CSIRO: Innovate to Grow – Agrifood program

Opportunity for

• SME’s working on innovative technologies or solutions in the agricultural and food sector.

AgTech and Logistics Hub: Plant Health Initiative – Innovation Challenge

Opportunity for:

• Entrepreneurs, startups/scaleups/SME’s with agtech, biological and non-synthetic solutions that have the potential to transform crop and pasture management. 

Ripen Tech: Measurement of fruit weight in real time – partnership opportunity

Opportunity for

• Agritech platforms looking to integrated hanging fruit quantification analytics into product offering (wine grape, hanging fruit horticulture crops)
• Grape and horticulture producers looking to estimate yield of hanging fruit objectively.

Farmers2Founders: Circular Value Startup Innovation Program

Opportunity for

• Startups in regional NSW who are innovating ways to fight the war on food waste through upcycling and recycling.

AgriProve’s A$30M+ Series B capital raise

Opportunity for: 

• Strategically aligned investors, or a group of investors, seeking equity investment in a scalable soil technology and carbon removal solution.^
• Agritech partners interested in complementary ecosystem services to de-risk soils and accelerate access to institutional finance through carbon projects.
• Investors with organisational scale and capacity; expertise in measurement technology fields, such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), next-gen remote sensing, and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite technology is desirable. 

Yarta: AI-powered consultant in the pocket. Making smart decisions, fast - partnership opportunity

Opportunity for

• Agribusinesses and technology firms, Australian agriculture sectors, innovators and experts in the Australian agricultural industry, digital solution providers and partners, businesses and entities invested in the Australian or global agriculture market

Farmers2Founders: TEKLAB NSW - Agritech Startup Program

Opportunity for

• Regional NSW based innovators, entrepreneurs, primary producers, students or individuals looking to solve challenges in the agriculture industry using technology.

AgriFutures Australia: evokeᴬᴳ⋅ Startup Program - Applications open

Opportunity for

• Australian and international agrifood tech startups and scaleups who have an exceptional agrifood tech and/or innovation product.

Hort Innovation: Growing horticulture through protected cropping innovation – research partnership

Opportunity for

• Researchers, entrepreneurs, startup/scaleup, SME, corporates with expertise in protected cropping seeking research partnerships.

Hort Innovation: Precision summer fruit orchards – research partnership

Opportunity for

• Researchers, entrepreneurs, startup/scaleup, SME, corporates with expertise in applied research with perennial fruit crop industries and translating agritech into profitable grower practice.

Farmers2Founders: TEKLAB VIC Program

Opportunity for

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

Rocket Seeder: AgTech Seeds pre-accelerator program - cohort 4

Opportunity for

• Aspiring Victorian AgTech entrepreneurs
• Innovative researchers and research teams at Victorian universities and research organisations
• Farmers and producers with a great idea, looking to scale this in Australia and beyond.

X-Hemp: turning hemp into homes - investment opportunity

Opportunity for

• Professional and sophisticated investors^ interested Australian eco-friendly hemp-based building material production company.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

Carrot Ventures - Venture studio for agritech commercialisation (Canada)

Opportunity for:

• Researchers, inventors, entrepreneurs, institutions, corporations, or any other owners of agritech IP, that want venture studio support to find product market fit and drive commercialisation. 

LINTTAS Electric Company - Development of a high performance fully electric combine harvester

Opportunity for 

• Agricultural machinery manufacturers interested in partnering to co-develop and commercialise an electric grains harvester.
• University with computer modelling capability to support R&D for development of a prototype. 

Farmers2Founders: Harvest Accelerator Program

Opportunity for

•   High potential Australian agtech and agrifood businesses looking to scale into national and international markets.

LaunchVic: New Hugh Victor Mckay Fund for agritech startups – Investor opportunity

Opportunity for

• Sophisticated and/or professional investors^ with an interest in participating in a sidecar fund investing in agritech startups.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

University of Adelaide: New Australian psyllium crop commercialisation opportunity

Opportunity for

• Seed suppliers or cropping groups interested in co-funding a breeding program and production expansion or to collaborate on field trials and licensing of a novel Australian crop.

MLA: Novel pain relief pour-on treatment for cattle – research/licensing opportunity

Opportunity for

• Animal health companies interested in further developing and commercialising novel pain relief pour-on treatment for cattle.

MLA: 3D imaging of live cattle to increase profitability - Licensing opportunity

Opportunity for 

• Commercial partners to manufacture a new 3D cattle imaging technology under license.