ITK

What ITK does

ITK is a French agricultural-technology company founded in 2003 by Eric Jallas and headquartered in Clapiers, near Montpellier. The company builds decision-support tools (DSTs) for farmers and agronomic advisors, serving four production verticals: viticulture, arable crops, livestock (notably dairy), and greenhouse vegetables. Its product portfolio spans the FarmLife multi-crop decision platform, Vintel and PRESTO for disease and mildew prediction in wine and arable crops, Cropwin for crop modeling, Heat Stress Protect for livestock heat-risk management, Sigatocare and Prevent for tropical and specialty crops, and the FarmBox connected-hardware line inherited from its October 2016 acquisition of Medria.

The underlying technology combines mechanistic (symbolic) agronomic modeling with machine learning — most prominently random forest classifiers for disease forecasting — built on a proprietary data corpus accumulated across 1 million+ monitored acres and 350,000+ connected cows. ITK maintains research partnerships with French public institutions including INRA, CIRAD and IRSTEA, and has received Solar Impulse Foundation labeling. Its go-to-market combines direct sales to cooperatives and large wine estates (named customers include Vitivista, Sieur d'Arques, Foncalieu and Vinadeis), distribution through agronomic advisors, hardware sales and subscriptions for connected livestock devices, and more recently bundled parametric insurance products such as Heat Stress Protect. The company operates in France, California and Kenya, supported by 101–250 employees and approximately €10.85M of disclosed cumulative funding, the majority of which came from a €10M round in December 2021. Current leadership is anchored by CEO Aline Bsaibes.

Name

ITK

Legal name

S.A.S. ITK

Website

https://itk.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

ITK builds AI- and mechanistic-modeling-based decision-support tools for farmers across viticulture, arable crops, livestock and greenhouse vegetables, serving cooperatives, estates and dairy operations in France, California and Kenya from a base of 1M+ monitored acres and 350,000+ connected cows.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Precision Agriculture Software

NAICS

Farm Management Services (115116), Support Activities for Crop Production (11511), Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing (333111)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Farm Machinery & Equipment (3523), Agricultural Prod-Livestock & Animal Specialties (200)

akta.pro primary industry

Farm Management & Decision Support Software (FMIS, ERP, Recordkeeping) (AFAGALAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Decision Support & Agronomic Modeling (Yield, Irrigation, Pest/Disease Forecasting) (AFAAAFAF), Pest/Disease/Weed Detection & Forecasting Analytics (AFABAMAI), Livestock Precision Monitoring Software (Herd/Flock Analytics, Health Alerts) (AFAAAFAM), Farm Finance, Input Procurement & Risk Tools (Budgeting, Inventory, Insurance Links) (AFAAAFAO)

Keywords

• Precision agriculture software
• Agronomic decision support
• Livestock IoT monitoring
• Crop yield forecasting
• Agricultural climate risk

Headquarters

HQ city

Clapiers

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. SaaS Decision Support Tools: Subscription-based software subscriptions for decision support tools (Vintel, Cropwin, FarmLife, Presto, Prevent, Sigatocare). Provides analytics for measuring and improving agricultural production profitability and performance.
2. Connected Hardware Devices: Sale of IoT hardware including FarmBox gateways, connected cow collars with sensors, and autonomous flowmeters. Hardware sold as kits (e.g., 3 autonomous flowmeters + Gateway for Vintel).
3. Parametric Insurance Products: Heat Stress Protect insurance product for dairy farms, developed in partnership with Skyline Partners and SCOR. Provides indemnification for heat stress events impacting livestock.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

ITK develops and sells AI-driven decision support software (FarmLife, Vintel, Cropwin, Presto, Prevent, Sigatocare) and IoT hardware (FarmBox gateways, LoRaWAN cow collars, autonomous flowmeters) that simulate crop water status, nitrogen dynamics, disease risk, and livestock health in real time. The company's tools serve wine growers, arable crop farmers, livestock producers, and greenhouse operators, and are backed by mechanistic agronomic models developed in partnership with French research institutes.

Product overview

ITK (Industrie & Travaux en Cours) is an R&D company specializing in AI for agriculture, offering a portfolio of Decision Support Tools (DST) for precision agriculture. The product portfolio includes FarmLife for livestock monitoring (with FarmBox IoT gateway, Heat'Adapt, and GrassLive modules), Vintel for viticulture/arboriculture (with N-Expert nitrogen module), Presto for tomato yield forecasting, Cropwin for arable crops, Prevent for climate risk management, Heat Stress Protect insurance, and Sigatocare for banana disease management. The company connects scientific research to agricultural production by integrating seed, soil, weather, and input data into software. Services span climate risk forecasting, yield prediction, frost alerts, heat stress monitoring for dairy cattle, and irrigation/nitrogen management. ITK serves over 1 million acres of crops and 350,000 connected cows globally.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FarmLife: Livestock monitoring solution using IoT-based smart farming with LoRa sensors for monitoring livestock health, including heat detection, calving detection, animal activity, ingestion, rumination, grazing, and heat stress monitoring.
• Prevent
• Vintel
• Presto
• Heat Stress Protect
• Cropwin
• Sigatocare
• GrassLive
• Heat'Adapt
• Vintel N-Expert

