4 years ago

CattleEye Secures £1.8M Seed Funding to Advance AI-Powered Livestock Monitoring

  • CattleEye, a Belfast-based startup, has raised £1.8 million in a seed funding round to commercialize its AI-powered livestock monitoring platform

  • The technology aims to improve animal welfare and reduce carbon emissions in dairy farming

  • Led by Techstart Ventures, the round also saw participation from Seventure Partners and Turntide Technologies

  • CattleEye's platform uses machine vision and AI to detect lameness and other health issues in cows, providing valuable insights to farmers.

      • ProblemAgriculture

      "Dairy farmers are struggling with lameness in cows, which is a major welfare issue and impacts productivity. Current methods for detecting lameness are often unreliable and time-consuming."

      Solution

      "CattleEye uses AI-powered video analytics to automatically detect lameness in cows, providing farmers with real-time insights to improve animal welfare and reduce productivity losses. This technology is hardware-independent, meaning it doesn't require any devices to be attached to the cows."

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