Sencrop is a data platform to help farmers manage their lands

Meet Sencrop a French startup that wants to empower farmers exploiting sensors, a data programme and a service marketplace. The fellowship recently created a $10 million funding round.

The Series A round was led by Bpifrance with NCI Waterstart, Nord Capital and The Yield Lab also participating. Existing investors Demeter and Breega Capital too reinvested.

If you’re a farmer and are getting started when it comes to leveraging data, Sencrop wants to be a one-stop shop for all your digital wants. The companionship exchanges related depots that can measurement temperature, humidity, rainfall, windspeed, etc.

Each station expenses between $340 and $570( between EUR3 00 and EUR5 00) and you are able to have as countless as you demand. You can install the depot yourself — it’s as simple as seeding a post.

After that, you compensate a subscription to access the pulpit. It costs around $170 to $340 per year( EUR1 50 to EUR3 00 ). In addition to live sees of your sensors, Sencrop can help you prophesy the next steps.

“On the other side of the platform, there are parties broadcasting services to farmers, ” co-founder and CEO Michael Bruniaux told me. “For instance, we can predict a disease and the farmer knows whether they need a product or not to prevent the disease.”

You can imagine a full-fledged mart in the future. For speciman, it could be a good way to subscribe to an assurance produce, succession seeds or contact companies and cooperatives organizations willing to buy your output.

5, 000 farmers, winemakers and arborists are already employing the platform to monitor their farms. Most of them are currently based in Europe.

Sencrop is slowly improving a community of farmers by mixing all data points together. For speciman, if other people living not far from you are also working Sencrop, you’ll get better calculates and penetrations on what to expect.

The company firstly started with potato crops, vineyards and cereals. But now, you can find all kinds of charts on Sencrop. Some farmers have a minuscule piece of land of less than 100 acres while others have stupendous farms.

With today’s funding round, Sencrop wants to scale all levels of society and expand to brand-new markets.

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