AgTech · sub-niche
Food traceability blockchain.
Farm-to-fork traceability with blockchain (or just immutable data).
Team-sized buildTrickle — one deal per quarter
Why now
FDA Food Safety Modernization + EU CSRD + consumer demand = real budgets.
What the signal looks like
Repos with supply-chain-data ingest libraries, immutable-data backends, and consumer-facing QR experiences.
Public examples
We name publicprojects + categories only — never founders we track inside the paid product. The buyer’s edge stays inside the product.
- IBM Food Trust shape
- Provenance.org
- Open-source food-trace libraries
What this displaces
A paper trail + manual recall.
Our build-vs-invest call
Long sales cycle. Fund only with food-industry GTM. The wedge is one industry (seafood, leafy greens, beef).
Common questions about this niche
- Buyer?
- Large food brands + retailers.
- Pricing?
- Per SKU or per shipment.
- Compliance?
- FSMA + EU CSRD + state laws.
More inside AgTech
- Precision spraying software — Vision + ML on tractor cameras to spray only where needed.
- Livestock vision monitoring — Camera-based monitoring of livestock health, behavior, feed efficiency.
- Soil microbiome analytics — Soil microbiome testing + recommendations for regenerative ag practices.
- Farm financial management — QuickBooks + cash-flow planning specifically for farms — seasonal, debt-heavy, complex tax.