Drone-Hand combines autonomous flights, offline edge AI and fixed cameras to locate, count and assess livestock and inspect water, pasture and infrastructure without continuous internet access.
Solution Effectiveness
The company reports successful trials across Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Public pages describe instant/real-time analysis but do not provide an independently validated counting-accuracy or labour-reduction percentage.
Investment Funding
Last Funding Stage
Pre-Seed
Total Funding Amount
$505.0K
Last Funding Amount
$471.9K
Last Funding Date
13-11-2025
Startup Stage
Seed
Lead Investors
LaunchVic, Radius Capital
People
Founders
Sebastian Haan
About
Drone-Hand is transforming global livestock management with machine-learning powered autonomous drones.
Products
Product
Drone-Hand autonomous livestock flight application, fixed-camera monitoring and drone-dock/VTOL configurations.
Star Product
Autonomous livestock monitoring platform – the core offering across grazing, feedlot and remote-station use cases.
Demo Product or Complete Product?
Commercial/scale-up stage. A flight application is described as commercially available, while long-range autonomous mustering and multi-platform deployments remain in trials and expansion.
Future Plan
Market Expansion
Trials are reported in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States, with continued expansion into northern cattle operations and enterprise deployments.
Investment Funding
LaunchVic grant support and seed-stage backing, including a public profile naming RCRadius Capital. No future round amount was publicly announced.
Awards and Recognitions
Awards
Nominated for the 2026 Australian Agritech Awards, Excellence in Digital Agriculture; ranked #273 in the 2025 FoodTech 500.
