Plenty Stock
Agriculture Technology
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About Plenty Stock
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
globalaginvesting - Jan, 25 2022
Plenty Raises $400M Series E, Names Finistere’s Kukutai as New CEO, Partners With Walmartthestreet - Jan, 25 2022
Walmart Sees Plenty of Promise in Vertical-Farming Firmcnb - Jan, 25 2022
Walmart makes an investment in vertical farming start-up Plentyagfundernews - Jan, 25 2022
Brief: Plenty raises $400m from Walmart, SoftBank, others in vertical farming’s largest funding to dateca - Sep, 1 2021
Plenty Expands Technical Leadership Team with New Hires Across Product, Program Management and Mechanical EngineeringValdosta 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 challengessiliconrepublic - Oct, 15 2020
Plenty bags $140m in funding for its indoor farming techSan Francisco Chronicle - Jan, 9 2020
Plenty’s vertically farmed produce hits Safeway, Whole FoodsGeekWire - Nov, 15 2019
Jeff Bezos-backed vertical agriculture startup Plenty "hibernates" plans for Seattle farmThe Spoon - Oct, 25 2019
Plenty Announces a New Vertical Farm Facility in the Middle of Los AngelesEquityZen does not have an affiliation with, formal relationship with, or endorsement from any companies featured above. This profile is based on publicly available information and is intended to be informative in nature.
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