Cedar Rapids-based SwineTech filed paperwork last week indicating it has raised $3.1 million in funding. SwineTech’s award-winning product, SmartGuard, uses AI to read data through sensors and can locate exactly where a piglet is getting crushed […]
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SwineTech wins first place at Digital Animal Summit 2019
Last week, Matthew Rooda, CEO and founder of SwineTech, spoke and participated at the 2019 Digital Animal Summit. The Digital Animal Summit is an annual conference that bring together innovators, investors, executives, and entrepreneurs from […]
SwineTech raises $1.5 million
SwineTech, an agtech company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, has raised $1.5 million which will allow them to begin to expand into other states and countries. Innova Memphis and Ag Ventures Alliance both participated in the round. […]
SwineTech is using artificial intelligence to save piglets
Every year millions of piglet die from being accidentally crushed by their mothers. A Cedar Rapids based agtech startup is looking to change that. SwineTech is using sensor-based technologies to prevent piglet deaths. SwineTech’s award-winning product, SmartGuard, […]
Iowa Agtech: ‘Building the right connections between the right people at the right time’
Iowa agriculture is now worth more than $15 billion according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For entrepreneurs and investors willing to look outside of Silicon Valley, Iowa’s agricultural technology—often called “agtech”—ecosystem offers valuable and lucrative […]