Elevate Farms designs, builds, and operates large scale vertical farms to produce highly nutritious foods in an efficient manner. It focuses on minimizing waste and land use while ensuring food safety.

Elevate Vertical Farms

Elevate Farms | 2,176 followers on LinkedIn. Scaling an essential technology for a food system that stays within our planetary boundaries. | Elevate Farms exists to contribute to a much-needed transformation of our food system. 

We design, build and operate vertical farms that grow incredibly flavourful, highly nutritious leafy greens and herbs, and we do so at scale and in a way that contributes positively to people and planet. Farming this way means we need 95% less water and land than conventional farming, we require no pesticides, and we produce fresher, more nutritious produce while massively reducing food waste.

Chairman of Franklin University Switzerland

Kim Hildebrant

Chief Financial Officer at Elevate Farms

Graham Keltie CPA,CA

Sustainability and Social Impact I Business Consulting, Management and Strategy I Generative AI & Data Science I Climate Tech I

Munir Merali

IESE MBA | Elevate Farms

Aly Karim

Elevate Farms

🚀 Intravision Group AS & Elevate Farms : Shaping the Future of Agriculture 🌱 Elevate Farms, using Intravision's advanced vertical farming tech, is set to bring large-scale leafy vegetable production to Switzerland—saving over 90% water and land. Backed by NASA-inspired tech, these projects solve logistical issues and ensure local, fresh supply without pesticides. Per Aage Lysaa and Amin jadavj are driving this revolution, offering sustainable "zero kilometer" produce. We’re excited to be part of this journey towards a resilient food future! 🌿 https://lnkd.in/g6dfppBG #VerticalFarming #AgTech #Sustainability #FoodSecurity #WaterEfficiency #ElevateFarms #Intravision #ControlledEnvironmentAgriculture #Switzerland

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In a world where over 800 million people still go hungry, the fact that we waste one third of all food produced is deeply, deeply painful and unfair. And it gets worse: wasted food contributes so much in greenhouse gases that, if it were a country, food waste would be the third-highest greenhouse gas-emitting nation in the world, behind the US and China. 🌏 At Elevate Farms, we have a scalable solution to offer to significantly reduce food waste. ↘ 💡 But before we share how, let’s recognize that this is a problem that is hard to fully grasp, and impossible to solve with single, silver-bullet type solutions. To start with, Food Waste occurs at every stage of the food supply chain: on fields, during harvest, and post-harvest in processing, storage and transportation (what the FAO calls “Food Loss”) as well as during distribution in transport, storage and, of course, consumption at home and in restaurants (called “Food Waste”). Globally, that adds up to an intolerable 2 billion tons of food that are lost or wasted annually. Fruits & vegetables account for 28% of the total, contributing ~17% of the CO2 emissions associated with food waste. So, what is Elevate Farms doing to help? 🔎 Elevate’s vertically farmed food production significantly reduces food loss (remember the FAO definition above?) in several ways: - First, we produce and grow only as much as is needed. We tailor our production to buyers’ demand planning and adjust our production on a 30-day rolling forecast so that we can react much better to changes in demand. Should we still produce more than needed, we always make an effort to donate our produce to local organizations. - Second, because we do everything from seed to harvest to packaging in-house in automated processes, we skip the cleaning and extra processing to which salad is usually subjected (sometimes 3 or 4 times before it arrives on your plate). That means our salad grows up entirely protected from anything harmful and is as fresh & clean as it can be, with minimal loss during growing and harvesting. 🍃 📍As for food waste, our greens are packaged and ready to ship the same day they are harvested, reaching buyers the day after harvest. This ensures they stay fresh longer – on the shelf and in the fridge! And of course: we produce locally, meaning we drastically reduce transportation (we’re talking thousands of miles) and thus minimize the chance of spoilage and damage between the farm and the consumer. While we contribute to reducing food waste, a broader systemic shift is needed. This conversation is lengthy and can be uncomfortable, requiring collaboration between buyers and suppliers to drive meaningful change. We’re doing our bit and look forward to that conversation. In the meantime, we look forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments! Check out the linked articles for more insights. #FoodWaste #Sustainability #VerticalFarming #ClimateChange #Agriculture #ElevateFarms #SustainableAgriculture

