Valtra Tractors to Offer PerPlant’s AI Spot-Spray Sensor Straight From the Factory

Copenhagen agtech startup PerPlant has agreed a deal with tractor maker Valtra, a brand owned by AGCO, to offer its AI crop sensor as a factory-fitted option on new tractors rather than only as an after-market add-on. The agreement was announced on 4 November 2026. Sales begin this month alongside the launch of Valtra's new sixth-generation T Series, starting in selected European markets, with other markets available on request.

PerPlant was founded in Copenhagen in 2022 by chief executive Rasmus Emil Hansen and cofounder Sumod Nandanwar. It began by building a lower-cost retrofit kit that let farmers add see-and-spray capability to sprayers they already owned, instead of buying new equipment. The relationship with Valtra started through BioBoosters, a Finnish startup accelerator, and developed over several return trips to Finland before becoming the factory-fit agreement, which Valtra Unlimited, the brand's customization arm, is involved in.

PerPlant is also building a platform called Nexus. It is meant to let agronomists, input companies and other third parties access the field data the company's sensors collect and build their own applications on top of it. The company expects Nexus to move into production early next year.

Hansen has said PerPlant sees its long-term value less in the sensor as a one-time hardware sale and more in the season-long, centimeter-level field data it accumulates over time.

The deal moves PerPlant from a retrofit supplier toward a place inside a major manufacturer's product line, giving its spot-spray technology a route to farmers buying new machines.