Love greens? BoomGrow is for you! This Malaysia-based company grows and delivers pesticide-free veggies to urban consumers. And they just raised a Pre-Series A!

• Launched in 2015, they grow their produce in repurposed shipping containers they call ‘machine farms’.

Investor check. Gobi Partners funded the round.

• The amount’s still hush-hush.

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🥬 Something fresh for you

Bringing fresh produce from rural locations to densely populated cities is tough because of logistical challenges and other factors. 

BoomGrow offers a simple solution. They build hyperlocal, stackable farms that enable them to grow fresh produce close to consumers.

• Their machine farms aren’t just convenient, it’s carbon-friendly too! 
• Because their farms are stackable (grow vertically) and modular (movable), they claim that they’re able to use 95% less land, water, and labor than traditional farming methods.

How do they manage it all? They have a remote platform that uses machine vision and machine learning to monitor and optimize the performance of all their farms. 

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🥗 What they sell

They offer bagged mixed greens (kale, chard, rocket, etc), herbs, and microgreens—perfect for salads and sandwiches!

They mainly supply hotels, restaurants, and grocers. 

• But, you can snag one of their weekly subscription packages for direct-to-home delivery. 
• FYI. A set of 4 leafy green packets, 2 herb packs, and 1 microgreen pack plus shipping costs 40.50 MYR ($8.61) per week.

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🍇 What the future holds? 

They’ll use the $$$ to grow across Southeast Asia. Oh, and they might add fruit-bearing and vine crops to their range of products soon.

• They’re active in Malaysia and recently expanded to Manila in the Philippines.