Startup · $6.5m raised
Newcastle, NSW
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Hone raised.
Investors whose own portfolio pages list Hone, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.
| Investor | Listed on |
|---|---|
| Tidal Ventures | its portfolio page ↗ |
Companies Hone acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Antony Martin | CEO | dayone.fm, Startup Daily |
| Jamie Flynn | Founder | GrainCorp Ventures, Tidal Ventures portfolio, dayone.fm |
| Will Palmer | Founder | GrainCorp Ventures, Tidal Ventures portfolio, dayone.fm |
Stories naming Hone. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Melt Ventures launched an advanced manufacturing venture fund expecting first close soon and targeting $20 million by March 2023; the piece also recalls earlier backing of Camplify, Gamurs, Greaseboss and other companies.
GrainCorp has launched GrainCorp Ventures, a corporate venture fund set up with Artesian Venture Partners, intending to back early-stage agtech, animal nutrition and food innovation startups, building on prior investments including Hone and FutureFeed.
GrainCorp's blog profiles Hone, a Newcastle AgTech startup building a portable light-based sample testing device, recalling GrainCorp's 2021 investment and ongoing lab support for product development.
Also AgFunderNews
Tidal Ventures reflects on its investment in Hone, an agtech startup using spectroscopy for crop data, and how Grant McCarthy and Wendell Keuneman helped the founding team focus on its market.
Weekly roundup of agrifoodtech deals: numerous startup funding rounds including GrowUp Farms, PlantLab and Australia's Cecil, a secondary share sale in Hone, and Kerry Group's acquisitions of C-LEcta and Enmex.
Silverstrand Capital led a secondary purchase of a stake in soil carbon testing firm Hone, following its GrainCorp-led Series A. The piece profiles Hone Carbon's spectrometry technology, customers and scale-up plans.
Also GrainCorp Ventures
Podcast interview in which Hone's co-founder and chief executive recounts PhD research origins, early consulting work for CSIRO, a government commercialisation grant, and the pivot into grain-testing hardware.
New hardware accelerator The Melt has backed five industrial startups and raised the first year of a rolling angel fund set to reach $10 million, while also delivering R&D services for large corporates.