Government · 2 deals
Every published round Agrifutures Australia 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.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Role | Alongside | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InvertiGro | Accelerator | 2023 | - | Lead | Startup Daily, AgFunderNews | |
| Grown Not Flown | Grant | 2023 | $20k | Participant | Tenacious Ventures, Startup Daily |
Everyone Agrifutures Australia has named to a program in published coverage. A place in a program is not a raise: the cheque is the figure recorded with the place, which is the program's standard terms where we hold them, and a blank is one we don't.
Companies Agrifutures Australia has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grown Not Flown | 2023, Grant | 1 | 0 | |
| InvertiGro | 2023, Accelerator | 1 | 1 |
Fund closes reported for Agrifutures Australia, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Agrifutures Australia has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Agrifutures Australia did.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Arianna Sippel | Senior Manager growAG | Beef Central / Grain Central |
| Cathy McGowan | Chair | Investible |
| Harriet Mellish | General Manger, Global Innovation Networks | Startup Daily |
| John Harvey | Managing Director | Startup Daily, Beef Central / Grain Central |
| Sheridan Ingold | Acting Senior Manager, Capacity Building, Workforce & Communications | Women's Agenda |
Stories naming Agrifutures Australia. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Podcast episode in which Grown Not Flown founder Nikki Davey reflects on shutting down her flower-marketplace app, covering scaling struggles, investor challenges and the personal toll of a startup's end.
Also Startup Daily
Profiles two women whose business ideas won AgriFutures bursaries of $7,000 each for 2024 — one on home food growing, one mentoring vets — with the next grant round's applications closing soon.
CRDC announces the launch of Agricultural Innovation Australia's Environmental Accounting Platform, giving farm sectors a standardised way to measure carbon; nine rural research and development corporations invested in building it.
Investible reflects on five takeaways from the evokeAG 2024 conference in Perth, covering tighter capital, carbon credit debates, regenerative farming, and AI's growing role in agriculture.
Tenacious Ventures reflects on attending the evokeAG conference in Perth, discussing climate adaptation in farming, weed resistance to AI detection, women in agtech, and its own plans for a second fund.
AgFunder's Asia-Pacific investment analysis finds agriculture-focused biotech surged in 2022, with China and India ahead, while Australian soil-carbon firm Loam Bio landed a sizable round in 2023.
Also AgFunderNews
Sponsored feature surveying three Australian soil-carbon startups — AgriProve, Agrimix and FarmLab — their measurement technology and research partners, plus openings listed on AgriFutures growAG., noting AgriProve's 2022 government grant.
Sponsored profile of a Sydney indoor-farming firm recalling its 2023 stint at the agrifood showcase, published as entries open for the following year's program.
Flower-farming platform Grown Not Flown's cofounder has taken out AgriFutures' 2023 Rural Women's Award and its grant money, with the national runner-up and other finalists named and 2024 applications now open.
Sponsored profile of Sydney cultivated meat company Vow, covering its quail-based first product, recent Series A backing, manufacturing plans, and founder George Peppou's upcoming panel appearance at AgriFutures' evokeAG 2023 event.
Coverage of AgFunder and AgriFutures' new Asia-Pacific investment report, which found Australian agrifoodtech startups attracted $565.5 million across 55 deals in 2021, plus Lyro's raises and evokeAG 2023 applications.
Conference report from Melbourne where plant-based and conventional protein advocates debated. Fable Foods' funding round closed, and Michael Fox's earlier shoe startup Shoes of Prey is recalled as collapsed.
Investors at the evokeAG conference urged Australian agtech founders to pursue global markets. GRDC and Artesian committed $50 million to the GrainInnovate fund, and Austrade launched its Agriculture 4.0 connecting platform.
A year-end reflection on Australian agtech's 2017 rise, covering FluroSat's investment round, several startups' funding totals, SproutX's first accelerator cohort, Observant's acquisition, and the author's hopes for 2018.
Also Tenacious Ventures portfolio·Cotton Research and Development Corporation·SmartCompany·AgFunderNews