Infinite Acres Declared Bankrupt in the Netherlands

What happened

The Hague court filed the two entities as separate cases. Infinite Acres Holding B.V. carries case number F.09/26/313 and is registered under financial institutions. Infinite Acres B.V., the operating company, carries case number F.09/26/312 and is registered under IT services. Curator S. El Hadouchi has been appointed to both cases, with A.J. Nederhoed as supervising judge. The ruling was published on September 9.

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Infinite Acres operated from Laan van Waalhaven 267 in The Hague, sitting beneath 80 Acres Netherlands B.V. in the corporate structure. As of this writing, no curator’s report has been published, so there are no confirmed figures yet on debts, creditors, or staff numbers. This article will be updated once that report becomes available.

The filing also landed inside a rough week for Dutch horticultural technology specifically. A regional bankruptcy roundup for Zuid-Holland lists Infinite Acres alongside four other companies from the same greenhouse and agri-tech sector filed in the same seven-day window: tree and garden nursery Kortekaas Tuinen, solar-heat and energy-storage supplier Next Source (also filed September 8), and horticultural lighting firms Hortilux Schréder and Agrilight. We haven’t found any business relationship connecting these filings to Infinite Acres or to each other, and the wider Zuid-Holland list that week also included plenty of unrelated bankruptcies in construction, hospitality, and logistics. It reads like coincidental timing in a province with a lot of horticultural-tech companies, not a single underlying cause. Still, it’s worth flagging: this wasn’t an isolated filing in an otherwise stable sector that week.

The pivot that came a week too early

On September 1, 2026, exactly one week before the Dutch court’s ruling, Tisha Livingston, CEO of Infinite Acres and former president of 80 Acres Farms, took the stage at the JPFA International Symposium on Plant Factory in Kashiwa-no-ha, Japan. Her session is listed on the program under a title that reads very differently in hindsight: “The Unicorn, the Asteroid, & the Phoenix: Tales of Vertical Farming.” She addressed the collapse of the American parent company directly, attributing it to a short runway following the Kalera and Soli Organic acquisitions and to what she called “impatient capital” compounding an accumulating debt load in a still-developing industry.

At that same appearance, she also described a shift for Infinite Acres itself: toward what she called “Vertical Farming 2.0,” built around plant genetics, new farm designs, and purpose-built software. It read, at the time, like the standard pitch of a technology subsidiary trying to outlive its parent’s mistakes: the farms failed, but the platform survives.

Seven days later, a Dutch court disagreed. Neither Infinite Acres nor 80 Acres Farms has published any statement addressing the Dutch bankruptcy directly, not a press release, not a LinkedIn post, nothing that acknowledges the gap between what was said in Japan and what happened in The Hague. Whether Livingston knew on September 1 that the filing was imminent is not something we can establish from public sources, and we are not going to speculate about it here. What we can say is that the public sequence of events, a pivot announced, then a bankruptcy filed a week later with no acknowledgment of either, is unusual even by the standards of an industry that has had a lot of practice announcing bad news.

From joint venture to sole subsidiary

Infinite Acres had a more complicated history than most 80 Acres coverage mentions. The Dutch entities themselves, Infinite Acres Holding B.V. and Infinite Acres B.V., were legally incorporated on December 15, 2015, according to Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) records, the same year Mike Zelkind and Tisha Livingston founded 80 Acres Farms. They sat dormant as shells until June 2019, when they became the vehicle for an independent three-way joint venture between 80 Acres Farms, Dutch horticultural technology company Priva, and British online grocer Ocado. According to Ocado’s own announcement at the time, each of the three partners held roughly a third of the equity, with Ocado’s combined investment across Infinite Acres and a separate vertical-farm stake reported at £17 million.

The rationale was straightforward on paper: Priva would bring decades of climate and irrigation expertise from Dutch greenhouse horticulture, 80 Acres would bring plant science and operations knowledge from running commercial indoor farms, and Ocado would bring the software, robotics, and automation systems it had built for its own warehouses. Priva’s then-CEO Meiny Prins described the venture at launch as a way to bring fresh produce closer to the growing cities that would need it.

