Best Livestock Tech Companies in United Kingdom
The 132 best Livestock Tech companies in United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: AgriProtein.
Ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, the Livestock Tech companies in United Kingdom that you'll find here represent 132 tracked ventures sitting on $157M in total disclosed capital. No unicorns yet. But the global market these firms are chasing hit roughly $2.7B in 2022 and is compounding at 15.2% annually, driven by IoT adoption among dairy farmers and demand for real-time disease detection. That's a meaningful runway.
The funding is concentrated. Breedr leads the directory at $30M, AgriProtein follows at $56M, and Deep Branch has pulled in $10M, meaning three names account for the bulk of disclosed capital while the remaining 129 companies average well under $1M each. I find that distribution telling: it signals a sector still sorting its winners. As recent industry coverage confirms, attention is rising fast. And according to 2017 research, early disease detection in livestock carries measurable economic returns, which is exactly the use case most of these startups are racing to own. Europa and the EIC Fund are among the most active backers here, so follow the public co-investment trail if you want to spot what's getting serious traction.
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Ranked: Best Livestock Tech companies in United Kingdom
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AgriProtein Insect based bioconversion of waste to animal feeds | $56M | 88 mo ago | 181 | Eric Zwisler Executive Director | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Breedr Provider of livestock farm management system | $30M | 34 mo ago | 28 28 → 45 (+61%) | Ian Wheal Founder & CEO | HubSpot CMS HubStripeAmazon Web Services+22 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 3 | MuscleFood Online retailer of meat products | $14M | 102 mo ago | 141 | Nick Preston CEO & Owner | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+46 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 4 | Deep Branch Developer of sustainable protein from gas fermentation. | $10M | 44 mo ago | 14 | — | — | — | 14 patents Hydrogen‑oxidizing microbial biomass production for renewable biofuels and bioproducts | — |
| 5 | Silent Herdsman Beylikdüzü Escort: Providing discreet, elite escort services in Istanbul | $9M | 146 mo ago | 4 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Mootral Provider of feed supplements designed to improve animal health and productivity | $8M | 75 mo ago | 2 | Thomas Hafner Co-Founder & CEO | PrismicNode.jsTailwind CSS+9 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 7 | Axitan Provider of edible algal vaccines and peptides for livestock | $8M | 56 mo ago | 6 | Kane Miller Founder & MD & CEO | — | — | 4 patents Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials | — |
| 8 | Aramune Provider of plant-derived animal feed materials | $5M | 51 mo ago | 3 | Brian Green Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | DryGro Developer of animal feed growing systems | $5M | 73 mo ago | 7 | Tim Kruger Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | FLOX Provider of tracking and monitoring solutions to the broiler industry 40AI top 15%Growth top 35%Funding top 45%Moat top 45% All 9 signals ▾AItop 15% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 45% Moattop 45% Patentstop 46% Innovationbottom 49% Techbottom 43% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 19% AI: Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $4M | 21 mo ago | 8 | — | Framer SitesReactAmazon Web Services+7 | Top 50M | 5 patents AI-driven health monitoring and disease detection for poultry in precision livestock farming | 1 expansion |
| 11 | Cattle Eye AI-powered livestock monitoring for improved herd health and efficiency | $2M | 57 mo ago | 11 11 → 20 (+82%) | Terry Canning CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | Top 10M | 23 patents AI-driven precision livestock monitoring and animal identification using computer vision and IoT | 2 launchs |
| 12 | Field & Flower Subscription based platform for meat products | $1M | 103 mo ago | 24 24 → 22 (-8%) | James Flower Co-Founder | TypeScriptTailwind CSSGoogle Cloud+27 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 13 | Innovis Provider of sheep breeding services, maternal rams, and meat rams | $1M | 228 mo ago | 1 | Dewi Jones MD & CEO | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+17 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 14 | Eggbase Provider of software and data solutions for poultry industry | $1M | 99 mo ago | 4 | Anne Fleck Founder & Managing Director | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 15 | ZELP Provider of IoT-enabled wearable devices for cattle monitoring | $1M | 38 mo ago | 6 | Patricio Norris Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | Top 10M | 60 patents Environmental gas detection and catalytic methane oxidation for emission control | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 16 | Milkalyser Provider of sensor-based milk analysis solution for dairy farmers | $670K | 102 mo ago | 10 | Toby Mottram Founder & Managing Director | — | — | 5 patents Automated milk composition analysis using fluid sensor cassettes for dairy quality control | — |
