Babylon
Company

Last deal

$500K

Amount

Grant

Stage

03.04.2023

Date

3

all rounds

$22.9M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Babylon Micro-Farms is a company that develops on-demand indoor farming technology to make sustainable indoor farming more accessible.

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Sector :

Subsector :

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Also Known As

BabylonMF, Babylon, Micro-Farms, Harvested Here, Green Transformation

founded date

01.04.2017

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Grant

IPO status

Private

Description

The company's technology automates the complex aspects of indoor farming, allowing anyone to grow their own fresh produce all year-round with less water, food waste, and pollutants. Babylon's all-in-one indoor farming experience is designed for various sectors, including education, hospitals and senior living, resorts and hotels, and corporate dining. Their hydroponic Micro-Farms provide engaging and sustainable experiences, driving engagement, retention, and enrollment in schools, communicating commitment to sustainability in senior living and healthcare, offering bold flavors and freshness to chefs at resorts and hotels, and providing innovative culinary incentives for businesses. The founders were initially inspired by the desire to bring the benefits of sustainable hydroponic farming to those in need, and they have developed technology that automates the growing process, making it accessible to anyone. Babylon is also leveraging remote management technology to develop a complete indoor farming platform that will power a distributed network of Micro-Farms across North America.
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Their latest funding was raised on 03.04.2023. Their latest investor VentureSouth. Their latest round Grant

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2

Graham Smith

current job

Babylon
Babylon

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1

Graham Smith

Alexander Olesen
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Alexander Olesen is the CEO & Co-Founder of Babylon Micro-Farms Inc. The company evolved from an open-source project developing sustainable food systems for refugees in North Africa, who now leverage a proprietary IoT platform to remotely manage their network of indoor vertical farms. The farms within the network are supported by a software platform that connects expert growers and a subscription of growing supplies to the farms. They are pushing the boundaries of plant science with advanced data collection and machine learning algorithms to optimize conditions for specific crop varieties and in the process making sustainable indoor agriculture more accessible than ever before. He is a 2017 graduate of the University of Virginia in Foreign Affairs & Social Entrepreneurship and was President of the Agricultural Innovation Society.

current job

Babylon
Babylon

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1

Alexander Olesen

Employee Profiles
8

Tom Steffes

VP of Software

Sharon Rettinger

Director of Business Development

Adam Nourse

VP of Supply Chain

Conor Welch

VP of Customer Experience

Marc Oosterhuis

Marc Oosterhuis

Chief Operating Officer

Alexander Olesen

Alexander Olesen

Founder

Graham Smith

CTO and Co-founder

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