Startup · $485k raised
Every published round AgriStart 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nork Solutions | Accelerator | 29 Mar 2024 | - | Participant | Startup News (WA) (Fri 29 Mar 2024), Startup News (WA) (Thu 17 Mar 2022) | |
| TechNol | Accelerator | 24 Oct 2022 | - | Participant | Startup News (WA) (Mon 24 Oct 2022), Startup News (WA) (Thu 17 Mar 2022) | |
| Hemp Squared | Accelerator | 21 Jul 2022 | - | Participant | Startup News (WA) (Thu 21 Jul 2022), Startup News (WA) (Thu 17 Mar 2022) |
Everyone AgriStart 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 AgriStart has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hemp Squared | 21 Jul 2022, Accelerator | 1 | 0 | |
| Nork Solutions | 29 Mar 2024, Accelerator | 1 | 0 | |
| TechNol | 24 Oct 2022, Accelerator | 1 | 0 |
Fund closes reported for AgriStart, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies AgriStart has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal AgriStart did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio company of AgriStart is recorded as having been acquired. | ||||
Companies AgriStart acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round AgriStart raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Federal Government | Grant | - |
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Natasha Ayers | Managing Director · Founder | SmartCompany, Startup Daily |
| Tash Teakle | Managing Director | evokeag.com, Startup News (WA) |
Stories naming AgriStart. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Western Australia's government has awarded nearly $2.56 million in grants to 14 groups running accelerators and education programs via its Innovation Pathways Program, with the next round due November 2026.
Profile of Western Australian brothers James and Rhys Williamson, whose meat provenance venture Latitude 28 Produce received government grant backing and accelerator support before spinning out traceability business Orijin Plus.
AgriStart has announced the seven businesses joining the 2022 HARVEST agtech accelerator, a five-month program that opened with a bootcamp and this year focuses on innovations serving the grains industry.
Western Australia's government will give advocacy group StartupWA $160,000 over two years from its New Industries Fund, funding startup summits and a part-time events employee to support the local ecosystem.
Startup News profiles Catel, an early-stage online marketplace for trading agricultural securities called AgFracs, as the founding team prepares to launch a pilot program after completing accelerator programs.
WA incubator QuantumTX, founded by Atomic Sky, names its first cohort of ten tech companies working across mining, energy and defence to enter the global space sector.
A University of Sydney research spin-off making farm robots has raised seed money from three backers to commercialise its equipment, and the piece also recalls other agtech funding wins from early 2019.
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AgriStart's CONNECT regional hubs program has received a $485,000 federal grant, one of six incubator recipients under the government's Entrepreneurs' Program, to back regional WA agtech startups.
The latest federal Incubator Support grants went to six regional recipients, among them AgriStart, Arc, ThincLab and UNE's AgTech Gateway; past rounds funded Bega Valley Shire and Bridge Hub.
Also SmartCompany