Consumers and retailers need a reliable local supply of leafy greens despite seasonality, long imports, pesticide exposure, and high resource use in conventional farming.
R&D Focus
Vertical farming; controlled-environment agriculture; AI-based manufacturing execution systems for crop operations.
Innovative Solution
LeaFood operates a large vertical farm using controlled light, climate, irrigation, and nutrient conditions. Its EU-supported R&D project developed an AI-based MES tool for crop care, rack and inventory management, and ERP integration.
Solution Effectiveness
The company states that crops are grown year-round without pesticides or harmful chemicals, use less water, rely on green energy, and can be harvested and delivered on the same day. No audited quantitative comparison was located.
Investment Funding
Last Funding Stage
Seed
Total Funding Amount
$8.75M
Last Funding Amount
$2M
Startup Stage
Early Stage
Lead Investors
YesHealth Group, Niels Peter Pretzmann
People
Founders
Nerijus Baliunas
Valentinas Civinskas
CEO
Valentinas Civinskas
About
Leafood is a vertical farming company that produces sustainable and high quality leafy greens
Products
Product
LeaFood leafy greens, salads, and herbs grown in a controlled vertical farm. No independent consumer-review source was located.
Star Product
Locally harvested leafy greens – the core commercial output and the direct expression of LeaFood’s vertical-farm advantage.
Demo Product or Complete Product?
Complete commercial fresh-produce operation. The AI-MES project ran from March to December 2024; the exact launch date of the first retail product was not located.
Future Plan
Investment Funding
Public support for the 2024 AI-MES R&D project is disclosed. No future private fundraising plan was identified.
M&A and Collabs
Collab
NextGenerationEU / EU-supported project – funding support for an AI-based vertical-farm MES tool completed in 2024.
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