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News & Updates - Monday, June 16, 2008

Plantsense Goes to Beta With $3.5M Round For Internet-enabled Gardening Tool

PlantSense uses sensory technology to determine what is says is the ideal plant for any location. The company's technology can also be used to determine what is environmentally wrong with any given plant.

San Francisco-based PlantSense said it raised $3.5M in its first round of funding from Gabriel Ventures as well as angel investors.

PlantSense provides an online tool that recommends which plants will thrive in a specific location and diagnoses what is wrong with ailing plants.

The startup's CEO is Matthew Glenn who was Sr. Product Line Manager at Cisco Systems - his startup Aairespace was bought by Cisco in 2004.

If you have a green thumb and want to give it a go, you can sign up for the beta program and pay $59.95. A hitch is that teta testers cannot talk publicly about the product until PlantSense launches out of beta - which they anticipate will go down in Q4 2008).

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