Brothers, Michael and Jack, started Beanstalk as a solution to solve a local restaurant’s need for consistent, high-quality salad. In doing so, they created a new vertical farming technology capable of growing lettuces, spinach, basil, carrots, lavender, and more.

Beanstalk is at the nexus of industrial robotics, plant science, and the culinary arts. Our technology enables us to develop new products quickly, automate traditionally labor-intensive work, and connect consumers to fresh produce in ways not before seen.

We’re backed by top VCs and investors and looking for engineers, researchers, and operators that want to build the next generation of farms.

Want to join our team and grow the world’s consumption of fresh produce? Send your resume to [email protected].

Beanstalk is a Series A company building and operating robotic vertical farms that sustainably grow heirloom produce in soil. Founded by brothers and engineers, they are looking for an experienced business development manager or leader with deep industry relationships to grow their organic, high-quality wholesale produce (greens and herbs, expanding to strawberries in the future) business. They have an early growth focus on foodservice (restaurant groups, hospitality, catering, etc.) as well as opportunity in grocery.

Qualifications:

• Collaborate with leadership on go-to-market strategy, including marketing, pricing, contract terms, channel, customer service, and product demand.
• Bring relationships (historic and developed) to the company to grow the customer base.
• Establish and help execute account management and customer service requirements.
• Assist with demand planning/forecasting and reducing inventory waste through contractual customer purchase commitments.

At the core of Beanstalk is a new set of modern, industrial technology. For example, we've built an autonomous forklift that costs less than $10k (compared to $500k) and can be controlled via an API or through an iPad running our React app.

"What does this have to do with growing plants?", you might be asking. Well, before launching a large scale farm, we spent years designing an inexpensive system that contains everything a plant needs to grow in the form of a pallet. As a result, our farms look like distribution centers, and our machinery operates on easy to move and store pallets. This reduces vertical farming costs 10x which expands our selection of profitable crops a great deal.

To further reduce costs and increase throughput, we design machinery that plants, moves, and processes the food we grow. To do this as quickly and cheaply as possible, we build our own systems.

Machines are designed in Autodesk software. Actuators and sensors interface through industrial I/O boards which are controlled by Linux-based single-board computers (SBCs) like the Raspberry Pi. We deploy to the SBCs over the air and monitor them via cloud-based systems. Operators interact machinery via React Web Apps that communicate with our databases via a GraphQL API.

If you're interested in revolutionizing industrial machinery and building technology that will locally grow foods from around the world, please apply!