The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Freight Farms: 1 model. 1 source back the record.
CategoryAgricultural robots
Overview
Shipping container vertical farming units. Greenery S and LGM models with hydroponics and IoT automation.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Robot
Technology
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Freight Farms has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
Most recent
- with Sodexooperating
- with NASAoperating
Freight Farms on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Brad Griffith CEOsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Freight Farms.
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Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Freight Farms in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
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Partnerships
5 total · 5 operating · 1 ended
Every company Freight Farms has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Sodexooperating
- with NASAoperating
All 5 partnerships
open in the atlas →- freight-farms x nvidiawithNVIDIA1110technology—operating
- freight-farms x awswithAWS976technology—operating
- Freight Farms x Biosphere 2 (Container Farming Research)withUniversity of Arizona Biosphere 2development—operating
- deployment2020-01-29operating
- development2016-01-01concludedoperating
Timeline
Every recorded move in Freight Farms’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
New supplierNew supplier: Philips Healthcare
2026-08-23Supply: LED grow lights for container farming from Philips Healthcare
PartnershipFreight Farms x Sodexo (On-Campus Farming)
2020-01-29Freight Farms and Sodexo partnered to bring advanced hydroponic vertical farming technology to schools and universities across the US. The partnership enables year-round on-campus food production using Freight Farms Greenery container farms at Sodexo client locations.
PartnershipFreight Farms x NASA (Closed-Loop Farming)
2016-01-01Freight Farms partnered with NASA to explore the possibilities of closed-loop farming in outer space. The collaboration supported research into self-sustaining crop production systems for long-duration space missions using Freight Farms container farming technology.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Freight Farms.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Freight Farms from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
PRESSING AHEAD: $60 million robotics enabled farming facility to commence this year - Eye Witness News – Bahamas Latest News
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Top Vertical Farm Operations Worth Looking up - Greenhouse Grower
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Top 25 vertical farming companies - Robotics & Automation News
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Robots, Hydroponics, 'Hands In The Dirt': A Look At Who — Or What — Will Feed Us In The Future - WBUR
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Bowery Farming is growing crops in warehouses to create food like customized kale - CNBC
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Your next head of lettuce, grown by a robot - qz.com
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Freight Farms allows crops to be grown inside shipping containers - Dezeen
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Billionaires make it rain on Plenty, the indoor farming startup - TechCrunch
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Freight Farms are super efficient hydroponic farms built inside shipping containers - Inhabitat
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/freight-farms.md
- RSS feed: /companies/freight-farms/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/48b8c39a-b5bb-4b35-a738-ca499e43e7af
- Revision history: /companies/freight-farms/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious60/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Freight Farms draws attention at the 8th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among ag robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 26, 2026