PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank
The Copenhagen agtech has already mapped nine times more European farmland than every Danish agricultural drone combined. Two well-known Nordic investors want the United States next.
The pitch behind PerPlant is one a farmer can grasp in a sentence: a box on the roof of the tractor, a camera looking at the field, an AI deciding which plant gets sprayed and which does not.The Copenhagen-based startup said this week it has raised €1 million (DKK 7.6 million) in a round led by Jytte Rosenmaj, chair of carbon-credit platform Agreena, and Kræn Østergaard Nielsen, the former chief executive of Danish retailer Coop Danmark and now an active AI investor.
The capital sits alongside non-dilutive funding from Denmark’s EIFO, the European Space Agency, and Innovation Fund Denmark.
The headline figure for the technology, as PerPlant tells it, is a ninety per cent reduction in herbicide use for an average Danish farmer with...
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