| 17 | SellMyLivestock Online marketplace for livestock | $365K | 119 mo ago | 40 | Andrew Huxham Co-Founder | ContentfulSentryVue.js+11 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 18 | eCow Integrated solution for cattle monitoring | $350K | — | 2 | Toby Mottram Founder & CTO | — | — | 6 patents Precision livestock monitoring via ingestible sensors for health and mobility tracking | — |
| 19 | Cabrito Online platform offering meat products from farms | $345K | 50 mo ago | 4 | James Whetlor Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 20 | iLivestock Provider of livestock management platform | $305K | 12 mo ago | 4 | Ewen Wardman Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsYouTubeStripe+14 | Top 50M | — | 4 launchs |
| 21 | Well Cow Limited Integrated solution for cattle health monitoring | $300K | — | 2 | Malcolm Bateman Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | QCL Provider of milk quality analyses solution to dairy farmers | $296K | 101 mo ago | — | — | WordPressZohoMySQL+16 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 23 | Beakbook Provider of AI-based online bird weight prediction solution for poultry farmers | $263K | 38 mo ago | 3 | Giovanni Dos Reis Montefiori Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Pastoral Provider of SaaS-based grazing management software | $256K | 38 mo ago | 2 | Shea Mcmanigal Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | Whickr App-based marketplace offering horses | $250K | 45 mo ago | 1 | — | Node.jsAnt DesignStripe+14 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 26 | Aeropowder Technology to convert feather waste to bio-composites | $191K | 24 mo ago | 3 | — | — | — | 5 patents Feather-derived absorbent composites for oil spill remediation | — |
| 27 | FlockFinder Provider of a cloud-based flock management software | $159K | 18 mo ago | 1 | Tommy Neeld Founder | WagtailApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+14 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 28 | InsPro Provider of sustainable waste-to-resource technology | $138K | 58 mo ago | 2 | Richard Small Founder & MD | — | — | — | — |
| 29 | Economad Provider of manure and slurry management platform for livestock farmers | $126K | 68 mo ago | 6 | — | — | — | 10 patents Organic waste-to-energy conversion and heat-driven fluid pumping technologies. | — |
| 30 | Arnia Hive Monitors Remote monitoring and analysis of beehive health | $125K | 103 mo ago | 1 | Mark Jackson CEO | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Livestock Tech companies in United Kingdom
#1
Series A · London, England · founded 2018 · 8 employees$3.9Mraised▾
Provider of tracking and monitoring solutions to the broiler industry. It is a provider of visual technology to monitor the broiler industry activities. It offers a camera to provide images from multiple cameras, a box for edge processing, and an alert for actionable insights. It provides real-time vision, monitoring clustering and, poultry activities, density weight identification, and FCR optimization for the poultry industries.
- Sep 2024Series A$3M
- Oct 2021Seed$500K
- Apr 2020Seed$286.1K
- Sep 2019Seed$93.7K
#2
Seed · Rosyth, Scotland · founded 2013 · 4 employees$305.5Kraised▾
Provider of livestock management platform. Its features include integrated reading and weighing equipment, tools for managing breeding, compliance, medicine, and more, also a smartphone app for gathering, organizing, and accessing data about sheep and cattle.
- May 2025Seed$1.1M
- Jan 2025Seed$186.7K
- Jul 2024Seed$1.5M
- Feb 2023Seed$308.2K
#3
Series A · Chichester, England · founded 2018 · 28 employees$29.6Mraised▾
Provider of livestock farm management system. It offers a platform that enables the user to track livestock data collected through electronic tags, measure & optimize cattle performance metrics. Also, enables users to promote and sell livestock. Additionally, offers a module to track, forecast, and optimize costs and returns.
- Jul 2023Series A$8.7M
- Mar 2022Conventional Debt—
- Mar 2022Series A$15.8M
- Oct 2021Seed$2.2M
#4
Seed · London, England · founded 2019 · 1 employees$159.1Kraised▾
Provider of a cloud-based flock management software. It helps livestock farmers to keep track of day-to-day activities across the farm. It enabled them to manage activities such as medications, record treatments, track withdrawal periods, and stay compliant with industry regulations. The mobile application is available on Android platfroms.
