Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois based Agriculture companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Agriculture industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies 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 Illinois Agriculture Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Nature’s Fynd
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Nature’s Fynd is a food company producing a protein from a microbe discovered in the geothermal springs.
Hazel Technologies
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Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain.
S2G Ventures
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S2G Ventures is a multi-stage venture fund focusing on investments in food and agriculture industries.
Chromatin
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Chromatin is a biotech company that develops sorghum for traditional agriculture and applications in the renewable energy sector.
Machinio
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Machinio is a search engine for buying and selling new and used industrial equipment and machinery.
Agrible
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Agrible develops products and analytical tools that deliver field-specific data to help with decision making in the agriculture industry.
EarthSense, Inc.
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Agricultural Intelligence for a Sustainable Planet
Amber Agriculture
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Amber Agriculture leverages the latest in analytics and automation to help farmers manage and market grain.
Red White & Bloom (RWB)
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Red White & Bloom is the torchbearer leading a new frontier and setting a standard in the American cannabis industry.
MyAgData
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MyAgData is a cloud-based application that automates the data collection and reporting process.
Rumi Spice
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Rumi Spice is a spice company that brings exotic spices to enhance the flavor of foods.
John Deere
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Deere & Company is an American corporation that manufactures agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery.
Cashrent
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Cashrent is a data-centric farmland marketplace and land management system.
SuckerPunch Gourmet
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SuckerPunch Gourmet is a food company dedicated to bold flavor, all natural ingredients, and a touch of spice.
Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT
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Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT is a food and farmland company that povides land security to organic farmers.
Chicago Botanic Garden
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The Chicago Botanic Garden is a botanic garden and plant research company.
Agricare
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Agricare specializes in organic farm services, investment services, food safety, farm management, and agronomy.
Praedictus Climate Solutions
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Developed software tools to provide real-time crop projections.
KeHE Distributors
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KeHE Distributors is a fresh and natural, organic wholesale foods distributor.
Rural King
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Rural King is America’s farm and home store that provides essentials to the communities they serve.
Devbridge
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Devbridge is a Chicago-based software design and development company and strategic partner to B2B enterprises.
Prairie Gold
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Prairie Gold, Inc. is a technology and development company with a portfolio of patented technologies.
Because, Animals
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Because Animals is creating cultured meat to feed the world’s pets.
Farm Market iD
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Farm Market iD harvests the most reliable and richest data, providing the deepest agricultural marketing solutions.
Univar
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Univar is one of the world’s leading distributors of industrial and specialty chemicals. Univar represents over 2,500 chemical producers
AngleWare
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AngleWare The Tilted Pet Bowl is the pet bowl with the Contour bottom for food or water with an inclined bottom surface intended.
AgriScience
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AgriScience makes high performance, data-driven smart soil.
Dairy Farmers of America
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DFA is a milk marketing cooperative owned and served by farmers across the nation.
CF Industries Holdings
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CF Industries, a global leader in nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing and distribution
MW Industries
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MW Industries is a provider of highly engineered springs, specialty fasteners, machined parts, and other precision components.
Agvance
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Agvance is a computer software company that offers integrated business solutions.
Sabanto
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Farming-as-a-Service using low-cost autonomous machines
Aspiring Universe
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Aspiring Universe offers geospatial intelligence to enhance agricultural businesses.
Woods Equipment Comany LLC
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Woods Equipment Comany LLC is a manufacturer and marketer of equipment and replacement parts primarily for the agriculture end market.
Fresh Thyme Farmers Market
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Fresh Thyme Farmers Market is a grocery company owing supermarkets.
TH Foods Inc.
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TH Foods is a food production company specializing in rice-based crackers and snacks.
Thermaquatica
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Thermaquatica is commercializing a proprietary and patented technology for processing biomass (including agricultural wastes).
Spectrum Technologies
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Spectrum Technologies is a edge measurement information technology Company.
AgriSolutions
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AgriSolutions offers software & financial management services such as accounting, tax, consultation & training for the agricultural sector.
Flavorchem Corporation
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Flavorchem Corporation is a food & beverages company specializing in flavors, colors, and nutrition products.
Farm Progress Companies
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Farm Progress, a network of live events, digital products, data, marketing services, broadcasting, and publications related to agriculture.
Baldwin Richardson Foods
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Baldwin Richardson Foods is a food production company providing custom food ingredients.
Land O’Frost
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Land O’Frost is a food production company that provides retail and specialty meat products.
Van Drunen Farms
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Van Drunen Farms is a food production company that offers drum-dried, low-moisture, and frozen specialty products.
360 Yield Center
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360 Yield Center has develop solutions to help you maximize yield efficiently.
FarmedHere
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FarmedHere is an indoor commercial vertical farm creating local produce and local jobs in a sustainable farming environment.
TellTail
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TellTail is a software that will address critical needs within the pig production industry.
CMDTY
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CMDTY specializes in delivering data, analytical tools and workflow solutions that drive sustainability in the area of agriculture markets.
INCOBRASA INDUSTRIES
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Incobrasa is a soybean processing & biodiesel manufacturing company in Central Illinois with roots in the industry going back over 50 years.
