All the fundraising deals in the AgriTech market (from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026)
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The AgriTech market saw 22 equity raises above $500k between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026, totaling around $337 million across five quarters.
Funding was highly concentrated: just three deals, Halter, NoFence, and SwarmFarm Robotics, accounted for nearly half of all capital raised in the period.
Q1 2026 stood out as the most active quarter by deal count, with 11 rounds, though most were early-stage raises below $10 million.
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Insights
- Livestock management dominated AgriTech funding in the period, with Halter and NoFence together raising $135 million, more than the entire crop-input and field-robotics categories combined.
- Q1 2026 had the highest deal count of any quarter (11 deals), yet the lowest total capital raised ($69 million), pointing to a market reopening at the seed and Series A stage rather than through mega-rounds.
- The average AgriTech deal size dropped sharply from $45.1 million in Q2 2025 to $6.3 million in Q1 2026, a shift driven partly by the absence of a Halter-scale outlier in the more recent quarter.
- Field robotics and autonomy attracted capital across seven distinct companies and multiple product formats, from orchard systems to fertilizer placement to broad-acre weeding bots, suggesting the category is maturing beyond early hype.
- Europe generated the most deal flow in Q1 2026 with six raises (Kilter, UBEES, SenseUP, Biographica, Agreenculture, Aviwell), while Australia and New Zealand produced the largest single checks outside the US in prior quarters.
- Corteva Catalyst appeared as lead investor in two separate AgriTech rounds (Puna Bio and Resurrect Bio), making it the most visible strategic investor in the dataset and signaling an appetite for both biologicals and disease-resistance biotech.
- Biologicals and alternative crop inputs (Vestaron, Puna Bio, SenseUP, CryoBio) maintained a steady flow of rounds across all five quarters, suggesting investor confidence in input-science defensibility even during a cautious funding environment.
- The top deal in each quarter captured between 17% and 89% of that quarter's total capital, showing how a single breakout company can completely reshape the quarterly funding picture in the AgriTech market.
- Animal genetics and reproductive biotech entered the dataset in Q4 2025 for the first time, with Nbryo raising a $10 million seed round for bovine IVF, a category that had been largely absent from AgriTech funding lists in prior years.
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Summary table of the funding deals in the AgriTech market (last 5 quarters)
We define the AgriTech market as technologies purpose-built to improve agricultural production and input performance up to the farm gate.
We include on-farm hardware/software and services (precision ag, automation, sensors, farm management, decision support) plus agricultural input innovation (seeds/traits, crop protection, biologicals, fertilizers, animal health and feed).
We exclude downstream food processing/retail and consumer food apps, as well as generic logistics/fintech/enterprise software unless they are specifically designed for agricultural production use cases.
You can also read our detailed analysis to understand how funding activity in the AgriTech market has evolved over the last few years.
