Grow-NY Startup Directory

The Grow-NY Startup Directory showcases selected finalists and winners from the seven rounds of our annual food and agriculture startup competition. The 8th Grow-NY Food & Ag Summit will be held in Rochester November 12 - 13, 2026.

Investment

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Category

Status

Founder Demographics

Year

Agri-Trak
Agri-trak

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

AgTrace
AgTrace

Florianópolis, Brazil
AgTrace is the traceability infrastructure for agricultural supply chains. Connecting every link — from farm to retail — with verifiable provenance data, giving companies full visibility to cut audit costs, manage risk, and access premium markets through trusted, transparent sourcing.


AgTrace website

Asarasi: The Tree Water Company
Asarasi

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

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Ascribe Bioscience

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

Benchmark Labs
Benchmark Labs, Inc.

Rochester, NY, USA
Benchmark Labs provides point specific weather forecasting for growers to understand the weather at their field. With 15 day hourly forecasts tailored to any weather station hardware – this technology allows farmers to understand when extreme weather is coming and react.


Benchmark Labs website

Bialtec
Bialtec

Delft, The Netherlands
BIALTEC is a biotechnology company developing microencapsulated precision probiotics for animal nutrition. The solutions improve feed efficiency, animal health and sustainability by optimizing the gut microbiome, reducing environmental impact and replacing antibiotic growth promoters.


Bialtec website

Brekland
Brekland

Brooklyn, NY, USA
Brekland is rethinking crop protection with biodegradable spray-on foams. The first product is an insulating foam to prevent multi-billion spring frost losses in perennial crops. The second product, adjuvants, turns foam into a smart carrier to add functionality and unlock new ag chemistries.


Brekland website

Clean Crop Technolgoies
Clean Crop

Holyoke, MA, USA
Clean Crop Technologies is a next generation regenerative seed and ingredient company, using its proprietary processing technologies to deliver cleaner product at competitive prices.


Clean Crop website

Clean Label Solution
Clean Label Solution, LLC

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

ClearLeaf
ClearLeaf

Cartago, Costa Rica
ClearLeaf offers GotaBlanca, a safe fungicide and bactericide for agricultural use. GotaBlanca utilizes patented technology to provide farmers with an affordable and effective broad-spectrum solution to address the urgent need for sustainable alternatives to toxic agrochemicals.


ClearLeaf website

Craft Cannery Contract Manufacturing
Craft Cannery

Bergen, NY
Craft Cannery is a contract manufacturer for sauces & condiments located in the greater Rochester, New York, area. They help take cherished recipes from your kitchen to the shelves of grocery stores, restaurants, farmers markets and beyond, specializing in the contract manufacturing of sauces, dressings, marinades, and more.


Craft Cannery website

Crover
Crover

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

DeepAgro
Deepagro

Rosario, Argentina
DeepAgro is an AI AgTech company with the mission to make Agriculture more profitable and sustainable. SprAI technology detects weeds in real time and applies only where it is needed, reducing costs and environmental impact for soybean, corn, cotton and peanuts farmers worldwide.


Deepagro website

Dropcopter - Aerial Applications for Agriculture
Dropcopter

Corning, CA, USA
Dropcopter provides pollination services using drone aircraft to help growers achieve a better fruit set and harvest. They also partner with Green Atlas to deliver ground-based scanning services that map orchards, providing precise fruit and flower counts, fruit sizing, color evaluation, and tree characteristics across entire fields.


Dropcopter website

DAC Dynamic Air Cooling
Dynamic Air Cooling (DAC)

Elbląg, Poland
Dynamic Air Cooling (DAC) is a new, environmentally-friendly air conditioning and refrigeration technology that uses no synthetic HFC coolants* and features no thermal emissions. It’s ideal for commercial, industrial and residential applications.


DAC website

Edenesque - Be the Love
Edenesque

Buffalo, NY, USA
Edenesque creates delicious chef crafted plant-based milks that provide superior nutrition with beautiful performance and inspire customers to be the love for themselves, their communities and their local economy.


Edenesque website

EmGenisys
EmGenisys

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

Ergo Bioscience
Ergo

Sunchales, Argentina
ERGO Bioscience develops plant cell technologies that help food, agriculture, and biotech companies create sustainable ingredients, proteins, and improved crops faster. Combining AI, biotechnology, and scalable manufacturing to accelerate innovation from lab to market.


Ergo website

Every Body Eat
Every Body Eat

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

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FaunaTech

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

Finger Foods Farm
Finger Foods Farm

Bloomfield, NY, USA
Finger Foods Farm is a vertically-integrated company, producing a line of convenient frozen meals made with ingredients sourced from New York farms. Founded by farmers, we combine exceptional local ingredients with heat-and-go convenience to make healthy, flavorful meals that fit modern life.


