Perplant, a Danish AgTech startup on a mission to democratise AI in agriculture by supporting sustainable farming with a cost-effective, plug & play and AI-based camera sensor, has raised €1 million in investment.
The funding round was supported by private angel investors and industry leaders with deep expertise in agriculture and retail. This capital injection is further supported by institutional financing from the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, as well as project grants from the European Space Agency and Innovation Fund Denmark.
”When our AI drives across the field, it documents the field’s variation, every single plant, and groundwater-sensitive areas. It removes the bureaucracy for the farmer and ensures that we can shut off the sprayer precisely over groundwater-sensitive areas with centimetre precision,” said Rasmus Emil Hansen, CEO and co-founder of Perplant.
Founded in 2022 by Rasmus Emil Hansen and Sumod Nandanwar, Perplant develops AI-driven infrastructure for agriculture that enables real-time monitoring and precise spraying via Edge AI sensors mounted on tractors. By equipping tractors with advanced “eyes”, a new AI-driven system reduces herbicide use by up to 90% and fertiliser use by 30%.
The company has developed a proprietary solution with a box mounted on the tractor’s roof. Perplant states that artificial intelligence scans the field in real-time and ensures that spraying occurs only precisely where needed. This optimises the usage of pesticides and fertilisers and increases harvest yield.
Perplant claims that its technology enables savings of up to 90% of herbicides and 30% of fertiliser. For an average 200-hectare farm, this translates to an annual profit increase of approximately €36,000. The efficiency gains ensure the investment is fully recovered within the first season of use.
While traditional satellite imagery typically offers a resolution of 10–30 meters, Perplant’s sensors deliver a 2–10 centimetre resolution. The system captures actual photos of each plant, providing verification-ready data for authorities, banks, and insurance companies.
Perplant has reportedly already mapped over 200,000 hectares across Europe. This coverage represents nine times more data than all agricultural drones in Denmark combined for the same period, creating the largest precision dataset in the Nordics.
“No satellite or drone can deliver this level of detail at a scale that truly moves anything for the global food chain. By making every tractor an intelligent data centre, we create the factual foundation that both farmers and authorities desperately lack to document the green effort,” stated Emil Hansen.
Perplant currently has 15 employees and operates in Denmark, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Spain, Ireland and Chile with plans for expansion to the USA. The company is backed by Antler, The Footprint Firm, and strategic business investors.
