AgTech Seeds Cohort 2

A D2C subscription service delivering seedlings direct to door empowering time and information poor people to engage in growing food at home. By empowering these people to grow, our hypothesis is that it will create a ripple effect of more home gardeners, more community gardeners, and consumers who place value on the way food is grown. It will create local jobs in community gardens, by utilising existing growing tunnel capacity to create growing hubs.

Aerial spraying, spreading, crop surveying using RPAs

Harveston is developing a process and certain components that will revolutionise the harvesting and storage of almonds globally. Our product will allow growers to harvest directly into a storage pod and, using controlled air flows, dry and store their product (in husk almond) until they are able to send it for processing. With developments in harvesting technology their product would store processed products (in shell almond) for drying and conditioning directly off the harvester.

Mapping, paddock, and livestock management app

AEI is looking to develop intelligent and automated energy solutions that give farmers / irrigators control of their costs, time and resources, while simultaneously creating a more sustainable energy grid.

Fifth Harvest grows food in inner cities areas by deploying tech-driven, hyper-local, commercial-scale vertical farms, helping our food system reach net zero by 2035. Fifth Harvest is building Australia’s largest network of vertical, urban farms to deliver hyper-local produce to restaurant groups, wholesalers and retailers that tastes better, lasts longer and is packaged sustainably.

Viti-X is a marketplace connecting grape growers with winemakers. They want to be the central place to source and purchase fruit for the production of wine, whilst providing fair equitable contracts that support all parties involved.

The system is a unique software which displays in-depth herd data, simplified for ease of use and ultimately identifies potential genetic gain. By producing an extensive data analysis of each individual cow's performance and benchmarked against the farms actual milk revenue, it ranks the herd using a financial custom index that incorporates all the factors that affect farm profitability.

Soil carbon and biodiversity trading and validation platform.

Greens4goodFarms Organic Aquaponics seeks to bring aquaponics to our local market using commercially viable strategies to grow nutritious vegetables using the most sustainable agriculture systems available.

Plant Factory is an indoor Vertical Farming business, which will revolutionise the way consumers buy and store fresh vegetables. They are a technology company that will supply chemical free, quality “Living Vegetables”.