8 Innovative Horticulture Startups Worth A Follow In 2021

January 20, 2021

This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Horticulture startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Horticulture industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Horticulture Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Tunas Farm

Tunas Farm

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Integrated urban farming solutions thru automation & controlled environment

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Biotrends India Pvt Ltd

Biotrends India Pvt Ltd

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PASSION FOR A BETTER TOMORROW We are a green technology company committed to improving the productivity and sustainability of modern agriculture. Our range of products help farmers practice profitable agriculture by providing increased crop productivity, improved efficiency of conventional fertilizers and a reduced environmental footprint.

Our organic certified products strengthen the soil-based microbial ecosystem, stimulate crop development at key points in the growth cycle and boost natural plant resistance to pathogens and threats. With solutions for a variety of crop categories, our range of SmartGenX™ products have demonstrated its value in third-party trials in key agricultural regions worldwide.

Biotrends is now investing heavily in development of Bio Ag and Bio Pesticides and shall soon make available products suited for Seed treatment, Pre and Post-Harvest Technology, as Fungicide and Insecticide form it’s robust stable and pipeline. Biotrends has its research-based facilities in Mexico.

Our product line is based on proprietary plant-based technology (Aloe Vera) do not use any heat, reactions, and is practically Carbon Neutral, designed to support the Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture. SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURE Plant-based Input for Sustainable Agriculture It’s important that we reduce chemical footprints as we improve our Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture.

Our plant-based products further improves the sustainability and reduces all risk of cross-contamination from animal origin products or even chemical contamination. ZERO Carbon concept products including zero CO2 emission Biotrends products are manufactured through unique process of co-culture fermentation without any use of harsh chemicals or heat.

In another words, the facility is Carbon neutral production unit, there by ushering a new age Genomics and bioinformatics revolution. Probiotic Agriculture Using advances in DNA sequencing technologies, Biotrends has created a new field of research, metagenomics, allowing the comprehensive examination and selection of microbial communities to be used in Biotrends range of products for Probiotic Agricultural use..

FarmInsect

FarmInsect

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FarmInsect offers an automated solution for the local insect breeding at the farmer as animal feed for chickens, pork, and fish.

Pixofarm

Pixofarm

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Pixofarm is a digital solution, which empowers fruit producers worldwide to get the most out of their orchards by providing reliable yield monitoring and forecast data. With these data, they can increase their production and efficiently plan and optimize their operational activities like logistics, packaging, warehousing, sales and marketing.

All they need to do is taking pictures of a certain number of apples and trees with their smartphones. We use artificial intelligence, machine learning and image processing technology to accurately measure and count fruits and calculate forecasts..

Organic Trace Technologies

Organic Trace Technologies

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We are entering a new era of demand to trace the entire lifecycle of organic forms, but there is still no one fits all solution for this. Agriculture supply chains are trying to meet the changing regulations, wildlife tracing and even pet lifecycle are all in question.

Organic Trace Technologies has developed a solution capable of tracing the entire lifecycle of all organic matter from birth through supply chain or lifespan, to death. By partnering with Every Asset, and the unlimited, but highly standardised templating and hybrid blockchain, we are able to map every type of flora and fauna and then allow participants to create a digital twin as an asset.

Full traceability of parent animal or plant, through birth or planting and then every chemical, vet visit and trace across the preparation and supply chain. Our solution is so powerful, but so easy to incorporate into current solutions and is capable of providing rapid regulatory, customs and outlet checks through the use of current scanning technologies and even apps like Fakebuster from Anti Counterfeit Technologies..

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Local Seeds

Local Seeds

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Local Seeds is a marketplace for seed savers. Buy & sell seeds online.

Highline Hemp Farms LLC

Highline Hemp Farms LLC

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We see a bright future for Highline Hemp Farms, LLC. in these robust and emerging markets.

Bringing clean, unadulterated natural health products and textiles, and options to our participants and customers. World-class greenhouse growing, processing, extracting and quality assurance laboratory for our Industrial Hemp/CBD production on a fully permitted and licensed large organic agricultural facility reserved exclusively for this purpose.

Highline Hemp Farms, LLC The “Skinwalker Ranch Project” Arizona HEMP FARMING ACT 2018 https://agriculture.az.gov/plantsproduce/industrial-hemp-program Our Skinwalker Ranch Project will include the growing of high Percentage CBD hemp, Producing High Percentage CBD Products, Industrial Hemp and processing it. Our Arizona venture (herein, the Skinwalker Ranch Project) will build its own greenhouses and processing plant.

Seed purchases are expected early in 2019 with seeds being set by June, 2019. Initial harvesting beginning approximately 18 weeks thereafter.

We intend to focus on the Growing of Industrial Hemp. The primary potential income considered consists of five main products: [1] CBD Extract [2] Dried High CBD Flowering Tops.

[3] Industrial Hemp Fiber. [4] Oil [5] High Protein CBD Hemp Flour.
LuxBalance Lighting

LuxBalance Lighting

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LuxBalance Lighting creates life-centric lighting (e.g. help plants grow faster, help people sleep well with circadian lighting)