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Executive Summary: Which are the Top 10 Urban Farming Companies & Startups to Watch?
- HeyFarmer (India): Modular vertical aeroponic systems for urban homes with IoT-enabled automation and remote monitoring.
- Toybox Farm (Canada): CEA-based backyard farming kits with cloud-connected sensors for real-time plant care.
- Cooltivation (Czech Republic): Indoor vertical farms growing medicinal herbs with LED lighting and precise environmental control.
- Plantforge (Germany): Hydroponic farms in repurposed urban buildings for local, pesticide-free food production.
- AGRISKY (Italy): Urban farm intelligence SaaS combining IoT, AI, and computer vision for greenhouse optimization.
- Agrihome (Singapore): Compact hydroponic farm walls and towers with LED and UV tech for indoor agriculture.
- GAIA’S CYCLE (Germany): Closed-loop vertical farming system integrating aquaculture with real-time IoT analytics.
- Cultivatix (US): Regenerative vertical farming platform with PVF technology for multi-crop cultivation in small spaces.
- FreeBonde (Sweden): AI-powered hydroponic machines for home use that reduce transport and packaging waste.
- Agora Bridge (Netherlands): AI-enabled aeroponic towers for chefs and restaurants to grow produce on-site.
Global Startup Heat Map highlights Emerging Urban Farming Companies to Watch
Through the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering over 7M+ startups, 20K+ technology trends, and 150M+ patents, news articles & market reports, we identified 10 urban farming startups.
The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights emerging top urban farming companies you should watch in 2026 as well as the geo-distribution of 1400+ startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research.
According to our data, we observe high startup activity in the US and India, followed by Romania. The top 5 urban farming solutions are Bucharest, London, Bangalore, Singapore, and Dubai.
Meet Emerging Urban Farming Companies to Watch (2026)
We hand-picked startups to showcase in this report by filtering for their technology, founding year, location, funding, and other metrics. These emerging urban farming companies work on solutions ranging from pesticide-free perishable production and farm intelligence to medicinal herb indoor farming and vertical aeroponic farming.
1. HeyFarmer
- Founding Year: 2024
- Location: Kochi, India
- Use For: Vertical Aeroponic Farming
- Funding: HeyFarmer was awarded an INR 3 lakh Innovation Grant from Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM).
HeyFarmer offers a vertical aeroponic farming system for urban households. The vertical farming system suits balconies, rooftops, and small indoor spaces for growing pesticide-free vegetables and herbs. Its modular design enables adding more components as farming needs increase.
Moreover, its aeroponics technology supplies nutrients directly to plant roots without soil and with minimal waste. It integrates with IoT-based sensors and cloud-connected monitoring. This allows automated and remote farm management, irrigation control, and lighting.
The farming system further includes a recommendation feature that suggests which plants to grow based on location and climate. This allows businesses to grow plants in a soil-less environment with minimal maintenance.
2. Toybox Farm
- Founding Year: 2024
- Location: Calgary, Canada
- Use For: Backyard Farming
Toybox Farm enables backyard farming for urban users. It supplies a greenhouse, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) kit, growing medium, and a cloud platform for in-house farming.
Its cloud platform connects to sensors to monitor plant health, irrigation, and environmental conditions remotely. Businesses receive recommendations to optimize plant growth and manage harvest schedules.
3. Cooltivation
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Use For: Medicinal Herb Indoor Farming
Cooltivation operates an experimental indoor vertical farm that grows medicinal herbs. It cultivates rare, exotic, or endangered species with higher levels of desired active compounds.
The controlled environment of the vertical farm offers precise care for sensitive herbs. It deploys hydroponics, light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, precise temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, and nutrient controls.
Also, sensors monitor and adjust environmental conditions in real time. Moreover, the farm’s space-saving design supports high-capacity cultivation with minimal water usage.
4. Plantforge
- Founding Year: 2024
- Location: Bochum, Germany
- Use For: Hydroponic Vertical Farms
Plantforge converts underused urban buildings into hydroponic vertical farms. The startup grows herbs, microgreens, and vegetables locally without pesticides. It facilitates the efficient use of resources like nutrients and water.
