AgriTech startup ecosystem
European agritech startups are applying precision farming, drone monitoring, and AI-driven crop management to improve yields and reduce environmental impact. The Netherlands, France, and Denmark are leading innovation hubs. We track 39 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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Livin Farms
Livin Farms is a Vienna-based agrifoodtech company that builds ready-to-go industrial insect farming modules called Hive PRO factories, helping customers turn organic waste into insect protein for food and feed. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is led by founder and CEO Katharina Unger, a pioneer in the waste-to-protein industry since 2012. Its team combines expertise in biology, production and technology to shortcut the lengthy and expensive process of setting up an insect farming operation.
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Malta Venture Capital (MVC)
Malta Venture Capital (MVC) is a €10 million government-backed equity fund launched in 2024 and managed from offices in Sliema, under the auspices of Malta Government Investments. It co-invests alongside private investors in early-stage, high-growth digital and technology-driven businesses, with each eligible startup able to receive up to €500,000 in equity. Target sectors include video game development, fintech, e-sports, life sciences, agritech, AI, and green energy. Since launch MVC has invested in five companies and assembled a network of 30 accredited co-investors.
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Nasekomo
Nasekomo is a Bulgarian agtech company founded in 2017 that produces sustainable protein and organic fertiliser by farming Black Soldier Flies. The company converts agricultural by-products and organic waste into insect-derived animal feed ingredients using AI-assisted bioconversion processes. It raised €8 million in a Series A round in January 2024, backed by Invenio Partners, to scale its robotised production and franchise model internationally.
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NatureMetrics
NatureMetrics is a UK biodiversity intelligence company headquartered in Guildford, with an additional office in London, that uses environmental DNA (eDNA) and bioacoustics to detect and monitor species and ecosystem health for clients in mining, energy, infrastructure, agriculture, and conservation. Its Nature Intelligence Platform helps companies screen assets for environmental risk, support permitting and regulatory approvals, detect threatened or invasive species, and track biodiversity change over time. The company reports a decade of ground-truth species data from tens of thousands of sites and cites client outcomes including USD 2.8 billion saved in project delays and USD 100 million unlocked in financing.
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Nicoya
Nicoya is a Stockholm-based venture capital firm investing at the frontier of food innovation as a dedicated 'future foods' investor. It partners with entrepreneurs transforming how food is produced and consumed, backing companies working on healthier, smarter and more resilient food systems with a long-term perspective on value creation.
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Paul-Tech
Paul-Tech is a German agri-tech company providing real-time soil and nitrogen-uptake monitoring hardware and software to help farmers, agronomists and agricultural businesses make data-driven fertilizer decisions. Its Soil-Station devices and field-management tools are available with English, Estonian, Finnish and Lithuanian language support, reflecting its reach across Northern and Baltic Europe.
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Phytoform
Phytoform (Phytoform Labs) is a UK agritech company based in Harpenden, in the Greater London commuter area, using AI and genome editing to develop novel, nature-identical crop traits aimed at making agriculture more resilient and sustainable. It partners with companies to translate scientific discoveries into real-world crop improvements. Phytoform was founded by Dr Will Pelton and Dr Nicolas Kral.
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PODIM 2026
Curated startup and investor conference at Habakuk Congress Centre, capped around 1,200 attendees for deal quality. Known for selected startup participation, Podim Pitching Competition, and structured 1:1 meetings.
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PODIM 2027
PODIM 2027 takes place in Maribor 17-19 May, preceded by an online demo day on 4-5 May. The startup conference runs a full annual cycle from a December call for startup applications through an April startup catalogue release to the live event, covering AgriTech, Industry 4.0, HealthTech, mobility and AI.
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Sensie
Sensie builds real-time plant intelligence hardware for professional greenhouse growers. Its wireless Sensie Omni device installs in minutes, runs 1+ years on standard batteries, and combines direct plant physiological feedback with root-zone (VWC) and micro-climate (VPD) data to turn guesswork into daily, data-driven irrigation, ventilation and climate decisions. The product won the GreenTech Innovation Award at GreenTech Amsterdam in June 2026.
