Plenty Stock
Agriculture Technology
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Plenty is an agriculture technology company that aims to build vertical aeroponic farms. Plenty claims to use one percent of the water, less than one percent of the land, and none of the pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, or GMOs of conventional agriculture. Plenty currently operates one vertical farm in San Francisco and sells leafy greens in grocery stores in California and online. The company offers six varieties of leafy greens; Baby Arugula, Crispy Lettuce, Baby Kale, Mizuna Mix, Kale Crunch, and Spring Mix.
Plenty was founded in 2014 by Matt Barnard and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Notable investors include Softbank, Bezos Expeditions, and DCM Ventures.
Investors
Bezos Expeditions
Plenty, Convoy, Domo, Lookout, Fundbox, Remitly, Jam City, Mark43, EVERFI, General Fusion
Data Collective
Databricks, Plenty, Zymergen, Checkr, SentinelOne, Illumio, SingleStore, Planet, Alation, Tala
Driscoll's
Finistere Ventures
Innovation Endeavors
Plenty, Zymergen, Getaround, Freenome, Course Hero, Yotpo, HomeLight, Blockstream, fabric, Mark43
JS Capital Management
Kirenaga Partners
SGVC
SoftBank Capital
Alibaba, SoFi, Ola, Compass, Snapdeal, Plenty, Guardant Health, BuzzFeed, Fitbit, Lemonade
Walmart
Funding History
| June 2016 | $1.5M |
|---|---|
| June 2016 | $19.6M |
| August 2017 | $1.2M |
| August 2017 | $201M |
| October 2020 | $0 |
| October 2020 | $139M |
| October 2020 | $595K |
| October 2020 | $148M |
| January 2022 | $0 |
| January 2022 | $548M |
Management
Chief Executive Officer
Arama Kukutai
Chief Strategy Officer
Nate Storey
Press
prnewswire - Nov, 10 2023
Plenty Hires VP of Plant Science and Architecture Firm to Advance Development of World's Largest Vertical Farming Research Centerglobalfintechseries - Jun, 12 2023
Plenty Announces Strategic Partnership with Tezos Domains to Support Successful TED Token Launchcoverager - May, 31 2023
Plenty raises $2.75 millionfinextra - May, 24 2023
Plenty launches fintech platform for millennial couplesloom - May, 24 2023
Plenty secures $2.75m to revolutionise wealth creation for modern coupleslnkd - May, 23 2023
Founder-to-Founder: Emily Luk, CEO of Plenty, on The Human Side of Scaling a CompanyTechCrunch - May, 23 2023
Plenty’s new wealth-building app targets couples blending financesnews - Mar, 31 2023
VCs Plow Money Into Indoor Farming, But Open Fields Might Be More Ripe For Innovationnews - Mar, 17 2023
Here Are 3 Big Areas Where AI Is Cropping Up In Agtechglobalaginvesting - Mar, 1 2023
Plenty, Realty Income Form $1B Strategic Alliance for Vertical Farm Developmentfinance - Feb, 22 2023
Realty Income to invest $1 bln for vertical farming with startup Plentyagfundernews - Jan, 27 2023
The Top 10 Farm Tech Deals of 2017 (How Many Can You Name Without Clicking?)news - Dec, 27 2022
Forecast: 15 Startups We Think Could Go Public In 2023bizjournals - Dec, 16 2022
Vertical farming startup Plenty shutters South S.F. indoor farm, HQ facilitywyomingnews - Nov, 29 2022
Laramie seeks $20M state loan for Plenty research centerbizjournals - Sep, 16 2022
Wednesday Digest: Twitter shareholders uphold buyout; Plenty plans world's largest indoor farmnews - Mar, 28 2022
Faux Meat And Dairy Startups Consume Nearly Half Of Record $13B VC Investment Into Foodtechnews - Mar, 14 2022
Future Crops Nabs Tencent Investment As Vertical Farming Sector Growsnews - Feb, 22 2022
