Bowery is betting on indoor farming and today announced that is has secured $20 million in funding to grow its vision. General Catalyst co-led the round with GGV Capital, and GV participated — all three are new investors. This round comes on the heels of Bowery’s seed round, which the company announced in February when it launched.
The New York City-based startup uses Bowery OS, a proprietary operating system, to track and optimize plant growth in a controlled indoor environment. The system applies machine learning to data collected by vision systems and a network of sensors in order to determine what variables drive growth at every stage of a plant’s lifecycle.
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