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Moment of silence on farm as Strathclyde firm secures £3m

Mar 26, 2014 •

Silent Herdsman, a UK-based software provider for livestock farmers formerly known as Embedded Technology Solutions, has raised £3m ($5m) after spinning out from Glasgow-based University of Strathclyde.

Venture capital firms Albion Ventures and Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) and Scottish Investment Bank, the investment group of the local government’s Scottish Enterprise unit, provided the money to Silent Herdsman, which was founded in 2007, according to Companies House.

Since 2010, Silent Herdsman has provided a behaviour-monitoring collar for cows, which triggers alerts to a…

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