Northern Irish AgriTech company farmdrive has closed a £1 million pre-seed round to accelerate the global scale-up of its livestock data and supply chain platform.

The investment – led by TechStart Ventures and Ascension Ventures, with participation from Angel Invest – will fund product development, new hires, and expansion across the UK, Ireland, and
Europe.

Founded in 2023 by two UK entrepreneurs, Gareth McDonald (CEO) and Gareth Gordon (CTO), farmdrive was built based on their own family farm experience to replace the heavy burden of
compliance paperwork with software. Today, the platform is used by over 1,000 beef and dairy farms across the UK and Ireland, tracking over 150,000 cattle, with farmers reporting they are saving at least 6 hours per week on compliance and record-keeping.

Alongside its app for farmers, ‘farmdrive enterprise’ connects meat processors and retailers to real-time supply-chain data, enabling full traceability, 12-month supply forecasting, medication monitoring, and emerging sustainability reporting. Trusted by supply-chain leaders including ABP Linden and Foyle Meats, farmdrive enterprise customers report saving at least 20 hours per week on supply-chain paperwork and movement recording.