Products and services

• FarmLife IoT-based smart farming application for livestock health monitoring using LoRaWAN sensors on cow collars to monitor calving, reproduction, nutrition, behaviour, grazing, and heat stress both in barn and on pasture, for dairy and beef producers.
• Prevent Decision support service to forecast, prevent, and protect from agroclimatological risks, including frost risk bulletins and animal thermal stress alerts for agricultural producers.
• Vintel Decision Support System for perennial crops (vineyards and orchards) that uses mechanistic agronomic models to simulate water status, nitrogen status, phenology, and disease vulnerability in real time, reducing water use by at least 30%.
• Presto AI-powered automated service for weekly tomato harvest yield forecasting using a random forest algorithm trained on historical yield and weather data, providing 2-week predictions with self-improving calibration for greenhouse tomato producers.
• Heat Stress Protect Parametric insurance product for dairy farms protecting income from climate-change-driven heat stress on cattle, co-developed with parametric insurance specialist Skyline Partners and reinsurer SCOR.
• Cropwin Decision support tool for arable crops (corn, wheat, soybean, sorghum) that simultaneously controls irrigation and nitrogen inputs and provides yield forecasting and risk assessment for large-acreage row crop producers.
• Sigatocare Decision support solution for banana producers that manages Black Sigatoka (Black Leaf Spot) disease pressure through disease modeling and treatment recommendations.
• FarmBox 4G Gateway Connected livestock monitoring gateway with 4G LTE connectivity that automatically collects data from LoRaWAN sensors on cow collars and transmits it to the FarmLife platform for barn and pasture monitoring up to 1 km sensor range.
• Connected Autonomous Flowmeter First connected autonomous flowmeter for agriculture that measures real-time water irrigation quantities per block using LoRa connectivity up to 3 km, paired with Vintel software to enable precision irrigation and water-use reduction.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30% reduction in water usage through Vintel irrigation optimization
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability12 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, strategic and minor.

• Skyline PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParametric insurance specialist based in London. Partnered with ITK to launch Heat Stress Protect insurance product for dairy farms in September 2021. SCOR acts as reinsurer for the product.
• SCORcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal reinsurance company. Partnered with ITK and Skyline Partners to provide reinsurance for Heat Stress Protect parametric insurance product protecting dairy farm income from climate change.
• Sun'AgristrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerPioneer in dynamic agrivoltaism. Strengthened partnership with ITK in April 2020 for resilient agriculture. Industrial and commercial partnership combining agrivoltaic technology with ITK's agronomic decision support.
• SemtechcoreTechnology or IntegrationSemiconductor company providing LoRa devices for ITK's connected agricultural sensors. Partnership announced September 2019 for creation of healthy and productive ranches with LoRa technology. Investment under 30€ annually per animal.
• La Ferme DigitaleminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDigital Agriculture network. ITK joined La Ferme Digitale in November 2017 along with MUGO, ByJardin, and Vertal. Network promotes digital agriculture solutions.
• INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench agricultural research institute. Collaborated on development of itkVigne/Vintel software and climate change studies on vineyard water deficit.
• CIRADcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench agricultural research center for development. Partner in development of Vintel software for agronomic modeling.
• IRstEA (now INRAE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench research institute for environmental engineering. Partner in collaborative project developing itkVigne software.
• VitivistaminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWine trade company. First partner to test itkVigne solution in Aquitaine region. Obtained convincing results and intends to propose solution to wine growers.
• KILIMO Project ConsortiumstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerProject in Kenya focused on environment and food security. ITK contributes agri-intelligence expertise to the consortium.
• CEA Tech LeticoreTechnology or IntegrationFrench tech research institute. Provided energy autonomous technology for the autonomous flowmeter device.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Climate Corporation (Bayer Climate FieldView): Bay/A Climate FieldView is a global farm management and decision-support platform for arable farmers. Overlaps directly with ITK's Cropwin in providing agronomic decision support, yield forecasting and field-level data analytics, but at vastly larger scale.
• Granular (Corteva): Granular is a farm management software suite within Corteva serving row-crop producers with planning, financials and agronomy. Comparable to ITK's Cropwin and broader FMIS offerings, but anchored in North American row-crop operations.
• DeLaval / DelPro: DeLaval is a global dairy equipment and farm management incumbent with DelPro herd management software. Comparable to ITK's FarmLife in livestock monitoring and decision support, but embedded in milking/equipment ecosystems.
• Trimble Agriculture: Trimble Agriculture provides precision agriculture hardware and software for variable-rate application, fleet management and farm data. Overlaps with ITK's Cropwin on arable-crop decision support and broader FMIS capabilities.

Direct peers

• CropX: CropX provides soil-sensor-based decision support for irrigation and nutrient management across multiple crops. Direct overlap with ITK's Vintel and Cropwin on agronomic modeling for water and nitrogen optimization, with comparable hardware-software hybrid model.
• Taranis: Taranis offers AI-driven aerial imagery and field-level decision support for crop protection and yield. Comparable to ITK's Prevent, Sigatocare and Cropwin in addressing disease, pest and crop-health decision support, with overlap in European and US markets.
• Connecterra: Connecterra provides AI-driven dairy cow monitoring using wearable sensors for health, fertility and behavior. Direct comparable to ITK's FarmLife livestock monitoring platform with similar LoRa/wearable architecture and AI-based behavior analytics.
• Farmers Edge: Farmers Edge offers a farm management platform combining field data, agronomy and decision support. Comparable to ITK's Cropwin on arable-crop FMIS with yield forecasting, though focused primarily on North American large-acreage operations.

Emerging players

• Afimilk: Afimilk offers dairy herd management sensors, pedometers and analytics. Comparable to ITK's FarmLife for cow monitoring, calving/heat detection and reproductive analytics, with overlap in European dairy markets.
• Semios: Semios provides IoT-based precision agriculture and decision support for specialty crops (orchards, vineyards). Closely comparable to ITK's Vintel and itk Orchards offerings for perennial-crop irrigation, disease and canopy management.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/itk_web

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors4 records

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M&A1 record

Investments

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