Long Description

Advanced Farm Technologies has developed automated robotic strawberry harvesters.

Founded
2017
City
Davis, CA
Ag for Hire
Description
Connecting laborers to farm owners
Long Description

Ag for Hire connects farmers with their seasonal and specialty workforce

Programs
Apps for Ag Hackathon 2015, UC Davis Venture Catalyst
Founded
2015
City
Davis, CA
AgShift
Name
Description
AgTech startup focused on Small commercial farms. Applying Big data towards making diversified farms more profitable, efficient and sustainable.
Long Description

AgShift is the world’s first cloud-based data intelligence platform specifically built to address the challenges of record-keeping complexities and compliance for small diversified farms.

Founder(s)
Miku Jha
Programs
AgStart
Athena Intelligence
Description
Athena Intelligence is revolutionizing how the food system through its proprietary spatial platform and related advanced analytics and predictive insights.
Long Description

Athena provides a proprietary geo-spatial platform that enables advanced analytics and predictive insights from public and private data sets related to Earth's Essential Data: Land, Food, Water and Energy. We produce unique business intelligence that quantifies and democratizes dynamic resource, production and performance risks to the world’s food, energy, financial sectors.

Land, food, water, and energy are earths essential natural resources used to power the world and our lives. However, the data of these resources is disaggregated, inaccessible, hard to utilize and thus making it of little or no use. As essential as they are, these vast amounts of data had no way to be turned into useful information. Until now.

Athena removes the data burden from managing food, water, and energy resources. We process and normalize the vast amounts of public data and our business intelligence application then incorporate additional private data sources. In short, we provide the data you don't have, incorporate it with the data you do have and make it all make sense, saving you time, energy and resources.

Our proprietary dynamic ontological model of land, food, water, and energy resources maps the relationships between these four primary resources creates invaluable business intelligence. This information is paramount as land, food, water and energy are the basic building blocks of our lives and global economies. As these resources become more scarce, Athena's understanding of the nexus of resource use and demands increases in value exponentially.

Founder(s)
David Sypnieski
Stage
Seed
Contact Person
David Sypnieski
Phone Number
916.599.9598
Programs
ImpactVC Entrepreneur Showcase
Needs
coders, advisors, investors
Founded
2015
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
Barley Oats Farms
Long Description

Barley Oats provides fresh produce grown from seed and delivered to your doorstep, all managed online. We provide a customized farm for every user, with a selection of 300+ crop varieties, unparalleled freshness, and click & delivery convenience.

Founder(s)
Fred Tzeng
Stage
MVP/Launched
Programs
Entrepreneurs Showcase Accelerator
Founded
2017
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
BioConsortia
Description
BioConsortia is an agricultural biotechnology company that uses a proprietary method for the selection of beneficial microbial consortia for crop improvement.
Long Description

BioConsortia is developing highly effective microbial consortia for increasing agricultural yields.

We have developed a revolutionary Advanced Microbial Selection (AMS) process, which uses directed selection to discover beneficial teams of microbes. This novel, patented model works by controlling the seed genetics and the environment while changing the microbial community in order to shift trait performance in the crop toward improved targeted phenotypes.

Founder(s)
Marcus Meadows-Smith
Stage
Series B
Founded
2014
City
Davis, CA
CPG Data, L.L.C.
Description
CPG Data develops and sells highly specialized software that helps beer, wine and spirits distributors track promotional displays of their products in stores.
Long Description

CPG Data™ empowers the alcohol industry with real-time, total-market visibility against execution metrics that drive growth:

• Displays
• On-premise
• Tap handles
• Points of distribution
• Sales merchandising
• Floor-to-store market share

Our patent-pending proprietary mobile app drives instant adoption through simple, easy to use surveys that don’t ask any questions. Even your least technologically savvy employee will agree, because we built CPG Data with his input!

Designed by a team with over 150 years of combined industry three-tier experience, CPG Data provides only the necessary reports and analytics for tracking the most popular execution metrics at retail. As Albert Einstein said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

We know Execution. We know Incentives. We know MBOs, PFP, DSOF, ACV, and TNT! CPG Data will reduce reduce the administrative burden on your sales team while empowering decision makers with real-time results to improve Execution and keep suppliers happy.

Founder(s)
Tracy Neal
Founded
2013
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
El Dorado Hills, CA
eHarvestHub
Long Description

eHavervvestHub helps small-to-mid size farmers and Owner/Operator (O/O) truckers connect directly to help them increase their profits.

Founder(s)
Alvaro Ramirez
Stage
MVP/Launched
Contact Person
Alvaro Ramirez
Founded
2012
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Discovery Bay, CA
In the News

The New World of Ag | Comstock's Magazine, February 10, 2015

ExtraPlate
Long Description

The ExtraPlate app lets you order on-demand, directly from your phone. Discover produce from local farms and your neighbors, your favorite food truck fare, or a hot meal from someone in your community. Opt for pick up, or delivery. All from a tap of a button.

Founder(s)
Grant Rosenquist, Jimmy Crabbé
Founded
2016
City
Sacramento, CA
Foodfully
Description
Passionate nerds building software and hardware to eliminate food waste. Currently in beta testing!
Long Description

Foodfully builds software and hardware to eliminate household food waste. By integrating with grocery store loyalty cards, automatically tracking purchases and sending notifications before food items may spoil, and giving users access to resources to use or donate their food, Foodfully addresses the common problems leading to household food waste.

Founder(s)
Brianna McGuire
Stage
Pre-seed
Programs
UC Davis Big Bang!, Capitalize 2016
Founded
2016
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Davis, CA