Company · Foodtech & Agtech

Innogando

innogando.com ↗ ·Lugo ·Seed

Innogando is an agtech company based in Lugo, Galicia, founded in 2020 by a veterinarian and a computer engineer. It builds RUMI, AI-powered solar/battery GPS smart collars that give ranchers real-time cattle location, health monitoring, and heat/estrus detection, deployed on over 30,000 animals across 1,000+ Spanish ranches. It raised a €1.4M round in 2025 (Fondo Bolsa Social + Lugo Transforma) and its founders were recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 España list.

Founded
2020
Founders
2
News
0
Rounds
4
Investors
2
SectorsAgtech, Livestock technology, IoT, AI monitoring Start-up MapFoodtech & Agtech › Farm management & monitoring

Profile updated 23 Jul 2026

Founders

Daniel Pardo Rus
CTO & Co-Founder
Elio López García
CEO & Co-Founder

Global models 5

Halter
New Zealand · www.halterhq.com ↗
GPS smart collars for cattle combining virtual fencing with real-time location and health/behavior monitoring, the closest direct comparable to Innogando's RUMI collars.
$401MComparable
smaXtec
IoT sensor (ingestible bolus) system for real-time dairy cattle health, heat, and calving monitoring, matching Innogando's health/heat-detection use case.
$195M+Comparable
Solar-powered GPS livestock collars for virtual fencing and herd location tracking, directly comparable hardware model to RUMI.
$12M+ (acquired by Merck Animal Health, 2022)Comparable
Connecterra
Netherlands · www.connecterra.io ↗
AI-driven wearable sensor platform for dairy cow health and behavior monitoring, similar IoT+AI approach applied to livestock.
$21.3MComparable
Ceres Tag
Australia · cerestag.com ↗
Smart ear-tag GPS and biometric monitoring for livestock, same real-time location/health tracking model as Innogando's collars.
$14.3MComparable

Investors 2

Funding rounds 4

Seed · €1.4M
Innogando closed a €1.4M round led by impact fund Fondo Bolsa Social (managed by Afi Inversiones Globales SGIIC) with €1M, with municipal ve…
2025-07-08
Seed · €455K
COVAP (Cooperativa Ganadera del Valle de los Pedroches), Spain's largest livestock cooperative, entered Innogando's share capital as a strat…
2024-05-27
Seed · €300K
Lugo Transforma, the public-private venture fund promoted by Lugo City Council and managed by Torsa Capital, took its first stake in Innogan…
2023-01
Pre-seed
Galician biotech group Zendal made its first investment in Innogando, taking a stake and adding its commercial network to distribute the RUM…
2022-02-16

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