Livestock operators rely on manual counting, herding, fence and water-trough inspection, and visual checks, which consume labor, stress animals, and can allow feed or infrastructure problems to persist.
BeeFree converts compatible off-the-shelf DJI drones into autonomous livestock-monitoring systems. Missions count and locate animals, inspect infrastructure, and deliver images and analytics to a cloud management console.
Solution Effectiveness
The official site reports 834 missions, more than 942,000 livestock monitored, and nine countries served. Its feedlot page claims 99.9% counting accuracy and a full scan in under one hour. A 2025 JBS announcement describes deployment at a roughly 13,000-head feedlot, but gives no numeric cost saving.
Investment Funding
Last Funding Stage
Seed
Total Funding Amount
$1.6M
Last Funding Amount
$1.4M
Last Funding Date
01-03-2021
Startup Stage
Seed
Lead Investors
Labs/02
People
Founders
Arik Albahari
Dvir Cohen
Noam Azran
About
BeeFree is developing a drone-based autonomous herding system capable counting mapping and moving large herds over extensive pastures. Designed to help ranchers save time and money, reduce animal stress and carbon footprint, while increasing yields and productivity. Performing actions in the field, BeeFree Agro’s solution will bridge the gap between livestock growers and technology.
Products
Product
BeeFree cloud livestock platform for autonomous counts, herd distribution, fence/trough/feed-bunk checks, and audit-ready reports. A 2025 company release names JBS/Friboi as an enterprise customer.
Star Product
Autonomous feedlot inventory-count system – it has the clearest accuracy claim and the strongest named enterprise validation through JBS.
Demo Product or Complete Product?
Commercial product historically and still marketed on the official website with subscription pricing. However, Startup Nation Central marked the company “non-active/ceased” in July 2026. Current operating status therefore requires direct confirmation.
Future Plan
Market Expansion
The company reports deployments in nine countries and historically targeted the Americas, Australia, southern Africa, Brazil, New Zealand, and the United States. Future expansion is uncertain because current operating status is conflicting.
Investment Funding
Startup Nation Central reports US$4.94 million across five rounds, including grants and a seed round. No future round was announced; the July 2026 “ceased” flag conflicts with the still-live company website.
Awards and Recognitions
Participations
Microsoft for Startups “AI for Good”; ScaleUp Brazil; Israel Innovation Authority support, according to company and ecosystem profiles.
M&A and Collabs
Collab
JBS/Friboi – adopted BeeFree at a flagship Brazilian feedlot after 2024 field trials, according to BeeFree’s 2025 announcement.
Collab
Microsoft for Startups / Rabobank / MSD Animal Health – shown as partners or program relationships on the official site; the exact commercial scope is not fully disclosed.
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