hexafarms
About
About hexafarms
hexafarms combines crop-monitoring hardware with AI software for commercial horticulture. Wireless sensors, cameras and autonomous scouting robots feed yield forecasting and pest and disease detection tools. The company designs, deploys and maintains the system for growers on a subscription basis.
Funding
- 2026-10-06 - Seed - hexafarms raises €4.8M seed for crop sensing and robotic scouting
The Berlin horticulture-technology company raised seed capital to develop its monitoring hardware and AI platform and expand across DACH, Benelux and Spain. - source: hexafarms.com
- 2024-05-14 - Pre-seed - $1.4M - hexafarms raises €1.3M pre-seed for greenhouse crop intelligence
Speedinvest led the completed pre-seed round, with Mudcake and Techstars participating, to develop prediction models and expand crop coverage. - source: globalaginvesting.com
Investors
- Mudcake - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-05-14 - latest 2026-10-06
- Speedinvest - Lead - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-05-14 - latest 2026-10-06
- Techstars - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-05-14 - latest 2026-10-06
- Ananda Impact Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-06
- better ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-06
- Green Generation Fund - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-06
- Grey Silo Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-06
Team
- David Ahmed - Chief Efficiency Officer (CEO)
- Phil Borkenhagen - Robotics Lead
- Philipp Press - Tech Lead
- Felix Kirschstein - Head of Business Development
- Max Seidl - Head of GTM
- Ties van der Linden - Head of Customer Experience
- Mohanna Mollavali - Head of Crop Science
- Stefan Meinecke - Data Scientist
Timeline
Events
- 2026-10-06 - Funding - hexafarms raises €4.8M seed for crop sensing and robotic scouting
Ananda Impact Ventures and Green Generation Fund led the round; Grey Silo Ventures, better ventures, Speedinvest, Mudcake and Techstars participated. The company separately received Rentenbank startup support and access to a subordinated loan of up to €800,000. More than 50 growers in 13 countries use the broader platform, which combines wireless sensors, forecasting and autonomous pest-and-disease scouting.
Source - 2024-05-14 - Funding - hexafarms raises €1.3M pre-seed for greenhouse crop intelligence
The €1.3 million round was announced in May 2024. Capital supports AI and machine-learning development and a broader portfolio of crops. The separately reported cumulative funding exceeded €2.5 million; it is not the amount of this round.
Source
Context
Shared workflows
- Grodi
workflow adjacency - Greenhouse Crop Monitoring
Context tags
- Greenhouse crop monitoring - Workflow - https://hexafarms.com/robotics — Software fuses robot,plant and greenhouse climate data for crop monitoring and prediction. Does not manufacture the robots.
- Crop-level perception - Capability - https://hexafarms.com/blog/seed-round-announcement — Crop measurements and forecasting support cultivation decisions; no robot-hardware or harvester peer class inherited.
- Greenhouses or indoor farms - Customer Environment - https://hexafarms.com/ — Controlled-environment horticulture is the customer environment.