Monday, June 16, 2008

PlantSense Harvests $3.5M

San Francisco-based PlantSense announced this morning that the firm has raised $3.5M in a Series A venture funding round. PlantSense is developing Internet-enabled gardening tools, which allows gardeners to connect a device via USB to the Internet to recommend which plants will work in a particular spot in their yard. The venture round came from Gabriel Ventures and unnamed, independent investors. According to PlantSense, its hardware device can be used in conjunction with a free Internet service to analyze soil conditions, sunlight, moisture and temperature and recommend specific plants for gardeners. The new funding will go towards product development, operations, production and marketing.