Food/Agriculture

Plenty is an agricultural technology company that provides indoor farming solutions, including food crops and products, for farmers, with a focus on plant sciences so that plants may develop in a natural environment.

Freight Farms is an indoor hydroponic vertical farm that produces and distributes food crops that include lettuces, herbs and greens. Freight Farm was founded in 2010 with a mission to develop a connected and sustainable food system that provides tools capable of enabling the production of fresh food. They are designed in a manner that they can be operated and implemented easily. The freight farms are equipped with climate control equipment and technology.

Square Roots is a privately held seed-to-sales urban farm founded in 2016 which sells pesticide-free, non-GMO herbs grown in indoor, vertical farms in Brooklyn. The farms use a water-efficient hydroponic growing system housed in repurposed shipping containers and are cloud connected to provide data, insights and tools to be used in producing high quality produce. This allows the company to grow its hand harvested, self packaged produce within the neighborhoods where it is sold. The company also operates the Square Roots Next-Gen Farmer Training Program.Square Roots offers resident entrepreneurship programs in farming through climate-controlled, indoor and hydroponic vertical farms.

Bowery combines the benefits provided by the best local farms with technological advancements to grow produce which customers can enjoy eating. Bowery is an indoor farming company that uses robotics, LED lighting, computer vision, sensors and data analytics to grow plants.

Aker is an agriculture data company that provides crop intelligence and in-season analytics.

Ecovative is a biomaterials company that manufactures alternatives to plastics and polystyrene in foams of packaging and building materials.

Solar-powered, Agriculture processing machinery

Hortau develops and provides wireless and web-based irrigation management systems for growers to measure and manage crop stress in real-time.

Neverfarm is an autonomous, energy-efficient, renewables-powered, indoor commercial farm that aims to provide access to cheap, fresh organic produce, while also encouraging an end goal of zero-waste. They aim to do this by automating the entire farming process to reduce costs and the environmental impact of the farming industry.

Local Roots designs, manufactures and operates indoor modular farming solutions to eliminate supply-chain risks and undo the commoditization of the food industry. That’s why our Local Roots Family is building a distributed network of cutting-edge farms throughout the world to grow the freshest, healthiest food possible.