API-AGRO

What API-AGRO does

API-AGRO, operating under the Agdatahub brand, is a French data intermediation platform serving the agricultural and agri-food sector in France and Europe. Founded in 2016 as a sector-led initiative, the company positions itself as the reference neutral third party for qualifying, licensing, and exchanging agricultural datasets and APIs across all agricultural fili\u00e8res. Its core technology is the Agdatahub Exchange platform (platform.api-agro.eu), which combines a public catalog of qualified data offers, identity-verified members, license-framed transactions with explicit consent control, automated sample generation, integrated supplier-buyer messaging with audit trails, and a Consent module for managing farmer authorizations for data access. The platform can be parameterized into private groups for sector-specific pooling (e.g., cereal logistics with partner AI Cargo), and supports both free public data and monetized datasets and APIs. The company monetizes through recurring Exchange and Consent subscriptions bundled with onboarding and training, transaction-based access to monetized datasets and APIs, data monetization support for emitters, project-based operational consulting and technical support, and ancillary value-added services such as algorithms and data visualization. Customer segments include cooperatives and traders (primary), AgriTech startups, agricultural machinery players, agri-food industrials, agro-suppliers, technical institutes, chambers of agriculture, public bodies, and local authorities. Following the November 2024 opening of collective insolvency proceedings and the February 2025 acquisition by Netframe, the platform now sits under new ownership intended to develop its role as the digital technical operator of the agricultural profession.

Name

API-AGRO

Legal name

Agdatahub

Website

https://api-agro.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

API-AGRO (Agdatahub) operates a French and European data intermediation platform that qualifies, licenses, and exchanges agricultural datasets and APIs across all agricultural sectors for cooperatives, traders, AgriTech firms, industrials, and public bodies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Exchange platform subscriptions (Exchange & Consent): Recurring subscriptions to the Exchange and Consent solutions, bundled with onboarding, training, and team enablement, generating recurring platform revenue.
2. Data transaction fees / data monetization take-rate: Monetized data files and APIs available on the catalog can be transacted via the platform; Agdatahub provides support for structuring and monetizing data offers, implying transaction-based revenue on paid data exchanges.
3. Data monetization revenue (data asset sales): Data emitters can commercialize their datasets and APIs via the platform; Agdatahub supports monetization of these offers as an additional revenue layer on top of subscription.
4. Professional services: operational consulting and technical support: Operational consulting missions (conseil opérationnel) and technical support (appui technique) on agricultural data usage, plus design and initialization phases for data valorization projects, delivered with methodological notes and deliverables to ensure customer autonomy.
5. Additional value-added services (algorithms, data visualization): Add-on services such as algorithms and data visualization offered via the platform to assess the quality and scope of data, generating ancillary revenue beyond core subscriptions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

API-AGRO (commercialized under the Agdatahub brand) operates a data intermediation platform that lets agricultural and agri-food actors expose, license, exchange, and monetize datasets and APIs through a qualified catalog with identity-verified members. It bundles the Agdatahub Exchange service, a Consent module that manages farmer authorizations for access to their data, a public filterable data catalog, and operational consulting/technical support for data projects.

Product overview

API-AGRO (commercialized under the Agdatahub brand) operates a unified, single-platform data intermediation architecture for the French and European agricultural and agri-food sector. The core offering is Agdatahub Exchange — the central marketplace and secure-exchange service for cataloging, licensing, and trading agricultural datasets and APIs — complemented by the Consent module for managing farmer authorizations, the Data Catalog for public discovery of qualified data offers, and an Advisory & Support Services wrap for consulting, onboarding, and methodological support. Together these components form a sovereign, sector-specific data intermediation platform founded by and for the agricultural profession.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• API-AGRO: Data intermediation platform (members login at platform.api-agro.eu) operated by Agdatahub, providing a catalogue of qualified agricultural and agri-food data and secure data exchange services.

Products and services

• Agdatahub Exchange Subscription-based data intermediation service that lets agricultural and agri-food actors securely expose, exchange, and monetize datasets and APIs. It includes identity-verified members, a public and filterable data catalog, license-based contracts, integrated messaging, recurring offer notifications, and can be configured as a private data-sharing group.
• Consent Consent management solution bundled with the Exchange subscription, handling authorization requests from farmers (for example for access to their agricultural data by feed manufacturers, FMIS providers, and other third parties) and validating the validity of those authorizations.
• Agdatahub Data Catalog Public, sign-up-accessible catalog of qualified agricultural and agri-food data offers, filterable by license type, sector/filière, geographic zone, and data type, with configurable watch lists and alerts when new relevant data is published.
• Agdatahub Advisory & Support Services Operational consulting and technical support offering covering all agricultural-data topics: scoping data projects, onboarding/training teams to Exchange and Consent, co-designing data valorization, and delivering methodological notes and deliverables to enable autonomy post-deployment.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduction of production costs and improved formulation precision through better access to nutritional and farm data for cattle feed
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Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature8 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• AgriDataSpace: European-funded initiative building a sectoral data space for agriculture aligned with Gaia-X; comparable as an ecosystem/standards effort that could either compete with or interoperate with Agdatahub's intermediation role at the European level.

Regional players

• SMAG: French agricultural software publisher offering FMIS and farm data management solutions widely used by French cooperatives and advisers; comparable as a French-headquartered ag-tech vendor whose installed base overlaps with Agdatahub's cooperative and technical-institute audience.
• Isagri: Major French ag software vendor serving farmers, accountants and agricultural businesses with farm management and traceability solutions; comparable as a long-standing French ag-tech player serving overlapping customer segments (cooperatives, farmers, advisers).

Broad incumbents

• Syngenta / Cropwise: Syngenta's digital agriculture platform aggregating farm, satellite and agronomic data for decision-support; comparable as a global ag-data platform serving farmers and agri-food partners, though vertically tied to Syngenta's crop protection and seed business.
• Gro Intelligence: Global agricultural data and analytics company offering datasets and decision-support across the agri-food value chain; comparable as a data platform serving food and agriculture decision-makers, though operating at a much broader geographic and commodity scope than Agdatahub.
• Climate FieldView (Bayer): Bayer-owned farm data platform ingesting machinery, satellite and agronomic data and offering decision-support tools; comparable as an agricultural data aggregation and exchange layer, but vertically integrated with Bayer's seed and crop protection portfolio.
• Trimble Agriculture: Established agricultural technology vendor with farm data management, machinery interoperability and FMIS capabilities; comparable because spraying interoperability and FMIS integration are explicitly part of Agdatahub's use cases, but Trimble is a much broader portfolio player.
• Farmers Edge: Public-listed (now delisted/restructured) agricultural data and digital agronomy platform serving growers and agri-food partners; comparable as a farm-level data exchange and analytics provider, though historically focused on North American row-crop markets.

Direct peers

• JoinData: Dutch agricultural data intermediation platform that manages farmer authorizations and enables secure data exchange between farmers, machinery providers and processors — the closest functional analog to Agdatahub's Exchange + Consent combination in a neighboring EU market.
• Agrimetrics: UK-based agricultural data platform providing curated datasets, APIs and analytics infrastructure for the agri-food sector; comparable as a sector-specific data intermediation and catalog service targeting similar buyer personas (research institutes, agri-food industrials, policymakers).

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments2 records

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