Vanilla Vida Agro UG Limited

Vanilla Vida is an agritech company founded in 2020 that grows, cures, and sells premium vanilla beans using climate-controlled greenhouses and data-driven curing technology. Headquartered in Yesod HaMa'ala, Israel, the company has raised approximately $18 million in funding and achieved the world's first large-scale indoor vanilla harvest in late 2024: delivering 250 times the yield per square metre compared to traditional farming, with three to four times higher vanillin content. Sales have tripled year-on-year since 2022, with products sold at a premium to leading flavour and fragrance houses.

Vanilla Vida's Israel operation serves as the R&D centre and houses a small-scale curing facility with six growing rooms and 180 experimental plots. Approximately 15 people work from this site, which is already on Odoo under a separate implementation partner (Bizzup). The Uganda entity, the primary focus of this project, is a new 10-hectare production site combining a vanilla curing facility and commercial greenhouse farming. The curing facility will launch in the second half of 2026 using a hybrid model: processing green beans sourced from local Ugandan farmers while Vanilla Vida's own greenhouse planting (starting April 2026) matures toward a first harvest around 2029. Initial procurement targets are 10 tonnes of green beans in summer 2026, scaling to 50 tonnes by 2027. A future Netherlands entity for European sales is out of scope for this project.