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As an international family business in the agricultural sector, we spend every day making farmers’ lives easier with innovative solutions and tailored services.
We offer solutions for almost all activities in the cowshed: from milking to cleaning. We provide advice on how to organize a dairy farm smartly with the use of management systems.
Our vision and the needs and demands of our clients are the things that drive and inspire us.
We offer solutions for almost all activities in the cowshed: from milking to cleaning. We provide advice on how to organize a dairy farm smartly with the use of management systems.
Our vision and the needs and demands of our clients are the things that drive and inspire us.
Overview
Location
Netherlands, South Holland, Maassluis
Employees
1001-5000
Phone
+31 88 122 8221
Total raised
$255.7K
Founded date
1948
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 16
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| May 24, 2023 | Dutch startup Blue Radix secures funding to offer algorithm-based solutions for greenhouses | Rotterdam-based Blue Radix, a specialist in Autonomous Growing and creates automated intelligence for daily decisions and actions in greenhouses, announced on Tuesday, May 23, that it has raised fresh funding. The amount, however, remains u... |
| Sep 29, 2021 | This Week in Agrifoodtech: Gorillas raises $950m, New Age Meats nets $25m & more | The past seven days saw major funding hauls for German food delivery startup Gorillas, US cultivated meat maker New Age Meats, and Canadian precision ag platform Semios. Elsewhere, AFN examined data that suggests that agriculture is far fro... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Calling all agtech startups! Lely wants to help you revolutionize the dairy industry | Are you a startup innovating in the dairy industry? If so, agriculture machinery company Lely wants to hear from you for its upcoming Feed the Future Challenge 2021. (You can already apply here now!) Today’s dairy industry is grappling with... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Calling all agtech startups! Lely wants to help you revolutionize the dairy industry | Are you a startup innovating in the dairy industry? If so, agriculture machinery company Lely wants to hear from you for its upcoming Feed the Future Challenge 2021. (You can already apply here now!) Today’s dairy industry is grappling with... |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Moo-re funds! Connecterra brings impact fund into largest-ever Series B for European livestock tech at €7.8m | Editor’s Note: Connecterra is an AgFunder portfolio company. AgFunder invested in Connecterra’s $4.9 million Series A in 2018, with AgFunder’s Michael Dean penning a thought piece via AFN last November on Connecterra’s journey from its init... |
| Sep 24, 2019 | Lely and Rockstart seek startups to apply for Feed the Future challenge | Lely and European startup accelerator program Rockstart have launched a cross-industry innovation challenge seeking startups with technologies that can revolutionize the dairy industry. From predictive analytics to IoT to robotics and image... |
| Sep 4, 2019 | How a family business became a global pioneer and tech giant in dairy farming | Every family is unique – but some families are more unique than others. This is certainly true for the Van der Lely family who started their dairy technology business as a ‘studio for invention’ in 1948. It took only two generations to turn... |
| Feb 27, 2019 | Dutch cows are about to walk on water. Here’s how | This spring in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, cows will walk on water. Holy cow?! Well, not exactly: they’ll simply be the first offshore bovine residents aboard a maverick urban agtech project known as the Floating Farm. Two vast steel ... |
| Dec 4, 2018 | A List of Dairy Tech Startups and the Barriers to Adoption | Dairy production is one of the oldest agricultural industries on the planet, but today it is arguably one of the most troubled. Despite the world’s unending appetite for dairy products, dairy farmers are facing one of the toughest economic ... |
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FAQ about Lely
When was Lely founded?
Lely was founded in 1948.
How much funding has Lely raised?
Lely has raised $255.7K in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about Lely?
Parsers VC has collected 16 articles mentioning Lely, among them “Dutch startup Blue Radix secures funding to offer algorithm-based solutions for greenhouses” (May 24, 2023) and “This Week in Agrifoodtech: Gorillas raises $950m, New Age Meats nets $25m & more” (Sep 29, 2021).
Is Lely still active?
Yes, Lely is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 14, 2024.