# Halter: company

Canonical ID: `589ae8b7-6d39-4a6f-a693-dce2520285cf`

## Key facts

- **Focus:** Agricultural-technology company
- **Product:** Solar-powered smart cattle collars and software for virtual fencing, animal-health monitoring, and pasture management
- **Technology:** AI-driven audio cues called the Cowgorithm for guiding herds
- **Scale:** Deployed on hundreds of thousands of animals
- **Backers:** Raised $220M
- **Stage:** Private company
- **CEO:** Craig Piggott
- **Valuation:** $1 billion (2025)
- **Total funding:** $100M+ (2025 round)
- **Cows managed:** ~650,000 across 1,300 farms
- **Markets:** New Zealand, Australia, US
- **Key investor:** Founders Fund (Peter Thiel)

- **Slug:** halter
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2016
- **HQ:** Auckland, New Zealand
- **Funding total (USD):** 100000000

## Models

- [Halter Smart Collar](/models/halter-smart-collar.md) (agriculture) (id: `a93e4efa-5b2a-42b0-befb-2afd050d032b`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Craig Piggott](/people/craig-piggott.md) Founder & CEO (secondary-verified)

## Founders (1)

- [Craig Piggott](/people/craig-piggott.md) (sole)

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## Sources (1)

1. https://www.halterhq.com/our-technology

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