Startup · $1.2m raised · Agriculture and food · AI · Drones

GrazeMate

Drone toolkit for autonomous mustering and pasture analysis

Investors

Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round GrazeMate raised.

Investor	Rounds	Invested
Antler Australia	Pre-seed	-
Meat & Livestock Australia	Pre-seed	-
NextGen Ventures	Pre-seed	-
Y Combinator	Accelerator · Pre-seed	-

What GrazeMate bought

Companies GrazeMate acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
GrazeMate is not recorded as having acquired anything.

Name	Role	Sources
Sam Rogers	CEO · Founder	AgFunderNews, Forbes Australia

Coverage

Stories naming GrazeMate. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

14 deals

AgriFood Signals: SAP & Syngenta partner, BASF buys biocontrol startup, Microsoft's record deal with Indigo

Weekly agtech and foodtech roundup: several startup raises, BASF's purchase of AgBiTech, three new funds, a Bühler CEO appointment, Microsoft carbon-credit deals, and company shutdowns.

AgFunderNews 15 Jan 2026 All G GrazeMate Spore.Bio Superorganism BASF Beyond Meat Bühler Group EQUII GE Impossible Foods Indigo Ag Microsoft SAP Syngenta Varaha Agronomics Google.org Y Combinator

Also SmartCompany·Startup Daily

Pre-seed $1.2m

This 19-year-old CEO just raised $1.2m to automate one of farming's toughest jobs

GrazeMate, a cattle-mustering drone startup founded by 19-year-old Sam Rogers, has raised $1.2m in a pre-seed round led by Y Combinator, with NextGen Ventures, Antler and Meat & Livestock Australia also taking part.

Forbes Australia 14 Jan 2026 GrazeMate University of Sydney Antler Australia Meat & Livestock Australia NextGen Ventures Y Combinator Jerry X'Lingson Sam Rogers

Also AgFunderNews·AgFunderNews·Startup Daily·SmartCompany

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