Photobiology · 25 years · NASA-recognised transfer

We engineer the light that grows the world's food.

Elevate Farms designs, builds, and operates autonomous vertical-farming technology, recognised by NASA as a direct transfer from space research. Closed-loop, pesticide-free, and built to scale anywhere.

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73%
Higher productivity, third-party audited
98%
Less water than conventional farming
80%
Less labour, no human hands
3
Countries, three operating facilities

Proof / Calibration

Measured against conventional agriculture, the numbers are not incremental.

98% LESS

Less water than conventional farming

Closed-loop recapture returns nearly all water to the system, harvest after harvest.

80% LESS

Less labour, no human hands seed to harvest

Robotic automation runs the full cycle, so quality is engineered, not handled.

Industry-leading yield per square foot

Top-ranked in third-party productivity audits across the controlled-environment field.

~3,000KM OUT

Of transport designed out per harvest

Grown beside the markets it serves. Local by design, for food sovereignty.

All comparisons are against conventional field agriculture.
02 / Thesis

Food sovereignty is now an engineering problem.

The world feeds itself through long, fragile supply chains, scarce fresh water, and a climate that no longer keeps to the calendar.

Most leafy greens travel thousands of kilometres before they are eaten, losing freshness, resilience, and shelf life along the way. A single disrupted route can empty a shelf. Elevate's answer is to move production next to the people it feeds, and to run that production like precision engineering rather than open-field chance.

Grow locally. Displace fragile import chains. Export the innovation. That is how a country secures its own food supply, and how a technology built once can scale to many.

  • 01Fresh water is finite, and conventional agriculture is its largest consumer.
  • 02Import dependence turns weather, logistics, and geopolitics into food risk.
  • 03Controlled environments make output predictable, year round, anywhere.

03 / System  ·  Closed-loop architecture

One continuous cycle, nothing wasted.

Light, growth, harvest and recovery form a single sealed circuit. Water and nutrients are recaptured and returned, so the system runs in a loop that never breaks.

Elevate Farms closed-loop system diagram A continuous loop connecting four stages in sequence: controlled light, automated growth, harvest, and water and nutrient recapture, returning to controlled light. A pulse of light travels the full circuit to show the loop is closed, with measured loss under two percent. 01CONTROLLED LIGHT25+ YRS 02AUTOMATED GROWTH80% LESS LABOUR 03HARVESTNO HUMAN HANDS 04WATER RECAPTURE98% RECOVERED
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Controlled Light

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Controlled Light

Engineered light, refined over 25 plus years of photobiology, sets growth conditions precisely. The same outcome every cycle, free of weather and season.

BENEFIT: CONSISTENCY, ANY CLIMATE
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Automated Growth

Robotic automation tends the canopy end to end. No human hands touch the crop from seed to harvest, which raises food safety and keeps quality uniform.

BENEFIT: 80% LESS LABOUR
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Harvest

Crops are taken at peak quality on a predictable schedule. Grown local by design, around 3,000 km of transport is engineered out of every harvest.

BENEFIT: LOCAL, FRESH, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
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Water & Nutrient Recapture

Water and nutrients are captured and returned to the loop instead of being discharged. The circuit closes here and feeds back into controlled light.

BENEFIT: 98% LESS WATER
Photosynthetically active radiation  ·  400 to 700 nm
The slice of light plants use to grow. Our engineered light is tuned within it.

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Closed-loop system stages

  1. Stage one, Controlled Light. Proprietary LED light and 25 plus years of photobiology research tune growth conditions precisely, day after day, independent of weather or season.
  2. Stage two, Automated Growth. Robotic automation manages the canopy with 80 percent less labour and no human hands from seed to harvest, which protects food safety and consistency.
  3. Stage three, Harvest. Plants are harvested at peak quality on a predictable schedule, grown local by design so roughly three thousand kilometres of transport are removed per harvest.
  4. Stage four, Water and Nutrient Recapture. The closed loop recaptures and returns water and nutrients, recovering 98 percent of water with measured system loss under two percent, then feeds back into controlled light.