PlantLabs Nabs $57M As Indoor Farming Funding Surgesnews - Feb, 10 2022
Why VC Investors Are Plowing Record Sums Into Agtechnews - Jan, 28 2022
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Air-Taxi Startup Wisk Hails $450M Round, Crypto Company FTX Nabs $400Mpitchbook - Jan, 26 2022
Plenty blooms with $400M as vertical farming startups address food shortagesthestreet - Jan, 25 2022
Walmart Sees Plenty of Promise in Vertical-Farming Firmagfundernews - Jan, 25 2022
Brief: Plenty raises $400m from Walmart, SoftBank, others in vertical farming’s largest funding to dateglobalaginvesting - Jan, 25 2022
Plenty Raises $400M Series E, Names Finistere’s Kukutai as New CEO, Partners With Walmartcnb - Jan, 25 2022
Walmart makes an investment in vertical farming start-up Plentyfinance - Jan, 25 2022
U.S. indoor vertical farm Plenty gets big injection of cash and Walmart dealagfundernews - Jan, 25 2022
Plenty scoops up $140m in Series D round led by Driscoll’s and SoftBankjpost - Dec, 30 2021
Plenity Reviews - Does This Really Work?dlvr - Nov, 19 2021
Plenty Global Hackathon 1.0 to Nurture Talent Grow Tezos Ecosystemca - Sep, 1 2021
Plenty Expands Technical Leadership Team with New Hires Across Product, Program Management and Mechanical Engineeringpharmiweb - Jul, 20 2021
PureTech Founded Entity Gelesis, the Maker of Plenity®, to Become a Publicly Traded Company via Merger with Capstar Special Purpose Acquisition Corp.Valdosta Daily Times - Mar, 9 2021
Plenty Expands Into 17 New Safeway Stores Across Northern CaliforniaProduce BlueBook - Mar, 2 2021
Vertical farm Plenty ranks No. 1 in food technology honorsAljazeera - Feb, 18 2021
Indoor farming gains ground amid pandemic, climate challengesentrepreneur - Nov, 15 2020
Planning for Your Retirement Should Make Sense. This App Can Help.siliconrepublic - Oct, 15 2020
Plenty bags $140m in funding for its indoor farming technanalyze - Sep, 6 2020
2 thoughts on “Vertical Farming Companies See Funding Drought”cnet - Aug, 28 2020
Former Tesla executive takes top engineering job at Rivianagfundernews - Jul, 22 2020
SoftBank Invests in Largest Ever Agtech Deal, a $200m Series B for Indoor Ag Startup Plentycincinnati - May, 12 2020
Ask sick kids what zoo animals can do for them. The answer: Plentyorlandosentinel - May, 4 2020
A week in Orlando’s arts scene: What’s happening without shows? Plentydealstreetasia - Mar, 31 2020
SoftBank-backed farming startup Plenty in talks to raise $100mjapantoday - Mar, 29 2020
Plenty to carp aboutpamplinmedia - Feb, 17 2020
God made us to workreuters - Feb, 16 2020
Plenty to squawk about: Spanish capital plans for huge cull of parrotsjpost - Feb, 11 2020
Plenty nachas at Jewish Oscarspcmag - Jan, 11 2020
Innovation, Evolution, and Plenty of Sex Toys: The Trends That Defined CES 2020San Francisco Chronicle - Jan, 9 2020
Plenty’s vertically farmed produce hits Safeway, Whole Foodstoledoblade - Jan, 6 2020
Generation Why: No weight shaming in 2020masslive - Nov, 24 2019
UMass men’s basketball couldn’t upset Virginia, but left with plenty to build on | Matt Vautourpocket-lint - Nov, 22 2019
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3 ‘Perfect 10’ Stocks With Plenty of Upside Aheadctpost - Nov, 18 2019
Global Forecast-Celsiusprweb - Nov, 16 2019
Make Changes in Your Lifestyle to be Happy, Healthy, and God-HonoringGeekWire - Nov, 15 2019
Jeff Bezos-backed vertical agriculture startup Plenty "hibernates" plans for Seattle farmhuffpost - Nov, 15 2019
