For centuries, rounding up cattle meant dogs, fences and someone’s alarm going off at 4 a.m. Now a New Zealand startup called Halter lets farmers herd 600 cows with one tap from their phone.
Solar-powered smart collars on the animals create virtual paddocks, shift entire herds remotely and alert you if one wanders off. U.S. ranchers have already laid down 11,000 miles of invisible fencing with it. (Eleven thousand miles. That’s almost halfway around the Earth.)
The money is pouring in. Halter raised $220 million in funding led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, pushing its valuation to $2 billion. Think Palantir for pasture. Software turning chaotic, muddy, unpredictable livestock behavior into something trackable and controllable from your couch.
Old MacDonald had a SaaS subscription.