CHICO, CA - Silo, a modern AgTech platform built for specialty crop growers, packers, and shippers, announced it has been ranked #57 on the Forward Fooding FoodTech 500 — a global ranking of the most innovative companies shaping the future of food and agriculture.
The FoodTech 500 is published annually by Forward Fooding, a leading global food innovation intelligence platform, a press release stated. The ranking evaluates companies at the intersection of food, technology, and sustainability — spotlighting those using innovation to build more efficient, transparent, and resilient food systems. Silo's placement in the top 57 out of 500 global applicants reflects its growing impact in specialty crop agriculture and the accelerating role of AI in transforming how produce businesses operate.
"This recognition validates what we hear every day from our customers," said Amy Gates, CEO of Silo. "In specialty crops, sustainability isn't a concept — it's operational. It's less product lost, smarter labor allocation, and tighter alignment between supply and demand. That's what Silo delivers."
Field to Finance: A Platform Built for Perishable Complexity
Silo's unified platform integrates enterprise resource planning (ERP), payments, labor management through its Pet Tiger solution, and traceability capabilities into a single system purpose-built for the produce supply chain. By embedding artificial intelligence across workflows, Silo enables customers to:
- Reduce food waste through improved forecasting, inventory visibility, and demand alignment
- Optimize labor and resource utilization with real-time operational insights connecting field productivity to financial outcomes
- Enhance traceability and compliance, supporting evolving food safety requirements including FSMA 204
- Drive smarter financial decisions by connecting operational data directly to bottom-line results
In an industry defined by perishability, tight margins, and fragmented data, Silo's approach focuses on delivering measurable outcomes: reduced shrink, fewer unnecessary transportation miles, and improved supply-demand alignment — all of which reduce the carbon footprint of the fresh produce supply chain. Silo serves the full spectrum of fresh produce operators — growers, packers, shippers, distributors, and wholesalers — recognizing that a truly resilient food system requires every link in that chain to operate with greater intelligence and efficiency.
"Our vision is to empower the people who feed the world," Gates added. "AI will not replace the operator — it should elevate them and level the playing field. By giving produce supply chain partners better tools and clearer visibility, we can help build a more sustainable, resilient, and efficient food supply chain."
Leading the Charge: Silo's Commitment to a Better Food System
The FoodTech 500 recognition arrives as Silo takes its first formal steps toward building an ESG and sustainability framework — grounded in the belief that a technology company serving the food system has a responsibility to go beyond efficiency and actively contribute to the health of the industry and the planet.
Silo and Pet Tiger are already good for the food system. Silo reduces inefficiency, accelerates payments, and cuts unnecessary waste across the produce supply chain. Pet Tiger reduces friction for the agricultural labor operators who keep farms running. Now, Silo is looking to formalize that impact through a sustainability initiative spanning four areas it believes matter most to the communities it serves: food waste reduction, agricultural education and workforce development, support for women in agribusiness, and the mental health and well-being of farm operators and agricultural workers — an issue that is deeply personal and chronically underserved across the industry.
"We are already helping reduce food waste and improve sustainability through the work our platform does — now we want to make that story explicit and build on it intentionally," said Gates. "The businesses that feed the world deserve a technology partner that shares their values, not just their workflows. That is the company we are committed to building."
Silo's ESG framework is currently in development, with plans to formalize initiatives and publish a full impact report as the program matures.
