Feanix Biotechnologies

Tom Bishop grew up on a dairy farm in New Zealand, got a PhD in Genetics from the University of Otago, did a post-doc in Agricultural Genetics, and now spends his weekends racing pigeons. Mitchell Angove spent 23 years actually running dairy farms before becoming Tom's co-founder. Together they're doing something that sounds boring but is actually revolutionary: they're using DNA and software to tell farmers exactly which cows to breed, beef, sell, or cull — based on their actual economics, not industry averages.

Feanix Autopilot is their prediction engine. It takes whole-genome sequencing data, DairyComp records, feed costs, milk checks, health records, and real on-farm performance — trillions of data points — and turns it into one daily set of decisions. Not genetic rankings. Not abstract scores. Actionable, animal-level recommendations: breed this one, beef that one, cull this other one. Every recommendation is priced in the dollars your farm will actually see. The problem they solved is one every dairy farmer knows: more data than ever, fewer answers. Milk production, SCC, DIM, repro, activity, temperature, rumination, feed intake, health events — it's all noise without the right system. Feanix turns noise into signal.

The boring part? This is a $150 billion+ industry that still runs on spreadsheets and gut feelings. The exciting part? They're YC-backed and building the intelligence layer for animal health. Two guys who actually understand cows — one from the lab, one from the barn — decided to give dairy farming a brain. Welcome to the future of herd management.