2023 Winners

Champaign, IL, USA
Agriwater uses electrolysis to precipitate contaminants from on-farm manure liquid, resulting in the elimination of odor, toxins, and GHGs from wastewater, maintaining environmental compliance, creating an additional water source, and providing recurring revenue streams from the sale of carbon credits.

Agriwater website

Endicott, NY
Big Yield Growers is a soil-based vertical farm operation that works with local communities to establish long-term livelihood and organic farming practices while providing the local area with fresh, high quality produce.

Big Yield Growers Website

New York, NY, USA
Blue Cove Fish is a low-volume craft seafood cannery that partners with local and sustainable suppliers of seafood, therefore contributing to the development of local aquaculture and food systems, while manufacturing canned seafood products with artisanal techniques and climate-smart packaging.

Blue Cove Fish, LLC website

Toronto, Canada
Cattle Scan’s cattle monitoring bolus allows dairy farmers to facilitate real-time monitoring of individual cattle, improving overall herd health, increasing production efficiency, and helping advance business sustainability and operational excellence.

Cattle Scan website

Ithaca, NY, USA
Clean Label Solution engineers proprietary fermentation technologies that transform soybeans into high-value feed for dairy cattle and convert agricultural waste into premium larvae-based feed for poultry and aquaculture. Its platform improves protein digestibility, reduces feed costs, lowers greenhouse gas emissions, and advances sustainable agriculture.

Clean Label Solution website

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Crover is the company pioneering a new category of unmanned systems: that of devices capable of moving through bulk solids and powders – it has developed the world’s first and only technology for robotic grain storage monitoring and sampling.

Crover website

Bangalore, India
FaunaTech has developed the first smartphone-connected, handheld diagnostic platform capable of measuring critical biomarkers in milk, fish, meat, poultry, and grains.

FaunaTech Website

Buffalo, NY, USA
FoodNerd creates positively processed plant-based food with a purpose. Their sprouting process maintains and increases the nutritional content found naturally in food, rather than degrading it.

FoodNerd website

Geneva, NY, USA
GR8PE by Stil-Bène transforms grape pomace, the skins and seeds left over after pressing grapes, into a powdered dietary supplement designed to improve digestive health.

Stil-Bène website

Cupertino, CA, USA
Grape.ag is agricultural intelligence for the future. They transform satellite and sensor data into real-time, actionable insights, giving growers the information they need to make smarter decisions from anywhere.

Grape.ag website

Murray, KY, USA
HempWood’s mission is to use the algorithm of a tree, reverse engineer the natural growth cycle, and utilizing biomimicry to transform hemp fibers and bio-based bonding agents into HempWood to disrupt the $60 + billion wood industry.

HempWood website

Ithaca, NY, USA
Hypercell delivers lab-quality detection of microbial contaminants in under an hour, on-site, with no equipment needed — helping food producers catch contamination early and protect consumers and profitability. Also applicable to hospitals, fermentation, cosmetics, and military.

Hypercell Technologies website

New York, NY, USA
JOYN Foods created 50CUT, the only industrial ingredient that blends seamlessly with ground meat, improving nutrition and taste while reducing costs and the carbon footprint. They help the meat industry adapt and grow profitably, without forcing consumers to change behavior.

Joyn Foods website

New York, NY, USA
KEHO makes complex science deliciously digestible, curating savory snack bars that are keto-friendly and 100% plant based. With no sugars, sweeteners, or artificial flavors or colors, KEHO packs up real food for real lives.

KEHO website

West Lafayette, IN, USA
LeafSpec is an accurate, affordable, and portable hyperspectral crop leaf imager that provides measurements of a plant’s physiological features such as leaf moisture content, chlorophyll content, nitrogen content, pathogen and insect diseases, and stresses from chemical sprays without damage to the plant.

LeafSpec website

Kennesaw, GA, USA
MycoLogic is a comprehensive solution for starting or expanding your specialty mushroom cultivation business. They provide hardware and software for semiautonomous cultivation of specialty mushrooms, as well as biological support and consultation.

MycoLogic website

Halifax, NS, Canada
SomaDetect’s cutting-edge sensor and software system provides farmers with the information they need to make the best milk possible, offering dairy producers automatic and reliable milk-based data directly from their milking line to streamline day-to-day operations of dairy farms.

SomaDetect website

Los Angeles, CA, USA
TAINR modernizes the grocery store’s outdated bulk aisle with a smart refill kiosk that moves inventory efficiently, reduces restocking times, and eliminates product losses and single-use plastic packaging waste.

TAINR website

Brooklyn, NY, USA
We Are The New Farmers brings the benefits of microalgae straight into smoothies with its fresh, frozen, farm-grown spirulina cubes that are packed with dense micronutrients and loaded with antioxidants.

We Are The New Farmers website

Wilmington, NC, USA
Wisely has developed a smart food storage system that reduces waste by allowing users the ability to track the time and conditions in which their perishables are stored.

Wisely website