Plenty Featured in PitchBook

In an article titled “Could Plenty become agtech’s first unicorn?” PitchBook featured Finistere Ventures portfolio company Plenty.

From the article:

Plenty will use the new funds to continue building indoor vertical farming technology designed to expand urban food production to grow fruits and vegetables. The company’s urban-warehouse farms leverage machine learning, the IoT and Big Data to optimize the growing environment for crops and minimize the amount of water and energy used. Founded in 2013, the startup had previously raised $26 million from funds run by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt, as well as some VC firms, including DCM Ventures and Finistere Ventures.

 

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