Growing data for cow-calf producers [Video]

When Bill Leask and Mark Olson met at a Lion’s Club meeting about four years ago, Leask was a cow-calf operator with a need and Olson was an information technology expert who could build him a solution.

Why it matters: The technology is made for cattle farmers but the company now requires seed money to take the invention into commercial production.

That meeting resulted in the development of Flokk Systems, a durable hardware and software solution that can work for people who need to record data in the sometimes harsh weather conditions of the cattle business in Canada.

Flokk now has a product ready for market but struggles to find investors who want to buy into an unconventional technology product so it can be built at scale.

“We have a business plan …