The future of food is being built upward. As the world grapples with shrinking arable land, water scarcity, and a growing global population, vertical farming companies are stepping up with bold, innovative solutions. Moreover, by stacking crops in controlled indoor environments, consequently, these pioneers are reimagining how we grow food — sustainably, efficiently, and closer to the communities that need it most. In this article, we explore the top 10 global vertical farming companies leading this agricultural revolution.”
Plenty
Plenty is one of the most funded vertical farming companies based in the US. Plenty is backed by Softbank and other prominent investors. It produces organic kale, lettuce, arugula, and other greens. And supplies them to large retail chains.
Aerofarms
Aerofarms produces microgreens such as kale, watercress, several spicy herbs, berries, and tomatoes. The company uses aeroponics to grow crops. Aeroponic technology uses a mist that consists of water and other nutrients. And this mist covers the roots of the plants. This technology uses 95% less water than conventional farming. Aerofarms counts companies such as AmazonFresh and Whole Foods as clients.
Bowery Farms, Vertical Farming Major
Bowery Farms is a leading vertical farming company based in New York. It grows organic, GMO-free, dark leafy greens, lettuce, arugula, kale, and herbs such as cilantro, basil, and parsley. It is backed by leading investors such as Google Ventures and Temasek. Bowery uses hydroponics to grow plants, and it has a proprietary, AI-based operating system, BoweryOS, to monitor the crop cycle.
Freight Farms, Vertical Farming Startup
Freight Farms is a Boston-based vertical farming startup that grows plants hydroponically inside freight containers! Container farms are easily transportable. And less expensive to manage than conventional vertical farms. And these containers enable local access to fresh produce. Freight Farms has customers in about 32 countries.
Sanon Bio, Vertical Farming Infrastructure Company
Sanon Bio provides reconfigurable vertical farming infrastructure. Just like Lego pieces that you can assemble based on the structure you need. Its proprietary technology called Radix offers food-grade racks, the LED lights, irrigation systems and nutrient delivery mechanism – all in one package.
Growtune
Growtune provides a SaaS-based software to help farmers manage their vertical farms. This software helps in planning the seeding, monitoring, detecting issues early, and harvesting. Also, it helps vertical farms take the required corrective actions.
Agrilution
Agrilution has taken vertical farming directly to consumers’ homes! You can use their PlantCube technology to grow microgreens like kale and basil inside your kitchen. And you can harvest greens daily. The company also sells ‘Seedbars’ that contain a wide variety of seeds along with the substrate to grow them.
Voeks
Voeks is based in California. The company offers irrigation and water management systems to vertical and greenhouse farms. It offers solutions for aeroponic, hydroponic, and aquaponic nutrient delivery methods.
Infarm
Infarm is a Berlin-based startup that sells modular, hydroponic, vertical farms to schools, supermarkets, and offices. It has an interesting, ‘agriculture-as-a-service’ model. It owns the farms and controls them remotely. And it gets a share of the revenue from the clients. Infarm has a large number of supermarkets all over Europe using its services.
IronOX
IronOx is a California-based vertical farm that produces greens using hydroponics. Interestingly, the company has a fully autonomous farm. It uses software-controlled robots for everything from planting to harvesting greens. It has a significant operational cost advantage over other vertical farming models that rely on highly skilled labor, which is expensive. IronOx is backed by Eniac Ventures.