That three-way structure did not last. Priva exited the consortium as a shareholder, though it stayed on as a technology supplier to 80 Acres. Ocado’s exit is better documented and more interesting than a clean walk-away: according to Ocado’s own FY2021 results announcement, the company sold its 33.3% stake in Infinite Acres to 80 Acres Urban Agriculture, Inc. in October 2021, not for cash, but in exchange for a 2.5% stake in 80 Acres itself, booking a £5.0 million gain on the swap and a £1.9 million loss on the Infinite Acres position for that year. By its later results, Ocado described the remaining stake as diluted to roughly 2%. In other words, Ocado didn’t leave with nothing; it left holding a small, and shrinking, slice of the company that just filed for Chapter 7. Whether that stake still existed, and in what form, by the time of the bankruptcy is not addressed in either company’s public statements, and is one of the questions we’ve put to Ocado. By November 2021, 80 Acres Farms had acquired full ownership of Infinite Acres, turning what had been an independent joint venture into a wholly owned technology arm.

From there, Infinite Acres built out a broad remit. It acquired Israeli biotech firm Plantae Biosciences in May 2024, folding it into Infinite Acres as “Infinite Acres Israel”; 80 Acres only announced the acquisition publicly in February 2025, bundled together with a $115 million capital raise. Plantae had worked since 2020 with the Weizmann Institute of Science on accelerated plant breeding under an exclusive license from the institute’s commercialization arm. In May 2026, Infinite Acres commercially launched GroLoop, its central farm-management platform, after years of testing across 80 Acres, Kalera, and Soli Organic facilities; at launch, the platform was managing close to a million square feet of growing space across six US states. A year earlier, in June 2024, Infinite Acres had opened a Field Lab and Experience Center at its Hague headquarters, developed with Siemens, Signify, SICK, and TTA, and the company held a seat in Wageningen University’s Club of 100.

By the time the bankruptcy filing landed, Infinite Acres was not a shell. It had staff and operations in the Netherlands, the United States, and Israel, and it had launched a new product as recently as four months before the filing.

Following the parent down

The Dutch filing is the second act of a story that started in Ohio. 80 Acres Farms announced on August 3, 2026, that it was winding down operations after a last-minute acquisition deal collapsed the night before, leaving the company without the funding it needed to continue. CEO Mike Zelkind framed it as the end of an eleven-year run that had supplied produce to more than 18,000 US retail locations. Three weeks later, on August 25, the company, legally named 80 Acres Urban Agriculture, Inc. and doing business as 80 Acres Farms, filed for Chapter 7 liquidation together with eleven affiliates in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (case no. 26-11324-BLS), reporting between $100 million and $500 million each in assets and liabilities, per court documents filed on PacerMonitor. Zelkind declined to comment when that filing became public. The underlying docket sits behind a paid PACER account; we’ve linked the reporting that cites it directly rather than the docket itself.

We covered the fuller timeline, including the collapsed acquisition and a federal supplier-payment lawsuit that surfaced afterward, in the original 80 Acres Farms shutdown piece, which we’ve kept updated as new filings and court records have come in. The Dutch bankruptcy fits the same pattern that piece already described: a company whose public statements at the moment of closure were warmer and more forthcoming than its statements at the moment of actual legal filing.

What we still don’t know

One open question is what happens to GroLoop and the underlying intellectual property, which represented years of development work and were still being commercialized this spring. A second is what happens to Infinite Acres Israel and its Weizmann Institute collaboration, which sits at least one ownership layer removed from the Dutch entities named in this filing. Neither has been addressed publicly by anyone involved.

The curator’s report, once filed, should start to answer some of this: debt levels, creditor counts, staff numbers, and typically an initial view on whether any part of the business is being sold as a going concern rather than liquidated outright. We’ll update this article with those figures once they’re published.

Further Reading

• 80 Acres Farms Shuts Down After 11 Years
• Top 10 Vertical Farming Companies in 2026
• Why Vertical Farming Fails, and What Actually Works