#Agrifood startups

The legalities of launching a startup can be challenging, but skipping them isn’t an option. This session of the Grassroots Series provides founders with a step-by-step guide to building a solid foundation for their business, where you’ll learn about the common legal mistakes made by early stage companies, how to avoid them and what to do instead.

How do you commercialise an idea that’s meeting a real market need? Cicada Innovations’ CEO Sally-Ann Williams does a deep dive with Dr Dharmica Mistry, Olympia Yarger and Dale Schilling, about their first steps on the startup journey. Together they’ll provide founders with a basic framework to test and validate their technology, along with tips and tricks to avoid the common pitfalls.

California’s fruit and veg sector, renowned as the ‘salad bowl of the world’, offers agritech startups a sweet landing spot into the US market, with robotics and automation technology adopted at scale.

A new realm of automation and robotic technologies is upon us, where food is fast-tracked from harvest to supermarket with precision and care. Here we take a look at what’s in store for the agrifood sector.

Olympia Yarger and her startup, Goterra is the face that launched a thousand maggots and most recently, an $8-million Series A investment.

What will a future farmer look like? What jobs will they perform? What skills will that will entail and who else will bring expertise to the management of farm activities?