Scout Model Road Testing Pilot

AgriFutures Australia wish to design a tech scouting project using the ‘bowtie’ model developed as part of ‘…

DIRT LAB

DIRT LAB is a business foundry that builds new businesses either via origination (creating our own businesses from internal ideas), creating joint ventures with others to explore a defined problem, or investing our resources into existing early-stage companies or founders.

Wine Australia: Winegrape supply and demand dashboard development

Opportunity for

• IT, Business Intelligence, and Data Analytics solution providers with strong skills in data warehouse build and maintenance, as well as data visualisation. 

SparkLabs Cultiv8: CleanTech Accelerator

Opportunity for

• Early-stage startups and entrepreneurs looking to scale
• Scientists or researchers looking to commercialise innovations
• Innovations from other industry sectors that could be applied to agriculture
• Pre-seed or seed-stage (typically) start-ups that have a working prototype or proof of concept.

Improving the Impact from Current and Future Genetic and Genomic Investments

Emerging agriculture and aquaculture industries face barriers in accessing superior genetic material for improved productivity. These barriers can be commercial, …

AgriStart: Harvest 2023 - accelerator program

Opportunity for

• From early stage startups, to small to medium enterprises in agritech or other sectors with innovations that could be applied to agriculture
• Farmers or researchers looking to commercialise innovations.

LiveCorp: Proof of concept trial for better flooring for animals during sea export – innovation challenge

Opportunity for

• Innovators, solution providers and startups/scaleups/SME’s with commercial solutions ready for proof of concept in livestock export industry
• Mining, hospitality, industrial manufacturing or warehouse flooring suppliers.

LiveCorp: Proof of concept trial for automated collection of animal weights – innovation challenge

Opportunity for

• Innovators, solution providers and startups/scaleups/SME’s with commercial solutions ready for proof of concept in livestock export industry
• On-farm livestock technology providers with proven weighing technologies.

LiveCorp: Proof of concept trial for automated data collection - animal counting – innovation challenge

Opportunity for

• Innovators, solution providers and startups/scaleups/SME’s with commercial solutions ready for proof of concept in livestock export industry
• On-farm livestock technology and RFID scanning technology providers.

LiveCorp: Proof of concept trial for reserve fodder & bedding storage – innovation challenge

Opportunity for

• Innovators, solution providers and startups/scaleups/SME’s with commercial solutions ready for proof of concept in livestock export industry
• Animal and human food packaging manufacturers (storage or long life).

LiveCorp: Proof of concept trial for automated identification of shy feeders – innovation challenge

Opportunity for

• Innovators, solution providers and startups/scaleups/SME’s with commercial solutions ready for proof of concept in livestock export industry
• Artificial intelligence, RFID scanning and monitoring technologies.

Meat & Livestock Australia: Next generation heat load prediction models – Phase 1 – objective feedlot cattle measures – innovation challenge

Opportunity for:

• Innovators, product developers, agritech companies, researchers, organisations (or partnerships of organisations) to undertake research to develop the next generation of heat load prediction models for the feedlot cattle industry.

LiveCorp: proof on concept trial for automated on-board ship gas monitoring – innovation challenge

Opportunity for

• Innovators, solution providers and startups/scaleups/SME’s with commercial solutions ready for proof of concept in livestock export industry.
• Mining, agricultural innovation (intensive industries in particular) technology providers.

Gaia EnviroTech

Gaia EnviroTech is a bioenergy and waste management company based in Regional Victoria. Our focus is on solving two critical challenges; the ever increasing cost of managing high volumes of organic waste, and the ability to source on demand renewable energy solutions to run business operations and reduce carbon footprint.

Swarmer

Swarmer is an Australian equity crowdfunding platform connecting businesses and investors. Swarmer supports start-ups, growth companies and scale ups raise money, engage their communities and turn supporters into investors.

Bayer: Testing4Ag 2023 - Novel compounds for early biological screening cascades

Opportunity for

• Principal investigators, postdocs, startup companies, CROs, pharmaceutical companies and other non-university entrepreneurs/researchers/innovators in any country are all eligible to submit proposals

Bayer: Grants4Ag 2023 - Transformative approaches for next-gen crop protection

Opportunity for

• Principal investigators, postdocs, startup companies, CROs, pharmaceutical companies and other non-university entrepreneurs/researchers/innovators in any country are all eligible to submit proposals

New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI): Cherry testbed for agritech at Orange

Opportunity for

• Commercial partnerships with established or scale-up companies or agritech innovators wishing to test, trial or validate products.
• Grower groups, universities and agronomists looking to trial a technology for conducting scientific, farm scale trials.
• Agricultural companies seeking technology to enable field scale testing of new products or participate in a variety of on-site initiatives in collaboration with New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)

Identification of Exotic and Emergency Animal Disease risks and minimisation strategies to Australian thoroughbred breeding industry

This project will collect information critical for thoroughbred breeders to manage risks to their animals and enterprise from exotic diseases …

Rainstick: Indigenous electrobiology SAFE investment round and partner opportunity

Opportunity for

• Deep tech and impact investors with an appetite for transformational technologies to complete our pre-seed round,  see their involvement help us grow and access new opportunities.
• Early adopters, growers, synthetic biology labs and seed producers interested in collaborating with Rainstick to leverage this novel technology into potential joint venture and licensed partnerships. 
• Early adopters who would like to see if Rainstick technology can help them produce more, cleaner and tailored products.