Finger Foods Farm website

Frost Methane Labs
Frost Methane

Juneau, AK, USA
Frost Methane turns waste methane into stable, recurring revenue for livestock farmers, while taking action on one of the strongest levers against climate change.


Frost Methane website

Grape.ag
Grape.ag

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

Heat Inverse
Heat Inverse

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

Hempitecture
Hempitecture

Sun Valley, ID
Hempitecture manufactures high performance natural fiber materials that replace carbon-intensive, high-embodied energy products in industries ranging from built environment to composites.


Hempitecture website

HempWood
HempWood

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

Hypercell Technologies
Hypercell Technologies

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

Joyn
Joyn Foods (Mush Foods)

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

Knead
Knead Technologies

Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Operating at the intersection of sustainability, technology, and social impact, Knead Technologies addresses two urgent global challenges: food waste and food insecurity.


Knead Technologies website

Labby
Labby

Boston, MA
Labby is creating the he real-time milk intelligence platform for the dairy supply chain using AI-powered spectroscopy and computer vision to replace labor-intensive lab testing and generating AI-ready data for the industry.


Labby website

Lean Sensory
Lean Sensory Systems (DraughtLab)

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

Livestock Water Recycling
Livestock Water Recycling

Calgary, Canada
Livestock Water Recycling (LWR) delivers PLANT systems that separate and treat dairy manure and anaerobic digestate, recovering clean water and nutrients on-farm. Their technology helps dairies reduce manure management costs, lagoon storage, generate methane avoidance credits, and improve environmental performance and herd health.


Livestock Water Recycling website

Living Ink Technologies
Living Ink Technologies

Berthoud, CO, USA
Living Ink transforms waste biomass (algae, yeast, bacteria) into a safe, renewable, carbon negative black pigment. This pigment is used in inks, cosmetics, plastics, paints and many other applications.


Living Ink Technologies website

Meala
Meala Foodtech

Haifa, Israel
Meala Foodtech enables food manufacturers to create clean-label foods with superior texture and functionality. The IP-protected plant protein platform replaces eggs and hydrocolloids, delivering exceptional binding, foaming, emulsification, and moisture retention across multiple food applications.


Meala Foodtech website

Medium Well
Medium Well

Tel Aviv, Israel
Medium Well develops BioResin – cost effective protein purification solution for precision fermentation, plant based proteins and recovery of proteins from food waste streams like acid whey, soy, pea and more. BioResin is produced from plant byproducts like apple pomace and can also remain in the final product as protein enriched fiber.


Medium Well website

Mothership Materials
Mothership Materials

New York, NY, USA
Mothership Materials converts agricultural waste into cost-competitive feedstocks for biomanufacturing via modular on-site processing. The technology enables sustainable materials, textiles, and precision fermentation at cost parity with conventional products.


Mothership Materials website

Nuravine
Nuravine

Woodstock, NY, USA
Nuravine is a modular, automated system giving indoor or outdoor facilities of any scale complete control of dosing, irrigation, and environment. We build our own hardware and software, seamlessly integrated in an affordable, rapidly improving package that keeps farmers ahead of the curve.


Nuravine website

Pheronym
Pheronym

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

PittMoss
PittMoss

Ambridge, PA
Pittmoss makes sustainable, organic soil and soil amendments from recycled materials and has been recognized as “Best soil in America” by several publications. Growing in Pittmoss leads to bigger, healthier plants using significantly less water and fertilizer and has been third party tested in university trails and by over 200 commercial customers.


PittMoss website

Pollen Patrollers
Pollen Patrollers

Nairobi, Kenya
Pollen Patrollers is a women-led agritech company using AI-powered Smart Hives and precision pollination to improve crop yields, protect pollinators, and strengthen climate resilience. They empower farmers and beekeepers with digital tools that boost productivity, biodiversity, and sustainable livelihoods.


Pollen Patrollers website

Pure Nanotech
PureNanoTech

Parsippany, NJ, USA
PureNanoTech develops nanobubble technology for controlled environment agriculture and large-scale irrigation. The oxygen nanobubble systems improve crop health and biofilm control while scaling to 1,000+ GPM for full commercial deployment across greenhouses and CEA operations.


PureNanoTech website

Renewal Mill
Renewal Mill

Canandaigua, NY, USA
Renewal Mill transforms nutritious food manufacturing byproducts into high-quality upcycled ingredients and pantry staples. By creating value from overlooked resources, they help food companies reduce waste, improve margins, and build a more sustainable food system.


Renewal Mill website

Roca
Roca Water

Alameda, CA, USA
Roca turns wastewater into fertilizer. The membrane-free electrochemical platform recovers ammonium from dairy and municipal waste streams and refines it into fertilizer-grade nitrogen products, cutting treatment costs for operators while creating a domestic, low-carbon fertilizer supply.


