While these innovations didn’t make the Top 10, they are still making waves in the seed sector and they deserve your attention.
BeeHero – Pollination Insight Platform (PIP) (ISRAEL)
The PIP an advanced in-field sensing solution for permanent tree crops, seed, row and specialty crops, utilizing IoT sensors and AI to provide data-backed insights into pollinator activity and environmental conditions, including bee visits to flowers, weather patterns and other bee behavior. The data is analyzed by BeeHero’s proprietary AI to provide growers with real-time insights into pollination processes, helping optimize pollination effectiveness, biodiversity, and crop yields.
BetterSeeds – The EDGE™ (ISRAEL)
The EDGE™ delivery platform of CRISPR technology addresses climate change and carbon emission challenges by significantly accelerating the use of CRISPR technology thus expediting development and deployment of climate-resilient crops. Their innovative and game changing gene editing technology, combined with newly discovered traits, enables them to create crops that are more tolerant to heat and drought stress while reducing their carbon footprint.
Cgrain – The Cgrain Value Sorter (SWEDEN)
The Cgrain Value Sorter replaces manual grain inspection and separates samples into two fractions using image analysis and machine learning. It provides consistent assessments regardless of time and place, ensuring uniformity throughout the value chain. The instrument can be trained to analyze everything the human eye can do (defects, impurities, weeds, etc.) for small grains, like wheat, barley, rye and rice etc.
Computomics – xSeedScore® (GERMANY)
This AI-driven platform revolutionizes plant breeding by predicting crop performance under various climate conditions. It integrates genetics, phenotypes, environmental factors and management practices to recommend optimal plant crosses. Unlike traditional methods, it accounts for future climate scenarios, enabling breeders to select resilient and high-performing crops for specific environments.
Cropt – Big Data (SERBIA)
Cropt uses Big Data (soil, weather, satellite) and proprietary AI algorithms for crop modelling to predict crop yields, assess the risk, damages and production efficiency. By revolutionizing decision-making in agriculture, it addresses the limitations of human knowledge and experience. Through the Space Garden platform, they provide comprehensive agricultural monitoring, enabling stakeholders to understand productivity levels, predict yields and evaluate risks.
Glenn Seed – Floury Corn (CANADA)
Glenn Seed developed a unique corn variety for human consumption containing an entirely floury kernel endosperm. When milled and compared to normal corn, it produces a higher proportion of flour, and strikingly beautiful golden-colored food products which have improved texture, flavor and mouthfeel.
NeoCrop Technologies – Neotrait Engine® (CHILE)
This Chilean startup developed a record-time precision breeding platform, the Neotrait Engine®, which enables direct, non-GMO genome edits in commercial varieties. It integrates Neomics Miner® — a proprietary AI-driven tool for selecting candidate genes — and speed breeding techniques that allow multiple crop cycles in a single year.
Overton – EcoTea™ (CANADA)
EcoTea™ is broad-spectrum, ecologically based product line that boasts unique dry and liquid seed, in-furrow, foliar and residue management applications. EcoTea™ Dry and Liquid Seed Dressings are the first commercially available seed application in Canada that come with both a diverse microbial inoculum and a specialized bio-stimulant blend designed to stimulate the most beneficial microbial communities and functions for seedling and crop development.
Phenome Networks – PhenomeOne system (ISRAEL)
Phenome Networks developed an advanced photo module for PhenomeOne system, tailored for plant breeding and seed development. Launched in Q1 2025, this module will enable breeders to capture, catalog and analyze visual data alongside traditional metrics, creating a comprehensive view of plant growth and traits. By transforming visual data into actionable insights, this innovation will enhance breeding cycles and improve data accuracy. crop improvement.
Phytoform Labs – CRE.AI.TIVE (United States)
Phytoform Labs has pioneered precision agriculture through AI-driven genome editing. Their innovation enhances crop resilience to climate change and reduces waste by engineering plants with traits like drought tolerance, disease resistance, longer shelf life and improved nutrient efficiency. Using advanced AI called CRE.AI.TIVE and DNA free gene editing technology, they rapidly and scalability develop sustainable, non-GMO plant solutions that adapt to diverse environments.
PlantArcBio – DIP and DIPPER platforms (ISRAEL)
PlantArcBio has developed disruptive, patented, high-throughput DIP and DIPPER platforms for discovering and developing novel genes and gene-editing targets to improve desired traits in agricultural crops, such as yield improvement, drought resistance, herbicide tolerance, nitrogen use efficiency and insect tolerance.
ProofMinder – SaaS Cloud Platform (HUNGARY)
This innovation acts like an AI agronomist beside each plant — maximizing its potential, reducing chemical use by up to 80%, improving seed quality, saving up to 200 hours in the field, and helping growers sustainably meet production goals. The platform’s AI models analyze data from drones, satellites and cameras to provide growers with 99%-accurate, geocoded reports on plant population, early yield insights, missed tassels in hybrid corn, weed detection and much more.
Rainbow Crops – The Trait Foundry™ (BELGIUM)
The Trait Foundry™ combines multiplex genome editing, precision breeding, and AI to address complex crop traits previously difficult to engineer. It generates edited plant populations with tailored genetic diversity, enabling targeted trait improvement across multiple dimensions. Rainbow Crops’ platform accelerates complex trait discovery and engineering, creating patentable traits and improved crop varieties for global food security.
Seed Matriz – Encapsulation Technology 2.0 (ARGENTINA)
This technology changes the way seeds are prepared for sowing. Encapsulation Technology 2.0 aims to improve planting quality and incorporate nutrients, biostimulants, therapeutics, and other products designed to solve specific problems. The technology is applied to seeds of field crops such as corn, sunflowers, sorghum, peanuts and more.
SeedTrakr – Cloud-based Software Platform (CANADA)
This cloud-based software platform helps seed growers and agribusiness professionals track and manage their seed inventory, sales, processing and logistics. Users can input and access data on their seed stock, create and track orders and generate reports on seed sales and performance. This system was developed to save time and resources, leading to more efficient and effective small seed growers and large agribusinesses.
SMARTtray® – SMART Breeding (GERMANY)
This innovation provides a high-throughput technology for cultivation, tissue sampling, DNA extraction and selection across multiple plant species. The process uses SMART breeding (Selection with Markers and Advanced Reproductive Technologies), which has become a reliable tool in modern breeding programs to develop new varieties. SMARTtray® grows plants under fully controlled conditions and samples root tissue from all progenies in a 96-well format, eliminating the need for additional manipulation of individual plants for superior DNA quality.
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