Berlin agtech hexafarms raises €4.8M to sell greenhouse sensors and scouting robots by subscription

-hexafarms raised €4.8M in seed funding led by Ananda Impact Ventures and Green Generation Fund.

-More than 50 growers in 13 countries already use its sensors, forecasts and scouting robots.

-Customers managed over €300M of produce on its system in 2026, the company says.

Greenhouse growers can leave up to 30% of their potential yield unrealised, according to hexafarms’ own analysis. Growing conditions drift from the optimum, harvest forecasts prove wrong, and pests and disease are spotted only after the damage is visible.

Berlin-based hexafarms has raised €4.8 million in seed funding to catch those problems earlier, using wireless sensors, yield-forecasting software, and robots that scan every plant.

The round was led by Ananda Impact Ventures and Green Generation Fund, with participation from Grey Silo Ventures and better ventures, alongside existing backers Speedinvest, Mudcake and Techstars. The money will go into wireless crop sensing, automated pest and disease scouting, and expansion across the DACH region, the Benelux countries and Spain.

“For decades, horticulture has invested heavily in automation, infrastructure and crop inputs to lift grower margins, but there is still a fundamental gap in how we understand and manage production at scale. The opportunity is not simply to automate more tasks, but to give growers the intelligence to act on what’s happening in the crop before it costs them yield,” said David Ahmed, hexafarms’ CEO and co-founder.

From dashboards to robots, on subscription

hexafarms was founded in 2021 by Ahmed, Huijo Kim and Felix Kirschstein in Berlin. When Tech Funding News covered its €1.3 million pre-seed round in May 2024, led by Speedinvest, it noted that the company sold software for greenhouses and vertical indoor farms, and that its total funding had passed €2.5 million.

The company has since moved to what it calls an operating system for commercial horticulture. Its wireless sensors record climate, fertigation (fertiliser delivered through irrigation water), substrate, drainage and light data every five minutes. Forecasting models use more than 70 parameters to produce rolling harvest forecasts for each crop and production zone.

Robots scan every plant daily across two to three hectares, looking for early signs of pests and disease. The AI models cover around 50 cultivars, including tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, aubergines and berries.

Because the three data streams sit in one system, a grower can, for example, trace a pest outbreak against the climate history of a single production zone. The platform works across greenhouses, foil tunnels and open-field production, and it is built to plug into the climate computers growers already run, including those from Priva, Hoogendoorn and Ridder.

Growers pay a subscription, while hexafarms designs, deploys and maintains the hardware and keeps ownership of it. That moves the cost for growers from capital spending to operating spending. It also means hexa