Trump Impeachment Hearings Gives Late Night Plenty To Laugh Aboutctpost - Nov, 15 2019
US Forecastoklahoman - Nov, 14 2019
Plenty of blame to go around following 49ers' 1st lossbusinessinsider - Nov, 14 2019
A futuristic farming startup raised $260 million from Jeff Bezos and SoftBank on the promise of upending agriculture. Insiders are raising questions.azcentral - Nov, 13 2019
Pinal County has plenty of water for the next 100 years. We just need to prioritize demandlabusinessjournal - Nov, 11 2019
Vertical Farm Signs Lease in Comptonyahoo - Nov, 10 2019
Hannah Brown Fuels Her DWTS Performances with Plenty of Carbs — and Candy for Breakfast!ctpost - Nov, 9 2019
US Forecastrealmoney - Nov, 8 2019
While Sentiment Is Extremely Bullish, There Is Still Plenty of Buying Powerin - Nov, 8 2019
Tech on a Budget: 29 Gift Ideas Under $20growthbusiness - Nov, 7 2019
How I scaled my adult streaming service without external fundinglivemint - Nov, 7 2019
The problem of plenty in your financial portfoliosdbj - Nov, 5 2019
Vertical Farming Company Leases Westcore Buildingctpost - Nov, 3 2019
US Forecasteconomictimes - Nov, 3 2019
Brave New World: Commodity prices at 20-year low & when it's in plenty, someone is in povertyfinance - Oct, 31 2019
Fed's Powell: 'Plenty of risk' remains despite phase one trade dealglobalaginvesting - Oct, 31 2019
Plenty’s Expanding in Southern California with Next Vertical Farm Planned for Los Angelestorontosun - Oct, 25 2019
Plenty of local stars to cheer for as Breeders Crown comes to MohawkThe Spoon - Oct, 25 2019
Plenty Announces a New Vertical Farm Facility in the Middle of Los Angelesctpost - Oct, 22 2019
US Forecastal - Oct, 22 2019
Crunch time: Plenty on the line in Tennessee Valley Week 10 footballpocket-lint - Oct, 22 2019
First real PS5 photo leaksclassifieds - Oct, 18 2019
FIND YOUR NEWLY BUILT DREAM HOME IN CAVANAGHfinance - Oct, 16 2019
Dow Jones Today: Plenty of Trade Questions Need to be Answeredsports - Oct, 16 2019
Media Day: Lots of pieces, plenty of questionsprlog - Oct, 15 2019
Plenty of treats for bidders at Nye & Company's pre-Halloween Estate Treasures Auction, October 30thsports - Oct, 13 2019
Plenty of former NFL players will give the XFL a trynola - Oct, 12 2019
Tulane hoops: players have plenty of experience, just not with each otherredmondpie - Oct, 12 2019
Watch: Steve Jobs Lookalike Visits Various Apple Stores, Takes Selfies And Gives Autographs To Fansyorkshirepost - Oct, 9 2019
Home for sale with history and plenty of potentialsports - Oct, 8 2019
Bradley Cooper and plenty of stars came out for Eagles-Jets at the Lincbostonherald - Oct, 8 2019
Age not key factor keeping Sanders out of White Housedigitaltrends - Oct, 4 2019
Plenty of amazing games came out in 2019 but which ones are the best?mlive - Oct, 3 2019
No Lions this week, but plenty of football on Muskegon-area radioctpost - Oct, 3 2019
US Forecastlanereport - Sep, 17 2019
Women in agriculture survey support announced as part of Alltech Planet of Plenty initiativelanereport - Sep, 17 2019
Women in agriculture survey support announced as part of Alltech Planet of Plenty initiativelanereport - Aug, 21 2019
Alltech commits to 9 U.N. sustainable development goals to further its Planet Of Plenty initiativetheguardian - Jun, 14 2019
Plenty review – David Hare's epic of despair has a Brexit echocommercialappeal - May, 24 2019
Grizzlies Podcast: Still plenty of unanswered questions in wake of NBA Draft lotterymiamiherald - Mar, 29 2019
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