The future of food design

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Vertical indoor farming has seen dramatic advances in technology including but not limited to; lighting, robotics, sensors, planting substrates which are all improving grower economics. However, even the most optimistic projections have been made under the influence of a limitation at the very heart of the process: seeds bred over generations for dramatically different environments. Today’s seeds are almost perfectly opposed to what vertical indoor growers need. They’re bred for resistance to disease and pests, and designed to withstand long periods of storage and transportation, while these farms are meant to reduce farm-to-table times to the absolute minimum. And they’re notorious for making these genetic trade offs at the expense of traits/characteristics customers want most, like bright color, dense nutrients, and bold flavor—the very qualities vertical indoor growers are looking to optimize. Vindara is the first company dedicated exclusively to delivering the genetic varieties these growers need to make optimal use of their operations. In essence, we’re lifting the burden imposed by today’s off-the-shelf seeds with tailor-made alternatives designed for vertical indoor use, reduced storage and transport time, and the flavor, appearance and nutrients consumers want. Best of all, we’re delivering it all in the form of a product that seamlessly drops into the systems growers have already built—and continue to refine. This is all acheived entirely through analytics and deep machine learning—not gene editing or GMO.