Key Takeaways
- Sensie, a Ghent-based AgTech startup, has raised EUR 500,000 in a pre-Seed round led by Division Q, with participation from NewSchool.vc and Percival Participations.
- The company has developed a wireless plant health wearable, the Sensie Omni, that captures direct physiological signals from crops including growth, water status, stress, and recovery alongside root-zone and climate data.
- Sensie was founded in 2025 by Olivier Begerem (CEO) and Christophe Sysmans (CTO) with a goal of making plant intelligence accessible to professional greenhouse growers.
- The funding follows the company's first commercial greenhouse deployments, public launch, and a Top 3 nomination for the GreenTech Innovation Awards 2026.
- With the funding, Sensie plans to optimize hardware and software, accelerate commercial rollout, expand greenhouse deployments, and build out a network of certified distributors, technology partners, and research collaborators.
Sensie Raises EUR 500K Pre-Seed to Bring Wireless Plant Intelligence to Greenhouse Growers
Ghent-based AgTech startup Sensie has closed a EUR 500,000 pre-Seed funding round to accelerate the development and commercial rollout of its wireless plant health sensing platform for professional greenhouse growers. The round was led by Division Q, with NewSchool.vc and Percival Participations participating. The announcement follows the company's first commercial greenhouse deployments, its public launch, and a Top 3 nomination for the GreenTech Innovation Awards 2026.
Sensie's flagship product, Sensie Omni, is a wireless device that captures direct physiological signals from crops — including growth rate, water status, stress indicators, and recovery patterns — and combines them with root-zone and micro-climate data in a single unit. The platform is designed to fill what the company describes as a persistent gap in professional horticulture: while growers already collect extensive data on climate, irrigation, and substrate, the plant's own response has historically remained unmeasured in real time.
“Modern greenhouse horticulture is already highly data-driven. Yet one critical voice has largely been missing from the conversation: the plant itself. Sensie is changing that with affordable, wireless plant sensors that combine climate, irrigation, and substrate data with direct physiological feedback from the crop,” said NewSchool.vc.
Sensie Targets Plant-Driven Cultivation Decisions Across Irrigation, Climate, and Strategy
The Sensie Omni captures the interaction between root-zone supply, micro-climate demand, and plant stress response in a single wireless device, translating those readings into actionable insights for irrigation, ventilation, screening, and broader cultivation strategy decisions. Founded in 2025 by CEO Olivier Begerem and CTO Christophe Sysmans, Sensie aims to make plant intelligence accessible and affordable across professional growing operations of different scales.
“This funding is about more than capital. It is about bringing the right people around the table as we move from our first installations toward a system growers can rely on every single day,” said Begerem. “It gives us the support to keep building, testing, and improving alongside growers, researchers, and technology partners.”
Next Steps: Hardware Optimization, Scale-Up, and Distribution Partners
Sensie plans to use the pre-Seed capital to further optimize its hardware and software, scale commercial greenhouse deployments, and develop its platform. The company is actively seeking certified distributors, technology partners, and research collaborators to support its growth.
