Agwa

What Agwa does

Agwa Farm Ltd. is an Israel-incorporated, privately held maritime technology company founded in 2020 that provides AI-powered autonomous hydroponic growing systems for commercial vessels. Its core offering is a plug-and-play onboard growing unit that produces fresh, chemical-free leafy greens and herbs year-round, controlled by an AI-driven "Virtual Agronomist" engine that continuously optimizes light, irrigation, nutrients, and climate using multimodal sensor and camera data. The system requires only water, electricity, and Wi-Fi, eliminating the need for agricultural expertise among vessel crews and adapting to maritime conditions including route changes, harsh seas, and port restrictions. Operational headquarters are in New Jersey, United States, and systems are deployed across fleets in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Agwa serves commercial maritime operators—shipowners and fleet managers of tankers, container ships, and bulk carriers—who face a structural fresh food supply gap caused by produce spoilage within 5-7 days of port departure. Named enterprise customers include Maersk, Eastern Pacific Shipping, Synergy Marine Group, Capital Ship Management, CoolCo, Fleet Management Limited, Fleet Ship Management, United Overseas Management, Fednav, and ZIM. The go-to-market is a direct enterprise motion with a "Book a Demo" consultative process and quote-based per-vessel or per-fleet contract pricing, supported by marketing through maritime industry conferences, a corporate blog, and earned media.

The business model is a fully managed onboard fresh food service combining hardware installation, ongoing produce supply, remote shore-side monitoring, and a mobile application that surfaces planting, growing, and harvesting notifications to crew. The company maintains GDPR and CCPA compliance, is an International Partner of the Green Marine environmental certification program, and has received three industry awards between 2023 and 2025: the SHIPPINGInsight Innovation Award, the Seatrade Maritime Crew Connect Global Health and Wellbeing at Sea Award, and a Highly Commended distinction at the 2025 International Seafarers Awards. Leadership comprises CEO Coby Sella, Co-founder and COO Alon Wallach, and CCO Eli Feiglin.

Name

Agwa

Legal name

Agwa Farm Ltd.

Website

https://agwafarm.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Agwa Farm Ltd. provides AI-powered autonomous hydroponic growing systems that produce fresh, chemical-free leafy greens onboard commercial vessels. The company serves shipowners and fleet operators—including Maersk, Eastern Pacific Shipping, and Synergy Marine—via a managed service deployed globally across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Berkeley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. Onboard Fresh Food Service: Agwa provides a fully managed onboard fresh food service to commercial vessels. The company installs its autonomous growing units on vessels and delivers ongoing produce supply as a service, with customers being shipowners and fleet operators. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and appears to be quote-based per vessel or fleet contract.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

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Product overview

Agwa provides a maritime-focused autonomous fresh food production system comprising an AI-powered growing unit (the Autonomous Growing System) controlled by the Virtual Agronomist AI engine, supported by a mobile application for crew monitoring. The modular units support 6-7 crew members each and can be networked across a fleet. The system produces leafy greens and herbs year-round through fully automated, plug-and-play operation requiring only water, electricity, and Wi-Fi. Each unit operates as part of a comprehensive onboard food service that eliminates spoilage, packaging waste, and supply chain dependency.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 17,870 KG of greens grown across deployed systems
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Green MarineminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgwa is a proud International Partner of Green Marine, the leading environmental certification program for the North American maritime industry. This partnership aligns Agwa's onboard sustainability technology with Green Marine's environmental performance standards, supporting the industry's ESG and decarbonization goals.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Wärtsilä: Marine technology and decarbonization solutions provider for commercial shipping. Comparable as a broad maritime technology incumbent with ESG/decarbonization overlap and access to the same vessel-operator procurement channels.
• Cargill: Global food and agriculture supply chain incumbent. Comparable as the established provider of food supply chains (including maritime provisioning) that Agwa is structurally displacing for fresh produce onboard.
• V.Ships: Largest global ship management and crew services provider. Comparable as a buyer and adjacent provider of crew welfare services, including catering, to the same fleet-operator customers Agwa targets.
• Anglo-Eastern: Major ship management group with crewing and crew welfare operations. Comparable as a maritime crew-services incumbent whose customers are the same shipowner/operator buyers Agwa sells into.

Emerging players

• Plenty: Indoor vertical farming company with AI-driven plant optimization. Comparable on the AI-tuned controlled-environment agriculture thesis, though serves grocery/retail rather than maritime crews.
• Freight Farms: Containerized modular hydroponic farms with remote monitoring software. Closest form-factor analog to Agwa's modular growing units, though deployed at land sites rather than aboard vessels.
• Infarm: Indoor vertical farming company using cloud-connected, AI-monitored growing units. Comparable to Agwa in the AI-controlled hydroponics architecture, though Infarm serves retail and restaurant venues rather than maritime.
• Bowery Farming: Smart indoor vertical farm operator using proprietary software and automation. Comparable on data-driven indoor agriculture, though distribution is retail/restaurant rather than maritime.
• AeroFarms: Indoor vertical farming operator using aeroponics and data-driven growing. Comparable technology stack (controlled environment + AI/data optimization), though focused on land-based commercial production.
• Mabewo AG: Modular container farming systems designed for decentralized food production. Comparable on plug-and-play autonomous growing modules; could plausibly extend into maritime or remote/offshore use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCirdbxvyv5iv1TWCL-RUk8A
• Facebookfacebook.com/Agwa-108423460701723
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/agwafarm
• Instagraminstagram.com/agwa_ai

Compliance2 records

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Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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