Posts tagged "agtech"

Wagga Wagga connectivity startup Zetifi has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Telstra and Graincorp to help roll out its Wi-Fi extension products to Aussie farmers.

It’s been another big week for Australian startup raises, with $39.6 million invested across nine companies.

Early-stage investment capital firm, Investible, has announced the first eight sustainable startups its investing with its Climate Tech Fund.

With agriculture critical to Australia’s economy, representing 12% of goods and services exports in 2020-21, there is an urgent need to fix its workforce crisis.

Regrow’s software platform provides science-based solutions for both farmers and corporations to decarbonise and build sustainable agricultural practices.

Industry and government must remain focused on supporting locally developed technology if we are to build on Australia’s world-leading position as an agriculture powerhouse. 

Three years ago, Matthew Pryor and Sarah Nolet launched Tenacious Ventures, Australia’s first specialist agrifood tech venture capital firm.

"SwarmFarm is building the future of farming through robotics, but that doesn't mean we want to tear down everything that's come before us," writes founder Andrew Bate.

Agriculture and food tech VC firm Tenacious Ventures has $35 million to invest in Aussie agtech entrepreneurs making an impact on a global scale.

To separate agriculture from the issue of climate change is to ignore the utterly interdependent relationship of the two.

Agriwebb has raised $30 million, giving it a valuation of over $100 million and highlighting a global growth opportunity for Aussie tech.

SwarmFarm is setting out to completely revolutionise agtech, globally. But that’s going to take a little more than a few autonomous tractors.