Bisari: EIC Accelerator Bet on Electrostatic Crop Pollination

Bisari Agroinnovation does by machine what bees do on a good day: it puts viable pollen of the right variety on the flower. The Granada company collects pollen, checks its quality, stores it, suspends it in a liquid it formulates for each crop and sprays it with an electrostatic charge, so that the droplets are drawn to the plant, according to trade reports in HortiDaily in January 2026 and El Español in August 2025. Its customers are mainly cooperatives and large growers of stone fruit, avocado, pistachio, almond and kiwi.

The European Innovation Council's list of companies selected in the 1 October 2025 cut-off includes Bisari Agroinnovation, with a project also called Bisari, described as "THE FIRST SPECIES-SPECIFIC MATRIX POLLEN SYSTEM", and recommended for blended finance, a grant combined with equity. Capital-riesgo.es names it among the nine Spanish companies in that round. The list itself warns that selection "does not constitute a formal commitment for funding", which is only taken once grant preparation is finished.

Pollen in a liquid, with a charge

Electrostatic spraying charges the droplets as they leave the nozzle, so that they are attracted to the plant and coat it more evenly. Bisari's sprayers come from the maker Martignani, which the company's website calls its official supplier, and HortiDaily describes the same arrangement. The company applies the pollen with electrostatic mist blowers on the ground and with drones, and says it is developing its own electrostatic systems for drones, including for use inside greenhouses.

The part the EIC list calls a first is the matrix. In the company's description to HortiDaily's Spanish edition, each crop gets its own liquid, which carries the pollen, keeps the osmotic conditions that keep it alive, which the company calls "polen 100% vivo", and contains activators for the pollen tube, the structure a pollen grain grows down the flower to fertilise it. El Español also reports a matrix "formulada específicamente para cada cultivo". The service starts before flowering with stimulation treatments and includes pollen collection, characterisation and storage, so that pollen can be kept when the flowering of donor and receiving varieties no longer coincides.

Spraying pollen in a liquid with an electric charge is not new in itself. A 1985 patent filing by Curtis Dyna Products describes electrostatic spraying of pollen in a liquid carrier for kiwi, and a US patent from Pollen-Tech LLC, with a 2012 priority date, covers viable pollen suspended in water-miscible carriers. Bisari's claim is narrower: a liquid formulated for each crop species. A web search for patents held by Bisari, Herogra or Innoplant found none.

The problem it is selling against

The case for assisted pollination is that pollinators fail exactly when growers need them. HortiDaily notes that bumblebees stop working above 30 to 35 °C and do little below 10 °C, and Bisari's website says its method works in wind, humidity, rain and high or low temperatures. The European Commission's New Deal for Pollinators of 24 January 2023 says around 80% of crop and wild flowering plants depend on animal pollination and that one in three bee, butterfly and hoverfly species is disappearing in the EU.

That policy is aimed at protecting wild pollinators, not replacing them, and Bisari's service is a supplement for growers rather than a conservation measure. The same EIC cut-off also selected Dalan Bio, another Spanish company, for a vaccine platform for pollinator health, per the EIC list.

A fertiliser group's spin-out, not a garage start-up

Bisari is part of the Herogra group, a Granada fertiliser business. Herogra Fertilizantes announced it as a new group company on 27 January 2020, with five lines: distribution of Martignani electrostatic machinery in Spain, its own sprayer equipment for small and medium greenhouses, sale and storage of pollen, electrostatic pollination with an "inducing matrix", and drone pollination and foliar treatment. Bisari's own website says it "nace como una nueva línea de negocio dentro de Herogra Group". El Español reports that Herogra gives the company investment and structural backing and the use of its sales network, and that the idea grew out of the founder's earlier work at Innoplant.

The register data is modest. Empresite lists the company as active, with 5 employees in 2025 and sales of less than €300,000; Infoempresa also lists it as active, with 1 to 9 employees, sales below €2 million and annual accounts on offer for 2020 to 2025. Neither shows an insolvency entry. InfoNIF records a capital increase published in the BORME in November 2022 and names Herogra Fertilizantes SA as parent.

What can already be checked

Customers are claimed but not named. El Español reports clients in Portugal, Chile and Morocco and trials on date palms in Morocco and on several fruits in Chile; a later Ecosistema Startup article repeats the three countries, citing El Español, so it is not an independent confirmation. HortiDaily reports greenhouse trials on watermelon with electrostatic cannons and "resultados muy positivos", without figures. No source found gives a yield increase, a fruit-set rate, a cost per hectare or a treated area.

The recognition is regional and sectoral. CaixaBank reported on 15 January 2025 that Bisari was one of 15 start-ups chosen from 217 for the AgroBank Tech Digital INNovation acceleration programme. Hidroinfiltrador reported that it won the award for most sustainable start-up at the SembrAI 2025 congress in Córdoba in September 2025, and Agroauténtico reported Eva Sánchez presenting the system, including an app that indicates when to pollinate, at a Motril forum in December 2025.

The company's research page lists three earlier publicly funded projects: an operational group, GO ELECTROTECH, on electrostatic application of crop protection products; OLEOPOLEN, assisted pollination for olive groves, funded through the FEDER Andalucía 2021-2027 programme and managed by the regional agency TRADE (file 41IDE2400192); and PollenDeep, reference CPP2023-010483, funded by the Spanish research agency and FEDER, on a pollination system combining computer vision and electrostatics. The page gives no amounts, and no other public record of the PollenDeep reference was found.

1. Crop-specific pollen matrixDescribedDescribed to HortiDaily and El Español; no composition or test data published.
2. Pollen kept viableClaim"Polen 100% vivo", per the company; no viability measurements in public.
3. Own electrostatic drone systemIn developmentUnder development, per HortiDaily, January 2026.
4. Higher yields for growersNot publishedNo yield or fruit-set figure in any source found.

The money, so far

No amount for Bisari has been published. Capital-riesgo.es describes the standard EIC package as a grant of up to €2.5 million with an equity co-investment of up to €10 million. The EIC's announcement of 17 February 2026 put the total proposed funding for all 61 companies at €467 million and said 85% would receive blended finance. A search of CORDIS on 4 November 2026 for Bisari, as project and as organisation, returned no record, which is common for this recent cut-off and says nothing about whether the agreement has been signed. No EIC Fund investment in Bisari has been announced.

The round was crowded: the EIC reported 923 full applications asking for almost €7 billion, with jury interviews from 19 to 23 January 2026. By the project descriptions on the EIC list, five of the 61 are farm-related: Bisari, Ensemo (microorganisms in agriculture), Nanovel (a citrus harvesting robot), Nitrocapt (nitrogen fertiliser production) and Dalan Bio.

The reporting is based on publicly available sources, listed below.