Founder, Hone
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Founder | Hone | GrainCorp Ventures, Tidal Ventures portfolio, dayone.fm |
Stories naming Will Palmer. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
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.
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.