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 point specific weather forecasting for growers to understand the weather at their field. We provide 15 day hourly forecasts tailored to any weather station hardware – allowing farmers to understand when extreme weather is coming and react.

Benchmark Labs website

Delft, The Netherlands
BIALTEC is a biotechnology company developing microencapsulated precision probiotics for animal nutrition. Our solutions improve feed efficiency, animal health and sustainability by optimizing the gut microbiome, reducing environmental impact and replacing antibiotic growth promoters.

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 Technologies is a next generation regenerative seed and ingredient company, using its proprietary processing technologies to deliver cleaner product at competitive prices.

Clean Crop website

Cartago, Costa Rica
ClearLeaf offers GotaBlanca, a safe fungicide and bactericide for agricultural use. GotaBlanca utilizes patented technology to provide farmers with an affordable and effective broad-spectrum solution to address the urgent need for sustainable alternatives to toxic agrochemicals.

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.

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 is agricultural intelligence for the future. We transform satellite and sensor data into real-time, actionable insights, giving growers the information they need to make smarter decisions from anywhere.

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 Foodtech enables food manufacturers to create clean-label foods with superior texture and functionality. Our IP-protected plant protein platform replaces eggs and hydrocolloids, delivering exceptional binding, foaming, emulsification, and moisture retention across multiple food applications.

Meala Foodtech website

Parsippany, NJ, USA
PureNanoTech develops nanobubble technology for controlled environment agriculture and large-scale irrigation. Our oxygen nanobubble systems improve crop health and biofilm control while scaling to 1,000+ GPM for full commercial deployment across greenhouses and CEA operations.

PureNanoTech website

Vancouver, Canada
SkyAcres builds Drop-In indoor farms for the cold storage rooms, packhouses, and barns farmers already own. A 3-level growing module rolls in on wheels and plugs into a wall outlet. Pest control is beneficial insects, good bugs eating bad, not chemicals. No plumbing, no pumps, no HVAC retrofit.

SkyAcres website

Toronto, Canada
Terra Bioindustries uses a novel enzyme based process to create protein, sugar and fiber ingredients from agri-food sidestreams like Brewers Spent Grains (BSG – from breweries). Their products are in trials with some of the biggest F&B manufacturers.

Terra Bioindustries website

Albion, NY, USA
UdderWays aims to invest in the long-term viability of agriculture by SMASHING through roadblocks to revolutionize ag solutions for farmers, by farmers, with a commitment of exceptional talent, advanced skills and groundbreaking innovation.

UdderWays website

Ithaca, NY, USA
Unibaio develops bioactive delivery technology that makes existing crop protection products significantly more effective. Our biodegradable tank-mix additive enhances agrochemical performance, enabling higher yields and reduced chemical use without changing farmer practices, equipment, or supply chains.

Unibaio website

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

Zordi website