What Bloemteknik does

Bloemteknik is a Cardiff-based designer, manufacturer, and distributor of customised LED lighting solutions for controlled environment agriculture (CEA), founded in 2023 by former GE senior leaders James Fleet (CEO) and Charlie Benson (CTO). The company serves cannabis cultivators, vertical farm operators, and greenhouse growers of high-wire vine crops, flowers, and strawberries across the UK, Finland, the USA, and additional international markets reached through channel partners. Its hardware portfolio comprises four platforms — Align (vertical farms), Impact (high-output greenhouse and cannabis), Top Crop (high-wire crops with patent-pending adjustable light engines), and Balance (adjustable greenhouse fixtures) — all managed through the Wand wireless control system. The recent GreenFingers™ platform (patent pending) layers AI-powered autonomous lighting optimisation on top of the installed base.

The company generates revenue primarily through direct enterprise sales of bespoke LED fixtures and lighting systems, supplemented by a network of distributors: Helle-Tech in the Nordics, CannaBreeze across 12 cannabis-focused international markets, and Ecopromt for European vertical farms. A "Pay As You Grow" financing programme addresses grower capex constraints by aligning payments with production cycles. The business holds ISO 27001 certification, an important credential for enterprise and regulated-cannabis buyers, and is backed by a £2.5M Foresight Group seed round (Jan 2026) and £707k+ in Innovate UK grant funding (Feb 2026). Customer evidence includes a 14,000+ light bar deployment at Soli Organic in the USA, an EU-GMP-aligned engagement with Linneo Health in the UK, and Finnish cucumber and flower growers Kannuksen Kauppapuutarha and Hortiherttua.

Name

Bloemteknik

Legal name

Bloemteknik Limited

Website

https://bloemteknik.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bloemteknik is a Cardiff-based company that designs, manufactures, and distributes customised LED lighting and the AI-controlled GreenFingers™ platform for vertical farms and commercial greenhouses, serving cannabis, leafy greens, high-wire vine crop, flower, and strawberry growers across the UK, Europe, and North America.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Horticultural LED Lighting

NAICS

Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing (33513), Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing (335132), Automatic Environmental Control Manufacturing for Residential, Commercial, and Appliance Use (334512)

SIC

Electric Lighting & Wiring Equipment (3640)

akta.pro primary industry

Controlled Environment Lighting (LED Grow Lights, Controls) (AFAAAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Lighting Controls & Building Integration (Drivers, sensors, dimming, lighting control panels, networked lighting) (IMAGAIAI)

Keywords

• Horticultural LED lighting
• Controlled environment agriculture
• Vertical farm lighting
• Greenhouse lighting systems
• Spectral LED fixtures

Headquarters

HQ city

Cardiff

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. LED Lighting Hardware Sales: Sale of customised LED lighting platforms (Align, Impact, Top Crop, Balance) and fixtures to greenhouse growers and vertical farm operators. Solutions are collaboratively customised to each grower's specific crop type, growing environment, and infrastructure requirements. Hardware includes light bars, toplighting fixtures, and modular systems. Payment terms include 30 days from invoice date with prices quoted in GBP, EUR, or USD.
2. Control Platform / Software (GreenFingers™): Autonomous lighting control platform GreenFingers™ provides self-optimising LED control. While primarily bundled with hardware, the platform represents an intellectual property and software component that complements hardware sales. The 'Pay As You Grow' programme suggests flexible purchasing options.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Bloemteknik designs, manufactures and distributes customised modular LED lighting systems — Align (vertical farms), Impact (greenhouse toplighting), Top Crop (high-wire vine crops) and Balance (greenhouse adjustable fixtures) — for commercial greenhouses and vertical farms. Its offering is complemented by the Wand wireless lighting control platform and the GreenFingers™ autonomous AI control software that self-optimises light intensity and spectrum in real time. Solutions are sold via direct enterprise sales and channel partners, with a "Pay As You Grow" financing programme.

