InnerPlant Named to Inc.’s 2025 Best in Business List

InnerPlant, the seed technology company engineering crops that communicate their needs, has been named to the Inc. 2025 Best in Business list in the Best in Innovation, Small and Mighty (10–49 Employees) category. Inc.’s annual Best in Business Awards celebrates the exceptional achievements and contributions of companies that have made a profound impact on their industries

2025 has been a milestone year for InnerPlant, highlighted by the world’s first real-time detection of a fungal infection in a commercial soybean field through the company’s CropVoice™ disease alert network and InnerSoy™ sensors, which currently covers 50,000 acres across the Midwest and is on track to scale tenfold in 2026.

The recognition honors companies that, through exceptional execution, have achieved significant milestones and core business wins, like customer expansion, key product launches, increased market share, and industry-defining accomplishments. Companies from a wide range of industries – such as technology, health care, finance, and retail – have been recognized for their success and their positive influence on the business world.

The full list can be found on Inc.com and in the upcoming winter print edition of Inc. magazine.

“This acknowledgment affirms the work our team and our partners have done to bring a completely new layer of intelligence to agriculture,” said Shely Aronov, CEO and co-founder of InnerPlant. “CropVoice proves what becomes possible when we listen to the plants themselves. Detecting infection early enough for farmers to take action is a turning point for crop protection, and the response from growers and retailers shows how quickly this technology can scale.”

Aronov herself has been named as a 2025 High-Impact Woman in U.S. Seed by SeedWorld and included among Inc.’s 2025 Female Founders 500 list, and InnerPlant was recognized by Bloomberg as a BloombergNEF (BNEF) Pioneer earlier this year.

Inc.’s Best in Business Awards are open to companies of all sizes and types, in all industries and locations. Public, private, nonprofit, subsidiary, U.S.-based, and international companies are all encouraged to apply. Inc. editors and reporters hand-review every application and select Best in Business honorees that, in each of the award categories, have had an outstanding influence on their communities, their industries, the environment, or society as a whole.

“Each Best in Business honoree achieved a breakthrough moment this year. Some unveiled groundbreaking innovations while others launched savvy marketing campaigns or strategically implemented AI in their companies,” says Bonny Ghosh, editorial director at Inc. “No matter what their business win looked like, their projects and initiatives had a sizable impact on their company and even on their industry at large, making them worthy of this honor.”

For more information or to see the complete list, please visit inc.com/best-in-business.

About InnerPlant

InnerPlant is a seed technology company developing novel traits that harness plant physiology and unlock actionable data at scale. The Company’s technology enables the earliest detection of pathogens and other stresses in key crops to make farming more efficient, sustainable, and resilient. By tapping into plants’ immune systems, InnerPlant engineers crops that emit optical signals detectable from as far away as space when under attack by pathogens, pests, or other stressors. InnerPlant’s first commercial product, CropVoice, was named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024. The company is backed by leading industry and venture partners, including John Deere, Systemiq Capital, and an alliance of North American farmers via Coutts Agro. For more information, visit innerplant.com.

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