Fifth Season (founded as RoBotany in 2016) is a consumer tech company and indoor farming pioneer with Carnegie Mellon University roots that is creating a new era of fresh foods. Its commercial-scale indoor vertical farms use proprietary robotics, AI, and smart operations technology to grow leafy greens and herbs at affordable prices year-round. All Fifth Season food is grown without pesticides and is delivered to local grocery retailers, restaurants, and consumers at maximum freshness. Fifth Season’s first full-scale farm is located in Braddock, a historic steel town near Pittsburgh. The company is evaluating sites for similar farms in cities across the U.S.
Location: United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Employees: 51-200
Founded date: 2016
Investors 8
Mentions in press and media 14
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| 29.11.2022 | Brief: Vertical farm network InFarm to lay off ‘more than half’ of workforce, downsize operations | Vertical farm startup Infarm will lay off more than half of its workforce, around 500 employees. The Berlin, Germany-based startup cites skyrocketing energy prices and the wider downturn as reasons for the cuts. Infarm will consolidate its ... |
| 04.11.2022 | Movin’ up and out: Beyond’s executive exodus, UFA’s new CEO, a General Mills vet joints Ever.Ag | News moves fast in agrifoodtech, and high-profile job changes are no exception. To help keep everyone up to speed on the latest people moves in the world of food and ag, AFN publishes a monthly column to compile all the significant moves we... |
| 03.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Bayer backs high-protein chickpeas, Qwick lands $40m, vertical farms shut down | Bayer’s investment arm, Leaps by Bayer, invested in high-protein chickpeas startup NuCicer and hospitality staffing platform Qwick picked up $40 million. In agtech, Ostara closed a $70 million round for fertilizer from water treatment plant... |
| 02.11.2022 | Brief: robotic vertical farming startup Fifth Season shuts down | US vertical farming startup Fifth Season has shut down its operations. Pittsburgh Business Times was first to report the news. Sources familiar with the matter said Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Fifth Season closed its doors last Friday. T... |
| 27.01.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Swiggy, Deliverect & Calii raise funds for food delivery | Three of the biggest rounds announced in the last week came from on-demand food delivery startups. India’s Swiggy raised another $700 million, with both the UK’s Deliverect and Mexico’s Calii announcing substantial rounds. In agtech, Plenty... |
| 21.10.2021 | Schneider Electric : How F&B Companies Build Sustainability Credibility For Both Consumers And Investors | In the food and beverage (F&B) industry, one key challenge continues - these companies must not only be sustainable, but they must also be able to prove this claim. Here's how strongly today's consumers believe in sustainability: 80% cl... |
| 28.09.2021 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Peak Pumpkin Spice | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge”). Below is this week’s edition; it’s meant to live in your inbo... |
| 21.07.2021 | By bringing robotics and automation to vertical farming, Fifth Season is growing agtech innovation in Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh companies are bringing their robotics prowess to farming. Over the last few years, there’s been a growing presence of agricultural tech companies in the city, and a leader in that pack is Fifth Season — a robotic vertical farming... |
| 30.06.2021 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: The Great Resignation | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 17.03.2021 | Indoor agtech: An evolving landscape of 1,300+ startups | Editor’s note: Chris Taylor is a senior consultant on The Mixing Bowl team and has spent more than 20 years on global IT strategy and development innovation in manufacturing, design, and healthcare, focussing most recently on indoor agtech.... |
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