Hippo Harvest

aid: hippo-harvest
name: Hippo Harvest
description: 'Hippo Harvest is a controlled-environment agriculture company based in Pescadero, California, founded in 2019,
  that grows USDA-certified-organic leafy greens in modular greenhouses run by custom autonomous mobile robots and machine
  learning. Its closed-loop, direct-to-root watering and nutrient system is published by the company as using 92% less water,
  55% less fertilizer and 94% less land than conventional field agriculture, while pricing to compete with field-grown product.
  Hippo Harvest sells packaged salad greens (spring mix, spinach, 50/50 blend, butter lettuce) into grocery retail rather
  than selling software: the robotics, computer vision and growing-control stack is internal operating infrastructure, not
  a product. It raised a $21M Series B led by Standard Investments in February 2024 and a $30M Series C led by Cox Farms in
  July 2026, and is permitting a 30-acre facility in Hollister, California. No public API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable
  contract of any kind was found on any host the company controls.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hippo-harvest/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/635abb7ce3040e40049edb8f/2f8cd1c2-69e2-47d9-961d-7f8df305f83e/Hippo-Logo.png?content-type=image%2Fpng
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-22'
modified: '2026-08-22'
tags:
- Company
- Agriculture
- Controlled Environment Agriculture
- Robotics
- Food and Beverage
- Sustainability
- Consumer Packaged Goods
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hippo-harvest-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hippoharvest.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.hippoharvest.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.hippoharvest.com/privacy-policy
- type: Support
  url: https://www.hippoharvest.com/contact
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Hippo-Harvest
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hippo-harvest-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-22'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: Hippo Harvest sells packaged organic salad greens grown in its own robotic greenhouses; its only web property is
    a Squarespace marketing site whose sitemap lists thirteen consumer pages (products, where-to-buy, a butter-lettuce sample
    request) and no developer surface at all, and every OpenAPI, GraphQL, MCP and /.well-known/ path on that host returns
    the site's 404.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.hippoharvest.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.hippoharvest.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.hippoharvest.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.hippoharvest.com/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/hippo-harvest
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-22'