- Dec 2024Seed$31.8K
- Mar 2024Seed$159.2K
#5
Series A · Nottingham, England · founded 2018 · 14 employees$9.6Mraised▾
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- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$48.7K
- Feb 2021Series A$9.5M
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$4.7M
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$2.4M
#6
Deadpooled · Guildford, England · founded 2008 · 181 employees$55.9Mraised▾
AgriProtein engages in bioconversion of biological waste to protein-rich feedstock for livestock animal feed industry by feeding it to fly larvae. The bioconversion process utilizes waste food as raw material and generates feed components such as an insect-based protein meal called MagMeal, an extracted fat called MagOil and a soil conditioner called MagSoil.
- Jan 2019Series C$4.7M
- Jun 2018Conventional Debt—
- Jun 2018Series C$22.6M
- Nov 2016Series B$17.5M
#7
Seed · Stevenage, England · founded 2016 · 6 employees$7.5Mraised▾
Provider of edible algal vaccines and peptides for livestock. It harnesses microalgae, antimicrobial enzymes, and its technology to develop feed additives. It also uses a photobioreactor to obtain algae powder. Its product offerings include poultry feed additives and chick hydration products.
- Oct 2021Seed$3.4M
- Sep 2020Seed$4M
- May 2017Seed$84.1K
#8
Seed · London, England · founded 2016 · 3 employees$191.4Kraised▾
Technology to convert feather waste to bio-composites. It is an platform working on the development of technology solutions to manage poultry feather waste. The company aims to convert the feather into materials that can capture the properties of feathers and form bio-composites suited for insulation.
- Jun 2024Seed$191.4K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$55K
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$60.6K
#9
Seed · Belfast, Northern Ireland · founded 2021 · 3 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of plant-derived animal feed materials. It is involved in producing feeds using natural compounds that are extracted from plants. The feeds help in building immune cell types and help in preventing many mono-gastric diseases in livestock including pigs, poultry birds, farmed fish, and crustacea.
- Feb 2022Seed$1.1M
- Jul 2021Seed$4M
#10
Series A · London, England · founded 2019 · 6 employees$1Mraised▾
Provider of IoT-enabled wearable devices for cattle monitoring. It focuses on beef and dairy products and global warming due to methane gas production in animal farming. It uses blockchain technology to store data from its smart devices for research, analysis, and management applications. It collects data related to location, heat generation, animal disease, and global gas emission frequency.
- Mar 2023Grant (prize money)$4.8M
- Sep 2021Series A—
- Dec 2019Grant (prize money)$56K
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$56.1K
#11
Series A · Nottingham, England · founded 2012 · 141 employees$13.5Mraised▾
Online retailer of meat products. It offers meat of chicken, beef, pork, and turkey. It also offers eggs, fish, seafood, and prepared meals.
- Dec 2017Series A$13.4M
#12
Series A · Abertillery, Wales · founded 2008 · 2 employees$7.6Mraised▾
Provider of feed supplements designed to improve animal health and productivity. The company offers solutions for cattle, poultry, piglets, calves, and rabbits. These feed solutions support nutrient absorption and immune response. The company develops carbon credits related to agricultural practices. It aims to help farmers produce high-quality food.
- Feb 2020Series A$7.6M
- 2019Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Livestock Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Agritech is moving in the United Kingdom
A read on the academic research around Agritech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 199 United Kingdom-affiliated papers.
- University of Bristol15
- University of Lincoln12
- University of Sussex7
- University of Oxford7
- University of Reading6
- Agriculture8
- Robot5
- Precision agriculture3
- Field (mathematics)2
- Testbed2
- Agriculture3→31
- Food security2→9
- Climate change1→6
- Agriculture4→36
- Food security1→6
- Climate change2→6
Where agritech is researched across United Kingdom
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing agritech patents in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom agritech patent filing is cooling — 3 filings from 7 assignees (2024–2025), led by S&A Group Holdings, IBM UK, IBM; annual filings 2→1.
- S&A Group Holdings6
- IBM UK1
- IBM1
- Suffern Edward1
- Wooldridge James1
- Bozek James1
- Francis Kellie1
Common questions
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