Protequus® is a privately held biomedical engineering firm based in Austin, TX (USA) working to protect the welfare of animals through advances in AI, biosensors, and IoT connectivity.
Founded in 2013 after the sudden loss of one of his horses to colic, Jeffrey R. Schab, an accomplished equestrian, biomedical engineer, and successful entrepreneur assembled a multidisciplinary team to create an early-warning solution to combat colic, the leading natural cause of death in horses. Today, that solution is an AI-driven, IoT-enabled, predictive-health wearable known as the NIGHTWATCH® smart halter™ that Forbes reports is “one of the most sophisticated IoT devices they’ve ever seen.”
Over the past decade Protequus® has focused on the $300B equine industry but now working to expand their IP/patented technology horizontally across animal species from companion to production animals, while vertically integrating and enriching their proprietary data via a B2B DSaaS prescriptive analytics platform to connect insurance and life science companies, veterinarians, and governing bodies.
