A cattle-management startup founded in London and now headquartered in Austin has raised $27 million to replace paper herd records with per-animal digital data across the global beef supply chain.

Breedr announced the Series B on August 26, 2026. Partech led the round through its impact fund, with Latitude, the growth-stage fund of LocalGlobe, and existing investor Outsiders Fund participating. No valuation was disclosed. Partech Arnaud Minvielle and Latitude Remus Brett join the board. The raise takes total funding to $46.6 million. European coverage reported the deal as EUR 23 million — the same money, quoted in local currency.

What Breedr does

Ian Wheal founded Breedr in the UK in 2018 and moved the company to Texas in 2022. The platform bundles three things: a livestock management app, a data-verified marketplace, and an embedded cattle finance fund. Each animal gets a digital record that follows it from birth through processing, carrying weight, health and ancestry data. Customers run from family ranches to operations moving more than 100,000 head a year, across ten supply chains in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. You cannot manage what you do not measure, and paper records do not scale, Wheal said.

The numbers behind the round

More than two million cattle sit on the platform, and Breedr expects roughly $500 million of livestock to transact through its marketplace in 2026. The Series B follows a 2022 round of about EUR 14.3 million led by Outsiders Fund. The company says ranchers on the platform get cattle to target weight up to five months sooner, cutting lifetime methane per animal by 20 to 30 percent and adding more than $500 of profit per head. Those are Breedr own figures, not independently audited results.

Why the timing matters

The money is earmarked for engineering hires, rancher onboarding in the US, Australia and New Zealand, and building genomic data capture into the animal record. Breedr frames the opportunity as the roughly 1.3 billion cattle worldwide, almost none of which carry a portable digital history. That Partech wrote the check from an impact fund points to where the thesis sits: emissions per kilogram of beef have become a procurement question for processors and retailers, and an animal-level dataset is the raw material for answering it. The harder question is adoption. The model depends on ranchers who have run herds out of notebooks for generations entering data consistently, herd after herd, long after the launch push is over.

Source

Drovers — "How Breedr is Using $27M in Series B Funding to Digitally Transform the Global Beef Supply Chain"