Gilster-Mary Lee Corp.
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Gilster-Mary Lee Corp. is a food production company offering food manufacturing and foodservice.
Vienna Beef
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Vienna Beef is a food production company offering Vienna beef
Furst-McNess Co.
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Furst-McNess is an agricultural company.
Georgia Nut Company
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Georgia Nut Company is a food & beverages company offering snacks and nuts.
Titan Tire Corporation
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Titan Tire Corporation International provides undercarriage products, tires, and wheels to off road, and farm equipment vehicles.
PlantLink
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PlantLink sells connected devices that monitor plant health.
Field Notes
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I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.
Grecian Delight Foods
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Grecian Delight Foods is a food production company that offers flatbreads, dips, specialty meats, and appetizers.
Wholesome Harvest Baking
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Wholesome Harvest Baking is a food production company that offers frozen and par-baked products.
Crop Copter
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Crop Copter is a landscape of UAV providers in agriculture.
Mars Food
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Mars Food fully integrated manufacturer and marketer of food.
Lawrence Foods, Inc.
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Lawrence Foods is a food production company that manufactures bakery foods and ingredients.
Dutch Farms
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Dutch Farms is a dairy firm providing eggs, dairy, deli, meat and bakery products.
AQUA Carpatica
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AQUA Carpatica provides natural mineral water.
Agri-King, Inc.
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Agri-King is a farming company that offers livestock production.
Rose Packing Company
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Rose Packing Company is a food production company that offers beef and pork trimmings services.
Petrichor
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Petrichor is a cloud-based platform for agribusiness risk management, trade execution, and supply chain management.
Cozzini
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Cozzini designs and manufactures food processing products.
Wyffels Hybrids
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Wyffels Hybrids is a farming company that offers corn seeds and grains.
W. Newell & Co
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W. Newell & Co., LLC distributes fresh produce to retailers in the United States.
Woodland Foods
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Woodland Foods is a food production company providing herbs, powdered mushrooms, heirloom beans, and polenta.
Gonnella Baking Co.
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Gonnella Baking Co. is a food production company that manufactures bread products and frozen dough products
Precision Laboratories, LLC
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Precision Laboratories is a chemicals firm offering chemistries applied to plants, seeds, soil, and water.
Columbus Vegetable Oils
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Columbus Vegetable Oils is a food production company offering vegetable oils, dips, salad dressing, and sauces.
Farm Credit Illinois
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Farm Credit Illinois is a finance firm in the agricultural sector that offers farm loans, crop insurance & farm real estate loan services.
Teejet Technologies
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TeeJet Technologies is an agricultural applications technology.
AgriBank
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AgriBank is a bank that delivers excellent returns to savers and lends to the UK agricultural industry.
Ag Solutions Network
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Ag Solutions Network is a crop production system that gives every farmer and every plant a better chance.
St. Charles Trading
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St. Charles Trading is concerned with the trade of food ingredients on national and international level.
American Chemet Corporation
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American Chemet Corporation is a mining & metals company providing cuprous oxide, cupric oxide, and copper oxide agricultural fungicides.
Agroinvest
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Agroinvest is geostrategically located to the Markets of the Black Sea and global shipping routes.
Deeproots
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Deeproots make Artificially Intelligent Software that could be retrofitted to agriculture vehicles like tractors to make them autonomous.
EPL Bio Analytical Services
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EPL Bio Analytical Services provides analytical laboratory sevices.
Lunchtime Solutions, Inc.
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Lunchtime Solutions is a food & beverages company specializing in school food and food management services.
Harvest Moon Sustainable Ventures
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Harvest Moon creates high quality full spectrum oils and distillatefor use in everyday healing hemp products
AgYield
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AgYield uses the guesswork of a marketing campaign and sales control mechanisms to establish productivity.
Defiance Metal Products
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Defiance Metal Products is an engineering company providing vehicle, construction, and agricultural equipment.
Crest Foods Co., Inc.
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Crest Foods Co. is a food production company offering dry food products.
Walterscheid Powertrain Group
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Walterscheid Powertrain Group is a maker of drivelines and gearbox for agricultural equipment.
Agrown
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Investment and educational opportunities in distributed agriculture.
College Chefs, LLC
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College Chefs is a food & beverages company specializing in fraternity and sorority food services.
Birkey’s Farm Store, Inc.
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Birkey’s Farm Store is a machinery company offering case construction.
The Equity
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The Equity is a farming company that offers agronomy and grain services.
Haak Innovations
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Solving problems in the engineering fields of agriculture, energy and transport with unparalleled thinking, that is Haak Innovations.
2Blades Foundation
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2Blades Foundation is a Biotechnology company.
Burrus Seed Company
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Burrus Seed Company is a family-owned and operated agriculture seed company servicing Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri.
Compact Industries
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Compact Industries is a food production company manufacturing, packaging, and blending food
Prater Industries
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Global leader in manufacturing processing equipment and systems for size reduction, separation, metering, compacting, and batch weighing.
Agresource Company
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Agresource AgResource is an Agricultural Advisory/Research firm which forecasts domestic and world agricultural price trends
