920 Donna Letier: Transforming Gardening with AI

From Pruning to Growth in the Entrepreneurial Journey

There is something both grounding and rejuvenating about getting your hands dirty in the soil, planting seeds, and witnessing beauty flower in a garden. The wellness benefits are undisputed—scientific studies show that just putting your hands in the soil is beneficial for your gut biome and cerebral cortex, and it also helps you combat anxiety by grounding yourself in a meditative state.

Now, it just got easier to grow a garden wherever you live, custom-crafted for your lifestyle, climate and circumstance.

Donna Letier is a passionate advocate for making gardening accessible to everyone, regardless of location or physical ability. She’s the CEO and founder of Gardenuity, an innovative and fast-growing personalized garden container company on a mission to democratize gardening, ensuring that people can enjoy its nutritional and mental health benefits whether they live in a Manhattan high rise, boast a spacious yard in San Diego, or navigate life in a wheelchair in Dallas.

Driven by a commitment to wellness, Donna dispels the notion that gardening is too difficult by emphasizing its universal benefits and helping anyone overcome the common refrain of “I don’t know how, I kill everything” by empowering them to cultivate their own green spaces and improve their well-being.

Gardenuity demystifies gardening and sets us all up for success, with customized container gardening experiences crafted for your lifestyle, your local environment, and your needs with its powerful AI platform, Gardenuity Match. With a vision for a garden on every porch and balcony, Gardenuity mixes nature with cutting-edge predictive technology to personalize the experience. Donna also has a plan for businesses, bringing nature to the workplace from kitchen gardens to corporate workshops to enhance employee well-being and creativity.

Drawing inspiration from her daughter, a 4-time Special Olympics gold medalist, Donna shares her entrepreneurial journey and proves that every challenge can bloom into an opportunity. She says gardening is not only a personal sanctuary for health and wellness but a powerful analogy for entrepreneurship itself—and all the challenges of raising capital, leading a team and scaling growth.

More about Donna Letier at gardenuity.com

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More about Donna at Gardenuity

Donna Letier is the CEO and founder of Gardenuity, a fast-growing company merging gardening with the wellness sector through personalized container gardens and AI-powered gardening experiences. Donna has raised $8 million for her company so far, innovating Gardenuity Match, which uses AI and weather tech to custom-craft gardens around lifestyles, climate and environment. With over 20 years of retail experience, spanning public and private companies, Donna has worked in the areas of operations, brand marketing, and product development, and takes a data-driven approach with a consumer point of view. Previously, she was CMO for a home furnishings brand with over $500M in annual revenue. She has also been part of the marketing team at Neiman Marcus, MGM, Barneys New York, and United Artists. Donna has been featured in Story of a Brand, Cheddar News, Forbes, Tech FW, WFAA #UpWithHer, Growing Spaces, and The Grow Network.

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