Overview
Vivent Biosignals builds plant biosensors that record the electrical signals a plant generates and applies artificial intelligence to interpret them, flagging stress, disease and pest pressure before visible symptoms appear. Its sensor, the VITA1, is battery powered and wireless, places electrodes directly on a living plant to detect ion flow across cell membranes, and feeds a dashboard that refreshes every five minutes with plant balance, water status, nutrient concentrations for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium, and plant activity. Co-founders Carrol Plummer and Nigel Wallbridge met during an INSEAD MBA in 1989. Plummer is co-founder and co-CEO, Wallbridge is co-founder and executive chairman, and Fernando Derossi, previously in senior roles at Syngenta, BASF and UPL Corporation, took over as CEO and partner on 1 February 2026. In November 2025 the company raised 7.5 million euro led by Agri Investment Fund, with Horticoop, Pymwymic and Swiss private investors. It reported more than 1,000 hectares under monitoring in Europe at that point, and 2 million plant days of data by July 2026. It has held B Corp certification since December 2021.
Funding history
- 2025 round: 7.5M EUR led by Agri Investment Fund, with Horticoop, Pymwymic and Swiss private investors; dated 21 November 2025
Stated facts & numbers
- Founded: 2020
- Headquarters: Gland, Switzerland
- Second office: Zeist, Netherlands
- Legal entities: Vivent SA and Vivent Biosignals BV
- CEO: Fernando Derossi, CEO and partner since 1 February 2026
- Co-founders: Carrol Plummer, co-founder and co-CEO; Nigel Wallbridge, co-founder and executive chairman
- Employees: Team page lists more than thirty named staff plus three interns
- Product: VITA1 smart plant biosensor and live dashboard
- Disclosed funding: 7.5M EUR (November 2025)
- Customers and partners: Syngenta, Bayer Crop Science, Wageningen University Research, Lethbridge Polytechnic, Andermatt Poland, Zeiler
- Scale: 2 million plant days monitored, over 30 trillion data points (July 2026)
- Certification: B Corp since December 2021, impact score 118.8
- Belgian link: None found; no Belgian office or entity in any fetched source
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