Vital Herd

Vital Herd was a private animal-health and precision-livestock technology company focused on monitoring the health and behavior of dairy and beef cattle. The company developed an ingestible bio-acoustics "e-pill" sensor designed to remain in the rumen and capture internal physiological parameters such as temperature, respiratory rate, heart rate, rumen motility, and behavior, with data transmitted to a cloud analytics platform for farmer decision support. Its offering was positioned as a data-driven herd health management solution intended to reduce livestock illness and death, improve productivity, and optimize feed efficiency. Available business databases describe the company as founded in 2012 in Austin, Texas, led by co-founder and CEO Brian Walsh, and having raised roughly $1.3 million in seed and debt financing. Current third-party company directories indicate the business is no longer active and list its operating status as closed.