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Irving Fain

Founder and CEO of Bowery Farming, once the largest vertical farming company in the US, which he founded in 2015 in New York City. A Brown University graduate (class of 2002), Fain previously co-founded and led CrowdTwist, a multi-channel customer loyalty platform acquired by Oracle for approximately $100 million.

Bowery Farming raised over $650M and was valued at $2.3B at its peak, but ceased operations in November 2024 amid rising costs and a pullback in agtech funding.

American · 2 current roles · 1 founding

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    Bowery Farming is a US vertical farming company operating [Indoor](/companies/indoor-robotics) farms with AI-powered crop management, automated irrigation, and

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  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowery_Farming
  2. https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/bowery-indoor-farming-agtech-company-ceases-operations
  3. https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2022-11-03/cyber-farm-Irving-Fain-Bowery-Farm
  4. https://milkeninstitute.org/events/middle-east-and-africa-summit-2022/speakers/irving-fain

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