A new means of food production

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grown without sunlight.

We’re redesigning plants to grow on sugar and produce more fruit with less plant. Flavorful, nutritious food—grown year-round, close to the people who eat it.

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Y Combinator · Fall 2026

Editorial composition of three tomatoes and compact plant tissue directly on a stone plate — Fruit, by design.

San Francisco, CaliforniaWhy this is different

The bigger picture

Civilization is built on
what we mine and grow.

The next leap in farming is biomanufacturing.

Lux starts with the plant, not just its surroundings. We engineer compact, fruit-dominant plants for sugar-fed vessel culture under low light, then multiply them through asexual cloning.

We design the biology and robotic workflow together—so production scales by multiplying a repeatable unit, not reproducing an outdoor farm indoors.

The system we’re building

Inside the growing system

From plant culture to world's first photoheterotrophic farm

From living tissue
to facility.

Follow one culture from living tissue to fruit, through the robotic cell, and back into a growing production system.

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Start with living tissue.

A small callus—a cluster of living plant cells—anchors the culture. Its regenerative capacity is the starting point for clonal growth.

Illustration of tomatoes on short stems above a compact callus and small leaves inside a transparent culture vessel

Callus culture → compact growth → flowering → fruit development → robotic workspace → vessels and racks → concept facility → warehouse expansion → equal-output footprint comparison → four deployment environments. A gantry retrieves a tray from six-layer storage; the conveyor moves it left into the paired YAM arms’ workspace inside the flow hood. Growing layers stack one by one, then rows of racks fill a larger warehouse. The final chapters compare projected direct growing areas and place the same facility in desert, snowy-city, underground, and Mars settings. The illustration above shows the fruit stage; enable JavaScript to explore the full sequence.

Let’s talk fruit

Your next
tomato supplier?

Chefs, grocery buyers, and distributors: tell us what you’re looking for. We’ll share where production stands and what we can plan together.

andre@luxfoods.farm

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