{"id":86780,"date":"2019-01-18T15:02:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/80-acres-farms-raises-40m-to-complete-first-fully-automated-vertical-farm"},"modified":"2019-01-18T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T23:02:12","slug":"80-acres-farms-raises-40m-to-complete-first-fully-automated-vertical-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/80-acres-farms-raises-40m-to-complete-first-fully-automated-vertical-farm","title":{"rendered":"80 Acres Farms Raises $40m to Complete \u2018First Fully Automated Vertical Farm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/80-acres-farms-raises-40m-to-complete-first-fully-automated-vertical-farm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many people it will feed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>80 Acres Farms, an Ohio-based vertical farming startup, has raised private equity funding from Virgo Investment Group, a private equity firm from San Francisco for the construction of what it says will be the first fully automated indoor farm.<\/p>\n<p>AgFudnerNews can reveal that the deal was worth more than $40 million in equity capital, according to sources close to the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will go towards the completion of 80 Acres\u2019 Hamilton, Ohio facility, which was announced last year and is set to be partially operational in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/80-acres-farms-raises-40m-to-complete-fully-automated-vertical-farm.html\">https:\/\/agfundernews.com\/80-acres-farms-raises-40m-to-comple...-farm.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how many people it will feed. 80 Acres Farms, an Ohio-based vertical farming startup, has raised private equity funding from Virgo Investment Group, a private equity firm from San Francisco for the construction of what it says will be the first fully automated indoor farm. AgFudnerNews can reveal that the deal was worth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}