Farmnote

Farmnote Holdings, Inc. (株式会社ファームノート) is a Japanese IoT and AI solutions provider for the dairy and livestock farming industry, headquartered in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan. Founded in 2013, the company develops and operates two flagship products: Farmnote Color, an AI-powered wearable sensor attached to cattle that monitors individual animal behavior data to detect health conditions and anomalies (such as estrus, disease, and calving events); and Farmnote Cloud, a smartphone-accessible herd management application that enables efficient, data-driven farm operations at scale. Farmnote has expanded beyond software and hardware into direct dairy farming operations through its Farmnote Dairy Platform subsidiary, operating its own model farm to advance DX (digital transformation) in the livestock sector from the inside. The company has raised multiple rounds of funding including ¥500 million ($4.6M) in 2017 from investors including Sumitomo Corporation and Marubeni, and has secured additional investment from Meiji Holdings. Farmnote aims to address global food challenges by making livestock farming more productive, efficient, and sustainable.