Overview
Founded by Jarne Bogaert and Lucas Van Dijck in Ghent, Polysense builds tools for food producers, processors, and retailers to monitor and optimize their operations with the goal of reducing food waste. The platform combines sensor data, production logs, and AI analytics to identify where waste occurs and surface actionable recommendations.
Food waste is both a significant economic cost and an environmental problem, and regulatory scrutiny around it is increasing in Europe. Polysense positions itself at the intersection of operational efficiency and sustainability reporting.
The company is part of the active Ghent startup ecosystem and has connections to the Wintercircus community.
Media & appearances
- De TijdYouTube09/07 | Opnieuw nachtelijke aanvallen: Iran-crisis helemaal terug, ook op de beurs | Meer apparte...Ghent AI startup that raised nearly $11 million to reduce food waste in food processing using vision systems and AI, active in 12 European countries with first projects in Saudi Arabia and US clients.
Stated facts & numbers
- Polysense raised nearly $11 million (announced as ~$10 million in intro) in fresh capital.De Tijd 2026-07-090:12:12
- Polysense is active in 12 European countries, has first projects in Saudi Arabia, and is signing clients in the US.De Tijd 2026-07-090:13:43
Key people
In the news
- Sneak Peak Still buzzing from Thursday. 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐲 2026 took place in the magical Evoluon in Eindhoven, the futuristic-looking building opened by Philips in 1966. A fitting setting for a day full of energy: 87 attendees from 44 companies, some travelling all the way from Spain, came together to help shape where Momentum is headed next. We walked through the new architecture that will carry the platform forward, modular and scalable, without losing the depth we've built over 23 years. Q8Oils and
- We're hiring 0-1 builders for my team at Polysense: → Security & Infrastructure Engineer: run our IT systems and infrastructure end-to-end, automate away the manual busywork, and own the cyber security foundation that lets us work with serious enterprise customers. https://lnkd.in/e9WEV_mH → Product Manager: turn strategy into shippable roadmaps, sit between engineering and sales, own what we build next. https://lnkd.in/eQs5P_G9 We've got product-market fit, funding, and huge traction. What's missing is more people who want full
- Unlock multi‑purpose IoT capability with Polysense WxS8800, WxS8801 and WxS881A series smart terminals: built‑in Pulse Counter function as a standard native feature. Beyond their core sensing missions — such as water‑leak detection for WxS881A — these iEdge 4.0 OS‑powered end‑nodes accept dry‑contact pulse input to count events from legacy meters, flow sensors, pulse‑output devices and switching signals, without deploying extra standalone pulse‑counter hardware. ✅ Native pulse‑counting support across LoRaWan WxS8800 / WxS8801 /
- The models writing our code are graded on correctness. Not on style, not on root cause analysis, not on scope creep. Which is how we were graded too. Every assignment at university came down to two questions. Does it run, and does it give the right answer. Then an engineering company hires you on exactly those two skills, and as every YG knows, the job turns out to be everything nobody graded (fortunately xp). But when we do single-shot agentic software development, it's like asking that young graduate to deploy a major feature to
- Great day yesterday at The Beacon | Innovation Community— FIT - Flanders Investment & Trade's Big Leap USA event was sold out, and the energy in the room said it all. Flemish founders and operators genuinely hungry to crack the US market. Loved hearing Catalina Daniels' hard lessons on building stateside, and the panel with Amaury Hellebuyck (TechWolf), Jonathan Bovijn (Polysense) and Andreas Geamanu (introw.io) didn't sugarcoat anything either — real talk on what it takes to actually make the leap. Also great to see the
- What happens when AI leaves the demo environment? Well, consequences. 💁♂️ Last night, Tiebe Parmentier (Tekst), Lucas Van Dijck (Polysense), Jarno G. (Aikido Security) and our own Tristan Vermeesch had four pretty different takes on how to deal with these consequences. A huge thank you to everyone who joined, we had a full house despite the rain. Certainly not a bad start for our first Gent tech meetup. More from last evening's #AIwithConsequences to share soon... aaand there's already another meetup in the works. Watch
- New Product: PSX‑A1A501 M‑BUS to TTL for Smart Metering Polysense expands our hardware portfolio with the PSX‑A1A501 M‑BUS to TTL Converter Master Module, a new building block for our BYOD, modular & software‑defined sensor iEdge 4.0 ecosystem. This M‑BUS master concentrator transparently converts standard M‑BUS physical bus signals to 3.6V TTL UART interface, enabling our WxS series edge host to read water meters, heat meters and other M‑BUS slave devices out‑of‑the‑box. ✅ Key Module Specs - Power Supply: DC 12‑24V wide‑voltage
- TL;DR: The way I review code has changed more this past year than the way I write it. Writing barely feels like the job anymore. I describe what I want, an agent produces it, and most of the time it runs. What used to be an afternoon is twenty minutes. What grew is everything after: reading a diff I didn’t write, deciding whether it does what I actually asked, and working out whether the tests passing means anything at all. That gap, for me, is where vibecoding ends and agentic engineering starts. Vibecoding raises the floor, so
Open roles (7)
- Enterprise Account Executive - EUGhent · Aug 19, 2026
- Product ManagerGhent · Jul 22, 2026
- Implementation EngineerGhent · Jun 10, 2026
- Delivery Project ManagerGhent · May 13, 2026
- Operations & Finance LeadGhent · Apr 29, 2026
- Enterprise Customer Success ManagerGhent · Apr 1, 2026
- Computer Vision EngineerGhent · Oct 15, 2025
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