Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Apr 2024 | Maroš Šefčovič Executive Vice-President | Meeting WEF CEO Action Group for the European Green Deal | — |
| 15 Apr 2024 | Maroš Šefčovič Executive Vice-President | Meeting WEF CEO Action Group for the European Green Deal | SRC |
Mission & Goals
Vertical Future's ("VF") primary goal is to improve planetary and human health. This is accomplished through science-driven, high-tech, fully-automated, data-driven controlled-environment-agriculture ("CEA") hardware and software technologies that we design, manufacture, and deploy across the world, coming together as integrated, high-tech vertical farms. These farms address food and water insecurity through growing certain food products for consumers much closer to the point of production. Other use cases, such as tree nursery production (using different “growing algorithms” to increase tree planting survival rates); integration with greenhouses to increase output and quality; and growing high-quality produce for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. Operating since 2016 (and starting initially as operators before moving to technology), today we have approximately 40 staff across engineering, software engineering, commercial, operations, and plant sciences and are recipient
EU Legislative Interests
We are interested in any proposals or policies (especially those that align with the World Economic Forum and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals) that support sustainable food production and the reduction of CO2 emissions, casting a broad net because our business touches upon so many areas, as covered in our description. Providing subsidies, loans, grants, or access to dedicated pools of infrastructure capital are of particular interest, as these are some of the key blockers to success and innovation.
Communication Activities
European Green Deal Meeting - Brussels
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
World Economic Forum World Green Economy Organisation CEA Alliance (Founder is Board Member) U.K. Royal Agricultural Society (Founder is member) Agri-Tech E Barclays Unreasonable Impact (Founder is lifetime member) Global Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) Grow Global (formerly named the Mayor’s International Business Programme)