Indianapolis, IN., September 19, 2019— Today SVG Ventures and Forbes announced SwineTech, an Iowa-based startup, and BinSentry a Canadian-based startup are both winners of the THRIVE Midwest Challenge ...

SOLON, Iowa (KCRG) – At the corner of Main and Cedar in Solon is an unassuming building, leading to the eastern edge of town. This building saves piglets. Not inside the offices of SwineTech itself ...

In a recent SEC filing, SwineTech disclosed the raising of a $1.5 million debt round to begin its expansion into other states and countries. The company, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is the provider ...

An eastern Iowa company behind a device that deters sows from accidentally crushing their piglets is creating software that helps livestock farmworkers better care for pigs, inspired by technology ...

In an as-told-to essay for College Game Plan, Matthew Rooda, co-founder of SwineTech, explains what he learned navigating the business development process. SwineTech works to save piglets with the ...

What were they thinking? University of Iowa student Matthew Rooda, working on a large pig farm in Waterloo, Iowa, in the summer of 2014, was distressed to find that a sow had sat on — and crushed — ...

More than 60 percent of piglet deaths are caused by their mother crushing them. In 2014, that resulted in more than 13 million piglet deaths and almost $700 million in lost revenue. That’s a lot of ...

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Two companies with Hawkeye ties were recognized on one of the most important lists in the business world. Forbes 30 under 30 released its 2018 encyclopedia of businesses that have affected the world, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The story of how an Iowa college student came to invent life-saving wearable technology for pigs sounds a bit like an infomercial. Matthew Rooda was working in a massive ...

When college roommates Matthew Rooda and Abraham Espinoza started SwineTech in 2015, they had a single ambition: to use technology to give farmers more visibility into what’s happening on their farms.

For the first time since its founding more than a decade ago, the Cupid’s Cup Entrepreneurship Competition was held outside the University of Maryland, concluding at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on ...