2024 Finalists

New York City, NY, USA
Afterlife Ag upcycles food establishment scraps into fresh, local, and sustainable mushrooms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated from food waste.

Afterlife Ag website

Rochester, NY, USA
Benchmark Labs provides AI-based weather forecasts, recommendations, and alerts to help farmers increase production and yield, improve management activities, and protect against extreme weather events such as frost, heat spikes, or powdery mildew.

Benchmark Labs website

Delft, The Netherlands
Bialtec designs microencapsulated feed additives tailored to specific breeds, ensuring optimal nutrient delivery and improved livestock health outcomes while promoting environmentally friendly and economically viable farming practices.

Bialtec website

Leonardtown, MD, USA
Bon AppéSweet uses simple, ethically sourced ingredients to make date-sweetened chocolate products. Free of sugar and artificial sweeteners, the company’s chocolate bars, trail mix, chocolate-covered almonds, raisins, and espresso beans are all organic, vegan, and non-GMO.

Bon AppéSweet website

Baltimore, MD, USA
Cajou Creamery is handcrafting cashew-based frozen desserts with whole superfoods for ice cream you can feel good about.

Cajou Creamery website

Wayland, IA, USA
ChopLocal’s online farmers’ market makes buying and selling regionally farmed, high-quality meat easier for home consumers.

ChopLocal website

Holyoke, MA, USA
Clean Crop’s technology combines electricity and food-grade gases to remove pathogens from seeds before they are planted, increasing yields, reducing waste, and improving food safety without preservatives.

Clean Crop website

San José, Costa Rica
ClearLeaf’s line of safe fungicides and bactericides protects soil and crops from a wide range of pre- and post-harvest pathogens, without harming the environment or your health.

ClearLeaf website

Champaign, IL, USA
EarthSense’s autonomous, AI-powered robots accurately sense plant health and productivity of a diversity of crops, minimize chemical use with targeted precision applications, and make regenerative practices like cover cropping far more effective and economical.

EarthSense website

Nairobi, Kenya
Farmer Lifeline Technologies produces solar-powered, AI-equipped crop monitoring devices for real-time detection of pests and diseases.

Farmer Lifeline Technologies website

Portland, OR, USA
For Bitter For Worse is a distillery using certified organic, locally farmed ingredients to create a healthier, more inclusive culture with their non-alcoholic cocktails.

For Bitter or Worse website

Cupertino, CA, USA
Grape.ag’s sensors and communication devices allow for the unique care of each plant in a vineyard, providing valuable atmospheric and soil information that enables vintners to visualize hyper-local conditions, find trends, and make better decisions.

Grape.ag website

Cleveland, OH, USA
Holmes Mouthwatering is an all-natural, elevated applesauce brand delivering homemade-inspired products made with real fruit.

Holmes Mouthwatering website

Haifa, Israel
Meala’s next-generation, naturally derived texturizing proteins can create gelling, binding, and emulsion, helping food manufacturers maintain a clean ingredient list without compromising texture, juiciness, and nutritional value.

Meala Foodtech website

Parsippany, NJ, USA
PureNanoTech develops membrane nanobubble technology solutions to maximize irrigation performance and optimize energy usage in the agriculture, pond and lake restoration, wastewater treatment, and disinfection industries.

PureNanoTech website

Surrey, Canada
SkyAcres’ energy-efficient vertical farming system and AI-powered marketplace allow anyone with under-utilized space to grow and sell produce, creating the Airbnb of indoor farms.

SkyAcres website

Toronto, Canada
Terra Bioindustries upcycles agrifood waste into sustainable, value-added products with broad market appeal, starting by converting Brewers Spent Grain into a sugar for fermentation and food applications.

Terra Bioindustries website

Albion, NY
UdderWays uses a unique, brushless technology to gently stimulate cows and ensure clean and dry teats. With the startup’s patented vortex-style application, farmers can achieve consistent stimulation and effortlessly promote milk letdown.

UdderWays website

New York City, NY
Unibaio offers naturally derived particles that trap the active ingredients of pesticides, fertilizers, and phytosanitary, enabling them to penetrate plants more efficiently.

Unibaio website

Oakfield, NY
Zordi builds autonomous greenhouses with robots and AI to make delicious, high-quality produce available anywhere.

Zordi website