#Agrifood tech

We’re excited to launch our first-ever Humans of Agriculture x evoke^AG. podcast collaboration series with Oli Le Lievre.

Internationally recognised food scientist, Professor Martin Cole of The University of Adelaide's Waite Campus explains why South Australia needs a food innovation pilot plant and taking a venture science approach leads to breakthroughs.

Australia’s first and only specialist agrifood tech VC firm, Tenacious Ventures has reached a significant milestone – closing its first venture capital fund, oversubscribed at AUD $35M. The firm supports early-stage startups with tech-enabled new business models that are helping agriculture transition to a carbon-neutral and climate-resilient future.

SVG Ventures | THRIVE has announced the next iteration of its agrifood-focused technology accelerator and the 12 startups selected to join the THRIVE VII cohort. Again, the THRIVE Australia Challenge has provided a gateway for Australian innovators to participate in the global accelerator with Rubens Technologies, Goanna Ag, and TranspiratiONal making the cut.

In 2020, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned the world about the fatal impact of climate change in a blog post titled: “COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse.”

grow^AG. is a collaboration between the Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment (DAWE) and Australia’s 15 Research & Development Corporations, often referred to as the RDC’s. It is the gateway to Australia’s agrifood innovation system, formalising a shared vision to showcase world leading agricultural research, unique technologies and commercialisation opportunities in one, easy to use location.

Your technology is only worthwhile when someone is using it. Having a clear path to market is just as important as the technology itself. Learn some of the tips and tricks to scaling a startup in regional areas in our Grassroots Series virtual session 5, out now, created in partnership with Cicada Innovations' GrowLab.

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.

Cicada Growlab and evoke^AG. have joined forces to create, the Grassroots Series, an online mentoring program to help nurture the next wave of Australia’s agrifood tech entrepreneurs.

The UK is a prime destination, for Australian agritech SME’s, scaleups and startups, with plenty of capital, and a growing interest in agritech.

On the edge of the desert in South Australia’s Port Augusta, vegetables grow abundantly in a landscape once deemed near impossible for food production.