LaunchVic: AgTech Grants Program

Opportunity for

• Idea-to-Early Stage agtech startups across Victoria

Farmers2Founders: TEKLAB VIC Program

Opportunity for

• Victorian entrepreneurs who are looking for support to explore, validate and commercialise an agtech startup.

LaunchVic

LaunchVic is Victoria's startup agency. Our role is to fuel the growth of Victoria’s startup ecosystem.

Breakthrough Victoria

Breakthrough Victoria is an independent investment company established in 2021. We manage the Victorian Government’s landmark $2 billion Breakthrough Victoria Fund, to invest in and work with companies to commercialise technology and innovation that will have a positive impact on people's lives.

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.

Economic Assessment of Australian Cotton Systems - What are the key drivers of profitability?

Rising costs of production, increased climate variability impacting yield and quality, regulatory constraints and increased value of land all, contribute …

Producer Technology Uptake Program - Northern Australia Projects

Project 1 - Northern Hub | NTCA BlackBox Workshop  Project aims to engage a variety of producers around the Northern Territory. …

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, …

FoodShot APAC

Meeting the demands of feeding 10 billion people by 2050 requires long-term investment, true innovation and deep collaboration. As the first regional extension of FoodShot Global, FoodShot APAC unites world-class, mission-aligned venture funds, corporations, universities and government organisations to identify and support the deep science, technology and research that will build a better food system.

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.

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. 

An Integrated Disease Management program for the Australian almond industry - Phase 2

The overall aim of the project is to investigate integrated disease management strategies that improve on-farm management of economically important …

An Integrated Pest Management program for the Australian almond industry - Phase 2

The overarching objective is to develop a toolkit of complementary pest management approaches, tools, and practices that form the backbone …

Stability and safety of mycopesticides for lesser mealworm

Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and AgriFutures Australia have developed mycopesticides based on a specific strain of the fungus …

Avocado Industry Benchmarking

The avocado industry seeks to understand and learn from favourable market conditions and industry growth through benchmarking the industry. There …

Bee Innovative Pty Ltd

Bee Innovative is an Australian AgTech company whose mission is to protect and unlock the natural super-power of precision pollination. We increase crop yields, improve crop quality and value while protecting our vital pollinators.