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| Name | What they do | Amount | Quarter | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonsai Robotics | Vision-based autonomous systems for orchard machinery (shaking, spraying). | $15.0M | Q1 2025 | BusinessWire |
| Avalo | AI platform that breeds climate-resilient crops like sugarcane and cotton faster. | $11.0M | Q1 2025 | AgFunderNews |
| Vestaron | Peptide-based bioinsecticides that replace conventional synthetic pest-control chemicals. | $20.0M+ | Q1 2025 | Vestaron |
| Puna Bio | Microbial seed treatments from extremophile organisms that boost stress tolerance and nutrient uptake. | $20.3M | Q2 2025 | PR Newswire |
| RootWave | Uses high-frequency electricity to kill weeds without herbicides in permanent and row crops. | $15.0M | Q2 2025 | RootWave |
| Halter | Solar-powered smart collars and software for virtual cattle fencing and remote herd management. | $100.0M | Q2 2025 | BusinessWire |
| Singrow | Combines plant genomics and seedling production to develop climate-resilient crop varieties in Asia. | $4.5M | Q3 2025 | AgFunderNews |
| NoFence | GPS-enabled solar collars and software for virtual fencing and rotational grazing management. | $35.0M | Q3 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Agreenculture | Retrofit autonomy kits that turn existing tractors and sprayers into certified autonomous machines. | $7.0M | Q4 2025 | AgFunderNews |
| SwarmFarm Robotics | Lightweight autonomous farm bots for weeding, spraying, and other programmable field tasks. | A$30.0M | Q4 2025 | Grain Central |
| Nbryo | Bovine IVF and embryo-production platform making elite cattle genetics more scalable and affordable. | $10.0M | Q4 2025 | Startup Daily |
| Biographica | Uses AI and genomics to discover drought tolerance and disease resistance traits for seed companies. | ~$8.7M | Q1 2026 | EU Startups |
| SenseUP | dsRNA/RNAi biopesticides delivered through engineered bacteria for highly targeted pest control. | ~$3.5M | Q1 2026 | AgFunderNews |
| Aviwell | AI-driven microbiome platform creating feed solutions that improve growth and health in poultry and aquaculture. | ~$11.9M | Q1 2026 | AccessNewswire |
| Spearhead Bio | Native genome-engineering tools that help crop breeders edit plant genomes faster and more efficiently. | $4.0M | Q1 2026 | AgBioInvestor |
| UBEES | Technology-enabled pollination service using professional beekeeping to improve crop yields. | ~$8.7M | Q1 2026 | EU Startups |
| Brilliant Harvest | AI knowledge platform for farm and heavy-equipment dealers to cut service downtime. | $4.0M | Q1 2026 | BetaKit |
| Polybee | Small autonomous drones for yield forecasting, crop monitoring, and pollination in greenhouses and open fields. | $4.3M | Q1 2026 | AgFunderNews |
| CryoBio | Biological frost-protection sprays and seed treatments validated across multiple US states. | $1.3M | Q1 2026 | AgTech Navigator |
| Upside Robotics | Lightweight autonomous robots that place fertilizer directly in the crop root zone on Canadian farms. | $7.5M | Q1 2026 | U Waterloo |
| Resurrect Bio | AI and high-throughput screening platform that engineers disease resistance in crops. | $8.1M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Kilter | AI-powered ultra-precision weeding robot that micro-doses individual weeds with herbicide. | ~$7.0M | Q1 2026 | AgTech Navigator |
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How has funding activity in the AgriTech market changed over time?
Q2 2025 was the most active quarter by total capital, pulling in $135.3 million, almost entirely because of Halter's $100 million Series D, which alone represented nearly 74% of that quarter's total.
Q3 2025 was the least active quarter, with only two deals and $39.5 million raised, driven by the absence of any seed-stage deals and very limited deal flow overall.
Compared to Q4 2025, total AgriTech funding in Q1 2026 rose by about 47%; compared to Q1 2025 (one year earlier), it rose by about 50%, though in both cases the increase is driven more by a higher deal count than by larger individual rounds.
If you strip out the top one or two deals per quarter, the underlying AgriTech funding baseline looks remarkably consistent across the five quarters, typically hovering between $30 million and $50 million per quarter, suggesting steady early-stage conviction even when the mega-round headline numbers swing wildly.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Total raised | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 3 | $46.0M | Solid start to the year with three mid-size rounds; no mega-deal to skew the total. |
| Q2 2025 | 3 | $135.3M | Halter's $100M Series D dominated; total would have been only $35M without it. |
| Q3 2025 | 2 | $39.5M | Quietest quarter; just two deals, both in livestock or plant breeding. |
| Q4 2025 | 3 | $47.0M | Steady activity with SwarmFarm's A$30M anchoring a diversified mix of categories. |
| Q1 2026 | 11 | $69.0M | Most active quarter by deal count; early-stage activity surged across biologicals, robotics, and breeding tools. |
| All quarters | 22 | $336.8M | A top-heavy dataset; the three largest deals account for nearly half of all capital raised. |
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Which startups in the AgriTech market raised the largest rounds over the last months?
