Australia’s CloudHerd Manages Your Cash and Your Cows With Ease

What was originally an idea that came out of a Tech Venture class at Sydney University is now one of Australia’s most unique startups. CloudHerd CEO and co-founder Alexander Stamp’s wanted to solve the tedious and slow process his father encountered while purchasing cows from a cattle market. The service recently came in as one of the final few brilliant startups competing at TechStars New York, on top of being one of the startups to have graduated recently from the inaugural Sydney University Incubate Program.

CloudHerd is a platform that allows farmers to manage the inventory and auctioning of their livestock. It offers an extensive list of features, which includes inventory, paddock, and property management. It has integrated Google maps, Gmail calendar, and Microsoft Outlook into its system as well. Other features for farmers include data logging, charts, email notifications, HTML5 video support, auctions system, payment management, National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) integration, and cattle genetics information.

Alexander explains:

We have a significant percentage of these features complete but [require] a bit of polishing of course. The general idea of the system is that one does one’s inventorying and management on the system and at the same time, the auction information is automatically copied in from the inventorying system.

One of the issues that farmers probably face while being out in Australia’s vast farms would be intermittent connectivity. To combat this, Alexander tells us that the team will be developing a native smartphone and desktop application to ensure that information will be automatically synced once a connection is available. Also, the mobile app will definitely come in handy during paddock inventorying as well.

For every auction that takes place on the CloudHerd platform, the Sydney-based startup collects a transaction fee of one percent. And apart from the basic inventory version, it will also be selling a premium inventory version in the future as well.

This sounds like a good solution for farmers to aid in their supply chain management. We wish the CloudHerd team the best with the upcoming pitch at Echelon Ignite: Australia 2013 organized by our friends over at e27 on May 8.