Craig Piggott — Halter

Agritech entrepreneur Craig Piggott’s “aha” moment came while he was working at Rocket Lab — Peter Beck’s satellite launch company.

Wondering why we could launch rockets into space when farmers were still walking behind their cows, he realised the dairy industry had changed little since the advent of the milking machine.

He’d come up with an idea while studying for an engineering degree, but says the pieces didn’t come together until he was at Rocket Lab. His company, Halter, was founded in 2016.

Piggott, now 24, has developed a GPSenabled cow collar — a solar-powered tracking device which allows farmers to