#Startup Program

Forty local and international startup businesses are gearing up to descend on Asia Pacific’s premier agrifood tech event, AgriFutures evoke^AG., with the event’s 2024 Startup Program cohort announced.

It’s your last chance to get your application in for the evoke^AG. Startup Program. With applications closing on Monday, 23 October, AgriFutures Program Manager, Dallas Pearce is expecting applications in climate tech, mining tech, and everything in between – and she encourages startups from across the agri-food tech spectrum to apply.

Applications for the evoke^AG. Startup Program are officially open, offering startups and scaleups the opportunity to connect with potential investors, partners and customers at evoke^AG. 2024. For founders throwing their hats into the ring, program manager Dallas Pearce has seven tips for success.

Agrifood tech startup and scaleup businesses are being given an opportunity to directly connect with potential investors and corporates, grow their networks, and expand their customer base at Asia Pacific’s premier agrifood tech event, AgriFutures evoke^AG. 2024.

As Queensland ramps up its ambition to become a “world-leading agtech destination”, a growing number of innovative local players are bursting onto the national scene. Here’s four that stole the spotlight in Startup Alley at evoke^AG. 2023.

Melbourne startup Gaia Project Australia has been recognised by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) as a Phase Two winner of the prestigious Deep Space Food Challenge. Despite this astronomic accolade, Founder Nadun Hennayaka says his space tech could help solve global food challenges down on Earth.

Addressing labour shortages; meeting the rising protein gap; and biosecurity solutions to safeguard Australian agriculture. These are some of the challenges and opportunities that are being tackled by 40 agrifood tech companies selected in the 2023 AgriFutures evoke^AG. Startup Program.

Andrew Bate has been sowing the seeds of the future of farming for the past decade, as Co-Founder of agritech company, SwarmFarm Robotics that’s now leading the world in the development of on-farm robotics. The AgriFutures evoke^AG. Startup Program success story and Central Queensland grain farmer will lead a panel of experts exploring the future of autonomous agriculture at evoke^AG. 2023.

As the MC for evoke^AG.’s second Investor Pitch Dinner, Tenacious Ventures’ Sarah Nolet remarked on how much things had changed since the previous evoke^AG. in 2020 and its first Investor Pitch Dinner. Australian agritech has gone from aspiring to be a global player, Sarah says, to ‘fully established, proving to the world that we’ve arrived and we’re here to stay’. So where are Australia’s areas of global advantage, and what’s the key to maximising the future for the agrifood tech ecosystem?

Pollinated agriculture is estimated to be a $14 billion industry in Australia alone. Now an innovative technology, Bee Innovative can track how well bees are pollinating a crop and provide growers with real-time information to help boost yield and profits. Here commercial beekeeper and CEO and Co-Founder of Bee Innovative, David Lyall talks about its growing potential.

Innovative and scalable agritech solutions will be key for early-stage startups looking to score a place in the next round of the AgriFutures evoke^AG. Startup Network Program. Applications are now open for six successful founders ready to connect with growers, trial technology on-farm, and scale into new markets.

Nick Seymour, Founder and General Manager of IoT solutions company Farmo recently participated in the evoke^AG. Startup Network program. We caught up with Nick, and sheep and cattle producer James Young from Cavendish on the benefits of using new technologies to solve age-old problems on-farm.