Farmflo

Farmflo is an Irish software company founded in 2012. The company produces cloud computing software for agricultural compliance and food traceability.

Farmflo
Privately held
Industrysoftware
Founded2012
HeadquartersLetterkenny, Ireland
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Jason Devenney, Gareth Devenney, Neal Gandhi
Websitehttp://www.farmflo.com/

History

Farmflo was founded by brothers Jason Devenney, a software developer, and Gareth Devenney, a fourth generation farmer in 2012.[1]

The company began trading commercially in February 2015 with the launch of their eponymous app [2] following approval from Ireland's Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.[3]

Farmflo was dubbed "one of Ireland's hottest start-ups" by the Irish Independent in March 2015.[4]

Farmflo was featured on Ireland's national broadcaster RTÉ's flashship magazine programme, Nationwide (Irish TV series) in February 2016.[5]

Farmflo is based in Letterkenny, Donegal at the Letterkenny Institute of Technology. It also has offices in Glasgow, Scotland.[6]

Microsoft Ventures

In October 2015 Farmflo was selected to join the Microsoft Ventures Accelerate Programme in London.[7][8] As part of the programme, Farmflo received one-on-one mentoring from Microsoft‘s business, technology and marketing experts.

Farmflo received an investment of £500,000 (approximately €675,000) from Microsoft, which it will use to create 60 new jobs over the next three years.[9]

gollark: Also because programming has less of a credentialism thing, I guess?
gollark: Probably because it's newer and thus the education system is bad at it, and also because you can learn it well from just a computer and network connection.
gollark: > My coding teacher is just google and YouTubeProgramming does seem to be something people teach themselves a lot.
gollark: I've had pretty good maths teachers consistently, at least.
gollark: ħæħ indeed.

References
  1. "Donegal Brothers Launch New Mobile Farm App". Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  2. "Mr Neal Gandhi". Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  3. "Farmflo approved for electronic herd registrations". Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  4. "The next Stripe: Ireland's hottest startups". Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  5. "WEDNESDAY 3RD FEBRUARY". Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  6. "Farmflo hits the accelerator". Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  7. "Farmflo secures backing from Microsoft". Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  8. "Farmflo selected to join Microsoft mentoring programme". Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  9. "London coup for Farmflo". Retrieved 4 February 2016.
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