Swiss agtech company secures new investment to accelerate commercial scaling of its AI-enhanced plant monitoring technology
Vivent Biosignals, a Swiss-based pioneer of AI-enhanced ‘wearables for plants’, has announced new investment from Agri Investment Fund (AIF), Horticoop, Pymwymic, and other private investors in Switzerland.
According to the group, the funding will enable it to accelerate the commercial scaling of its monitoring technology, which is used to detect stress in crops before any visual symptoms appear.
“We are thrilled to welcome Agri Investment Fund as a new investor, joining Pymwymic and Horticoop,” said Carrol Plummer, co-founder of Vivent Biosignals.
“With Agri Investment Fund, we gain a partner deeply embedded in European agriculture and food value chains – exactly the kind of strategic alignment we need to accelerate our growth and deliver value at scale.”
Patrik Haesen, CEO of Agri Investment Fund, commented: “We see enormous potential for Vivent’s technology to improve both farmer profitability and environmental sustainability. By giving crops a voice, Vivent is enabling a new era of precise, plant-led decision-making in agriculture – and we are excited to support the company’s growth.”
Pivotal point
The investment comes at a pivotal moment, and the company’s technology has the potential to transform crop management and sustainable food production.
In 2025, it launched a crop health platform which it says already monitors more than 1,000ha of production across Europe.
Tom Vlaemynck, CEO of TomatoMasters, says Vivent has helped his company to improve fruit quality and reduce waste. “From the first look at their model results, we could already see that we needed to focus on changing different parameters than we expected,” he comments.
Recent advances in AI have allowed Vivent to interpret plants’ internal signal networks with a level of precision that was previously impossible, says co-founder and executive chairman Nigel Wallbridge.
“By scaling in outdoor agriculture, we’ve built the world’s largest dataset of crop biosignals – unlocking insights that benefit individual growers, research partners, and policymakers.
“With our new investors, we are accelerating the global shift toward plant-driven, resource-efficient agriculture, as well as tackling some of the critical blights that threaten global food production.”
