Seedling infrastructure at global scale
Build the start.
Change the harvest.
Planteva is building a network of dedicated propagation farms that can improve the performance of the world’s largest growers—without asking them to change how they grow.
↓01 — THE THESISMONTRÉAL · CALIFORNIA · BEYOND
THE VISION · REFINED FROM THE ORIGINAL BUSINESS PLAN
Our mission
Improve how the world grows food by perfecting how every crop begins.
WHAT THE NEXT ROUND UNLOCKS
Expand the platform.
Seed the network.
The next investment round expands Montréal Site 1 with two additional production machines while seeding new farms in priority regions. Planteva advances each regional opportunity, secures the right partners and helps assemble the project-level capital required to build it.
THE INVESTMENTOpens new crop capacity in Montréal and gives California and British Columbia the capital, team and momentum to reach financeable, partner-backed farm development.
NEXT INVESTMENT ROUNDEXPAND +
REPLICATEMONTRÉAL CAPACITY · NEW CROPS · REGIONAL PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
REPLICATEMONTRÉAL CAPACITY · NEW CROPS · REGIONAL PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
PLANTEVA SEED CAPITAL+REGIONAL PARTNERS+PROJECT FINANCING=INDIVIDUAL OPERATING FARMS
Build the pipeline
Advance customer demand, site selection, engineering, crop validation and partner discussions in each priority region.
Seed each project
Provide the early capital and central resources required to move several regional farms toward financing and construction.
Bring in local partners
Combine Planteva's seed investment with strategic partners, project equity, debt, grants and customer commitments.
Create a farm network
Each operating farm adds capacity, customer reach, crop knowledge and shared economics to the broader Planteva platform.
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THE PLANTEVA PLATFORM
We build seedling farms.
Growers keep growing their way.
Planteva Farms produces commercial seedlings and young plants in purpose-built controlled environments. Customers receive a more uniform, vigorous plant and integrate it into their existing greenhouse or field operation—without changing equipment, layout or production methods.
Uniform starts
Consistent, traceable plants engineered for the customer’s environment and harvest plan.
Drop-in adoption
A better input delivered at the agreed growth stage—no retrofit or operating-system change for the grower.
Downstream performance
Healthier root systems, tighter quality control and less variability can improve establishment, timing and harvest output.
System intelligence
Crop data that compounds across facilities, seasons, genetics and customer outcomes.
INSIDE A PLANTEVA FARM
A nursery designed
as a production system.
Purpose-built modules combine automation and agronomy to deliver repeatable seedlings at commercial scale. The facility is not the product sold to growers; it is the infrastructure behind a consistent, dependable input.
MODULAR GROW CHAMBERSINDIVIDUAL-TRAY IRRIGATIONDYNAMIC LIGHT + CLIMATETRACEABLE CROP DATA
Seedlings as a Service
Scheduled, ready-to-transplant trays produced to each grower's crop plan, genetics and destination environment.
Capacity returned to growers
Customers can reclaim propagation space, labour and management attention for revenue-producing crop production.
A controlled first phase
Biosecurity, individual-tray irrigation, dynamic lighting and stable climate reduce variation at the most consequential stage of the crop.
Recipes that compound
Each crop cycle strengthens the protocols, quality standards and production data shared across the Planteva network.
THE SEEDLING MARKET · QUALIFIED BOTTOM-UP
Not crop value.
Plant-start demand.
The original plan established the crop opportunity. This version tightens the investment case: crop production value shows where performance matters; seedling volume and contract economics define Planteva's market.
Canada · protected agriculture$2.7B
2024 greenhouse fruit & vegetable farm-gate value
Tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers represented 91.9% of the total.
California · field crops$3.46B2024 strawberry production value
45,000 harvested acres—one high-value entry point for better transplants.
California · open field$1.64B2024 open-field tomato production value
238,700 harvested acres across processing and fresh-market production.
Market size is context, not Planteva revenue. Customer adoption, crop fit, pricing and addressable acreage remain diligence workstreams.
Crop systemPriority regionsWhy seedlings matterValidation gate
Greenhouse vegetablesQuébec · Ontario · BCYear-round, scheduled transplant demandCommercial grower openings
StrawberriesCalifornia · internationalHigh-value acreage and plant-health sensitivityTrial + partner validation
Field vegetablesCalifornia · QuébecLarge transplant volumes with no farm retrofitCrop-by-crop qualification
Indoor cropsNorth AmericaUniform starts and shorter downstream cyclesExisting technical validation
THE EXPANSION LOGIC
Prove once.
Deploy repeatedly.
Montréal · Site 1
Bring the first platform online, validate unit economics and establish the operating playbook.
Montréal · 1.2
Add two production machines at Site 1 to increase capacity and qualify additional crops.
California
Enter a vast specialty-crop market through concentrated, high-value transplant programs.
British Columbia
Serve a protected-crop cluster spanning tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce and berries.
