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The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is making discoveries about the adaptive strategies underpinning productivity and resilience in diverse plants. The CoE will deepen knowledge of the genetic and physiological networks driving key traits for safeguarding and sustaining world food supply and biodiversity.

This project will provide farmer-friendly tools to assist farmers in adopting innovations that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, improve soil …

Plant diseases are a significant production constraint to all agricultural crops, including wheat where rust diseases remain a major threat. …

The Australian sesame industry is poised for a major expansion, driven by support from AgriFutures Australia and a collaborating group …

Opportunity for

• Commercial partnerships with established or scale-up companies or agritech innovators wishing to trial or test 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 NSW DPI.

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

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.

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)

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. 

This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.^

This investment continues the development and commercial release of superior strawberry varieties for Australian environments, including temperate, subtropical and Mediterranean-growing …

Opportunity for

• Corporate life science companies, research funding bodies, SME/scale-ups interested in supporting research of plant growth and drought resilience promoting mycorrhizal fungi.

Ripe Robotics designs, builds, and operates robots which pick apples and stone fruit.

ARC Ento Tech Ltd is a biotech company that has developed an innovative total solution to recovering, re-forming and re-purposing organic and inorganic waste streams.

Opportunity for

• Investors (VC, institutional, family offices) interested in supporting a sustainable and scalable food waste management business producing fertiliser and feed products
• Strategic financial, market and distribution partners to establish the first six plants and to roll out more plants in Australia and worldwide
• Resource management and waste recovery centres seeking scalable technology capable of processing mixed and FOGO waste streams.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

The development of fungicide resistance and the limitation of available fungicide Mode of Actions is an ongoing issue for grain …

Opportunity for

• Investors and commercial partners interested in supporting a leafy green Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) start-up with industry leading IP to commercialise.
• Farmers/growers interested in moving into the CEA field.
• Existing greenhouse/vertical farmers looking for more profitable solutions.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

Gaia project Australia (GPA) was founded in 2017, with initial horizon scanning in the renewable energy sector in Southern Asia. In 2019 GPA designed a Nutrient Flow Technique modular solution that was applicable to leafy greens grown in the controlled environment agriculture.

The 3 rust diseases of wheat can cause untold damage. Savings due to control measures have been estimated at about $1.5 billion …

The Alt Protein CRC is a collaboration between industry, research partners and government to develop an alternate protein food and ingredient industry in Australia.

Ginger is predominantly grown in Australia in the Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay–Burnett regions of Queensland. The area …