2025
Agriculture & Food Tech Landscape Map
Written by:
Alon Turkaspa, Director Global Partnerships, Startup Nation Central
Dana Kedar, Executive Director, GrowingIL
Overview
The agrifood tech sector is central to Israel’s innovation legacy, built on a strong scientific foundation and a history of agricultural breakthroughs. With over 10% of Israeli startups in agriculture or food-related fields, this map is a key resource for investors, entrepreneurs, and stakeholders. While the agritech sector is well established, food tech is relatively new but has grown rapidly with investments reaching peak levels in 2021 and 2022.
About the Map
The map features over 150 startups out of 750+ companies, offering a rich entry point for exploring Israel’s innovation landscape. Each logo is clickable, linking directly to detailed company profiles on Startup Nation Finder.
“The future of agrifood tech is not confined to smarter farming – it’s about reshaping entire ecosystems. In Israel, we’re merging agriculture with innovations in AI, clean energy, and biotechnology, demonstrating that bold collaboration and diverse solutions are key to tackling global challenges. Together, we are redefining resilience, sustainability, and the very way humanity nourishes itself.”
– Alon Turkaspa, Director of Global Partnerships Startup Nation Central
Key Insights
Several trends emerge from the map’s data:
- Over 750 companies are driving innovation and redefining the agricultural and food ecosystems, with the number of new startups rising YOY, signaling sustained entrepreneurial momentum.
- 33 investments exceeded $1M in 2024
- Early-stage startups (Pre-Round A) constitute over 50% of companies in both sectors indicating fertile ground for innovation, growth, and early opportunities for investors.
- More than 30% of all investments were directed toward startups in the robotics and farm equipment sector, highlighting its continued relevance and strong potential for growth.
- The sector experiences numerous strategic partnerships with large multinational corporations, demonstrating a continuous or increasing interest and trust in startups’ capabilities to deliver.
The Agricultural & Food Production Pathway
“The Israeli AgriFood tech sector has navigated a turbulent period due to various global disruptions, and the impact of October 7th. Yet, the industry’s resilience has been remarkable. Companies have adapted, created new collaborations, refined product-market fits, and accelerated innovation. While these challenges have tested the sector, they have also sharpened its focus, driving a more strategic and investment-ready ecosystem.”
– Dana Kedar, Executive Director, GrowingIL
This first-ever joint agrifood map of the Israeli ecosystem highlights the overlap between agriculture and food innovation, emphasizing shared categories and dual-sector players. Multinationals and investors engage across both sectors, addressing interconnected challenges and solutions.
The Agricultural & Food Production Pathway
The agriculture and food sectors are intrinsically linked, forming a symbiotic relationship that spans the entire food supply chain. Together, they address global challenges in food security, sustainability, and resilience. Our AgriFood Landscape Map illustrates how these sectors overlap, showcasing shared categories and dual-sector players and emphasizing the collective innovation happening within.
Multinationals and investors are increasingly engaging across both sectors to address interconnected problems. Their efforts focus on fostering technologies that can improve agricultural productivity upstream and ensure sustainable food production and distribution downstream. Recognizing this dynamic interplay, the agrifood value chain emphasizes the importance of engaging with early-stage innovations in upstream categories to create meaningful impacts downstream.
“Faced with scarce resources, Israeli entrepreneurs have excelled in transforming challenges into opportunities, pioneering agri-food tech innovations that are reshaping global possibilities. Recent geopolitical developments, unfolding at lightning speed, underscore the critical importance of ensuring global food security while addressing the urgent need for climate resilience.”
– Nadav Berger, Peakbridge
Active Agrifood tech Companies
Despite funding challenges resulting from the ongoing conflict and global economic trends, 2024 emerged as a year of dynamic partnerships, strategic acquisitions, and technological advancements in Israeli agrifood tech, highlighting the sector’s global relevance and its resilience through collaboration and innovation. Here’s a list of notable activities that took place during 2024.
The robotics field made significant progress, with new funding and partnerships addressing critical agricultural challenges like labor shortages. These developments underline robotics’ potential to play a central role in the sector’s evolution, though further growth depends on scaling solutions and aligning with farming needs and market dynamics. Additionally, weeding, one of agriculture’s most persistent challenges, gained attention in 2024 as Israeli and global startups introduced innovative solutions that are shaping sustainable and regenerative farming practices.
Agrifood is everywhere
The broader reach and impact of the industry
These days we are seeing more Israeli agrifood tech startups taking a significant role in broader emerging innovation areas such as:
- Precision Nutrition for Chronic Disease Prevention
advancements in food tech are enabling the creation of personalized nutrition solutions aimed at combating chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular issues. The intersection of AI-driven dietary recommendations and functional foods could revolutionize preventative healthcare. - AgriTech and Clean Energy
The role of agritech innovations, like solar-powered irrigation systems and carbon-sequestering crops, in advancing sustainable energy practices and reducing the carbon footprint of traditional farming methods. - Synthetic Biology and Cellular Agriculture
The rise of synthetic biology in food tech, from lab-grown meat to engineered microalgae, and its potential to disrupt traditional supply chains, reduce land use, and address food security. - Bioconversion and Upcycling
Transforming agricultural and food waste into valuable inputs like protein powders, biofertilizers, or biofuels through biotech processes, driving circularity across sectors.
“CropX embodies Israeli resilience and innovation in the AgTech sector. We benefit from the dynamic Israeli ecosystem, which fosters collaboration, creativity, and technological advancement. Our unique roll-up strategy allows us to strategically acquire companies that bolster our capabilities and market position. This adaptability enables us to navigate global challenges effectively while delivering sustainable agricultural solutions, reinforcing the strength of an innovative mindset rooted in Israel.”
– Tomer Zach, CropX CEO
About Startup Nation Central & Growing IL
Startup Nation Central leverages Israel’s bold and dynamic approach to innovation—what we call Impatient Innovation—to address global challenges. By promoting Israeli food tech and agritech solutions, we drive advancements in sustainable farming, food security, and nutrition. Through innovative partnerships, we connect startups with global stakeholders, fostering solutions that transform agriculture and ensure a sustainable future. Partner with Israel’s leading tech innovators to unlock cutting-edge solutions and game-changing opportunities.
GrowingIL, Israel’s AgTech community, was founded in 2018 as a joint initiative by the Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, the Israel Innovation Authority, and the Israel Innovation Institute. Its mission is to promote the Israeli AgTech ecosystem and industry, strengthen Israel’s position as an innovation hub, and promote implementation of innovation back into traditional agricultural industry to tackle the world food crisis. GrowingIL connects global & local stakeholders to collaborate, network, and explore synergies. As an ecosystem entity with no commercial interests, we identify gaps, challenges, opportunities, and technological solutions, fostering business development for the entire ecosystem.
methodology
Companies featured on the map were carefully selected based on key criteria, including recent funding rounds or government grants, significant milestones or achievements, strategic partnerships, mergers or acquisitions, company maturity, and the distinctiveness of their technology.
About Us
Startup Nation Central is a free-acting NGO providing global solution seekers frictionless access to Israel’s bold and impatient innovators to help tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. Our free business engagement platform, Finder, delivers unrestricted access to real-time, updated information and deep business insights into the Israeli tech ecosystem.
This map and report were developed by Alon Turkaspa, Director of Global Partnerships; Einat Ben Ari, Senior Director of Data & Insights; Ortal Wein, Data Program Manager: and Maor Perlov, Senior Data Sector Specialist.