Company

80 Acres Farms

80 Acres Farms is a Cincinnati-based vertical farming company using fully automated indoor farming systems to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers.

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HQ: Cincinnati, OH, USA
Status: Private

CategoryAgricultural robots

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Overview

80 Acres Farms is a Cincinnati-based vertical farming company using fully automated indoor farming systems to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers. The company partners with Siemens for automation technology and has raised $115M in capital, acquiring Plantae Biosciences to expand its biotechnology capabilities. Its technology subsidiary, Infinite Acres, handles the farming technology platform.

Verified record

Verified deployments: None on file
Active incidents: None on file

Key facts

Focus

Fully automated indoor farming with robotics

Products

Tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers

Partners

Siemens and Priva partnership

Capital raised

$115M (2024)

Technology partner

Siemens

Subsidiary

Infinite Acres (technology)

Acquisition

Plantae Biosciences (Israeli biotech)

Indoor farming automation

80 Acres Farms says its Loop platform combines crop management software, environmental controls, robotics, and automation for indoor farms (Siemens and 80 Acres Farms).

Technology subsidiary

80 Acres Farms identifies Infinite Acres as its technology subsidiary supporting the Loop platform and the scaling of its farm operations (Siemens and 80 Acres Farms).

Data & sources

Web sources

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Models (1)

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Current platform

80 Acres Automated Farm

80 Acres Farms fully automated indoor vertical farming system using robotic planting, harvesting, and packaging.

agricultureView model →

Partnerships

Every company 80 Acres Farms has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

1 total1 just announced

Most-frequent partners

1Siemens1× joint3 total

Most recent

80 Acres Farms x Siemens2023-01-06
with Siemensjust announced

80 Acres Farms on the deployment map

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Relationships

SSiemensCo-developer

Current leadership (1)

Mike Zelkind CEO & Co-foundersecondary-verified

Founders (1)

Mike Zelkind

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Safety record

No incidents on record for 80 Acres Farms.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Recent coverage

80 Acres Farms in third-party press

AgriFood Signals: Reservoir & Deere partnership, 80 Acres Farms lawsuit, new blended finance for Africa

Aug 27, 2026

Indoor ag heavyweight 80 Acres Farms to cease operations

Aug 3, 2026

80 Acres Farms Announces 2024 Capital Raises and Acquisitions

Feb 10, 2025

Peer companies

DJI9 models
Naio Technologies4 models
Carbon Robotics3 models
Tevel Aerobotics3 models
Antobot2 models
FarmRobo Technologies2 models

Partnerships

1 total · 1 just announced

Every company 80 Acres Farms has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

Most recent

80 Acres Farms x Siemens2023-01-06
with Siemensjust announced

Most-frequent partners

1Siemens1× joint3 total

All 1 partnerships

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80 Acres Farms x Siemens
withSiemens3
technology2023-01-06
just announced

Timeline

Every recorded move in 80 Acres Farms’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.

New supplierNew supplier: Siemens Digital Industries
2026-08-23
Supply: Siemens automation and digital twin for farms from Siemens Digital Industries
New supplierNew supplier: Philips Healthcare
2026-08-23
Supply: Philips LED grow lights for vertical farming from Philips Healthcare

Recent activity

Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.

Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Deployment recordedJan 1, 2018
80 Acres Automated Farm at Covington, Georgia, USA
Deployment recordedJan 1, 2015
80 Acres Automated Farm at Hamilton, Ohio, USA

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Sources (2)

Common questions

What is 80 Acres Farms?

What does 80 Acres Farms make?

80 Acres Farms has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: 80 Acres Automated Farm (80 Acres Farms builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).

Is 80 Acres Farms publicly traded?

80 Acres Farms is not independently listed on public markets; it is part of Technology on the DEPLOY registry.

Who competes with 80 Acres Farms?

On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to 80 Acres Farms building in the same form factors include DJI, Naio Technologies, Carbon Robotics, Tevel Aerobotics.

Who is the CEO of 80 Acres Farms?

Mike Zelkind is the ceo of 80 Acres Farms, per the DEPLOY registry.

How can I invest in 80 Acres Farms?

80 Acres Farms has no separately traded stock; it is owned by Technology (the parent is the entity that trades, where it is public).

Where is 80 Acres Farms headquartered?

80 Acres Farms is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Who owns 80 Acres Farms?

80 Acres Farms is owned by Technology, per the DEPLOY registry.

Where does 80 Acres Farms operate robots?

80 Acres Farms is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

Is 80 Acres Farms a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, 80 Acres Farms ranks in roughly the top 44% of companies tracked by the registry.

Is 80 Acres Farms safe?

80 Acres Farms has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-10-10

Sources by quality tier

2: unclassified; Unclassified source

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.

Peer companies

DJI9 models
Naio Technologies4 models
Carbon Robotics3 models
Tevel Aerobotics3 models
Antobot2 models
FarmRobo Technologies2 models

80 Acres Farms

Overview

Key facts

Data & sources

Models (1)

80 Acres Automated Farm

Partnerships

80 Acres Farms on the deployment map

Relationships

Current leadership (1)

Founders (1)

Safety record

Recent coverage

Peer companies

Partnerships

All 1 partnerships

Timeline

Recent activity

Sources (2)

Common questions

Peer companies

In the press

AgriFood Signals: Reservoir & Deere partnership, 80 Acres Farms lawsuit, new blended finance for Africa

Indoor ag heavyweight 80 Acres Farms to cease operations

80 Acres Farms Announces 2024 Capital Raises and Acquisitions

Vertical farming at 80 Acres Farms - Siemens

Siemens and 80 Acres Collaborate to Scale Vertical Farming

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