FarmCloud

What FarmCloud does

FarmCloud is a Lisbon-based AgTech IoT company founded in 2016 that retrofits existing local offline livestock controllers (climate, feed and weight computers) into internet-connected devices. Its product proposition is a plug-and-play bridge layer that works with controllers of any brand, allowing farm operators to access environmental, feeding, and weighing data without replacing legacy equipment. The core technology is a hardware/software adapter that adds connectivity to heterogeneous installed equipment, combined with a cloud interface for remote monitoring.

The company operates as a for-profit private entity with a small founding team (1–10 employees) led by Miguel Matos (CEO) and Miguel Carvalho (CTO). Its only disclosed capital event is a 2016 round of approximately $552,580 from undisclosed investors. There are no public details on pricing, customer segments, distribution, partnerships, or geographic footprint beyond the Portuguese headquarters; the company website currently renders only a placeholder/verification loader page, which limits visibility into the active product surface and GTM mechanics. No revenue, customer logos, certifications, patents, or product roadmap items were available in the input.

Given the data gaps, the commercial model cannot be fully verified; the operating hypothesis is hardware/edge-device sales plus recurring connectivity or SaaS subscription per site, typical for this category, but this is not directly stated in the source material.

Name

FarmCloud

Website

https://farmcloud.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

FarmCloud is a Lisbon-based AgTech IoT company that retrofits legacy offline livestock controllers (climate, feed, weight computers) into internet-connected, remotely monitored devices, serving livestock farms with multi-brand installed equipment.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Livestock IoT / Smart Farming

NAICS

Support Activities for Animal Production (115210)

SIC

Farm Machinery & Equipment (3523), Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYAFAAAFAM

Livestock Precision Monitoring Software (Herd/Flock Analytics, Health Alerts)

Agriculture & Food Production/Agricultural Equipment & Technology/Precision Agriculture & Farm Management Software (GIS, IoT, Telematics)

SECONDARYAFAAAIAG

Livestock Monitoring & Wearables (Activity, Rumination, Health Sensors)

Agriculture & Food Production/Agricultural Equipment & Technology/Livestock & Dairy Farm Equipment (Milking, Feeding, Monitoring)

SECONDARYAFACAJAG

Farm Technology Enablement & Data Integration Advisory (FMIS/ERP, IoT, Decision Support)

Agriculture & Food Production/Agricultural Services (Custom Farming, Agronomy, Veterinary)/Farm Management & Operational Advisory Services

Keywords

• Livestock IoT monitoring
• Farm controller retrofit
• Smart livestock farming
• Animal weight monitoring
• Climate feed controllers

Headquarters

HQ city

Leiria

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

FarmCloud provides a plug-and-play IoT retrofit solution that connects existing offline livestock controllers — including climatic, feed, and weight computers from any brand — to the cloud. The offering enables farmers and livestock operators to remotely monitor barn environment, feeding, and animal weight without replacing their installed equipment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FarmCloud IoT Retrofit Solution Plug-and-play IoT retrofit device and cloud software that connects existing offline livestock controllers — including climatic, feed, and weight computers from any brand — to the internet, enabling remote monitoring and centralized data access for livestock producers.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Direct peers

• Afimilk: Afimilk provides dairy farm management systems, sensors and controllers for milking, feeding and cow monitoring. It is directly comparable to FarmCloud because both retrofit or deploy IoT-enabled controllers for climate, feed and animal monitoring on dairy and livestock farms.
• CowManager: CowManager offers ear-tag-based cow monitoring and a connected farm platform for health, fertility and nutrition insights. It is comparable as a livestock-monitoring IoT layer that overlays onto existing farm operations and integrates multiple sensor streams.

Broad incumbents

• SCR Dairy (Allflex Livestock Intelligence, MSD Animal Health): SCR/Allflex provides rumination, heat detection and cow monitoring hardware plus a farm management software suite to dairy operations globally. It is a broad incumbent competing in the same livestock-monitoring and controller-integration space as FarmCloud, with deeper capital and dealer networks.
• DeLaval: DeLaval is a global dairy equipment manufacturer offering milking systems, climatic and feeding controllers bundled with its DelPro farm management software. It is a broad incumbent because it sells the very categories of controllers (climatic, feed, weight) that FarmCloud retrofits with IoT.
• Lely: Lely is a major dairy and livestock automation vendor with milking robots, feeding systems and the Lely Horizon farm management platform. It overlaps with FarmCloud's target use cases (feed and climatic controller integration) as part of a much broader product portfolio.
• GEA Farm Technologies: GEA supplies milking parlors, feeding and climate equipment for livestock farms along with its DairyNet farm management software. Comparable to FarmCloud because it integrates farm controller hardware with management software in dairy operations.
• BouMatic: BouMatic manufactures milking, cooling and herd management equipment and offers its Gemini robotics and BouMatic One software. It overlaps with FarmCloud in connecting livestock controllers to farm management platforms across multi-vendor environments.

Emerging players

• Connecterra (Ida): Connecterra developed the Ida dairy intelligence platform using sensors and AI to monitor cow health and farm operations. It is an emerging player comparable to FarmCloud in layering IoT and analytics software on top of on-farm livestock activity.
• Moonshot Ag: Moonshot Ag is an emerging precision livestock platform focused on farm data integration and analytics for cattle operations. It is comparable to FarmCloud as an IoT/data-layer play sitting on top of existing livestock equipment.
• HerdDogg: HerdDogg builds BLE-enabled livestock tags and a cloud platform for animal traceability and health monitoring. It is comparable as a retrofit-style IoT and software solution deployed on livestock operations that previously had minimal digital infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/farmcloud_io
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/farmcloud

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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