Looking for investment opportunities in agrifood?

Opportunity for

• Seed and early-stage investors
• Strategic manufacturing and infrastructure partners to scale panel production
• Property developers and builders for early commercial deployment projects
• Research and technical partners to support advanced product testing and compliance
• Agrifood processors and hemp growers seeking high-value downstream mark

Opportunity description

Industry challenge

The construction sector remains one of the largest contributors to global emissions, driven by carbon-intensive materials such as concrete, steel and synthetic insulation. As energy efficiency standards under the National Construction Code continue to tighten, developers and builders are under increasing pressure to reduce embodied carbon while maintaining cost certainty and constructability.

At the same time, Australia’s industrial hemp industry lacks consistent, high-value end markets for hemp hurd. Much of this by-product is currently directed toward low-margin uses such as animal bedding, limiting both agricultural value creation and the opportunity to store carbon in long-life applications.

There is a growing need for...

Opportunity for

• Strategic commercial partners across food, beverage, ingredient manufacturing and consumer health
• Investors with experience in foodtech, functional nutrition, sustainability or scale-up manufacturing
• Industry partners with access to agricultural or food processing side-streams
• Research and innovation partners interested in whole-food nutrition, bioavailability and zero-waste processing
• Entrepreneurs, start-ups and companies developing complementary products, technologies or applications that align with whole-ingredient utilisation

Opportunity description

Industry challenge

Modern food systems are built around efficiency, shelf life and yield, but this approach has created a significant blind spot: value loss. Across many plant-based food supply chains, between 30–50% of inputs are discarded during processing. Skins, seeds, pulp and fibre, often rich in micronutrients, polyphenols and functional compounds, are routinely treated as waste or low-value by-products.

At the same time, nutrition innovation has increasingly leaned on isolated ingredients and extracts, stripping food back to singular components rather than leveraging its natural complexity. Emerging nutritional...