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DNA Extraction and Testing to Drive Forward a New Generation of Efficient and Sustainable Agriculture
About Feanix
Feanix is rebuilding animal breeding from the genome up. We're a YC-backed startup using whole-genome sequencing and custom ML models to help dairy farmers make smarter breeding and herd management decisions. Our tech is genuinely novel: we can sequence a full genome from a single hair at a fraction of industry cost, our models hit ~90% accuracy prediction on traits where the industry sits at ~30%, and we're the first to crack genomic predictions on farm specific performance. That edge is showing up in the numbers. In a short time, we've grown to cover 1% of the U.S. dairy industry — 250,000+ cows — with $2M+ in ARR and a waitlist many times that size. Our investors include Initialized Capital, General Catalyst, Collab Fund, Overwater Ventures, and YC. We started with dairy because our founders grew up on dairy farms. But genetics is a core pillar of every agricultural industry, and we're just getting started. We're building this with a small, high-caliber team where everyone owns their work end to end. No layers, no passengers, no busywork — just hard problems in biology and software that nobody has solved yet, and the resources to actually solve them. If you're exceptional at what you do and you want to ship work that moves an entire industry, this is the team to do it with.
Mission and direction
Feanix is an agri-biotech company using whole-genome sequencing and machine learning to improve animal breeding and herd management. It helps dairy farmers make more accurate, farm-specific genetic decisions by making high-quality genomic testing faster, cheaper, and more predictive. The company is building novel software and biology-driven tools that can scale across agriculture to help producers improve performance, profitability, and long-term herd outcomes.
Company values
- Ownership
- Precision
- Innovation
- Customer impact
- High standards
- Continuous improvement