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FarmRaise

Provides funding, management tools for farmers

Overview

FarmRaise provides a subscription-based mobile app and toolkit designed for small and beginning farmers and underserved communities. It helps users secure funding and grants (notably USDA opportunities) while also supporting farm operations. The app works offline to accommodate fieldwork and lets farmers organize inventory, track expenses, and generate profit-and-loss statements for farm projects. Subscriptions give access to a funding opportunities database, educational materials, and tax write-off lists, with possible partnerships to broaden resources. FarmRaise differentiates itself by targeting smaller, underserved farmers with an integrated set of financial and operational tools in one platform, optimized for field use and USDA funding access. Its goal is to save farmers time, improve profitability, and help grow sustainable, financially viable farm businesses.

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About FarmRaise

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Why FarmRaise is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Food & AgricultureData & AnalyticsEnterprise SoftwareFintech

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$7.2M

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • BCI rolls out FarmRaise to U.S. growers in January 2027, expanding distribution fast.
  • BTC Bank now offers FarmRaise to clients, embedding it inside Midwest ag lending.
  • November 2026 Passport launch targets 45Z, Scope 3, and cost-share claims, broadening enterprise demand.

What critics are saying

  • USDA policy changes can shrink grant demand and cut FarmRaise's core workflow volume in 2027.
  • BCI and BTC Bank partnerships concentrate revenue; one lost channel would hit growth immediately.
  • Rival MRV platforms and lenders can bundle data capture, payments, and reporting faster than FarmRaise.

What makes FarmRaise unique

  • Passport links farm records, bank accounts, and source documents into audit-ready claims.
  • FarmRaise runs USDA-adjacent workflows for programs, reporting, and payments across millions of acres.
  • BCI chose FarmRaise for U.S. cotton reporting, validating enterprise-grade farmer data infrastructure.

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Funding

Total Funding

$7.2M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

1 Rounds

Seed funding is usually the first official round after pre-seed, when a startup has a prototype or concept. It’s typically used to develop the product, test the market, and start building the team. Investors here are often angel investors or early-stage venture capitalists.
Seed Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

$3.3M
$2M
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$7.2M

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Remote Work Options
  • Home Office Stipend
  • Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

2%
Ecotextile News
Nov 10th, 2026
BCI targets US cotton paperwork burden.

BCI targets US cotton paperwork burden. Cotton growers will gain access to a digital platform designed to simplify reporting and track regenerative farming practices GENEVA - The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) has partnered with agricultural technology company Farmraise to simplify US growers' reporting and help document regenerative farming practices. The platform will become available to growers and field-level partners joining the BCI programme from January 2027, ahead of the 2027-28 cotton season. Join its community. Explore all its independent journalism from as little as 30p per day. Less than an espresso - but more stimulating. Read its top news stories delivered straight to your inbox. * November 10, 2026 * November 9, 2026 * November 4, 2026 * November 3, 2026 * October 29, 2026

Better Cotton
Nov 10th, 2026
Better Cotton Initiative partners with FarmRaise in U.S. for a simpler, farmer-centered experience.

Better Cotton Initiative partners with FarmRaise in U.S. for a simpler, farmer-centered experience. 10 November, Geneva - The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) has teamed up with agricultural technology company FarmRaise to help streamline data entry for cotton growers across the United States. With this partnership, BCI will use FarmRaise's technology to help BCI-certified growers and group managers simplify how they manage program information - while also helping them review and update existing farm and practice data each year. The platform also aims to ease the administrative burden of data entry by informing growers about available programs, market access opportunities, changing requirements, and deadlines. Ashley Barrington, Senior Manager of Better Cotton Initiative's U.S. program, said: "Today, cotton growers can spend a tremendous amount of time documenting program participation and practice implementation each season. FarmRaise can give them valuable time back by streamlining that process and bringing key information together in one place. We are excited to forge this partnership to make BCI participation simpler and more valuable for U.S. growers and field-level partners." FarmRaise, an online platform built for U.S. agriculture, supports thousands of growers across several national programs - including Avalo, USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA), NRCS-related programs and conservation and cost-share programs - serving as a centralized foundation for grower enrollment, reporting, and data management. The new partnership follows BCI's acquisition of Co:Farm, a digital solution created to help farmers optimize their work, streamline data entry, and accelerate their adoption of regenerative practices. Following BCI's announcement that it is now a regenerative standard system, the partnership can also help track U.S. cotton producers' implementation of regenerative practices, as those certified to produce BCI Cotton are required to introduce improvement plans across at least three of the following areas: soil health, biodiversity and natural habitats, water, pesticides, fertilizers, and livestock. Jayce Hafner, CEO at FarmRaise, said: "Every day, billions of humans touch the work of cotton farmers without ever meeting them. Our partnership with the Better Cotton Initiative brings that connection closer, giving cotton producers a straightforward way to share their practices and be recognized for the resilient future they're building. BCI champions the grower's role in a more sustainable cotton sector, and their global leadership has helped farmers around the world learn, improve, and thrive. We're honored to build alongside them." Todd Straley, CEO at Quarterway Cotton Growers, commented: "For producers, regenerative agriculture starts with what makes sense on the farm, not with paperwork. As we continue to implement and document practices that improve our operations, we need tools that make it easier to track that work without creating additional administrative burden. FarmRaise makes participation simpler while ensuring the progress producers are making in the field is captured." Rebecca White, Chief Product Officer at Avalo, said: "BCI's partnership with FarmRaise puts the grower first. By letting producers reuse the farm data they've already entered, it removes one of the biggest barriers to joining sustainability programs and makes it simpler for U.S. cotton growers to show the regenerative progress they're making." FarmRaise will be available to cotton growers and field-level partners looking to participate in the BCI program from January 2027 ahead of the 2027-28 cotton season. Contacts. Notes to editors. * In the 2024/25 cotton season, BCI licensed cotton growers in the U.S. produced more than 330,000 metric tons of BCI Cotton. * In August 2026, BCI announced a collaboration with agriculture solutions company Avalo, whose platform accelerates the speed at which plants with key resiliency traits may be developed. Avalo's platform revolutionizes plant breeding for climate-resilient crops, including cotton, by identifying key plant traits to develop seeds requiring less water and fertilizer.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 17th, 2026
FarmRaise launches Passport to slash farm data collection costs with AI-powered record system