Product overview

Bloemteknik provides a modular LED lighting solutions portfolio for controlled environment agriculture (vertical farms and commercial greenhouses), comprising hardware platforms designed for specific crop types and growing environments, paired with wireless control and autonomous AI-powered software layers. The core GreenFingers™ autonomous lighting platform (patent pending) uses AI algorithms to continuously self-optimise LED intensity and spectrum in real time, maintaining consistent DLI without manual intervention. Hardware products include the Align Light-Bar System (vertical farms, driverless option via VoltServer Digital Electricity™), Impact Platform (high-output dynamic toplighting for greenhouses, GMP-compliant for medicinal cannabis), Top Crop Platform (patent-pending adjustable multi-channel toplighting for high-wire crops), and Balance Platform (adjustable light-engines for greenhouse applications, via Helle-Tech partnership). All hardware platforms are controlled via the Wand Wireless Adaptive Network Delivery system, which enables zone-specific dimming, grouping, scheduling, and closed-loop DLI targeting, with preventive maintenance alerts. Solutions are collaboratively customised per crop and growing environment, with flexible financing available through Pay As You Grow.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GreenFingers™: Next-generation autonomous, self-optimising lighting platform that continuously adjusts light intensity and spectrum to maintain consistent Daily Light Integral (DLI) for horticultural LED systems.
• Align Platform
• Impact Platform
• Top Crop Platform
• Balance Platform
• Wand

Products and services

• GreenFingers™ Autonomous Lighting Platform AI-powered, patent-pending autonomous lighting control platform that continuously analyses canopy-level plant and environmental data to adjust LED intensity and spectrum in real time, maintaining consistent Daily Light Integral (DLI) without manual grower intervention. Designed for commercial greenhouse and vertical farm operators seeking autonomous light management.
• Align Light-Bar System Bespoke modular LED light-bar system adaptable in length, spectra and performance for vertical farm applications including multi-layer, gutter and cart setups. Built for low headspace and harsh working environments and compatible with VoltServer Digital Electricity™ driverless power delivery. Targets indoor vertical farm operators of cannabis, leafy greens and strawberries.
• Impact LED Toplighting Platform High-performance dynamic LED toplighting platform with wide-angle optics and multi-channel spectral control, optimised for vegetative, flowering and fruiting stages of light-demanding plants. Closed heat-sink design supports EU-GMP-compliant medicinal cannabis cultivation in greenhouses and vertical farms.
• Top Crop LED Toplighting Platform Patent-pending fully adjustable multi-channel LED toplighting platform with dynamic spectral control for high-wire greenhouse crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. Adjustable light engines deliver deeper canopy penetration, improved uniformity over vine height and demonstrated yield increases of up to 43% in cucumbers with no extra energy consumption.
• Wand Wireless Lighting Control System Wireless Adaptive Network Delivery (Wand) control platform enabling zone-specific dimming, grouping, scheduling, spectrum tuning, closed-loop DLI targeting and preventive maintenance alerts. Integrates with climate-control systems via HLP 1.0.3 over Modbus-TCP and is bundled with Bloemteknik LED fixtures across Align, Impact, Top Crop and Balance platforms.
• Balance LED Platform Patent-pending modular adjustable LED fixtures for greenhouse high-wire and leafy-green growers, with adjustable light engines that increase PPFD on the vertical face of vine crops by up to 36% without additional energy consumption. Distributed via the Helle-Tech channel partnership in the Nordics.
• Collaborative Customisation Service Service offering covering spectra, PPFD, fixture dimensions, optical design, mounting solutions and AC/DC electrical configuration, tailored to specific crop types, varieties and growing environments for both greenhouses and vertical farms. Delivered as part of every Bloemteknik deployment.
• Pay As You Grow Financing Programme Flexible purchasing and financing programme enabling growers to acquire Bloemteknik LED lighting solutions through tailored payment arrangements, supporting adoption without large upfront capital expenditure.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 43% cucumber yield increase without additional energy consumption (Kannuksen Kauppapuutarha)
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• CannaBreezecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 7 April 2025Strategic partnership with CannaBreeze, a cannabis cultivation and processing technology provider with clients in 12 countries, to deliver Impact dynamic lighting platform and Wand wireless control system to cannabis cultivators. CannaBreeze provides local distribution and integration support for cannabis operations internationally, with joint presence at ICBC Berlin.
• Helle-Tech OycoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 7 August 2024Helle-Tech Oy, a Finnish provider of greenhouse technology solutions, partners with Bloem to distribute Balance Platform modular adjustable LED fixtures to greenhouse growers in Finland and the Nordic market. The Balance Platform uses patent-pending adjustable light engines for vine crop and leafy green cultivation, with demonstrated results of 43% PPFD increase on vertical vine crop faces and 35% energy reduction.
• EcopromtcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 July 2024Strategic partnership with Ecopromt, a pioneer in vertical farm design and construction, to deliver tailored lighting solutions for vertical farm operators worldwide. Combines Ecopromt's design and construction expertise with Bloem's Align LED Platform. Includes joint case studies, interviews, and co-marketing through industry content.
• VoltServer Inc.coreTechnology or Integration · 24 June 2024Partnership with VoltServer to integrate Digital Electricity™ technology with Bloem's Align Light-Bar Platform for vertical farms. VoltServer's centralised Digital Electricity servers provide DC power directly to fixtures, eliminating LED drivers in grow spaces. Results in average 30% CAPEX reduction and 6% energy reduction. Only high-voltage power system approved for installation using ethernet wiring methods.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Current (GE Current, a Daintree company): Former employer of Bloemteknik's co-founders and a major US commercial lighting and horticultural LED player. Broad incumbent offering Arize horticulture line; competitive overlap on lighting controls and horticultural LEDs, and a likely head-to-head given founder pedigree.
• Signify (Philips GreenPower): Global lighting leader whose Philips GreenPower brand supplies LED horticultural lighting to greenhouses and vertical farms. Directly competes with Bloemteknik's hardware platforms (Impact, Top Crop) but operates at significantly larger scale with broader product portfolio and global distribution.

