Barn4 - agritech incubator

Barn4 at Park Farm

A complete ecosystem within which technology driven start-ups and spinouts can thrive.

Barn4, the Niab AgriTech Incubator, is a facility for start-up agritech businesses that opened in spring 2021. Funded by The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, the facilities at our Cambridge site offers start-ups and SMEs:

  • office and laboratory space
  • meeting rooms
  • video-conferencing facilities and workshop space
  • specialist laboratory facilities
  • high performance computing
  • outdoor trial space.

The Incubator has access to Niab's Park Farm site which includes two large research and office buildings (5,500 m2), 2,800 m2 of research glasshouses, 3,000m2 protected outdoor growing space and field trial plots.

Cambridgeshire is a world-leading centre for agritech with an unrivalled combination of new innovative SME’s partnering with commercial industry, research, academia and networking organisations across the science, technology and agrifood sectors. Barn4 provides support for start-ups including access to sector specific expertise, basic research facilities with laboratory space, field plots, and engineering workshops. Companies specialising in plant genetics, pest management, soil health, AI to support sustainable farming decisions, and farm robotics have taken up the opportunities that the Hub offers.

contact [at] barn4.com (Contact)