These startups raised the most recently in the AgriTech market:
- Halter raised $100 million because it had proven that virtual fencing collars can replace physical fencing labor on cattle ranches at scale, with strong commercial traction in New Zealand, Australia, and a fast-growing US market.
- NoFence raised over $35 million to fund its US expansion and global growth; investors were attracted by the same virtual fencing value proposition as Halter, with NoFence having stronger roots in European livestock markets.
- SwarmFarm Robotics raised A$30 million to scale its lightweight autonomous weed-and-spray bots, with investors backing the company's plan to enter the large North American broadacre farming market from its Australian base.
- Puna Bio raised $20.3 million to expand internationally, with Corteva Catalyst leading a round that also drew in the Gates Foundation, signaling confidence in extremophile-derived biologicals for climate-stressed farming environments.
- Vestaron raised more than $20 million in an oversubscribed growth round to accelerate global commercialization of its peptide-based bioinsecticides, a compelling alternative to synthetic chemistries for sustainable crop protection.
- Bonsai Robotics raised $15 million to keep advancing its physical-AI autonomy stack for orchard machinery, targeting US growers facing acute labor shortages in specialty crop harvesting and spraying.
- RootWave raised $15 million to scale its electric weeding technology into the US and Europe, where regulatory pressure on herbicides and demand for chemical-free crop protection are both growing.
- Aviwell raised about $11.9 million to scale its AI-driven microbiome feed platform in poultry and aquaculture, backed by the Blue Revolution Fund with a focus on animal health and production performance.
- Avalo raised $11 million for its interpretable AI crop-breeding platform, helped along by a partnership with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners to develop more water-efficient sugarcane varieties.
- Nbryo raised $10 million at seed stage to build a bovine IVF platform that makes elite beef and dairy genetics accessible at scale, with trials already running in Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.
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Is the AgriTech market shifting toward smaller or bigger deals?
Across all five quarters, the average AgriTech deal size was about $15.3 million, but that number is heavily skewed by a handful of large livestock-tech raises.
The average deal size per quarter ranged from $6.3 million in Q1 2026 all the way up to $45.1 million in Q2 2025; the Q2 2025 spike was almost entirely driven by Halter's $100 million Series D, and Q1 2026's low average reflects a wave of seed and early Series A rounds rather than any slowdown in AgriTech investment appetite.
If you exclude the top deal in each quarter, the remaining AgriTech rounds cluster consistently between $5 million and $20 million, suggesting the underlying deal-size trend is stable and that the wide quarterly swings are outlier-driven rather than structural.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Avg deal size | Deals below $2M | Deals above $50M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 3 | $15.3M | 0 | 0 |
| Q2 2025 | 3 | $45.1M | 0 | 1 |
| Q3 2025 | 2 | $19.8M | 0 | 0 |
| Q4 2025 | 3 | $15.7M | 0 | 0 |
| Q1 2026 | 11 | $6.3M | 1 | 0 |
| All quarters | 22 | $15.3M | 1 | 1 |
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How concentrated was funding activity in the AgriTech market?
AgriTech funding concentration was very high in quarters where a single breakout company dominated: in Q3 2025, NoFence alone captured nearly 89% of all capital raised that quarter, and in Q2 2025, Halter accounted for almost 74%. Q1 2026 was notably more balanced, with the top deal representing only 17% of quarterly capital, a sign that early-stage AgriTech investment is broadening.
Across the full five-quarter period, the top three AgriTech raises (Halter, NoFence, and SwarmFarm Robotics) together accounted for about 49% of all capital, meaning roughly half the market's funding flowed to just three companies out of 22.
| Quarter | Number of deals | % by top 1 | % by top 3 | % by top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 3 | 43.5% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q2 2025 | 3 | 73.9% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q3 2025 | 2 | 88.6% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q4 2025 | 3 | 63.8% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q1 2026 | 11 | 17.2% | 42.5% | 98.1% |
| All quarters | 22 | 29.7% | 49.1% | ~99% |
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Which categories in the AgriTech market received the most funding?
