Peter Beck-backed smart cow startup Halter raises $32m nzherald.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nzherald.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Peter Beck-backed smart cow startup Halter raises $32m - what s next
26 Apr, 2021 10:36 PM
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Peter Beck-backed smart cow startup Halter has raised $32 million in a Series B round. Video / Supplied
Peter Beck-backed smart cow startup Halter has raised $32 million in a Series B round. Video / Supplied Halter, the NZ based maker of a smart collar for fence-free dairy farming has raised $32 million in a Series B round led by Australian VC firm Blackbird Ventures - and supported by current shareholders including Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck.
The money will be used to fund expansion in Auckland and Waikato - where the company is now offering commercial deployments early-adopters - and to take staff from 60 to 115.
Peter Beck-backed smart cow startup Halter raises $32m nzherald.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nzherald.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
February 1st, 2021
BluShift Aerospace
It’s no longer strange to see rocket startups, but one company just broke new ground for environmentally responsible launches.
Space.comreports that BluShift Aerospace has tested what it says is the first commercial booster rocket powered by biofuel. The Maine-based firm successfully launched its Stardust 1.0 sounding rocket on January 31st using a “bio-derived” solid fuel after multiple problems that included weather, valve pressure and igniters.
This was a modest test that reached just 4,000 feet before the 20-foot rocket parachuted back to Earth, but it proved the viability of BluShift’s MAREVL (Modular Adaptable Rocket Engine for Vehicle Launch) and associated biofuel.