Meet Deane Tucker and Glenn Gregory, co-founders of Udder, one of 22 ventures participating in the Sprout Accelerator Spring26 Cohort. We caught up with Deane and Glenn for a quick-fire five questions in five minutes to learn more about Udder and what they hope to achieve from their time in the Sprout Accelerator.
1. Tell us about Udder. What are you building?
Udder is transforming calf rearing with smart, affordable automation. We build automatic calf feeders that measure individual calf milk intake, monitor feeding behaviour, and help farmers raise healthier calves with less labour.
2. What problem are you working to solve?
Feeding calves well takes time, and when farmers are stretched, providing frequent, consistent feeding and monitoring for every calf becomes difficult.
3. How does your solution work?
Udder is an intelligent automatic calf feeding system that automates milk delivery while measuring how much milk each individual calf drinks.
Farmers can see how much each calf drinks, monitor feeding behaviour, track progress, and receive alerts when something doesn't look right.
4. What is the next important milestone for your venture?
Our next major milestone is to complete the development and validation, and then focus on manufacturing and building our customer base.
5. What are you hoping to get out of your time with Sprout?
We are hoping to gain experienced mentoring and industry connections that will help us validate our direction and accelerate Udder's development.
Find out more: Udder.nz