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Through 22 September the iGrow Intelligence database holds 142 greenhouse-sector records for 2026, against 89 for the same period in 2025. Behind that headline the composition has moved in several directions at once: funding reached more companies in smaller amounts, ownership changes doubled, bankruptcies fell, and the countries generating coverage widened from 16 to 23.

This edition covers land-based agriculture and agtech only. Aquaculture, energy and water are tracked separately and excluded here. The scope is records tagged to the greenhouse sector, covering both growers and the companies selling equipment, lighting and software into them, measured year to date from 1 January to 22 September and compared with the identical window in 2025.

One limitation applies throughout. The iGrow database has been backfilling 2025 records, so the raw volume gap between the two years overstates real growth to an unknown degree. Where the comparison is between shares of activity rather than counts, it is more reliable, and this edition leans on shares wherever possible.

Those three figures cover 1 January to 22 September in each year. Funding counts every deal the database logs, so it covers equity and convertible funding rounds alongside debt, grants, listed placements and project investment. The funding section below reports the rounds separately from the rest, because the two move in opposite directions this year. Ownership changes combine deals filed as M&A with those filed as asset acquisitions, which the database separates: 2026 holds five of each, while 2025 holds five M&A transactions and no asset acquisitions.

The United States and the Netherlands remain the two largest sources of greenhouse coverage, with 44 and 36 records respectively. Their combined share fell from 62.9% of all records in 2025 to 56.3% in 2026, and the number of countries appearing at least once rose from 16 to 23. The largest movements underneath that are Germany, which went from 1 record to 10, and the United Kingdom, from 2 to 9. Sweden moved the other way, from 9 records to 5. Canada held roughly its share at 12 records against 8. India, China, Israel, Japan, Oman, Thailand, Rwanda, Hungary, Austria, Finland and Belgium all appear in 2026 having generated no greenhouse coverage in the 2025 window.

Crop tagging also widened. In 2025 the database recorded 11 distinct crop values across the greenhouse set; in 2026 it recorded 27, and the share of records carrying any crop tag rose from roughly a quarter to roughly a third. Leafy greens, lettuce, spinach and pea shoots together account for 14 records and tomatoes for 13, the same two categories that led in 2025 at 7 and 6. The sharpest single change is cannabis, which appears in 8 greenhouse records in 2026 against 1 in 2025, driven by cultivation and lighting coverage rather than by a single company. Berries account for 6, herbs for 4, cucumbers for 3 and peppers for 2. Part of the widening reflects more granular tagging rather than new production, so the crop mix is best read as a directional signal.