Spensa Technologies

40.4647°N 86.9273°W / 40.4647; -86.9273

Spensa Technologies

Company type	Private
Industry	Precision agriculture
Founded	January 16, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-01-16) in West Lafayette, Indiana
Founder	Johnny Park
Headquarters	West Lafayette, Indiana
Key people	Johnny Park, CEO
Products	Spensa AP, Z-Trap
Owner	DTN
Number of employees	30 (2018)
Website	spensatech.com

Spensa Technologies was a private company based in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Indiana that specialized in precision agriculture. The company, founded in 2009, was known for its ag-related technology,^[1][2] including automated pest sensors and software. It was acquired in April 2018 by DTN.^[3]

History

Spensa was founded on 16 January 2009 by Johnny Park, a computer engineering professor at Purdue University, whose research into robotics and computer vision in farming (supported by a $6.4M USDA grant) led to the creation of the company. With support from the National Science Foundation^[4] and private investment,^[5][6] Spensa expanded its operations^[7] and developed agriculture-related hardware and software products.

Spensa's principal hardware product was the Z-Trap, an automated electronic device that detects insects in a field and wirelessly reports its data. Its software consisted of both web-based and mobile applications, centered on the Spensa Agronomic Platform (AP), a subscription-based software.^[8][9]

Spensa was acquired in April 2018 by Minneapolis-based DTN,^[10][11] a company owned by TBG AG.