FarmRaise has launched FarmRaise Passport, an AI-powered enterprise record system designed to reduce the cost of collecting farm data at scale. The platform allows farmers to connect their farm management systems and bank accounts once, with AI parsing and structuring their data for use across cost-share programmes, Scope 3 reporting, and 45Z feedstock claims. In its most recent enrolment cycle, 96% of participating farmers successfully shared data and documentation through the platform. This contrasts with traditional methods requiring manual data extraction by programme staff, which FarmRaise identifies as the largest cost in farm data collection. The system maintains field-level evidence linked to source documents, providing administrators with audit-ready records. FarmRaise is partnering with grower cooperatives, universities, government bodies, and supply chain partners across millions of acres.

The Mirror Democrat and Savanna Times-Journal
Aug 17th, 2026
FarmRaise launches FarmRaise Passport and collapses the cost of farm data collection at scale.

FarmRaise launches FarmRaise Passport and collapses the cost of farm data collection at scale. * 1 hr ago FarmRaise today launched FarmRaise Passport, the enterprise record system for grower-reported claims, and with it a fundamental change to what it costs to scale a farm program. With FarmRaise Passport, connect their farm management systems and bank accounts once and upload their documents, and AI will parse, structure, and link datapoints to the records behind them. Program administrators get audit-ready evidence across cost-share and conservation delivery, supply-shed data collection for Scope 3 reporting, and field-level evidence for 45Z feedstock claims, without the surveys, phone calls, and on-farm visits historically required to collect it. In the most recent enrollment cycle FarmRaise measured, 96% of farmer-participants successfully shared data and required documentation via the FarmRaise platform. The prevailing model across the industry is the opposite: program staff manually extracting answers from producers, form by form, the single largest cost in farm data collection. Removing that step for nearly every producer is what makes programs that were previously too expensive to run at scale pencil out. Sir Keir Starmer's final speech before Andy Burnham takes over as PM - HD alternative shot "I grew up on an Angus cattle farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley watching my family write the same numbers on form after form: for the bank, for the conservation district, for the government," said Jayce Hafner, CEO and founder of FarmRaise. "FarmRaise Passport is the product I wish my parents had. Connect your records once, enter data once, and your Passport works for you. And because the cost of running a program on that data just collapsed, programs like conservation cost-share, Scope 3, and 45Z can finally scale." One system, one exposure, one answer. Cost-share programs, Scope 3 reporting, and 45Z claims run on different rules and reviewers, but they share one exposure: an organization defending a claim to a third party on the strength of records created by producers. When a reviewer asks for the document behind a line item, the answer has to be retrievable, and verifiers consistently name incomplete records as the slowest part of a review. FarmRaise Passport gives administrators one system to enroll producers, structure what they report, and keep every claim linked to its source document, so when a verifier asks, the answer is a click, not a search. Field-level evidence (nitrogen, tillage, cover crops, manure) stays source-linked, with read-only access for verifiers and delegated upload for consultants. Where quantification is required, reviewers can sample the inputs and recalculate independently. FarmRaise is the evidence layer, and it complements existing MRV efforts with audit-ready farmer data. "The organization runs the program. FarmRaise Passport holds the proof," said Jayce. "A cost-share administrator, a sustainability team, and a co-op look like they're solving three different problems. Underneath, they're all defending a claim built on records someone else created. We make sure the record is there, and legible, the moment the attesting party asks." Live today at supply-chain scale. FarmRaise currently partners with twelve grower cooperatives, government agencies, and supply chain partners, spanning millions of acres of livestock, row crop, and specialty crop production. Organizations including Blue Diamond Growers and Avalo already run their on-farm data collection and reporting with FarmRaise. Additionally, FarmRaise is the company behind many of the Farm Service Agency's farmer-facing digital tools. FarmRaise Passport is available now. Organizations can request a walkthrough at passport.farmraise.com. About FarmRaise FarmRaise is building the farm data infrastructure that powers the next generation of agriculture. Farmers connect their farm records once and put their data to work across government programs, lending, tax credits like 45Z, and supply chain reporting, while institutions receive real-time, structured, source-linked data at a fraction of today's cost. Founded out of Stanford University and an Angus beef cattle farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, FarmRaise partners with grower cooperatives, government agencies, and supply chains representing millions of acres of livestock, row crop, and specialty crop production. Media gallery

Business Wire
May 16th, 2024
Farmraise Introduces Groundbreaking Addition To Software Suite, Revolutionizing Farmer Financial Incentive Programs

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FarmRaise launched its novel product aimed at transforming the administration of farmer-facing programs, including financial incentives and sustainability programs. This innovative solution marks a significant step forward in empowering farmers and institutions alike with user-friendly tools. FarmRaise delivers software and educational resources that enable farmers to master their farm funding. With a deep commitment to simplifying farm-specific administrative tasks, FarmRaise develops solutions that are simpler and more impactful than existing small business management systems. "At FarmRaise, we are dedicated to equipping farmers with the tools they need to thrive," said Jayce Hafner, CEO at FarmRaise. "Our latest software product represents a game-changer for organizations seeking to administer farmer-facing programs efficiently and effectively."

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