2019 Purina Pet Care Innovation Winners
Purina named 5 winners for the 2019 Pet Care Innovation Prize, which included $10,000 and a week at a pet business boot camp. The grand prize went to GuardianVets, a B2B telehealth service from Chicago. Other winners were: Shameless Pets, which recycles unused food...
Nuzzle & Feed and Go – Out of Business
One of the risks of using bleeding edge technology is buying a product from a young company that doesn’t have a strong financial position. That appears to be the case with two pet tech startups that recently closed down: Nuzzle and Feed and Go. Nuzzle was a...
Link AKC Sold Again
Well, that didn’t last long. The Link AKC smart-collar has been sold for the second time in the last 6 months. The most recent buyer is a Florida-based company called Smart Tracking Technologies. This move comes roughly six months after Wagz purchased Link AKC...
Pet Tech Market 2018 Sales Estimated to be $565 Million
Packaged Facts, a leading market research firm, estimates that US sales of Pet Tech products was $565 million in 2018. This amount is up 11% from 2017 and is expected to reach $1 billion by 2023. Pet tech products remain a small part of the $4.9 billion pet durables...