Grow-NY

Grow-NY is a business competition focused on growing an enduring food and agriculture innovation cluster. Their competition attracts innovative, high-growth food and agriculture startups from across the globe and engages them in the region’s rapidly-growing startup ecosystem.

Jenn Smith

Director

16 past transactions

Ascribe Bioscience

Grant in 2021
Ascribe Bioscience develops products that enable farmers to combat crop pathogens without negative impacts on the environment. The company is currently developing a seed treatment product that acts by boosting crops’ natural defenses. Ascribe Bioscience was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ithaca, New York.

Every Body Eat

Grant in 2021
Every Body Eat provides clean, gluten-free, plant-based, delicious snacks. Every Body Eat's products include cheese-less, sea salt chia, chive and garlic, fiery chile lime, snack thins variety packs, craver pack, crispbreads, sea salt, tart cherry, white pepper and garlic, and crispbread variety packs. They also provide e-commerce services. Every Body Eat's snacks are flavorful, crave-able, and enjoyable to share with family and friends - regardless of most dietary restrictions or preferences.

Soos Technology

Grant in 2020
SOOS develops an incubation system that affects the sex development process in poultry embryo and turns genetic males into functional female chicks. The company's solution is an incubation system (AI-driven software controlling a customized incubation cell) that controls the sex development process in chicken embryos and uses genetic male layers to produce functional female layers that can lay eggs.

Leep Foods

Grant in 2020
Leep Foods grows premium organic mushrooms using regenerative soil methods on nutrient-enriched American hardwoods for consumers and restaurants.

Candidus

Grant in 2020
Candidus develops cost-effective supplemental lighting strategies and control systems for commercial greenhouse operations.

Zetifi

Grant in 2020
Zetifi has developed wireless network technology that provides mobile broadband coverage extension for farms, vehicles and machinery.

AvantGuard

Grant in 2020
AvantGuard creats innovative solutions that manage surfaces and provide long-term protection against viruses, bacteria, and fungi/mold, in a variety of applications.

PureSpace

Grant in 2020
PureSpace has developed a novel technology in extending shelf-life of fresh products that is applicable to all types of produce along the supply chain. Grocery stores and road transportation is a major application for shelf-life extension.

SoFresh

Grant in 2020
SoFresh manufactures a packaging material with an organic vapor to extend the shelf life of fresh foods such as bread, berries, and cheese.

Combplex

Grant in 2019
Combplex is uses remote monitoring technology to provide the benefits of digital agriculture and big data to commercial beekeepers.

Tiliter

Grant in 2019
Sydney-based tech company Tiliter makes computer vision products that use the latest in artificial intelligence to automatically and accurately identify objects. Working at the forefront of machine learning and data analytic algorithms, we're disrupting industry practices and creating the future now. Our mission is to make computer vision accessible to all by creating easy to use and easy to build products. We believe that computer vision can change the world for the better.

Dropcopter

Grant in 2019
Dropcopter automates pollination of orchard crops via unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). They help growers improve farming efficiency and drive healthy crop yield growth. In early 2015, Dropcopter completed its patent-pending prototype, and conducted the first-ever UAS pollination of orchard crops, boosting crop set by 10%.

RealEats

Grant in 2019
RealEats is a food tech company that offers a premium meal prep delivery service. Its first product innovation is a line of healthy hyper-convenient meals that reduce food waste. RealEats meals are delivered directly to consumers. Its products are chef-designed, nutritionally rich, and made from whole, unprocessed, responsibly sourced, junk-free ingredients, many of which are from local farms in the Finger Lakes agricultural region of New York State where the company's kitchen is located.

The Perfect Granola

Grant in 2019
The Perfect Granola provides food and beverage services. Their products include gluten-free food, vegan food, foods made with organic ingredients, clean eating recipes packed full of superfood ingredients, and healthy granola-based recipes.

Whole Healthy Food

Grant in 2019
Whole Healthy Food focused on producing a white kidney bean protein that can be added to foods and beverages.

Capro-X

Grant in 2019
Capro-X is an ag-tech company that improves the sustainability in the dairy industry by solving the acid whey waste problem prevalent in Greek yogurt production. The company's WheyAway treatment technology uses naturally occurring, non-GMO, microbes to upgrade dairy waste streams into clean water and natural bio-oils.
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