AgTech Innovators

Discover how Victorian company Ambit Robotics is using generative AI imaging to help growers understand prospective yields and improve production. Join Paul Voutier from Ambit Robotics as he shares valuable insights about using robotics in agriculture.

Customer before capital is a different approach helping AgTech startups find success and grow their businesses.

Learn from Beanstalk’s Calum Archibald what their secret weapon is in this space and how they work with a whole range of AgTech startups.

When Tenacious Ventures makes an investment, they consider three crucial factors: the team, the technology, and the traction. Assessing these elements can be challenging, as explained by Sarah Nolet. However, if they make the right choices, it can have a significant impact on the success of an AgTech startup.

Being clear on who your customer is, how big the market is and why this is such a big problem, is some of the advice Guy Franklin provides to AgTech startups in this episode of AgTech Innovators.

 Please note: The following podcast recording was made by Guy Franklin, who was formerly employed by Skalata Ventures. Guy Franklin is no longer affiliated with Skalata Ventures, and the views and opinions expressed in the recording do not necessarily reflect the current views or opinions of Skalata Ventures.

LaunchVic works with founders and investors to ensure they have the skills, capability, and confidence to launch a startup, grow a startup, work at a startup or invest in a startup.

Kate Cornick, CEO of LaunchVic kicks off season 2 of AgTech Innovators explaining how they go about doing this.

We've all heard the term ‘think outside the square’. Rarely though, does that extend to thinking literally off the planet and into outer space to resolve problems back here on Earth.

This describes the journey of AgTech startup, GAIA Project Australia. In this AgTech Innovators episode we talk to CEO Nadun Hennayaka who explains the space connection and much more about their startup journey.

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For further information on the Deep Space Food Challenge: deepspacefoodchallenge.org

Imagine you’ve created some technology that can help save the lives of farmers, but you just don’t know how to access those who could benefit from it.

In this episode of AgTech Innovators we hear from James Diamond, co-founder of AirAgri who with the help of accelerator programs did just that. James explains how the program has benefited their business and helped them get to where they are today.

For more information: agriculture.vic.gov.au/agrin 

For more information on farm safety: agriculture.vic.gov.au/smartersaferfarms 

Imagine having a business idea that will help farmers easily deal with invasive weeds in difficult terrain.

Join the Gulec brothers, Yasin and Levent in this episode of AgTech Innovators to learn more about their business, Drone Spraying Australia and the accelerator programs that helped them turn their idea into reality.

For more information: agriculture.vic.gov.au/agrin  

Join Brook Kennedy from Fifth Harvest in this AgTech Innovators episode recorded at evokeAG in February. 

Brook discusses how this innovative AgTech startup is raising capital to create a vertical agriculture solution to address future food production needs.  

For more information: agriculture.vic.gov.au/agrin 

Building a viable AgTech business starts with testing an idea.

Agriculture Victoria is partnering with SVG Ventures Thrive to help with access to global markets and venture capital. 

In this AgTech Innovators episode, you will hear from Michael Macolino about SVG’s accelerator program and why it is unique.

For more information: agriculture.vic.gov.au/agrin