Plantaform

Gatineau, Quebec company making smart indoor gardens that use fogponics, a NASA-developed technique; launched in the US at CES 2025 and won the PITCH competition at Web Summit Qatar 2026.

Industry: Indoor smart gardens (fogponics) | Location: Gatineau, Canada | Founded: 2020 | Total Funding: More than USD 3M (seed)

About Plantaform

Plantaform is a Canadian agtech company in the Ottawa-Gatineau region; Ottawa-area business coverage describes it as Gatineau-based. It builds smart indoor gardens that grow plants with fogponics, a technology originally developed by NASA for possible use growing food on space stations. Instead of soil, the system uses ultrasonic fog to deliver water and nutrients directly to plant roots, and the company says this uses up to 95 percent less water than traditional agriculture. Its flagship product, Rejuvenate, can grow up to 15 herbs, vegetables and edible flowers at a time and runs for up to three weeks without maintenance. A federal grants record shows a CAD 169,000 contribution from the National Research Council for a project titled Optimizing and Scaling Fogponics Technology, running from January 2023 to April 2024, which describes the Rejuvenate platform as ready for development and use in further fogponics research. The company was founded in 2020 by Alberto Aguilar, who is CEO, and Kiwa Lang, a longtime friend. Lang, an industrial designer based in Australia, approached Aguilar with the idea of growing plants in an automated indoor garden. Aguilar is a Carleton University alumnus who earlier co-founded the relocation software company Relomigo and the student housing marketplace YourDorm. Invest Ottawa lists 2019 as the founding year; Ottawa Business Journal says early 2020. Plantaform launched in the United States at CES 2025 in Las Vegas in January 2025, where it won the Best of Innovation award in the food and agritech category among three awards. It also reached a retail deal with Costco, reported by the Ottawa Business Journal, and in 2025 entered a partnership with Dragons' Den investor Michele Romanow. On funding, early reports said the company had raised CAD 500,000 in seed money after its founding, and later added CAD 250,000 from Gatineau entrepreneur Olivier Benloulou. The Ottawa Business Journal later reported more than USD 3 million in seed funding secured, with a further USD 3 million sought for expansion. Formula One driver Yuki Tsunoda has been reported as an investor. In February 2026 Plantaform won the PITCH startup competition at Web Summit Qatar, ahead of finalists &Again and GlüxKind. Aguilar said the company plans to scale across the GCC and take its technology into commercial greenhouses designed for desert environments, in line with the Gulf's food-security push.

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