These highlighted new launch and product announcements for Q3 2025 focus on Agriculture and Procurement Intelligence, with a few miscellaneous (not defined by a category) inclusions that are interesting to note.
Advanced satellite imagery, marketplaces that meet specific needs (such as direct purchase military drones), AI for food supply monitoring and predictions, and a possible tech evaluation “category-defining” disruptor, are just a few examples of what is bubbling up, innovation-wise, in the world of supply markets information resources.
Agriculture
Oracle launched Oracle Government Data Intelligence for Agriculture in September. This solution, which is AI-powered, aggregates data from sources such as satellite imagery, weather feeds, and soil and historical crop information to provide agricultural production monitoring and food security forecasts.
In July, Farmers Business Network (FBN) announced platform expansions and $50 million in funding for new product lines and AI deployment. Expanded product portfolio features include more private label and third-party crop protection products, Canadian growth, new seed platform for third-party seed offers, and livestock expansion. On October 1, FBN announced the spin-off of a new independent company, Global Crop Solutions (GCS), creating two distinct companies.
Vesper launched the Vesper Marketplace in September, which is a digital trading platform that connects verified dairy buyers, sellers, and traders. By Using actual transacted market prices, the marketplace delivers information in real time for not only the spot market, but also forecasts up to a year in advance.
In August, NASA Harvest introduced the updated Harvest2Market tool, a web-based platform that integrates satellite Earth observation data with trade, market, and economic indicators to help monitor agricultural supply chains and connect global food production to markets. Harvest2Market reveals how shifts in crop conditions can ripple through markets and impact food security worldwide.
In July, DTN acquired Canadian ag tech company Grain Discovery, which will enhance the DTN Ag Hub launching this fall. DTN Ag Hub “is a real-time digital twin of U.S. agriculture at the farm level and will include a suite of supply chain solutions for retail and upstream, grain procurement, farmers, and sustainability leaders.” DTN Ag Hub is part of the recently launched DTN Operational Decisioning Platform (includes fuel and weather).
In September, Helios AI announced Helios Horizon, a multi-agent AI system designed for food supply chains. The platform covers 75+ agricultural commodities where users request forecasts and receive reports within seconds, building upon Helios AI’s price forecasting models, which were rolled out earlier this year. “It’s like having a team of Bloomberg analysts in your pocket 24/7.”
Procurement Intelligence/Data Providers
In September, procurement orchestration platform provider, ORO Labs, launched the ORO Partner Enterprise Network (OPEN), an ecosystem that accelerates outcomes through a unified partner-first approach across the entire procurement lifecycle. Examples of supplier and supply market intelligence providers in the network include RapidRating, EcoVadis, Exiger, Beroe, and LexisNexis, to name a few.
In August, technology research and advisory provider, Futurum Group, unveiled Futurum Signal, for predictive evaluations of technology providers. The Futurum Intelligence Platform “evaluates companies across five core categories—Business Value Index, Product Innovation & Technology Capabilities, Strategic Vision, Go-To-Market Execution, and Ecosystem Alignment—on a consistent 10-point scale that rolls up into an overall Futurum Signal score.” Concerning the hype of the announcement, Lusher Advisory states: “The framing is that Signal is a category-defining disruption, overturning Gartner Magic Quadrants, Forrester Waves, and IDC MarketScapes.”
In September, Beroe acquired supplier discovery provider, Forestreet. Forestreet’s technology is behind Beroe’s Supplier Discovery module within the Beroe Live.ai platform. Forestreet’s full team, experienced in LLM development, will join Beroe to further advance its Supplier Discovery module. In August, Beroe launched its tariff management solution, which provides up-to-date tariff data by product category across 190 countries, with the accompanying Tariff Impact Analysis solution.
In July, Art of Procurement acquired the ProcureTech100, ProcureTech100 Yearbook, and Founders’ Circle programs from ProcureTech, now part of ORO Labs. ProcureTech100 is a highly respected source for cutting edge procurement technology insights and rankings. According to the press release: “By combining ProcureTech100’s data-rich rankings, vibrant founder community, and boutique events with Art of Procurement’s trusted insights and 10,000-strong practitioner network, the acquisition creates procurement’s only always-on source for peer-driven insight, unbiased procuretech intelligence, and executive collaboration.”
In July, Resilinc launched its Agentic AI platform that integrates capabilities in Azure AI Foundry to activate autonomous agents to identify disruptions and orchestrate response workflows. “Resilinc’s agents continuously monitor millions of public and private data sources for geopolitical, regulatory, cyber, and environmental threats. Initial capabilities include real-time disruption monitoring, forced labor compliance and tariff screening agents, with additional models launching throughout 2025.”
Engineering intelligence provider, Accuris, in August launched Supply Chain Intelligence Disaster Alerts to its Bill of Materials (BOM) Intelligence platform. The platform will help organizations stay ahead of unanticipated events, such as natural disasters and geopolitical events, on electronic components within their BOMs.
Everstream Analytics and FreightWaves and SONAR have partnered to incorporate Everstream Analytics’ weather risk analytics into the SONAR platform, marking a broadening of Everstream’s influence in the logistics industry. Logistics professionals can now utilize Everstream’s weather analytics to enhance their operations for climate unpredictability.
Not Defined By Category
The U.S. Army is launching an “Amazon-like” storefront/online marketplace that allows for the direct purchase of drones, bypassing the Pentagon’s lengthy acquisition process. Now Army officials and procurement officers can directly compare vetted drone options by price and performance. “This marketplace is similar to Ukraine’s Brave1 Market, where frontline units can acquire drones and other warfare technologies directly from developers.”
In July, LegalTech Hub announced LTH Navigator, which they state is the first legal tech AI assistant available. Legaltech Hub’s data includes information that is not available publicly on vendor websites, so responses to queries about legal technology are more accurate and reliable. Legaltech Hub is an insights & analysis platform where legal professionals find the right legal technology software and resources,
LevelTen Energy launched Capacity+ to support large-scale power and capacity needs for data centers, corporate buyers, AI, and manufacturing. As demand is projected to triple by 2030, companies are rapidly building AI data centers and energy-intensive manufacturing facilities and finding locations where enough generation capacity is available is challenging. Capacity+ is a suite of tools that allows for rapidly identifying, evaluating, and securing carbon-free capacity resources and related products to meet unique needs.
Google DeepMind has launched a new AI model, AlphaEarth Foundations, that generates nearly real-time views of the planet Earth by connecting and unifying disparate satellite datasets. The technology combines land and coastal water information using public sources, such as optical satellite images, radar, and 3D laser mapping. This new technology introduces exciting opportunities for supply chain monitoring and risk assessment.