The cycle is closed and continuous: controlled light, automated growth, harvest, water and nutrient recapture, and back to controlled light.

Closed loop

A sealed environment

Air, water, and nutrients circulate in a controlled system that recaptures almost everything the plants do not use.

Photobiology

Engineered light

More than 25 years of research into how plants respond to light, applied as proprietary technology rather than guesswork.

Automation

Robotic by design

No human hands touch the produce from seed to harvest, which protects both food safety and operating cost.

Modular

Built to deploy

Modular farms are designed for rapid deployment, so a proven system can be placed where it is needed and scaled.

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04 / Proof

Audited to lead the category.

  • Highest productivity

    An independent third-party audit found Elevate the most productive operator in the vertical-farming sector.

  • Lowest operating cost

    The same audit placed Elevate at the lowest operating cost in the category, a structural advantage, not a subsidy.

  • Profitable at commodity pricing

    The model returns a profit even at wholesale commodity prices, before any premium positioning.

The strongest capital efficiency in the sector, profitable at wholesale commodity pricing.

Independent audit · Cultivatd · 2023
#1of 7
Highest yield per square metreMost productive of the seven vertical-farming operators benchmarked.
#1of 7
Lowest operating cost per kilogramLowest OPEX per kilogram of the seven operators benchmarked.
Source: independent third-party operational audit, Cultivatd, 2023, conducted on site in Orange, New Jersey, benchmarked against six comparable vertical-farming operators.
05 / Platform plus brand

One platform. A proven brand.

The platform elevate Autonomous farming technology
The brand fieldless Fresh greens, in market

In 2026, Elevate acquired Fieldless Farms, an established Canadian fresh-greens brand grown in Cornwall, Ontario. Elevate is the platform that scales globally. Fieldless is the product consumers already trust. Together they are a homegrown food-sovereignty leader, proof that the technology does not just grow plants, it produces market-ready brands.

2026 · AcquisitionWholly owned operating brand
Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
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06 / Footprint

Three facilities. Three countries. Built to scale.

A modular platform proven across three countries and designed for rapid deployment wherever fresh, resilient supply is needed.

  • CanadaOperating facility
  • United StatesOperating facility
  • InternationalOperating facility · location withheld

Local by design. Global by ambition.

Three facilities · three countries
07 / Team

Ambitious and bold. Humble, because the task is immense.

Amin Jadavji

Amin Jadavji

President & CEO, Co-Founder

Built an international manufacturing business over 15 years, scaling Metro Paper Industries into one of Canada's largest and most automated tissue manufacturers before selling to the category's number-one player. Experienced in foodservice and grocery distribution.

Kevin Epp

Kevin Epp

Chief Operating Officer

Former McKinsey & Company consultant. Leads operations, strategy, capital allocation, and M&A, with deep experience across food manufacturing, renewable energy, and agriculture.

Aly Karim

Aly Karim

Chief Strategy Officer

Nearly 15 years scaling small and mid-sized companies and leading international expansion, with a focus on AI, financial innovation, and high-value growth.

Patrick Knowles

Patrick Knowles

Director of Operations, Fieldless Farms

A strategic operations executive and system builder, pairing an Executive MBA with hands-on facility experience. Owns the end-to-end lifecycle at Fieldless Farms, leading sales, production, and procurement, and has built its team and processes from day one.

Lauren Plotnik

Lauren Plotnik

Director of Cultivation, USA

Over 10 years in plant science, photobiology, and science communication. BSc in Horticultural Sciences (University of Florida) and MSc in Environmental Science (University of Guelph). NASA Deep Space Food Challenge winner and finalist.

Arthur Spencer

Arthur Spencer

Plant Manager, Orange, New Jersey

More than 15 years of engineering leadership in power generation plus government project management. Joined as on-site engineering project manager in 2022 and now runs the New Jersey production plant and its team.

Full leadership profiles available on request.

08 / Vision

Grow locally. Displace fragile chains. Export the innovation.

Solutions for a changing planet, through our most fundamental industry.

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