Direct peers

• Heliospectra AB: Swedish public company specialising in LED horticultural lighting and control software for greenhouses and vertical farms. Direct comparable given similar focus on customisable spectra and software-driven lighting control analogous to Bloemteknik's GreenFingers platform.
• Gavita International: Netherlands-based horticultural lighting company (now part of Hawthorne Hydroponics). Competes with Bloemteknik in greenhouse toplighting, particularly for high-wire crops and cannabis cultivation, with established HPS and LED product lines.
• Illumitex Inc. Texas-based horticultural LED manufacturer supplying vertical farms and greenhouses with customisable spectrum fixtures. Competes in cannabis and leafy green segments with comparable spectral precision and energy efficiency claims.
• Valoya Oy: Finnish LED horticultural lighting manufacturer producing broad-spectrum and custom spectra fixtures for research, greenhouses, and vertical farms. Comparable in product philosophy (customised spectra per crop) and geographic footprint (Nordic markets overlap with Bloemteknik's Helle-Tech channel).
• Fluence by ams-OSRAM: Austrian/US horticultural LED lighting specialist acquired by ams-OSRAM. Competes directly with Bloemteknik in vertical farms and greenhouses across cannabis, leafy greens, and floriculture segments with comparable spectral tuning capability.
• LumiGrow Inc. US-based horticultural LED lighting company selling smart LED fixtures and a cloud-based lighting control platform. Direct comparable in greenhouse and cannabis segments, with overlapping software/hardware integration model similar to Bloemteknik's Wand + GreenFingers stack.

Emerging players

• Plessey Semiconductors (Hyperion Grow Lights): UK-based semiconductor company with a horticultural lighting arm focused on high-output LED toplighting for greenhouses. Geographic peer (UK/Wales) with overlap in greenhouse high-wire crop lighting, though primarily a GaN-on-silicon chip specialist rather than fixture manufacturer.
• Smart Grow Technologies: Emerging CEA-focused lighting and controls startup serving greenhouse and indoor farm operators. Overlap in wireless lighting control and spectral tuning capabilities though at earlier scale than Bloemteknik's enterprise deployments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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