The new funding will support the expansion of Polysense's technology across food production lines worldwide, deepen its product offering, grow its engineering, sales and customer success teams, and accelerate deployments.
Belgian startup Polysense has raised $10.7 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to accelerate the global rollout of its AI-powered quality control platform for food manufacturers. The round was led by Felix Capital, with participation from Fortino Ventures, Syndicate One, 100IN and other angel investors.
Polysense develops AI-powered quality control and process optimisation software for food manufacturers. Its platform helps reduce waste by combining continuous in-line inspection with automated process control. By combining continuous in-line inspection, real-time imaging data and synthetic data models with automated process control, the platform detects quality deviations as they occur and automatically adjusts production parameters before waste is generated.
The platform consists of three integrated products. Polysense Qualify continuously inspects every product on the production line in real time, while the Polysense Platform consolidates quality and process data into a single view to identify variability and improvement opportunities. Polysense AutoControl automatically adjusts machine settings to compensate for changing ingredients and production conditions.
The funding comes just over a year after Polysense raised $2.2 million and focused exclusively on food manufacturing. Since then, the company has progressed from early pilots to commercial deployments with major food producers including Agristo, Darta and Poppies Bakeries.
Initially launched in Europe, the platform has since expanded into the United States and the Middle East, with customers increasing the scale of their deployments across vegetable, potato, bakery, confectionery and packaging production lines.
Yarne De Munck, CEO and co-founder of Polysense, said:
The past twelve months have been incredible. The traction is real. We went from early pilots to live deployments with some of the largest food manufacturers in the world, and they are growing their rollouts. The food industry has been waiting for a solution to this problem. Polysense delivers one that works. This funding lets us move faster and reach many more lines around the world. We are just getting started.
Food waste remains a major challenge for manufacturers, creating a significant opportunity for technologies that can improve production efficiency. According to Eurostat, food and beverage manufacturing accounts for 19 per cent of all food waste in the EU. Variations in raw materials, including moisture, density and product characteristics, combined with fixed production settings, make it difficult for manufacturers to identify and correct quality issues before products are lost.
Polysense’s platform is designed to automate this process, enabling continuous monitoring and real-time corrective action.
The new funding will be used to expand Polysense’s product across more stages of the food production process, enabling manufacturers to automate a wider range of quality control and process optimisation tasks. The company also plans to grow its engineering, sales and customer success teams, while investing in faster deployments to support its expanding international customer base.