Undisclosed · Other round · Agritech · Vienna, Austria
Vienna-based Everleaf has raised a mid-six-figure financing round from a group of unnamed business angels, according to brutkasten. The company said one new shareholder previously built and sold a business in Silicon Valley, but the investors asked not to be named. The exact amount was not disclosed. Tech.eu classifies the event as Other and records business angels as the backers.
Everleaf sells a vertical hydroponic garden designed for apartments. Its current product page says the system holds up to 24 plants, automates watering and LED lighting, and needs no app or Wi-Fi. The company also sells replacement plants and growing supplies, giving it a recurring-product layer around a €749 hardware purchase.
Inventory is the immediate constraint
Most of the new capital will pre-finance inventory rather than marketing, brutkasten reported. Everleaf must commit cash to production and purchasing months before finished gardens are sold, while bank purchasing finance is not yet available at the scale it needs. That makes stock availability part of the growth engine: demand can rise, but revenue still stalls if the company cannot fund the next production batch.
Everleaf says it nearly achieved a tenfold increase in revenue after its previous 2025 financing. That is a company-reported milestone, not an audited result, but it explains why working capital has become the priority. The round is intended to keep goods moving through production while leaving some room for marketing and product development.
In-house prototyping narrows the product bet
The company has brought product development in-house and uses 3D printing to test new accessories before committing to tooling such as injection moulding. Its company site says each Everleaf Garden is assembled and tested in its Vienna workshop. This staged process can limit upfront tooling spend and reveal demand before a design moves into volume production, although scaling still requires inventory capital and reliable manufacturing.
Everleaf plans to enter its first markets outside the DACH region in 2027, with Nordic countries under consideration rather than confirmed. The financing therefore supports a specific sequence: keep the core product in stock, test additions cheaply, then use evidence from the German-speaking market to choose where to expand.
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brutkasten funding report · Everleaf product page · Everleaf company page · Everleaf press room · Tech.eu Funding Explorer
