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Every published round Agriculture Victoria took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies Agriculture Victoria has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
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Fund closes reported for Agriculture Victoria, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Agriculture Victoria has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Agriculture Victoria did.
Stories naming Agriculture Victoria. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Case study of farm-safety software firm AirAgri, built by brothers Paul and James Diamond, recalling a $50,000 government grant and pre-accelerator support that funded its wearable-device R&D.
Channel 7 presenter Jane Bunn co-founded Jane's Weather, an AI-enhanced hyperlocal forecasting app, which used a LaunchVic and Agriculture Victoria grant to hire an AI expert and trial a professional service.
LaunchVic case study profiling Mobble, a farm-management software startup whose founders grew it from bootstrapped beginnings, highlighting a fifty-thousand-dollar AgTech grant that funded its Mobble Connect feature.
LaunchVic and Agriculture Victoria introduced a $1 million fund backing early-stage agtech startups, and revealed seven companies as recipients of $50,000 equity-free grants.
GrainCorp received a $2.93 million federal grant through the MERiL program's third round to run large-scale dairy and beef trials of low-emission feed supplements, working with FutureFeed, CSIRO, University of Queensland and Agriculture Victoria Services.
GrainCorp has received a half-million-dollar government grant to test a seaweed feed additive that cuts livestock methane, working alongside Agriculture Victoria and the FutureFeed partnership.
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Six research projects share four million dollars in federal MERiL grants to test seaweed, legume and synthetic feed additives that could cut methane from cattle and sheep.
Company update on vertical farming firm E Agri, covering a Victorian government grant, money raised during 2018, a raise still in progress, and planned facilities and overseas partnerships.