Investor Pitch Dinner

Eighth Day Foods is an Australian alternative-protein company producing plant based lupin-based protein LURPREME. Made from unprocessed sweet lupins, it’s a rich source of protein, fibre and other nutrients. It can be used to make a variety of meat alternatives making it highly versatile.

By removing the need for complex processing and applying our patented fermentation technology we create a whole, healthy, ready-to-cook protein. The seed-to-final product pathway is all done in one process removing the complexity, risk and cost to the manufacturer, the consumer and to the planet.

Globally, farmers are under increasing pressure to be more sustainable, efficient and secure. However, much of the time they are without the financial and technical resources to do so. Our mission is to provide the digital infrastructure for corporates, financiers and consumers to invest in farmers and share the responsibility of meeting sustainability targets along agri-supply chains.

We believe data can be a key to unlocking the value in sustainability and through integrations and standard formats, Geora is able to support our customers to be leaders as sustainable agribusinesses and connect farmers in real-time with investors and credit marketplaces.

LYRO Robotics is an Australian early-stage company focused on post-harvest packing of fresh fruit and vegetables. We develop, design and deploy robots that solve labour shortages by providing consistent, reliable throughput to packing operations.

Our LR-1 robot can pick up to 1,000 pieces of fruit per hour, equivalent to 40 trays each containing 20 pieces of fruit—roughly the throughput of an experienced human packer.

The difference is that LR-1 will pack for 24 hours straight if fruit is available for packing.

Nanobubble Agritech build systems that put extremely high concentrations of oxygen gas into irrigation water, significantly increasing plant growth rate and yield.

Pastoral trials at Massey University showed Nanobubble Agritech’s system delivered double the production compared to conventional irrigation over six months, when retrofitted to an existing pivot irrigator.

With water availability being the key limiting factor to expanding agricultural production globally, this technology has the potential to dramatically increase the world’s food production. A range of commercial scale trials are currently underway and system patents have been lodged.

For Nanobubble Agritech, the sky is the limit.

The Leaf Protein Co. is unlocking Earth’s most abundant source of protein, leaf protein, to solve the lack of biodiversity in the available plant protein ingredient market. We’ve developed technology to extract photosynthetic proteins from the hundreds of thousands of edible plants that have been cultivated for food.

Using this technology, our mission is to build a library of functional leaf protein ingredients that are highly digestible, allergen-free and sustainable, enabling food companies and manufacturers to create the next generation of more nutritious and tastier plant-based foods.