Irving Fain leads Bowery, the largest vertical farming company in the United States that designs and builds smart indoor environments to reimagine the future of food. Through its network and proprietary end-to-end technology, Bowery is transforming the fresh food supply chain to be simpler, safer, and more sustainable. Bowery’s farms are 100x+ more productive than traditional agriculture while using a fraction of the resources - all enabled by leading-edge technology. Bowery is scaling quickly with three commercial farms, two state-of-the-art R&D farms, and two more commercial farms under development that will more than double the company’s total production by 2023. Bowery is sold in over 1,400 locations including Whole Foods, Ahold Delhaize, Amazon, Safeway/Albertsons, and Walmart. Bowery is backed by tech and agriculture leaders with $647M in equity and debt raised from investors including Fidelity, Temasek, GV, KKR, General Catalyst, GGV Capital, First Round Capital, and individuals including Jeff Wilke, Tom Colicchio, José Andrés, and David Barber. Fain graduated from Brown University and began his career helping early-stage companies raise capital as an investment banker at Citigroup. Before founding Bowery, Fain was the co-founder and CEO of CrowdTwist, a loyalty marketing business that was acquired by Oracle. Prior to CrowdTwist he ran a division within Clear Channel Online focused on moving the largest radio group in the world into the digital age; in this role he launched and ran iHeartRadio.
