Company Overview: INFARM - Grow Where You Are
Company Overview: INFARM - Grow Where You Are
INFARM is pioneering on-demand farming services to provide urban communities with fresh, nutritious produce, by distributing smart vertical farms in strategic centers of consumption. Our modular farms are highly efficient and can be easily deployed in any given space whether that be a supermarket, a restaurant, a school or a vacant warehouse.
Our Vision
We believe our food system should be decentralized and food production should get closer to the consum-er. INFARM offers an alternative food system that is responsive, transparent, and accessible, while allowing for significant improvement in the safety, quality, and environmental footprint of our food.
INFARM is bringing farming into the city, directly where people live and eat. Our vertical farming technology is the foundation for building urban farm-ing networks that will help cities become resilient and self-sufficient in their food production, while providing city-dwellers fresh, affordable, healthy produce all year round.
Our Farms
Our farms are comprised of modular hydroponic farming units that can be stacked and expanded, depending on the needs of our clients. All parameters of the farming unit are automated and constantly optimize the growing environment to ensure each plant gets the best conditions to thrive. Each individual farm is connected to our central farm-ing platform through IoT technology, that allows us to respond in real-time to fluctuations in demand.
Farming-As-A-Service™
Our clients pay a monthly subscription fee for farm capac-ity while INFARM’s dedicated team of professional growers operate the farms and care for the life of the plants. We work closely with each client to understand their needs and the demands of their customers to deliver a tailored assortment of fresh produce.
Our Produce
We grow the freshest, most nutritious, flavorful and beautiful produce, year round. Our grow-on-site approach means our plants have zero food miles and replace the need to import products from abroad.
We grow plants that are well known and loved, as well as rare and heirloom species which are forgotten or are hard to find. To ensure the maximum natural expression of each plant, our team of plant specialists develop unique growing recipes; tailoring the light, temperature, pH and nutrients to perfectly suit the plant type.
Our Story
INFARM was founded by Osnat Michaeli and brothers Erez and Guy Galonska when they came to Berlin in 2013. When they started out, they were motivated by what they wanted from their own lives – to be more independent, to eat healthier, and to experience the excitement of growing their own food. They built their first hydroponic farm in their apartment in Berlin, harvesting fresh vegetables on a snowy day in February. The empow-erment that came about from growing their own food, motivated them to explore urban farming further.
Over the following months, the trio began investigating the challenges facing farming in urban environments. They started to research and test methods to tackle these issues, from both a technological and strategic perspective until they arrived at a product and business model that they believed could truly shift the paradigm of food production.
Today, INFARM has grown to a 30 person company based in a large industrial warehouse in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Our Team
Our home town of Berlin attracts like-minded individuals who are committed to making real change. This has allowed us to gather a diverse team with backgrounds in plant science, industrial design, engineering, architecture, IT, marketing and business.
Our Core Team Includes:
CEO: Erez Galonska
CTO: Guy Galonska
CMO: Osnat Michaeli
CFO: Martin Weber
Chief Science Officer: Pavlos Kalaitzoglou
Chief Growing Officer: Nico Domurath
Chief Information Officer: Alain Scialoja
News Coverage
Over the past few years, INFARM has been covered by publications including Tagesspiegel, Germany Trade & Invest, Fast Co Exist, The Guardian, Venture Village, Zeit and Inhabitat, amogst others.
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Contact Information
Rebecca Griffiths
Head of Marketing & Communications Email: press@infarm.de
Phone: +49 30 55 63 00 48
Company Highlights
- Secured international patents on key technology.
- Built and operating the first in-store farms in the world in the METRO Cash & Carry in Berlin & Makro Antwerp.
- The first vertical farming company to be certified with GLOBALG.A.P.
- INFARM has received funding from the H2020 SME Instrument for the project “The vertical farming revolution, urban Farming as a Service.
- Selected by the European Commission as one of the top 4% of Europe’s leading innovators in the field of agriculture and technology.
- First prize in the Innovation Weekend Startup Competition in Tokyo, Japan.
- First prize in the Vision Award Competition 2016 Munich, Germany.
Indoor Urban Farming GmbH | Glogauer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin | www.infarm.com