International
Take the production system, crop recipes and quality standard into partner-led markets.
COMMERCIAL PROPAGATION → EXISTING GROWER SYSTEMCALIFORNIA FIELD + CEA
THE DOWNSTREAM MULTIPLIER
Change the plant.
Improve the system.
Planteva improves the input growers already buy. At scale, a more vigorous, uniform and clean plant can raise saleable output while lowering water, fertilizer, crop-protection and land intensity per unit harvested—without a farm retrofit.
REPEATED TRIAL EVIDENCEBetter starts have repeatedly produced stronger downstream performance.
Planteva has demonstrated yield and performance improvements across trials. The commercial-scale case below uses a fixed 20% uplift as a transparent reference point; crop-specific trial reports remain available for diligence.
2024 CALIFORNIA REFERENCE FOOTPRINTUSDA NASS · 2024 crop year ↗
What if Planteva served one quarter of three priority crop groups?
The reference combines strawberries, lettuce and transplanted vegetables. It is not a claim that every acre converts immediately; it makes the scale of trial-backed plant performance tangible.
Strawberries45,000 acres$3,457M crop value
Lettuce237,200 acres$3,856M crop value
Transplanted vegetables458,800 acres$4,342M crop value
FIXED REFERENCE CASE25% of footprint served×20% yield improvement
Potential annual crop-value equivalent from more saleable output on the same growing footprint.
Equivalent to adding the productive output of roughly 52,000 football fields without buying that land.
Roughly two Manhattans of additional farmland needed to produce the same total output.
Approximately 117,000 acre-feet of water attached to the land-equivalent no longer required.
The same input base is spread across more saleable crop.
Illustrative extrapolation, not a forecast: 25% of the 741,000-acre reference footprint; 20% uplift; 3.8 acre-feet of applied water per acre. Total farm water or input use may not decline—this shows improved resource intensity per unit harvested.
THE 12-MONTH CEA MULTIPLIER
A seedling is not a one-day input. It becomes a year-long production asset.
In long-cycle greenhouse crops, the plant selected at transplant can remain in premium production space for approximately 12 months. A healthier, more vigorous and more uniform start can influence establishment, canopy development, repeated harvests and saleable yield throughout that entire cycle.
ONE BETTER START → DOZENS OF HARVEST DECISIONSUniform roots, plant health and vigour enter the greenhouse.
Faster, more even establishment supports a stronger productive canopy.
Consistency can compound through fruit set, sizing, quality and pack-out.
Plant resilience and uniformity matter as the crop carries its final yield.
ILLUSTRATIVE ANNUAL GREENHOUSE CASE$10Mbaseline crop value
×TRIAL-INFORMED REFERENCE20%saleable-yield uplift
=POTENTIAL ADDITIONAL CROP VALUE+$2Mfrom the same greenhouse footprint
Illustrative translation, not a forecast or guarantee. Actual results vary by crop, genetics, grower conditions and trial protocol. Planteva’s crop-specific trial reports substantiate measured performance and are available for diligence.
A small advantage at establishment can influence every subsequent harvest—not just the first cut or pick.
Uniformity supports consistent sizing, grading, harvest timing and pack-out from the same protected footprint.
Dedicated biosecurity and traceability reduce introduction risk before a plant enters a costly, long-duration crop cycle.
Repeated trials show stronger yield and performance; each commercial program is validated against its own control and production conditions.
NO GROWER RETROFITSame greenhouse or fieldSame labour systemSame crop-production equipment
BETTER SEEDLING→MORE SALEABLE OUTPUT→LESS INPUT PER UNIT→LOWER ENVIRONMENTAL INTENSITY
FROM PROOF TO ENTERPRISE VALUE
Evidence first.
Scale second.
Planteva's value should not be created by moving valuation sliders. It should be built from validated crop performance, contracted seedling demand, repeatable farm economics and the number of regional projects the next round can advance.
Document yield, uniformity, crop timing, root quality and plant-health outcomes by crop and customer.
Convert grower openings into qualified annual volumes, pricing, trial gates and customer commitments.
Connect machine capacity, crop mix, utilization, CAPEX, ramp, margin and local project financing.
Use Montréal 1.2 to broaden crop capability while seeding California and British Columbia projects.
THE INVESTOR TAKEAWAY
This round does not fund one speculative valuation. It turns proven plant performance into multiple financeable seedling farms.
The next valuation model will be populated from the live data room—not adjustable assumptions on the pitch page.
LIVING DATA ROOM
Fresh evidence.
Visible ownership.
One investor link. Controlled access. Every document mapped to an owner, review date and source of truth in Google Drive.
DocumentOwnerLast reviewedStatus
Corporate overviewBryce8 days agoCurrent
Construction & commissioningRob19 days agoReview soon
CAPEX & equipment scheduleAlvaro31 days agoUpdate
Financial model & use of fundsJF12 days agoCurrent