Thank you, Russell , for featuring us in last week’s issue of ‘Funders, Founders and Effective Voices’ by Wellspring International. We are honored to be a part of it and to help raise awareness about vertical farming. Our co-founders, Per and Amin, have always championed a science-first approach. Our co-founder Per summarised it perfectly 'Growing plants indoors is easy. Growing them at scale, at this quality and consistency, and at a cost structure that enables us to sell to a large mass-market audience is another challenge altogether. That's why we spent the first years of our business researching the light, climate, water, and nutrient protocols required to optimize growth and then designed an automated growth system around these photobiology insights." Curious to learn more? Check out the article below to discover our motivations and future plans. 🚀🥬 #verticalfarming #Intravision #innovation #agriculture

🌱📊 Shedding Light on Our Production Numbers We believe our industry will grow faster if we’re willing to share more. To that end we'd like to unveil a key production insight today: Elevate’s GravityFlow system yields what we believe to be an industry leading 152 kg/m² annually. In the world of vertical farming, where we operate on stacked levels, that’s 152 kg/m² per level. At 11 layers in our New Jersey farm, that amounts to an impressive 1669 kg/m² of ground space – a pretty astounding use of space in a world that’s low on arable land and high on damaged soil. To put these numbers into perspective, conventional farming typically yields around 4 kg/m², while greenhouses we’ve seen typically range between 40-80 kg/m². To be clear: we’re aware that vertical farming is just one part of a bigger systems shift in agriculture. We believe in collaboration with other food system solutions and regenerative practices where possible, and both field agriculture – especially regenerative – and well-run greenhouses have an important place alongside our technology. The world is too complex for just one way to grow leafy greens and other crops. In that spirit, leave us a comment below if you have other numbers to share – we’re happy to compare and collaborate. For Elevate, it’s our science-first approach that enables us to achieve our numbers, combined with our fully automated grow tunnel. But we’ve also integrated standard existing tech where that makes more sense than designing our own, especially for harvesting and post-harvest – we don’t need to reinvent the wheel (or hoe?) from scratch. Curious to see how it all works? Check out the short snippet below showcasing our grow chamber. 🌿✨ #ElevateFarms #VerticalFarming #SustainableAgriculture #ProductionInsights

🐰🌱 Hoppy Easter from Elevate Farms! 🥗 We never question why Easter bunnies bring eggs, so why doubt our salad from a vertical farm? 🥚 While bunny-delivered eggs are often perceived as sweet, sugary, and innocent, lettuce from an indoor environment can sometimes raise suspicion. At first glance it might look like it’s from outer space, sparking concerns about artificial ingredients or genetic modifications. But fear not! Our lettuce is as safe as can be. 🌿 Grown pesticide-free in a fully controlled environment, it's immune to cross-contamination and packed with freshness. Plus, being local means it saves food miles, so you can enjoy it super fresh, without worrying about it going bad within days. Not to mention, we're saving water and land while delivering maximum flavor and nutrients. 🌍 So this Easter, let's embrace the bunny's sweet surprises and our farm-fresh greens! Go on, hop along now. 🐇🥬 #ElevateFarms #VerticalFarming #EasterBunnyVsLettuce

🌟 Welcoming Nikolas Oetker as our new Chief Marketing Officer! 🚀 As we expand our footprint in the US and Europe, we are regularly reminded that vertical farming still has a lot of convincing to do: to customers, to potential employees, and especially to investors. At Elevate, our approach to this has always been to do our homework first and then tell our story, trying to find a balance between ambition, competence and humility in a young industry. Finding great people who share and complement our approach is essential to our plans, and so we’re delighted to share that Nikolas Oetker has joined Elevate Farms as Chief Marketing Officer. Nikolas will help us refine and tell our story, develop partnerships that push our vision forward, and deliver on retail and food service customer needs. A long-term supporter of Elevate, Nikolas has been an advisory board member to the company since 2022. He adds deep food business management expertise to the team, having held several senior marketing, sales and management roles in both Asia and Europe, most recently as Head of Marketing at Dr. Oetker Ibérica. So why join Elevate? “The transition to a better food system is exciting, but it’s also incredibly complex," he says. "There is no single solution, and though science and technology can enable change, at the end of the day it still takes real teams, to take real risks, to have real impact. Vertical farming is one of the most promising solutions that exists, and the team at Elevate has the background, ambition and, crucially, the right values to bring it to scale. I’m thrilled to help deliver on their vision.” Welcome Nikolas!

