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Multiple industries
Cereal grains Cotton Pulse grains
Multiple technology areas
Crop protection Data and AI
Opportunity

DataFarming: weedSAT - reducing herbicide use with satellite imagery - investment opportunity

Opportunity for

  • Venture capital, corporate venture capital, chemical and machinery corporates and OEMs.

  ^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.  

  • Led by

    DataFarming

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment, Seeking partners

  • Express interest by

    Friday, 31 May 2024 12:00 Australia/Sydney

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).
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Multiple industries
Fruits Nuts Wine
IoT & smart-farming
Opportunity

Athena IR-Tech: Irrigation optimisation solution - seed investment opportunity

Opportunity for:

  • Investors and commercial partners to bring customer relationships, co-development, investment to assist commercialisation to scale up globally in major wine and horticulture regions of Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Europe, South America and South Africa.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

  • Led by

    Athena IR-Tech

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment, Seeking partners

  • Readiness
    Late (TRL 8-9)
    Commercial optimisation of the product/service, testing and commercial distribution.
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Multiple industries
Alternative protein Cereal grains Cotton Cross industry Dairy Essential oils Fruits Natural capital assets Nuts Oilseeds Other rural industries Pasture, fodder & feed Pulse grains Vegetables Wine
Multiple technology areas
Indoor agriculture Machinery & hardware Plant science
Opportunity

Nanobubble Agritech: Irrigation technology - seed investment

Opportunity for

  • Investors and commercial partners looking to back disruptor technology, moving from start-up to operating in market, at an international scale.
  • Farmers and growers looking to sit at the frontier of irrigated production, interested in trialing partial or full-scale installations on-farm or in-orchard to build dataset of plant/crop impact across industries.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

 

  • Led by

    Nanobubble Agritech

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment, Field trial, Seeking partners

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).
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Multiple industries
Cereal grains Oilseeds Pasture, fodder & feed
Multiple technology areas
Data and AI Input management Machinery & hardware
Opportunity

AgResearch NZ: Surface Water Assessment and Mitigation for Irrigation (SWAMI) - Licensing

Opportunity for

  • Centre pivot and lateral overhead irrigation manufacturers, irrigation control system integration
  • Led by

    AgResearch

  • Opportunity type

    Licensing

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).
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Multiple industries
Beef cattle Cereal grains Cotton Eggs Pasture, fodder & feed Poultry Pulse grains Sugar Vegetables
Multiple technology areas
Crop protection Plant science
Opportunity

University of Southern Queensland: Testing Australian mycorrhizal fungi for their impacts on plant growth and ability to protect plants from drought stress – commercial partnership

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.
  • Led by

    University of Southern Queensland (USQ)

  • Opportunity type

    Field trial, Seeking partners

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).
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Multiple industries
Aquaculture Beef cattle Eggs Fruits Game Packaged food Poultry Sheep & lamb Vegetables Wild catch fisheries
Multiple technology areas
Automation Food processing technology Input management Machinery & hardware Robotics
Opportunity

Cellysis: Fresh produce shelf-life extending technology - $500k investment opportunity

Opportunity for

  • Global agrichemical companies, life sciences and agtech companies interested in commercialising fresh produce shelf-life enhancing technology
  • Engineering and manufacturing companies interested in joint venture partnership to scale production of commercial plant
  • Fresh food producers and vertically integrated businesses seeking technology to extend shelf life of fresh produce.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

  • Led by

    Cellysis Pty Ltd

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment, Seeking partners

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).
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Multiple industries
Cereal grains Oilseeds Pulse grains
Multiple technology areas
Automation Crop protection Data and AI Harvest technology Imagery Input management IoT & smart-farming Machinery & hardware Plant science Renewable energy Robotics Traceability
Opportunity

GrainInnovate – AgTech Venture Capital Fund

Opportunity for

  • Individuals and companies building a technology-enabled early stage business with application to Australian grain growers
  • Equity investors interested in exploring co-investment opportunities relevant to the Grain Innovate Fund

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

  • Led by

    Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking interest, Seeking solutions, Seeking partners

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).
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Multiple industries
Beef cattle Cereal grains Cotton Dairy Fruits Honey bees Nuts Pasture, fodder & feed Pulse grains Sheep & lamb Vegetables Wine
Multiple technology areas
Crop protection Indoor agriculture Input management Novel ingredients Plant science
Opportunity

Converte: $4m Capital raise

Opportunity for

  • Venture capital, corporates, private equity, and angel investors to support the transition from a “direct to end user” business model to leveraging established B2B channels.
  • Strategic partners with access to international markets in India, Middle East, the USA and the United Kingdom.

