BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally

The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally from Europe to Canada.

The idea behind BBLeap is disarmingly simple: most agricultural sprayers treat an entire field as a single unit, applying the same dose of pesticide, herbicide, or fertiliser regardless of what individual plants actually need.

BBLeap was built on the premise that this is wasteful, imprecise, and unnecessary, and that the technology to do something better has existed for long enough that there is no good excuse not to use it.

The Dutch startup, based in Rijen in North Brabant, has raised €5 million in a round led by Utrecht-based private equity firm ESquare Capital, with co-investment from Yield Lab Europe, an impact-focused agri-food venture capital fund with backing from the European Investment Fund.

Existing shareholders including BOM (the Brabant Development Agency ...