Roca Water website

Seen - Better calcium from food
Seen Nutrition

Ithaca, NY, USA
Seen Nutrition is a bone health nutrition startup that innovated the first dietary calcium chew made entirely from real foods.


Seen Nutrition website

Seneca Farms Biochar
Seneca Farms Biochar

Odessa, NY
Seneca Farms Biochar developed the first industrially scaled biochar kiln which continuously produces both biochar and pyroligneous acid free of both oils and tars directly from the kiln.


Seneca Farms Biochar website

SkyAcres Agrotechnologies Inc.
SkyAcres

Vancouver, Canada
SkyAcres builds Drop-In indoor farms for the cold storage rooms, packhouses, and barns farmers already own. A 3-level growing module rolls in on wheels and plugs into a wall outlet. Pest control is beneficial insects, good bugs eating bad, not chemicals. No plumbing, no pumps, no HVAC retrofit.


SkyAcres website

Slate
Slate Milk

Boston, MA
Slate was founded with the goal of creating a healthy chocolate milk they could drink every day. Today, Slate has expanded into new flavors and additional product lines, all of which are packed with protein from ultra-filtered milk, contain 0g added sugar, are lactose free, and are 100% plastic neutral.


Slate Milk website

Terra Bioindustries
Terra Bioindustries

Toronto, Canada
Terra Bioindustries uses a novel enzyme based process to create protein, sugar and fiber ingredients from agri-food sidestreams like Brewers Spent Grains (BSG – from breweries). Their products are in trials with some of the biggest F&B manufacturers.


Terra Bioindustries website

ThermoShade
ThermoShade

Los Angeles, CA, USA
ThermoShade’s patented radiative cooling panels provide effective, energy-efficient heat-stress relief for livestock and people. Our technology improves animal health and productivity while reducing reliance on costly, energy-intensive cooling systems.


ThermoShade website

Tiliter
Tiliter

Sydney, Australia
Tiliter builds a Vision AI platform that helps businesses turn images into trusted operational decisions. Organisations can create AI-powered image verification workflows for inspections, compliance, inventory and quality assurance, with technology proven at scale across more than 1,000 retail locations.


Tiliter website

Tomgrow
Tomgrow

Tel-Aviv, Israel
Tomgrow develops advanced growing-media technology that enables thriving, low-maintenance plants with significantly reduced water use. The proprietary hydrogel-based platform is designed for urban greenery today and scalable agricultural applications in the future.


Tomgrow website

Trebe Biotech
Trebe Biotech

Syracuse, NY, USA
Trebe Biotech is a biotechnology company developing a scalable and cost-efficient platform for the production of recombinant products using insect larvae as biofactories. The company focuses on animal health and biopharmaceutical applications, enabling rapid and flexible manufacturing of vaccines, therapeutic proteins, and diagnostic reagents.


Trebe Biotech website

UdderWays
UdderWays

Albion, NY, USA
UdderWays aims to invest in the long-term viability of agriculture by SMASHING through roadblocks to revolutionize ag solutions for farmers, by farmers, with a commitment of exceptional talent, advanced skills and groundbreaking innovation.


UdderWays website

Unibaio
Unibaio

Ithaca, NY, USA
Unibaio develops bioactive delivery technology that makes existing crop protection products significantly more effective. The biodegradable tank-mix additive enhances agrochemical performance, enabling higher yields and reduced chemical use without changing farmer practices, equipment, or supply chains.


Unibaio website

Vivid Machines
Vivid Machines

Toronto, Canada
Vivid Machines is an agritech company that develops AI-powered computer vision technology to help fruit growers optimize crop management. Its platform captures real-time, plant-level data from orchards and vineyards, enabling growers to monitor crop health, forecast yields, optimize labor and inputs, and make more precise farming decisions.


Vivid Machines website

WeRadiate
WeRadiate

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


WeRadiate website

Whipnotic
Whipnotic

New York, NY, USA
Whipnotic is the first swirled whipped cream that utilizes its patented technology to dispense an all-natural color and fruit-infused swirl with the press of the nozzle.


Whipnotic website

Zetifi
Zetifi

Wagga Wagga, Australia
Zetifi is a connected fleet technology company keeping fleets and lone workers connected and safe. Leveraging the power of telematics partners and Microsoft, they provide smart in-vehicle connectivity hardware and Marshal, the lone worker safety solution built to connect and protect your fleet and your team.


Zetifi website

ZILA Bioworks
ZILA BioWorks

Renton, WA, USA
ZILA BioWorks develops high-performance bio-epoxy resins made from renewable agricultural oils. The patented platform transforms renewable agricultural carbon into advanced materials for composites, coatings, adhesives, and electronics—reducing reliance on petroleum while strengthening domestic manufacturing.


ZILA BioWorks website