Sensie, a Ghent-based AgTech startup, has raised €500k in a pre-Seed funding spherical to speed up plant intelligence for skilled greenhouse growers.
The spherical was led by Division Q, with participation from NewSchool.vc and Percival Participations. This announcement follows shortly after its preliminary greenhouse deployments, public launch, and its nomination as a High 3 finalist for the GreenTech Innovation Awards 2026. The winner will likely be introduced subsequent week at GreenTech Amsterdam.
Olivier Begerem, co-founder and CEO of Sensie, mentioned on LinkedIn, “The previous six weeks have been loopy. Beginning our first greenhouse deployments, introducing Sensie to the world, becoming a member of the HortiHeroes ecosystem, and being chosen as a High 3 nominee for the GreenTech Innovation Awards 2026. It has been intense in the absolute best approach.
“This funding is about greater than capital. It’s about bringing the suitable individuals across the desk as we transfer from our first installations towards a system growers can depend on each single day. It provides us the help to maintain constructing, testing, and enhancing alongside growers, researchers, and expertise companions.”
Based in 2025 by Begerem and Christophe Sysmans (CTO), Sensie goals to democratise plant intelligence. It helps skilled growers transfer past local weather and substrate knowledge by measuring how the plant itself responds in actual time.
The corporate develops a wi-fi plant well being wearable for skilled growers. It states that whereas growers already measure many features of the crop, resembling local weather, irrigation and substrate knowledge, Sensie makes the plant’s personal response measurable in actual time. Its wi-fi plant sensors seize direct physiological indicators resembling development, water standing, stress and restoration, then translate them into clear insights for higher irrigation, local weather and cultivation choices.
Its first product, Sensie Omni, combines direct plant suggestions with root-zone and local weather context. It captures the vital interplay between Provide (root zone), Demand (micro-climate) and Response (plant stress) in a single wi-fi system. The objective is to assist growers higher perceive how their crop responds to choices resembling irrigation, air flow, screening and local weather technique.
“Trendy greenhouse horticulture is already extremely data-driven. But one vital voice has largely been lacking from the dialog: the plant itself. Sensie is altering that with reasonably priced, wi-fi plant sensors that mix local weather, irrigation, and substrate knowledge with direct physiological suggestions from the crop. The result’s a strong step towards actually plant-driven cultivation, serving to growers make higher choices primarily based on what their crops are literally experiencing,” NewSchool.vc mentioned on LinkedIn.
With this funding, the corporate plans to additional optimise its {hardware} and software program and speed up the business rollout. It goals to scale Sensie, increase actual greenhouse deployments and additional develop its platform. The startup is actively looking for licensed distributors, expertise companions, and analysis collaborators.
