented process that converts soluble phosphorus in dairy farm manure into by-product that can be sold to generate additional revenue. The remaining, phosphorus-free liquid is left on the farm, dramatically lowering the farm’s spreading costs.

Crystal Creek Organics website

Houston, TX
Emgenisys is a state-of-art embryo health assessment platform that provides the most comprehensive embryo evaluation system, improving pregnancy outcomes of assisted reproductive technologies in livestock.

EmGenisys website

Evanston, IL
Every Body Eat makes delicious, clean, and craveable snacks made everyone can enjoy because they are free from top allergens and contain no seed oils.

Every Body Eat website

Ithaca, NY
Heat Inverse’s CoolFilm is a thin, roll-to-roll manufactured film applied directly to outdoor equipment. It emits thermal radiation through atmospheric windows and is also highly reflective to the solar spectrum, enabling over 10°C cooling (up to 45°F observed at pilot sites) without electricity, refrigerants, or moving parts.

Heat Inverse website

Oxford, UK
Kyomei has developed a first-in-class protein production platform using plants as bioreactors to grow animal proteins at scale for the alternative meat industry. Kyomei’s platform is sustainable, carbon negative, and produces proteins identical to those found in meat.

Kyomei website

Rochester, NY
Lean Sensory helps food and beverage companies make better product decisions through tasting and sensory science. They combine tasting software, consumer research, training, and practical AI tools to help teams understand flavor, improve quality, and create products consumers love.

LeanSensory website

Brooklyn, NY
Lupii is unleashing the power of the small‑but‑mighty Lupini bean and disrupting the snack and meal bar category with its first snack-size line of flavors. Lupii Bars, the most unique, vegan protein bars on the block, offers one of the first whole bean based bars on the market.

Surrey, Canada
Neupeak’s fully autonomous berry harvesters are designed to work in all weather and lighting conditions, alongside human workers, to save farmers money by charging a fixed rate per pound of berries collected.

Neupeak Robotics website

Copenhagen, Denmark
Nordetect provides rapid chemical analysis for nutrients in the Agrifood industry. The company’s first product is a lab-on-a-chip test for nutrients found in soil, water, and leaf samples, aimed at optimizing the amount of fertilizer used to cultivate crops.

Nordetect website

Geneva, NY
Nutreat is a line of low glycemic, healthy sweet snacks that leverage science-driven innovation, 100% natural, real, whole food ingredients, and a commitment to uncompromising flavor, and can be enjoyed on the go.

Nutreat website

Austin, TX
Persistent BioControl™ produces biocontrol nematodes that attack, kill, and multiply inside Western Corn Rootworm larvae before they damage crop yield. They are compatible with all CRW management programs, traited corn varieties, soil insecticides, and soil types.

Persistent BioControl website

Woodland, CA
Using a new kind of pheromone from microscopic roundworms nematodes to control agricultural pests in the soil so farmers can grow more food. Pheronym’s products control agricultural pests effective while nurturing the topsoil with a minimal environmental footprint.

Pheronym website

North Tonawanda, NY
Tropos uses patented air control and state-of-the-art environmental controls to offer a superior climate management system, improving sustainability, operations, and food safety standards for greenhouses and indoor farms.

Rochester, NY
WeRadiate revitalizes land through a systematic and data-driven approach of technology and machine learning enhancing soil-nutrients.

WeRadiate website