A heartfelt congratulations to our co-founder and CTO, Per Aage Lysaa , on his recent feature in NASA's „Spinoff“ publication! 🎉 “Spinoff” highlights NASA technologies that benefit life on Earth in the form of commercial products. Per’s work and this milestone achievement, born from a collaborative effort with NASA and the University of Guelph’s Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility, represents his deep commitment to advancing sustainable agriculture through science and engineering. It also happens to form the basis for Elevate Farm’s growth system, including multispectral lighting, light controls, sensor kits and facility management software. We are grateful for- and can attest to the remarkable efficacy it brings, allowing Elevate Farms to produce incredibly flavorful, pesticide-free, and ultra-fresh leafy greens, with minimal land, water and emissions. Here's to our shared journey of innovation, driving sustainable food solutions that have the potential for real scale! 🌿✨ Intravision Group AS #NASA #SustainableFarming #Innovation #verticalfarming #GreenFuture

🌿 Delving into Water Efficiency! 💧 Following your interest in our recent water efficiency post, we decided to share some more details. You ask, we deliver! We’re very happy to have these conversations 🌱 So, what does using 95.3% less water really mean for Elevate Farms? Let's break it down: our New Jersey vertical farm utilizes only 0.012m3 to produce 1 kg of lush leafy greens. To put it in perspective, that's equivalent to roughly 12 liters per kg. Still seem like a lot? We thought so too. But consider this: you use about the same amount of water when showering for just 2 minutes. 🚿💦 Now, let's compare this with conventional, field-grown production, where water consumption skyrockets up to 250 liters per kg, based on data from Yuma, Arizona.*🌾 That is a lot of showering – over 40 minutes, to be exact. Now, we know our colleagues on the fields are getting more efficient all the time: there are tons of innovations to improve water efficiency in the works. And that’s great: the earth needs it, we’re rooting for them. Greenhouses are a good alternative - they’re already significantly more water-efficient, at around 20 liters per kg*. But here's where efficient vertical farming can truly make a significant difference: our 12 liters per kg include the whole process, from seeding to packaging, all within the same facility. ♻️🌍 Field and greenhouse metrics only include irrigation, but there is typically a lot of water use in washing and sorting produce post-harvest. One of our secrets? We recycle all our HVAC (heating, ventilation & air conditioning) drain water, and our produce doesn’t need to be washed after harvest: it’s always been clean ✨😃 Besides water efficiency, there are plenty of other benefits to Elevates vertical growth system: we also reduce food miles, increase shelf life and reduce food waste, and eliminate cross-contamination risks. Oh, and the stuff’s just incredibly delicious. Stay tuned for more on these eco-friendly aspects in our upcoming posts, and as always: we look forward to a good conversation. 🍃🌐 *Water consumption metrics of field grown lettuce and greenhouses taken from journal linked in the comment section. #WaterEfficiency #SustainableFarming #ElevateAgriculture #IntravisionGroup #verticalfarming #efficiency

Exciting news on the sustainability front! An independent third party audit has officially confirmed that Elevate Farms utilizes 95.3% less water than traditional farms, spanning across every aspect of our operations – from cultivation to processing and cleaning. 💧 But here's the untold story: when we dive deeper into an apples-to-apples comparison, the impact is even more significant. With conventional farming methods, processing and cleaning aren't factored into the water usage calculations. As a result we believe to use up to 98% less water than traditional farms. 🍏🌱 Join us on this path of sustainability, and together, we can elevate agriculture. 🌱🚀 #SustainableFarming #WaterConservation #ElevateAgriculture #GreenFuture #verticalfarming #agriculture

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