Entrepreneurs to Watch 2025: Julia Somerdin
Optica's Optics & Photonics News named Labby CEO Julia Somerdin one of its Entrepreneurs to Watch for 2025.
2025
Labby's MilKey earning national recognition
Luminate highlighted MilKey's recognition as Best Tech Startup at the GREAT Awards and finalist in the Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge.
2024
Animal AgTech Innovation Summit 2025
Labby presented real-time milk analysis technology to industry leaders and investors at the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit.
March 2025
GREAT Awards 2024 — Best Tech Startup
TechRochester recognized Labby as Best Tech Startup at the 2024 GREAT Awards, celebrating innovation in the Greater Rochester ecosystem.
2024
Agtech startup Labby shaping future of dairy industry
Luminate profiled Labby's journey from MIT to Rochester, and how the company is tackling antiquated dairy testing with optical sensing and AI.
August 2023
DFA Sprint Demo Day
Labby demonstrated its inline sensing platform at the Dairy Farmers of America Sprint accelerator, leading to its first industrial partner.
2023
TechCrunch: Labby wants to make milk healthier and cows happier
Labby was selected as one of the top 20 Startup Battlefield companies at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022, launching its inline optical sensing platform.
October 2022
Labby wins $250K Grow-NY competition
Labby was selected as a winner in the Grow-NY business competition, earning $250,000 in investment and a commitment to grow in upstate New York.
2022
MIT News: Helping dairy farmers raise healthy cows
MIT News featured Labby's origins as a Media Lab spinoff and its mission to bring real-time optical sensing to dairy farms worldwide.
June 2022
Let's Talk Dairy Podcast with Julia Somerdin
Labby CEO Julia Somerdin joined the Dairy Foods podcast to discuss how real-time milk testing is transforming farm management and animal health.
2023
The shift from monthly testing to continuous monitoring
DHIA test days give you one data point per month. What if you had one every milking? How continuous monitoring is redefining dairy management.
Coming Soon
AgFunder: Labby gets seed funding for mastitis detection
AgFunder News covered Labby's seed round for its AI-enabled optical sensing technology targeting early mastitis detection on dairy farms.
2022