What Forever Harvest does

Forever Harvest is a New Zealand-based cellular horticulture company developing custom fruit and nut ingredients through plant cell culture. Founded in 2026 and headquartered in Lincoln, it grows fruit and nut cells in controlled environments using established cell culture methods and food-safe inputs without genetic modification, producing plant cell lines and proprietary growth media designed to upregulate existing metabolic pathways and tailor functional and flavour profiles for specific applications.

The company's product portfolio comprises custom-developed plant cell lines derived from fruit and nut varieties, designed growth media formulations, and the resulting on-demand fruit and nut ingredients. A core differentiator is the ability to deliver ingredients year-round with batch-to-batch consistency, higher bioactive content, and concentrated flavour profiles, while using minimal land and water without pesticides.

Commercially, Forever Harvest operates a sales-led B2B model targeting food and beverage manufacturers. Customers initiate engagement through email ([email protected]) and the company responds within 48 hours, working alongside partners to co-develop tailored plant cell lines and growth media. Revenue is described as likely generated through custom development projects and ingredient supply contracts, though no pricing is publicly disclosed. As of February 2026, the company is pre-revenue with a team of five core staff (CEO Mick Riley, CSO Jan Grant, Lab Manager Sienna Zeng, Scientists Jonathan Hadipurnomo and Alex Gibbon) plus a three-person board chaired by Andrew Chen.

Name

Forever Harvest

Legal name

Forever Harvest

Website

https://foreverharvest.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2026

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Forever Harvest is a New Zealand-based cellular horticulture startup that grows fruit and nut cells via plant cell culture to co-develop custom, year-round, non-GMO ingredients with food and beverage manufacturers through a B2B partnership model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cellular Agriculture Ingredients

NAICS

Food Crops Grown Under Cover (11141)

SIC

Miscellaneous Food Preparations & Kindred Products (2090)

akta.pro primary industry

Transformation & Tissue Culture Platforms (Plant regeneration, delivery systems) (AFABALAH)

Keywords

• Cellular horticulture
• Plant cell cultures
• Fruit and nut ingredients
• Cellular agriculture
• Food technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Lincoln

HQ country

New Zealand

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Ingredient Development: Works alongside industry partners to develop plant cell lines and growth media for custom fruit and nut ingredients. Revenue likely generated through B2B partnerships, custom development projects, and ingredient supply contracts.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Forever Harvest develops custom fruit and nut food ingredients through cellular horticulture, growing plant cells in controlled environments using established cell culture methods and proprietary growth media. The company works alongside food and beverage industry partners to co-develop plant cell lines and tailored functional/flavour profiles, delivering reliable, year-round, on-demand ingredient supply without genetic modification.

Product overview

Forever Harvest is a cellular horticulture company offering a portfolio of plant cell line development services and custom-grown ingredients. The core offering consists of proprietary plant cell lines (derived from fruit and nut varieties), specially designed growth media that shape functional and flavour profiles, and the resulting custom fruit and nut ingredients produced through controlled cell culture. The company works alongside industry partners to develop tailored solutions for food applications, emphasizing sustainable production with minimal land and water use, year-round availability, and consistent quality without genetic modification.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Plant Cell Lines

Quantifiable outcome

• Minimal land and water use with no pesticides or residues
• +2 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Sprout Agritech: New Zealand-based agritech accelerator and investor, and a direct backer of Forever Harvest's seed round. Closely tied to the company via board member Sandhya Sriram; relevant as an ecosystem enabler and as a portfolio comparison for similar NZ deep-tech food/agtech startups.
• Amyris: US-based ingredients company producing food, flavor, and cosmetic ingredients via engineered yeast fermentation. Comparable as a biology-based B2B ingredients company, and a cautionary reference point on the challenges of scaling cell-based ingredient production to commercial volumes.
• Cibus: US-based agricultural technology company developing improved crops and food ingredients using gene editing and other advanced breeding techniques. Adjacent to Forever Harvest in pursuing ingredient innovation through advanced biology, but a different technical approach (gene editing vs. plant cell culture).

Broad incumbents

• Eat Just: US-based food technology company operating across plant-based (Just Egg) and cultivated meat (GOOD Meat). Comparable as a broad cellular/alternative-protein incumbent pursuing multiple ingredient categories through biology-based production and selling B2B to food and beverage manufacturers.
• Conagen: US-based biology platform company that develops ingredients via fermentation and cell-based bioprocesses, serving food, beverage, flavor, and nutrition customers. Comparable as a broad B2B ingredient developer using biology-based production, with a much larger portfolio and scale than Forever Harvest.
• Perfect Day: US-based company producing animal-free dairy proteins via precision fermentation. Not a direct product competitor, but operates in cellular/microbiology-based food ingredient production at far greater scale, with established B2B partnerships with major CPG brands — a relevant reference point for the cellular food ingredient commercial model.

Emerging players

• Aleph Farms: Israel-based cultivated meat company growing animal cells for food production. Different product category (cultured meat vs. plant cell ingredients) but highly comparable on the cell-culture-instead-of-conventional-agriculture thesis, B2B go-to-market with food industry partners, and capital-intensive scale-up profile.

Regional players

• Daisy Lab: New Zealand-based startup using precision fermentation to produce dairy proteins. Same country and ecosystem (overlapping NZ agtech/alternative-protein networks), same biology-based food ingredient thesis, and same B2B customer orientation — directly comparable as a peer New Zealand deep-tech food company.

Direct peers

• BioBetter: Israeli company using plant cell culture (notably tobacco plant cells) to produce food-grade proteins and other ingredients. Highly comparable on the cell-culture-instead-of-agriculture platform thesis and B2B ingredient supply model, even though the target ingredient category differs from Forever Harvest's fruit/nut focus.
• Botalys: Belgian company that uses plant cell culture to grow premium botanical ingredients (ginseng, vanilla, etc.) in controlled environments. Closest direct comparable to Forever Harvest — same plant cell culture platform approach, same B2B ingredient model, and same focus on consistent, sustainable, year-round supply without genetic modification.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/forever-harvest

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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