Livestock management and virtual fencing captured $135 million, or about 40% of all AgriTech funding in the period, entirely because of two companies: Halter and NoFence both raised large, late-stage rounds off the back of proven commercial traction with cattle ranchers who needed a cheaper and faster alternative to physical fencing and manual herding.
Precision ag, robotics, and autonomy came in second with $85.8 million across seven deals, which shows this category is genuinely broad rather than concentrated in one winner: Bonsai Robotics, RootWave, Agreenculture, SwarmFarm, Kilter, Upside Robotics, and Polybee each addressed a distinct crop, geography, or field-operation task, and all attracted capital.
Crop inputs and biologicals ranked third with $45.1 million across four companies (Vestaron, Puna Bio, CryoBio, and SenseUP), reflecting continued investor interest in input alternatives to synthetic chemistries, particularly where regulatory pressure on herbicides and insecticides is tightening in key markets.
| Category | Number of deals | Total raised | Startups and amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Livestock management / virtual fencing | 2 | $135.0M | Halter ($100M); NoFence ($35M) |
| Precision ag / robotics / autonomy | 7 | $85.8M | Bonsai Robotics ($15M); RootWave ($15M); Agreenculture ($7M); SwarmFarm Robotics (A$30M); Kilter ($7M); Upside Robotics ($7.5M); Polybee ($4.3M) |
| Crop inputs / biologicals | 4 | $45.1M | Vestaron ($20M+); Puna Bio ($20.3M); CryoBio ($1.3M); SenseUP ($3.5M) |
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Who are the biggest investors in the AgriTech market?
Corteva Catalyst is the most visibly active investor in the dataset, participating in two deals (Puna Bio and Resurrect Bio), which makes sense given Corteva's strategic interest in biologicals and crop disease resistance as complements to its core seed and crop-protection business.
At One Ventures also appeared in two deals (Avalo and Puna Bio), backing both a crop-breeding AI platform and a biological seed-treatment company, which reflects the fund's consistent focus on climate-resilient agriculture at the input level.
SOSV participated in two rounds (Avalo and Puna Bio) across the same quarters, showing up alongside At One Ventures in both cases, a sign that certain early-stage AgriTech syndicates overlap heavily at the climate-ag intersection.
QIC backed two Australian AgriTech companies, SwarmFarm Robotics and Nbryo, in consecutive quarters (Q4 2025), making it the most active locally-anchored institutional investor in this dataset for the ANZ market.
Tenacious Ventures co-led or participated in both SwarmFarm Robotics and Nbryo in Q4 2025, pairing a field-robotics bet with an animal-genetics bet and reinforcing its identity as Australia's most active dedicated AgriTech fund.
AgFunder appeared in two deals (Singrow and Resurrect Bio), playing its usual role as an active minority participant across geographies, from Southeast Asia to the UK.
Disclaimer: this investor list may be incomplete; we focus on publicly disclosed lead and prominent recurring investors, so some frequent minority participants may be underrepresented. "Total funded" does not represent the amount personally invested by an individual investor. Instead, it refers to the aggregate amount raised across all fundraising rounds in which the investor participated.
| Investor | Number of deals | Total funded | Startups |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corteva / Corteva Catalyst | 2 | $28.4M | Puna Bio; Resurrect Bio |
| At One Ventures | 2 | $31.3M | Avalo; Puna Bio |
| SOSV | 2 | $31.3M | Avalo; Puna Bio |
| QIC | 2 | $40.0M | SwarmFarm Robotics; Nbryo |
| Tenacious Ventures | 2 | $40.0M | SwarmFarm Robotics; Nbryo |
| AgFunder | 2 | $12.6M | Singrow; Resurrect Bio |
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