Agrology builds real-time soil carbon and nitrous oxide emission monitoring technology and a climate/carbon monitoring platform for growers. Its platform combines ground-truth data and machine learning to deliver predictive warnings up to four days in advance for wildfire smoke taint risk, extreme weather, soil conditions, pest and disease emergence, and irrigation. Agrology’s Carbon Monitoring System tracks soil carbon sequestration in real time and detects carbon loss via carbon dioxide emission events. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Alexandria, Virginia. Customers include multiple vineyards and specialty farms, and Agrology has received two National Science Foundation SBIR awards and a USDA Partnerships for Climate‑Smart Commodities grant. The company recently received a $500,000 Phase IIB grant from the National Science Foundation’s America’s Seed Fund to expand capabilities and help farmers measure and report data on climate‑smart initiatives; the award is non‑dilutive and leaves Agrology with full control of its team and intellectual property. Agrology builds a predictive agriculture platform that leverages machine learning, IoT, and extensive ground-truth data to monitor soil carbon respiration, greenhouse gases, irrigation, pests, and extreme weather. The company markets an MRV-capable system for in situ measurement and verification of CO2 flux and soil health rather than relying solely on remote sensing or indirect models. Agrology is field-testing soil carbon sequestration validation and greenhouse gas monitoring and aims to deliver the first commercially available, scalable agricultural greenhouse gas measurement and monitoring system. The company has paying customers across specialty farms and the wine industry, including Braga Fresh, The Duckhorn Portfolio, Boisset Collection, Jordan Vineyards and Winery, and others. Agrology is a Public Benefit Corporation, a winner of two NSF SBIR awards, and was founded in 2019. It maintains offices in Alexandria, Virginia and Sonoma, California. The recent USDA grant award of approximately $5M will fund expansion of real-time greenhouse gas monitoring and verification with academic and grower partners. Agrology offers a predictive agriculture platform that gathers field data with sensors and aerial inputs, then processes it with machine learning and AI to forecast conditions up to four days out. The system provides actionable insights for irrigation, pest and disease outbreaks, smoke taint, and extreme weather, and includes the company’s soil carbon respiration monitoring capability to track soil microbiome health and changes in soil carbon. Agrology positions its technology to support regenerative practices and help growers access carbon credits via soil carbon sequestration. Current customers include growers and wine-sector clients such as Braga Fresh, The Duckhorn Portfolio, Silver Oak Vineyards, Jordan Vineyards and Winery, and others. Agrology is a Public Benefit Corporation, founded in 2019, and is a two-time National Science Foundation SBIR award winner with offices in Alexandria, Virginia and Sonoma, California. The company is field-testing soil carbon sequestration validation and greenhouse-gas monitoring based on its proprietary IoT and ground-truth technology. Following its seed raise, Agrology plans to grow its team, scale operations, and expand its reach into national and international markets. Agrology builds an integrated IoT and machine-learning system that converts high-quality data from low-cost sensors into actionable predictive guidance for crop growers. Farmers install Agrology devices and use a mobile application to receive recommendations on the right amounts, locations, and timing for inputs. The company offers a hardware-and-software-as-a-service model that it says enables deployment of ten times more sensors than traditional IoT farming solutions. Agrology claims its guidance can boost crop yields by about 10% for irrigated specialty crops while reducing inputs such as water and fertilizer by roughly 10%. The startup plans to use the CIT GAP Funds investment to continue developing its sensing and machine-learning systems, improve farmer user experience, support sales and marketing, and file additional patents. Agrology is based in Alexandria, Virginia.

Total raised

$6M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Grant

Latest activity

Oct 2023