Horizon 2035
We exist to build the technology infrastructure that enables food systems feeding billions in rapidly growing cities. By 2035, that need becomes structural. That's why now is the moment to build it.
We envision a world where feeding billions in rapidly growing cities is solved through technology, not charity or crisis response. Starting with cities like Kinshasa and Nairobi—where rapid urbanisation concentrates the challenge and creates conditions for rapid learning—we're building the infrastructure that makes urban food security economically viable and operationally elegant at unprecedented scale.
The cities of the Global South will add billions of new residents in a generation. Breadbasket builds the operating systems that make feeding them possible—technology that turns local industry into intelligent, distributed infrastructure.
By 2035, cities will expand faster than at any other time in human history. In places like Kinshasa, urban populations will have doubled, stretching food systems built for a slower, steadier world. Traditional supply chains can’t keep pace with this acceleration, and the gap in infrastructure will only widen unless we act.
The real question isn’t whether cities will be fed, but how: efficiently and equitably, or through disruption and crisis.
Each deployment we launch today builds resilient unit economics and generates learning that compounds across the network. Early cities teach us how the next city works. Data from one market optimises production in another. That's how you build a system that scales from one city to fifty without reinventing the wheel. By the time 2035 arrives, the infrastructure isn't rushed. It's learned.
Cities are growing faster than infrastructure can accommodate. Urban populations in rapidly growing cities will double in the next 25 years. Traditional food systems—designed for static, smaller cities—can't adapt at the speed or scale required.
We're not building hubs. We're building a learning network. Each deployment strengthens the infrastructure through data and operational insight. Demand patterns discovered in Kinshasa improve production in the next city. Resilience strategies proven in one market guide every deployment that follows.
That's how you scale from one city to fifty without proportional cost increases. The infrastructure compounds. The learning flows. Each system becomes smarter.
You need 5,000 loaves by 6am tomorrow. That's your delivery window to kiosks across the city. But the constraint system is brutal:
When do you start? Which power source? Which equipment? How much volume? Every decision cascades. The constraints shift hourly.
It's not "when do we run the machines?" It's constrained optimisation across three interacting variables:
Energy Costs
Grid (cheap, unreliable) vs. Diesel (expensive, controllable) vs. Solar (free, limited)
Equipment Utilisation
Ovens, mixers, proofers, coolers—different power draws, different startup times, different capacities
Demand Forecasts
Hit targets on time, at lowest cost, whilst absorbing supply chain chaos
Cities worldwide are growing at a rate never seen before. Rapidly growing cities need food systems built NOW. Cities like Kinshasa are growing faster than infrastructure can keep pace—especially energy. Load-shedding, brownouts, and unreliable grids turn food production into a survival game, not a business. Traditional systems fail. Technology-enabled ones adapt.
Kinshasa Population (est. 2035)
UN DESA World Urbanisation Prospects, 2024 revision
Tonnes Cassava Produced (DRC)
Daily Load-Shedding in DRC Cities
Cost of Diesel vs Grid Electricity
DRC and Republic of Congo import the vast majority of their wheat needs, spending hundreds of millions annually. In 2022, DRC's wheat imports alone cost $117 million - money that could stay in-country through local processing.
By establishing industrial bakery hubs that can process imported grain efficiently or utilise local cassava flour blends, we can reduce costs, ensure stable supply, and buffer against global price shocks.
Breadbasket's infrastructure helps cities localise production and retain value within domestic supply chains.
Technology transforming how we feed the world
People Fed Daily
Direct & Indirect Jobs
Cities Transformed
People Served Globally
We're building the operating system of civilisation's next food age. We need engineers, operators, and system thinkers who don't scare easily.
Build a network that feeds a continent.