  ^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.  

  • Led by

    Converte Pty Ltd.

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment, Seeking partners

  • Express interest by

    Wednesday, 31 July 2024 12:00 Australia/Sydney

  • Readiness
    Late (TRL 8-9)
    Commercial optimisation of the product/service, testing and commercial distribution.
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Beef cattle
Multiple technology areas
Automation Food processing technology Machinery & hardware Processing & packaging Robotics
Opportunity

Waterless knife sterilisation for meat processing plants

Opportunity for

  • Solution providers wanting to develop new solutions for sterilisation of knives and other tools for Australian red meat abattoirs. Participants may be: 
    • Wishing to brainstorm and evaluate (without substantially building) new approaches (this can be initially focussed and limited to knife sterilisation) 
    • Ready to build and evaluate designs for new approaches 
  • Led by

    Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking interest, Research partner, Field trial, Innovation challenge, Seeking solutions

  • Readiness
    Early (TRL 1-4)
    Describes the challenge or opportunity being pursued and undertakes preliminary R&D to determine if the concept is feasible.
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Multiple industries
Dairy Pork
Machinery & hardware
Opportunity

Australian Pork - Waste water and effluent sterilisation technology

Opportunity for

Intensive agriculture and power generators interested in commercialising water treatment technology to recycle wastewater and effluent with hot gas bubbles from exhaust gases. Use cases include:

  • farms and wastewater treatment plants with biogas generation
  • waste disposal industries like landfills with biogas generation
  • biogas plants and coal power plants which emit large amounts of hot CO2 from exhaust gases that can be reused.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

  • Led by

    Australian Pork (APL)

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment, Licensing

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).
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Multiple industries
Aquaculture Beef cattle Cotton Cross industry Dairy Essential oils Fruits Nuts Oilseeds Other rural industries Pasture, fodder & feed Pork Sheep & lamb Sugar Vegetables Wild catch fisheries Wine
Multiple technology areas
Input management Machinery & hardware
Opportunity

Australasian Pork Research Institute Limited (APRIL): rapid water quality assessment hardware

Opportunity for

  • Water testing service providers: state, local government, irrigation bodies, sampling laboratories with access to water sampling and testing facilities
  • Commercial irrigation, horticultural, water sampling service providers capable to commercialising a rapid water testing solution.
  • Led by

    Australasian Pork Research Institute (APRIL)

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking partners

  • Readiness
    Early (TRL 1-4)
    Describes the challenge or opportunity being pursued and undertakes preliminary R&D to determine if the concept is feasible.
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Cross industry
Multiple technology areas
Data and AI IoT & smart-farming
Opportunity

Jane's Weather: $1.5m investment opportunity

Opportunity for

  • Investors seeking equity investment in a novel weather forecasting and alert system digital application
  • Agritech platforms interested in API integration with complimentary services

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

  • Led by

    Jane's Weather

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment

  • Readiness
    Late (TRL 8-9)
    Commercial optimisation of the product/service, testing and commercial distribution.
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Multiple industries
Aquaculture Beef cattle Cross industry Dairy Forestry Fruits Oilseeds Pulse grains Sheep & lamb Wild catch fisheries
Multiple technology areas
Data and AI Fisheries technology Harvest technology Input management Traceability
Opportunity

Real time data: Investment for development of existing US channels, and for trials in agriculture in Australia

Opportunity for

  • Investors^ in technology, VC funds, family offices
  • Agricultural industry bodies/associations to cost effectively develop and deploy data collection solutions.

