The AgTech Seeds program is ideally suited to people at the start of their innovation journey.
The program provides fledgling founders with a supportive environment in which to partner with researchers to test their ideas, upskill quickly, fail fast, develop an MVP and launch a sustainable enterprise.
Rocket Seeder's AgTech Seeds program is suitable for the following groups of people:
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Aspiring Victorian AgTech entrepreneurs
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Innovative researchers and research teams at Victorian universities and research organisations
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Farmers and producers with a great idea, looking to scale this in Australia and beyond!
This program will help you build a network with others who share your passion and ambition - to build a team and launch a company to solve pressing issues in the agriculture sector.
AgTech Seeds Webinar Series
Are you curious to find out what it takes to build and launch innovative products in the agriculture and food sector? Every startup founder has their own origin story and battle scars to accompany their growth.
Join us online for the AgTech Seeds webinar series and hear from leading start-up founders and their researchers!
Webinar with
Webinar with
Webinar with
Prof. Ruth Nettle
James Diamond
Prof. David Hughes
In this webinar, Professor Nettle will introduce you to a way of thinking about the diversity of your farmer customers and applying segmentation to plan a marketing or service strategy to engage with farmers ‘where they are at’.
In this webinar, you will hear how James Diamond from Air Agri, one of our most recent alumni, talk about his founder journey and how a pre-accelerator like AgTech Seeds helped him on his journey.
In this webinar, you will hear Professor Hughes, shed light on current consumer trends driving the global food sector in developed countries, and how this can inform agtech innovation.
Fireside chat with
Emma Weston
In this fireside chat, you hear from Emma Weston, co-founder of AgriDigital, share her firsthand experience on what has enabled AgriDigital's success to date, as well as reflections on how this success could have been enhanced and accelerated by access to research in Australia's universities.
Fireside chat with
Jordy Kay &
Eddie Attenborough
In this fireside chat, you will hear how Jordy Kay, co-founder of Great Wrap, came to work with Eddie Attenborough, a chemical engineer from Monash University, to develop the proprietary technology that forms the basis of Australia's only compostable cling wrap using food waste diverted from landfill.
Fireside chat with
Phoebe Gardner
& Alex Arnold
In this fireside chat, you will hear from the co-founder's of Bardee, Phoebe Gardner (and architect) and Alex Arnold (a geneticist and cherry farmer), about how the came together to create and rapidly scale a circular food system with insects!
Fireside chat with
David Lyall
In this fireside chat, you get the opportunity to hear David Lyall, co-founder of Bee Innovative, share his firsthand experience on what has enabled him success to date, as well as reflections on what he would do differently next time to accelerate the launch and growth of the company.
AgTech Seeds Case Studies
Case Study
E-Hydroponics
Among the first AgTech Seeds cohort were trio Adam Wang, Ke Ma and Jeff Peng who are developing vertical hydroponic technology with intelligent growth algorithms and IoT sensors to set new standards for fully controlled agriculture.
Case Study
AirAgri
Third-generation cattle and sheep producers James and Paul Diamond were part of Rocket Seeder’s first AgTech Seeds program which ran from July to October 2022.
Case Study
AEI
‘AEI SmartBox’ technology operates behind a farmer’s energy meter to intelligently integrate irrigation operations with energy cost parameters.
Case Study
PEAK Pasture & Livestock
Damian Pendergast, a Rural Supplier and Nicole Frost, an Agricultural Advisor have a combined 52 years’ experience working in the agriculture industry.
What is AgTech? (in the context of this program)
AgTech uses digital technology to provide the agricultural industry with the tools, data and knowledge to make more informed and timely on-farm decisions and improve productivity and sustainability.
Areas of application may include plant or animal science, crop protection & Input management, precision agriculture, indoor agriculture, sensors & smart farm equipment, imagery, animal technologies, processing & packaging, supply chain and hardware.
Source: AgFunder