Cornucopia GrowMachine Link to heading
Your Raised Bed Just Got a Brain. / AI Meets Soil. You Get Tomatoes.
Our Vision Link to heading
To create a platform for sustainable family and community food production, introducing a new consumer product category. The Instant Pot of food resilience – with a loyal subscriber base and a strong product pipeline for lasting revenue.
The Problem Link to heading
Growing nutrient-dense food is labor-intensive, climate-sensitive, and knowledge-dependent — especially when managing multiple crops in raised beds. Most solutions are either too simple, too DIY, or too complex.
Our Solution Link to heading
The Cornucopia GrowMachine turns raised beds into smart, semi-autonomous food production units. It automates irrigation, fertigation, pest alerts, and crop scheduling using hyperlocal sensor data and a proprietary crop-intelligence engine.
Our freemium software model serves hobby growers with a single bed and pro users managing multiple crop-dedicated beds.
Key Features Link to heading
- Sensor-Based Irrigation – Adjusts to crop needs, mulch, and soil data — not timers.
- Environmental Alerts – Warns of conditions linked to crop stress or disease.
- Built-In Crop Intelligence – 50+ vegetables with root depth, fertility, and harvest logic.
- Automates Task & Fertigation Scheduling from bed map, weather data, and live sensors.
- Plug-and-Play Hardware – Solar-powered, connected, purpose-built for food growing.
- Scalable Architecture – From single beds to orchards, livestock, and season extension.
- Beginner Support – Ready to use bed plans and guided growing content
Market Opportunity Link to heading
- 100M+ home gardens in EU + US
- 5M+ raised beds sold annually
- Climate volatility and the home food movement create a perfect market inflection point
Early Traction Link to heading
- 2 pilot systems deployed in Hungary since 2021
- Lower decision fatigue, improved crop quality, up to 60% water savings
- Modular tech stack ready for expansion
Who We Are Link to heading
Melinda has been passionate about growing her own food since childhood. Fifteen years ago, she started her first farm, focusing on organic practices and high-quality produce. As her passion project grew, she became the supplier of microgreens and edible flowers for all five of Budapest’s Michelin-starred restaurants at the time.
She also wrote a popular book on small-space farming for people just starting out with their gardens, offering detailed guidance on what to plant, when to plant it, and how to care for it. In addition, she led workshops teaching people how to design and grow their own gardens.
Lóránt has a background in software development. He has worked at various tech companies and gained experience across many aspects of software product development. His skills span engineering, product development, and design.
Over the years, he has built both web application front ends and back ends, and even developed a font-rendering engine at Prezi. More recently, he worked as a senior principal engineer at Gradle Inc., where he designed and shipped automation tools to boost developer productivity at some of the world’s largest organizations.
For the past ten years, we’ve been working together on our family farm, combining our expertise in agriculture and technology to create innovative solutions for our own needs. This journey led us to prototype an automated growing system, which we now aim to bring to life as the Cornucopia GrowMachine.
Who We Are Looking For Link to heading
- Experts with hardware production, growth, or ops experience
- Pre-seed investors to support hardware manufacturing, software rollout, and pilot
- Pilot partners (urban farms, schools, homesteaders) for Q1 2026 deployment