# Sentea - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Sentea for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-04-22

## Company Profile
- Name: Sentea
- Sector: deep-tech, photonics
- Stage: startup
- Status: active
- Founded: 2018
- Total funding: 8420000
- Location: Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senteacompagny/
- Founders: Karsten Verhaegen

## Overview
Founded in 2018 and spun out of Ghent University (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/ugent/llms.txt) and imec (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/imec/llms.txt), Sentea develops photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology for fiber optic distributed sensing. Its approach uses PICs to build compact, high-performance interrogators for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing systems, enabling structural health monitoring, temperature sensing, and other measurement applications at lower cost and smaller form factor than traditional instrumentation.

With $8.42M raised, Sentea is part of the dense photonics cluster centered on Ghent (https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt), which benefits from UGent's world-class photonics research group and imec (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/imec/llms.txt)'s semiconductor fabrication infrastructure. The company is positioned to serve industrial, infrastructure, and aerospace sensing markets.

Sentea connects to the broader Belgian photonics ecosystem alongside Luceda Photonics (https://techwiki.ai/companies/luceda-photonics/llms.txt) and Thema Foundries (https://techwiki.ai/companies/thema-foundries/llms.txt).

## Key People
- Karsten Verhaegen (https://techwiki.ai/people/karsten-verhaegen/llms.txt) - Founder and CEO

## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [city] Ghent: https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt
- [hub] imec: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/imec/llms.txt
- [hub] Ghent University: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/ugent/llms.txt
- [company] Luceda Photonics: https://techwiki.ai/companies/luceda-photonics/llms.txt
- [company] Thema Foundries: https://techwiki.ai/companies/thema-foundries/llms.txt
- [person] Karsten Verhaegen: https://techwiki.ai/people/karsten-verhaegen/llms.txt
- [sector] Deep Tech & Hardware: https://techwiki.ai/sectors/deep-tech/llms.txt

## Links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/senteacompagny/
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/companies/sentea/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/companies/sentea/llms-full.txt

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