Agrilution is a technology company.
Agrilution has raised $270K across 1 funding round.
Agrilution has raised $270K in total across 1 funding round.
Agrilution has raised $270K in total across 1 funding round.
Agrilution's investors include FundersClub.
Agrilution is a Munich-based food tech startup that builds the Plantcube, a fully automated smart kitchen appliance for vertical farming, enabling consumers to grow nutrient-rich greens, herbs, microgreens, and even strawberries at home year-round without pesticides, soil, or sunlight.[2][3][4] It serves urban households and small businesses like restaurants, solving the problems of access to fresh, nutritious produce amid long transport routes, food waste, and conventional agriculture's environmental impact by using 30x more nutritious plants grown with minimal water and space.[1][2][3] The ecosystem includes proprietary Seedbars (pre-seeded pods), tailored LED lighting, climate control, automated watering, and a mobile app for remote monitoring, shopping, and control, positioning Agrilution as a pioneer in democratizing indoor farming for personal nutrition and sustainability.[2][3][7]
Agrilution was founded in 2013 by Max Lössl and Philipp Wagner, inspired by vertical farming's potential to address global food challenges like feeding 9 billion people by 2050 while reducing agriculture's planetary harm.[3][6] Lössl, a student at HAS University in the Netherlands, kickstarted the company after winning funding in the 2013 Thought For Food Challenge and founding the Association for Vertical Farming (AVF) to build a global community of experts, now with 57 companies, universities, and 150+ members across regions like the US, China, India, and Europe.[6] Early traction came from developing the Plantcube prototype using tools like Autodesk Fusion 360 for rapid design and prototyping, evolving from a student project to an international 30-person team of designers, plant scientists, technicians, and sales reps focused on sleek, plant-centric hardware for kitchens and restaurants.[3][4][7]
Agrilution rides the vertical farming and urban agriculture trend, bringing controlled-environment tech (hardware, software, aeroponics-like efficiency) from industrial scales to consumer homes amid rising urbanization, climate pressures, and demand for local, pesticide-free food.[1][3][6] Timing aligns with post-2010s awareness of traditional farming's limits—water scarcity, soil degradation, transport emissions—fueled by millennial innovators and tools like cloud-based CAD for fast prototyping.[4][6][7] Market forces like food tech investment and sustainability mandates favor it, competing with players like Infarm (modular urban farms) and Plantui (smart gardens) but differentiating via full automation for mass-market kitchens.[1] It influences the ecosystem by democratizing knowledge through AVF, collecting growth data to advance recipes, and proving small-scale viability, potentially scaling to personalized nutrition based on user health data.[3][6][7]
Agrilution is poised to expand the Plantcube into personalized health-focused farming, using app data and AI for custom nutrient profiles tailored to individual needs, while scaling Seedbar varieties and international sales.[3][6] Trends like urban density growth, precision ag tech (e.g., AI-optimized LEDs), and circular economies will propel it, potentially partnering with smart home giants or health apps. Its influence may evolve from niche innovator to mainstream enabler of home-grown superfoods, reducing global food miles and empowering cities to self-sustain—echoing its founding vision of fresh, local nutrition as a planetary solution.[2][3][6]
Agrilution has raised $270K across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $270K Seed in December 2015.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 2015 | $270K Seed | FundersClub |