Multi-million dollar investment for young County Derry entrepreneurs [Video]

Two County Derry entrepreneurs who skipped university and moved to California to grow their agri-tech business have been rewarded with a multi-million pound investment.

John McElhone from Ballyronan and Mícheál McLaughlin from Draperstown, developed CropSafe, a platform that provides real-time data to allow farmers to manage their farms, while in their teens.

CropSafe allows farmers to create alerts and enable real-time modules from their marketplace to monitor the condition, health, and weather on their farm.

The data is monitored remotely through CropSafe’s network of global weather stations and orbital satellites.

It helps growers take action on data, rather than leaving the complex job of interpretation to farmers.

John and Micheál pictured in 2019.

The duo have recently sourced over $3 million in funding, vindicating a decision to move straight to the tech hotbed of California after leaving St Mary’s Grammar School in Magherafelt.

“California was a big move. I came out the day after my last …