Additionally, the startup builds its production facilities in existing buildings in the middle of the city. This enables short delivery routes and secures the city-based food supply. It also reduces the associated carbon emissions during transport.
5. AGRISKY
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Rome, Italy
- Use For: Hydroponic & Aquaponic Greenhouse Analytics
AGRISKY offers indoor urban farming software as a service (SaaS). The software integrates IoT sensors, computer vision, and AI models to analyze collected data from hydroponic and aquaponic greenhouses.
The software calculates vegetative indices, counts fruits, monitors climate, and more. The installed cameras monitor the health of plants and recognize diseases or parasites. This allows growers to improve yields and identify potential risks.
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6. Agrihome
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Singapore
- Use For: Indoor Farm Wall
Agrihome provides an indoor farm wall for urban agriculture. The wall is sleek and suits cramped spaces for home-based hydroponics. Another solution, FarmTower, is a modular indoor hydroponic tower for homes and offices.
The startup’s products incorporate light emitting diode (LED) lighting and ultraviolet (UV) light sterilization to maintain an ideal growing environment irrespective of external weather conditions.
The included potential of hydrogen (pH) and electrical conductivity (EC) pens test the soil pH and electrical conductivity of a nutrient solution. This indicates the concentration of dissolved salts, including essential plant nutrients.
Moreover, the products use a closed-loop irrigation reservoir and offer precise delivery of water to the plants.
7. GAIA’S CYCLE
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Use For: Pesticide-free Perishable Production
GAIA’S CYCLE presents an urban farming project for local food production. It combines vertical farming and aquaculture to create a closed-loop, resource-efficient system. It cultivates fish, crab, and vegetables like lettuce, sprouts, and herbs.
The farm uses sensors, IoT, and AI analytics to provide real-time data on temperature, humidity, pH, nutrient levels, and lighting conditions. This enables optimizing conditions for plants and animals while reducing energy and water use.
8. Cultivatix
- Founding Year: 2023
- Location: Coral Gables, FL, US
- Use For: Polyvarietal Vertical Farming (PVF)
Cultivatix offers a regenerative indoor farming system, CORE, to optimize climate conditions for plant growth. CORE consists of stackable grow walls, automated LED lighting, and a control system. It maintains thermal parameters, air quality, and hygiene via multi-layer insulation, passive airflow, and ultraviolet-C (UVC) purification.
CORE is made with corrosion-resistant and biopolymer materials that provide resilience to harsh weather. This suits rooftops, mobile setups, and other urban and suburban environments.
Further, CORE enables the simultaneous cultivation of multiple plant species within the same single vertical structure using PVF technology.
Another product, Agrotunnel, is a vertical farming structure designed to grow crops in limited spaces. It improves energy efficiency by minimizing heating and cooling requirements. It enables retailers, restaurants, wellness industries, and households to produce their crops sustainably.
The startup also develops a horizontal farming system for the production of animal feed, which is called the Fodder Capsule. It cultivates crops like alfalfa, barley, corn, millet, oats, rye, sorghum, soybeans, and wheat. This serves dairy farms, cattle, livestock, horse stables, and poultry farms with locally-produced feed options, thus reducing reliance on imported feed.
9. FreeBonde
- Founding Year: 2024
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Use For: Automated Hydroponics Machines
FreeBonde manufactures automated hydroponics machines. These machines are equipped with AI-based monitoring that ensures optimal growing conditions for plants.
The machines eliminate transportation emissions and packaging waste associated with store-bought produce. Moreover, the machines are compact and fit on windowsills, countertops, or small balconies, which makes them suitable for small spaces.
10. Agora Bridge
- Founding Year: 2024
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Use For: In-house Restaurant Aeroponics
Agora Bridge creates aeroponic and hydroponic towers for individuals, chefs, and restaurants. The towers come with climatic controls, nutrient supply systems, and AI monitoring.
The AI analyzes plants’ growing conditions that enable users to maintain their quality and yield. Moreover, the startup offers tailored gardening plans that adapt to restaurant menus. This supports on-demand harvests for seasonal or signature dishes.
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