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smaXtec
smaXtec builds ingestible sensor and AI monitoring systems for dairy cows to detect health issues early and improve herd management decisions, competing with precision livestock platforms such as Allflex, CowManager, and Nedap.
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Starfish Bioscience
Restores soil health through AI-powered DNA sequencing of soil microbiomes, having built the first bacterial genome atlas for Bordeaux vineyard soils. Develops non-GMO, bacteria-based biosolutions to improve crop resilience in a changing climate.
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StartLife
StartLife is a Wageningen-based incubator and accelerator specialising in agri-food-tech, located on the Wageningen University campus, a leading centre for food and agriculture research. It supports startups working on food, agriculture and biotechnology with programmes, access to funding and connections to the region's science and corporate ecosystem.
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Startup Wise Guys
Startup Wise Guys is a Tallinn-founded B2B startup accelerator and early-stage VC founded in 2012, operating as one of the most active and prolific accelerators in the Central and Eastern European ecosystem. The firm runs over 45 sector-specific programmes annually spanning fintech, cybersecurity, SaaS, sustainability, and agritech, and has invested in over 600 startups from more than 60 countries. Its most recent fund of €45 million reached a first close of €25 million in 2023. Startup Wise Guys provides €100K–200K investments at pre-seed stage in exchange for equity, combined with intensive hands-on mentorship from operators and investors. Notable portfolio exits include VitalFields (acquired by Climate Corporation), StepShot (acquired by UiPath), and VOCHI (acquired by Pinterest).
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Tarfin
Tarfin (Tarfin Tarim A.S.) is an Istanbul-headquartered agrifintech company that helps farmers buy fertilizers, seeds, feed, equipment and fuel from authorised retailers and pay at harvest time using machine learning-based risk assessment. Its Tarfin Mobil app lets farmers compare local input prices, submit purchase applications typically evaluated within minutes, and track payments due at harvest. The company serves more than 65,000 farmers through 1,500+ authorised retailers across 75+ cities in Turkey, and also operates in Romania. It separately runs Tarfin Flex, a consumer buy-now-pay-later product.
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The Pearse Lyons Accelerator
The Pearse Lyons Accelerator, now run as the Pearse Lyons Cultivator, is an agri-food-tech accelerator backed by Alltech and Dogpatch Labs in Dublin. It connects ag-tech startups with the global food and agriculture supply chain, using Alltech's presence in more than 120 countries to help founders run commercial pilots with Alltech and its partner companies.
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UniLab
UniLab is Latvia's university-backed startup accelerator, jointly run by Riga Technical University, the University of Latvia, Riga Stradinš University, and the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Its programmes include UniLab Elevate (incubation for technology-based university spinouts), Venture Catalysts (a commercialisation course for scientists), and UniLab Defence (co-led with NATO DIANA). Active since 2020, UniLab has supported more than 53 emerging startups with personalised mentoring and financial grants.
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WeedBot
WeedBot builds autonomous laser weeding machines for organic vegetable farming, using computer vision and directed laser beams to destroy weeds without chemicals or manual labour. Founded in 2020 out of research at the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, the company raised €425k in a round led by Overkill Ventures in 2023. Its Lumina Laser Weeder is initially targeted at carrot cultivation, with plans to expand to other row crops.
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ZGI Capital
ZGI Capital is one of the most experienced venture capital firms in the Baltics, founded in 2005 in Riga. It has operated four successive fund generations (ZGI-1 through ZGI-4), with ZGI-4 attracting the largest single private VC investment in Latvia at €10M. The firm targets seed and Series A rounds of €500k–€5M in Latvian and Baltic companies across SaaS, fintech, food-agtech, logistics, and industrial sectors. ZGI Capital has won Latvia's VC & PE sector award six times, including in 2024 and 2025.
