AGRI CON GMBH PRECISION FARMING COMPANY

Their core work

Agri Con GmbH is a German precision farming technology company that builds and commercializes cloud-based farm management systems. Their core product integrates field-level data into a centralized software platform that enables farmers to make data-driven decisions for sustainable yet intensive crop production. They have successfully taken this technology from feasibility concept through full commercial demonstration via the EU's SME Instrument programme, indicating a product that has cleared both market validation and real-world deployment hurdles. As a dedicated precision agriculture SME, they operate at the intersection of farm software, agronomic data management, and sustainability optimization.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Agri Con's H2020 participation is a single, coherent two-phase journey rather than an evolving research programme: they used Phase 1 (2015) to validate the cloud precision farming concept, then immediately moved to Phase 2 (2016–2018) to demonstrate it at scale. There is no meaningful shift in thematic focus between early and recent activity — the entire H2020 record is one product story. Because their participation ended in 2018 and no keywords are available in the underlying data, it is not possible to determine whether their technical focus has evolved since then.

Agri Con shows a clear commercialisation trajectory — using EU funding as a launch pad rather than a research vehicle — so future collaboration is most likely to involve piloting or scaling a mature software product rather than early-stage R&D.

How they like to work

Agri Con always leads: both H2020 projects were coordinated by them, with zero participations as a junior partner. Their consortia are very small — just three unique partners across two projects — suggesting they bring in collaborators only for specific validation or deployment needs rather than building broad research alliances. This profile fits a market-oriented SME that uses EU projects to fund product development under its own direction, rather than a research actor that joins other teams' agendas.

Agri Con has worked with only three unique partners across three countries, making their H2020 network one of the smallest possible within the programme. Their geographic footprint is European but very selective, consistent with a company that recruits consortium partners for a specific functional role rather than for broad knowledge exchange.

What sets them apart

Agri Con is one of a small number of pure-play precision farming software SMEs to have completed the full SME Instrument Phase 1 → Phase 2 pipeline, which is a credible signal of commercial readiness assessed by independent EU evaluators. Unlike university groups or large agri-machinery firms entering digital farming from adjacent markets, they are a dedicated farm-management software house, which means their product focus is undivided. For a consortium that needs a grounded, commercialisation-ready precision agriculture partner rather than a research team, Agri Con's profile is distinctive.

Highlights from their portfolio

• AgriCloud P2
  With €889,350 in EC funding under the competitive SME Instrument Phase 2, this is Agri Con's flagship project and one of the larger single-SME precision farming grants in the H2020 Food pillar.
• AgriCloud
  The Phase 1 feasibility award (€50,000, 2015) is notable as the entry point of a successful two-stage SME Instrument journey, confirming the concept before the larger Phase 2 investment was committed.