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We’ve ranked the top 34 Farming companies in San Francisco, California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Farming Companies & Startups (San Francisco, California)
The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science)
The Climate Corporation is a technology platform helping people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change.
Founder(s): David Friedberg, Siraj Khaliq
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Developer Tools, Farming, SaaS, Software
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FarmRaise
FarmRaise is a digital platform that offers financial resources for farmers and ranchers to make on-farm improvements.
Founder(s): Albert Abedi, Jayce Hafner, Sami Tellatin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech
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Flow Cannabis Co.
Flow Cannabis Co. offers a wide range of California’s top-selling cannabis CPG brands and a series of services
Founder(s): Adam Steinberg, Diego Zimet, Michael Steinmetz, Nigel Carr
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Cannabis, Farming
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Plenty
Plenty is a vertical farming company that brings fresh, pesticide-free produce to customers.
Founder(s): Jack Oslan, Matt Barnard, Nate Mazonson, Nate Storey
Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: AgTech, Farming, Food and Beverage, Sustainability
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Farmland LP
Farmland LP is a real estate fund that acquires conventional farmland and converts it into Organic, sustainably managed farmland.
Founder(s): Craig Wichner
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Finance
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Full Harvest
Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce.
Founder(s): Christine Moseley
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, B2B, E-Commerce, Farming, Food and Beverage, Marketplace, Retail, Sustainability
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Planet FWD
Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform.
Founder(s): Julia Collins
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Farming, Food and Beverage, Snack Food
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Arable
Arable is a developer of a software for agriculture that helps digitize and optimize decisions from seed breeding to food production.
Founder(s): Adam Wolf, Ben Siegfried, Kelly Caylor
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Software
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HarvestPort
HarvestPort is an innovation hub and marketplace for agricultural resources.
Founder(s): Brian Dawson, Carson Britz, Chad Hokama, Ian DeWeerdt, Timothy Koide
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Marketplace, Sustainability
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StockGuard
StockGuard offers a production yield insurance to protect livestock producers from unexpected financial losses.
Founder(s): Jeff Gillis, Kierste Miller
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Farming, Insurance, Livestock, Risk Management
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FarmTogether
FarmTogether is a technology-enabled farmland investment platform that allows direct ownership of institutional quality farmland.
Founder(s): Artem Milinchuk, David Chan, Josiah Terrell-Perica, Olga Ayvazyan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Financial Services, Wealth Management
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Granular
Granular is a software and analytics platform that helps farmers operate more efficiently and make better business decisions.
Founder(s): Mike Preiner, Sid Gorham
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Analytics, Cloud Computing, Farming, Logistics, SaaS, Software
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Modular Science
Modular Science aims to automate ninety nine percent of the processes involved in vegetable farming with modular machines for agriculture.
Founder(s): Peter Sand
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Robotics
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Tule
Taking the guesswork out of irrigation. Precise measurement of how much water your crops are using. 24 hour remote monitoring.
Founder(s): Jeff LaBarge, Tom Shapland
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Analytics, Farming, Software
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SESO
SESO is a labor marketplace for agriculture.
Founder(s): Jordan Taylor, Michael Guirguis
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Human Resources, Marketplace, Staffing Agency
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Ovipost
Ovipost is a new startup looking to optimize the right conditions for a cricket grower to get the most yield from a generation of eggs.
Founder(s): Trina Chiasson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Internet, Internet of Things, Life Science, Software, Technical Support
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Talad App
Mobile Platform, Mobile App, Agritech, Farming
Founder(s): Hien Huynh, Manop Thapana, Philipp Fricke, Valentin Holoch
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Android, Farming, iOS, Mobile Apps
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FarmWise
Feeding our World, and our Future.
Founder(s): Sébastien Boyer, Thomas Palomares
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Robotics, Software
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AminAg
AminAg acquires, develops, and operates agricultural property with a primary focus in the permanent crop sector.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
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Agrisea
Agrisea is an ocean agriculture company building the technology of today to bring peace tomorrow.
Founder(s): Luke Young, Rory Hornby
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Biotechnology, Farming, Food Processing
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Frontier Farmland
Frontier Farmland is a farmland investment and management company focused on accelerating the next generation of farm management.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
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FarmWise
FarmWise is an ag-tech company that specializes in agriculture, robotics, computer vision, and machine learning.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Farming, Machine Learning
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Loop
Loop is a shared transport service to pick up farmers’ produce, deliver it to market, and pay farmers for their sales.
Founder(s): Aditya Sethi, Rikin Gandhi, Saureen Shah
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Logistics, Transportation
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RooT
RooT supplies predictive irrigation solutions.
Founder(s): Sai Arora, Sandeep Dinesh
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Predictive Analytics
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FarmHub
FarmHub The Weather Beacon is a complete weather station that provides growers & agronomists with real-time in-field weather data.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Electronics, Farming, Hardware, Software, Wireless
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AFN
AFN is a digital publication covering investment and entrepreneurship in foodtech and agtech.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Aquaculture, Farming, Food and Beverage, Venture Capital
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Endura Bio
Endura Bio engineers economically important crops to provide high yields under drought or saline irrigation conditions.
Founder(s): Kyle Taylor, Shashank Goel
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Biotechnology, Farming
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Farming Hope
Farming Hope grows food system leaders through job training.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Farming, Non Profit
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Far West Fungi
Far West Fungi specializes in mushroom farming and offers edible mushrooms at retail stores and farmer’s markets.
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Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Farmers Market, Farming, Food and Beverage
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Ocator
Blue Platforms offers cloud computing and software solutions for small businesses.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Big Data, Farming, Predictive Analytics, Software
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Ferry Building
Ferry Building is a marketplace that promotes and markets food products of local farmers, restaurants, merchants, and cuisine.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Farming, Food and Beverage, Fruit, Grocery, Marketplace
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Vendomarch
A SaaS to deliver farm produce.
Founder(s): Prikshet Sharma
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Software
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Got Produce? Franchising Inc
Got Produce? Franchising, a farming franchise company, provides patented hydroponic greenhouse solutions to local communities worldwide.
Founder(s): Deborah Walliser
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing, Hydroponics
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Stalea srl
Stalea Srl is a provides research, design, construction, and sale of agricultural equipment for pruning and mechanized harvesting.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Construction, Farming
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