AgTech
Florida's agriculture economy underpins a growing agtech and food-systems startup base.
Organizations
University of Florida
Florida's flagship research university and a source of deep-tech spinouts.
Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention
A Gainesville museum and foundation that inspires and equips future inventors and entrepreneurs and runs the national Cade Prize competition.
StartUP FIU
Florida International University's campus-wide entrepreneurship initiative combining incubators, student programs, and research commercialization.
Startups
AgriBugs
Builds autonomous, solar-powered drone ports that launch pilotless field missions to deliver frequent RGB and multispectral crop-health insights.
Agriculture Intelligence
Developed Agroview, an AI cloud platform that analyzes drone and aerial imagery to give citrus and specialty-crop growers precision data on tree health, count, and nutrients.
Apiflair Technologies
Builds bio-inspired aerial vehicles that automate precision pollination and provide early airborne detection of citrus greening disease.
EnergiAcres
Designs, builds and operates AI-infrastructure district energy systems co-locating renewables with indoor farming (Project Everberry).
EZ Ag Innovations
Develops targeted precision-spraying systems that apply pesticides only to weeds, cutting chemical use and costs for strawberry and tomato growers.
Florida Organic Aquaculture
Grows antibiotic- and chemical-free organic Pacific white shrimp in enclosed greenhouse aquaculture systems.
Kalera
Operates indoor vertical farms growing pesticide-free, non-GMO leafy greens using about 95% less water than conventional field farming.