^This investment opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

  • Led by

    Real Time Data

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking interest, Seeking investment, Field trial

  • Readiness
    Mid to Late (TRL 5-9)
    For opportunities that are seeking solutions providers who are in the mid to late stages of readiness.
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Multiple technology areas
Automation Data and AI Food processing technology Imagery Machinery & hardware Processing & packaging Robotics
Opportunity

Waterless lamb frenching: reducing 210,000 knifing path actions per shift to zero

Opportunity for

  • Solution providers wanting to demonstrate and evolve an offering in 'waterless frenching' and demonstrate it in meat processing environments
  • Solution providers wishing to validate conceptual designs and/or build and evaluate initial prototypes that reduce human effort, water and energy consumption
  • Led by

    Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking interest, Research partner, Field trial, Innovation challenge, Seeking solutions

  • Readiness
    Early (TRL 1-4)
    Describes the challenge or opportunity being pursued and undertakes preliminary R&D to determine if the concept is feasible.
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Dairy
Multiple technology areas
Animal technology IoT & smart-farming Machinery & hardware
Opportunity

Dairy Australia: Seeking solution providers for Investigations into feasible methane reduction technologies for dairy

Opportunity for:

  • Innovators, solution providers and startups/scaleups/SME’s to investigate novel technologies that reduce methane production in dairy cattle.
  • Led by

    Dairy Australia

  • Opportunity type

    Innovation challenge, Seeking solutions

  • Express interest by

    Friday, 28 June 2024 12:00 Australia/Sydney

  • Readiness
    Early to Mid (TRL 1-7)
    For opportunities that are seeking solutions providers who are in the early to mid stages of readiness.
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Alternative protein
Multiple technology areas
Alternative protein Food processing technology Novel ingredients
Opportunity

The Leaf Protein Co.: Nutritious, highly functional alternative plant protein ingredient - seeking $US1 million seed investment, partners to establish pilot manufacturing

Opportunity for

  • Investors and commercial partners interested in supporting an alternative plant protein ingredient start-up to commercialise.
  • Partners with knowledge or experience in establishing pilot manufacturing to produce samples for market validation by food manufacturers.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

  • Led by

    The Leaf Protein Co.

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment, Seeking partners

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).
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Multiple industries
Cross industry Natural capital assets Pasture, fodder & feed
Multiple technology areas
Automation Data and AI IoT & smart-farming Traceability
Opportunity

Carbon Capture Shield: New tool for soil health and carbon quantification – Investment opportunity

Opportunity for

  • Investors^ and/or strategic, industry, and research partners interested in soil health and carbon sequestration, to help commercialise a new quantification tool. 

^This investment opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

  • Led by

    Carbon Capture Shield Inc.

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking interest, Seeking investment, Seeking partners

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).
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Multiple industries
Beef cattle Cross industry Dairy Forestry Game Natural capital assets Pasture, fodder & feed Pork Sheep & lamb Wool
Multiple technology areas
Animal technology Automation Data and AI E-commerce & market platforms Imagery Input management IoT & smart-farming Machinery & hardware Traceability
Opportunity

Ceres Tag: Animal traceability, welfare, performance, and climate impact – scale up investment opportunity

Opportunity for

  • High Net Worth, Family Office and Corporate investors interested in animal performance evidence insights through a real time sustainability enabling reporting platform.
  • Partnerships for distribution and integration with other supply chain technology platform businesses.

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

  • Led by

    Ceres Tag

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment, Seeking partners

  • Express interest by

    Monday, 1 July 2024 12:00 Australia/Sydney

  • Readiness
    Late (TRL 8-9)
    Commercial optimisation of the product/service, testing and commercial distribution.
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Multiple industries
Aquaculture Beef cattle Cross industry Dairy Fruits Nuts Pasture, fodder & feed Pork Vegetables Wine
Multiple technology areas
Aquaculture technology Fisheries technology Indoor agriculture Traceability
Opportunity

EcoSystem Farms: integrated agriculture and aquaculture soilless farming platform – seeking $500k - $1 million investment

Opportunity for

  • Impact investors (VC’s, family offices, angels) looking to invest in technology that has the ability to revolutionise the food production industry. 

^This opportunity is only for professional and sophisticated investors.

  • Led by

    EcoSystem Farms

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking investment

  • Readiness
    Mid to Late (TRL 5-9)
    For opportunities that are seeking solutions providers who are in the mid to late stages of readiness.
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Other rural industries
Novel ingredients
Opportunity

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.
  • Led by

    The University of Adelaide (UA)

  • Opportunity type

    Seeking interest, Seeking partners

  • Express interest by

    Thursday, 15 August 2024 12:00 Australia/Sydney

  • Readiness
    Mid (TRL 5-7)
    Proof of concept in the laboratory then in the field resulting in the development of a minimum viable product (MVP).
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