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But the traditional practice of manually inspecting animals doesn’t scale - labor costs add up, while farms miss disease outbreaks and breeding cycles. Disease alone causes \\~$100 billion in losses yearly for cattle farms globally.\n\nExisting tech for monitoring cattle includes external wearables like collars and ear-tags. Being outside thick cattle skin, these can’t accurately track useful biometrics beyond “activity” (a glorified step-count). There’s also boluses, pill-shaped devices that sit in the cow stomach. But these are super expensive, have short battery life, and can’t be used for beef cattle.\n\n**Solution**\n\nNexa is building implantable microchips that go underneath the skin in the ear of cattle. We analyze vital biometrics - like temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen, activity, GPS location, and more - that other systems miss, to empower farmers with early disease detection and reproductive insights. And because our electronics operate at millimeter scale, we benefit from low production costs and pricing up to 70% cheaper than current solutions.\n\nOur hardware also enables collection of the world’s largest cattle health dataset - so, we can develop foundation models that can unlock new possibilities in farm management and livestock pharma. \n\nWe’re currently launching our dairy pilot program - if you know any dairy farmers based in the USA, please send them our way at [admin@nexa.farm](mailto:admin@nexa.farm) :)\n\n**About Us**\n\nWe’re a team of Caltech dropouts with backgrounds in bioengineering, electrical engineering, CS, math, and physics. We want to build technology that makes a tangible impact on the lives of real people in America and beyond.  \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92930&key=user_uploads/89898/0ae16cce-d4d4-40c1-b80d-7079d433d8e6)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAs-nexa-labs-implantable-microchips-for-cattle-monitoring", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-08-12T15:36:19.597Z" } ] }, { "id": 31285, "name": "Brumby (Formerly GrazeMate)", "slug": "brumby", "former_names": [ "GrazeMate" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e7f64c3261f306e1859d503d40ad84601c127c82.png", "website": "https://brumby", "all_locations": "Sydney, NSW, Australia", "long_description": "Brumby builds autonomous drones that herd cattle.\r\n\r\nOn command, our drones fly to a paddock, position themselves around the mob, and move them where they need to go. 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We’d be extremely grateful for introductions to:\n\n* Large grazing operations (US and beyond)\n* Ranch managers exploring rotational grazing\n* Industry leaders, cattle agents, feedlots, processors\n\nAnd if that’s you, schedule a demo on grazemate.com, or contact me at [sam@grazemate.com](mailto:sam@grazemate.com). 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They target a single pest species, stay safe for humans, pollinators, and the environment, and can be reprogrammed over time as pests evolve resistance.\n\nPesticides underpin modern agriculture and food security, accounting for $80B in annual spend. Without effective pesticides, we can't grow enough food.\n\n\n\n**The Problem 🌱**\n\nPests are developing resistance faster than new pesticides can be invented to replace the failing ones. At the same time, regulators are banning core active ingredients over environmental and human toxicity. Farmers are losing tools from both ends at once.\n\n**Our Solution 🪲**\n\nWe build pesticides out of insect virus-like particles. We start with a virus that only infects insects and is harmless to humans. We strip out its genome so it can't infect or replicate, and we keep the empty protein shell as a delivery vehicle.\n\nWe engineer that shell with two parts:\n\n* A **targeting element** that recognizes a single pest species (or a set of species). This is what keeps the product species-specific and invisible to humans, pollinators, and beneficial insects.\n* A **payload** that kills the pest.\n\nBoth parts are swappable. Changing the targeting element will modify which pest it kills. Changing the payload will result in a new kill mechanism for the same pest, which is how we update the product when resistance appears.\n\nDesigning for true pollinator safety is hard, so we did the underlying science ourselves. We solved a cryo-EM structure of a key receptor in honey bees, which lets us deliberately engineer our targeting elements so they do not bind pollinators.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=108796&key=user_uploads/2273508/62f4362a-1938-4843-ab26-c9a62c742a84)\n\n**Why Us? 🧑🏽‍🔬**\n\nWe are Zaky and Min, viral structural biology PhD candidates and lab mates at the University of Toronto, where we have worked together for the past 6 years studying how viruses interact with their hosts. We have published in Nature Microbiology and Nature Communications, and Min holds the world record for the highest-resolution structure of a coronavirus spike protein.\n\n**Traction 📈**\n\nWe have signed our first grower LOI, have more in the pipeline, and produced our first set of viruses for testing. During the batch we also solved a cryo-EM structure of a honey-bee receptor that directly informs our pollinator-safe design.\n\n**Connect with us!**\n\n* **Growers and producers**: if you are fighting resistant pests or losing tools to bans, we would love to talk about your crops and target pests. Reach us at [molagri.com](http://molagri.com) \n* **Everyone else:** intros to ag and crop-science operators, or anyone who has built regulated biological products, are always welcome.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SIm-molagri-resistance-free-pesticides", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-08-03T18:35:06.582Z" } ] } ]