Statistically speaking, my daughters are underrepresented. They’re female, regionally located, and one has a disability. Recently, I asked them what they wanted to be when they grew up. One wants to work in an office and drink coffee “like Mummy”, and the other wants to be a doctor. I asked them about being a scientist,… Read more »
From a local entrepreneur using ‘maggot robots’ to address food waste to one of the world’s leading generative AI experts, AgriFutures evokeAG. 2024 has unveiled a compelling lineup of local and international agrifood tech thinkers and innovators speaking at the two-day event in Perth this February. Will AI change how and what we eat? Does… Read more »
Applications have opened for the 2024 evokeAG. Startup Program to help boost our nation’s best agrifood tech innovators. Centred around the two-day event in February 2024, the program gives applicants a unique chance to connect with potential investors, corporates and customers. Startup Daily spoke to an exciting success story from the 2023 program. Indoor vertical farming… Read more »
Victorian farmer, tech entrepreneur and Grown Not Flown cofounder Nikki Davey has won the 2023 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award for her work creating a digital platform and app that connects flower farmers and consumers around the world. The award recognises the critical role women play in rural and regional businesses, industries and communities. Based at… Read more »
Agriculture technology accelerator and investor AgriFutures is looking for five emerging leaders as part of a program to showcase the next generation of agrifood startup founders. Applications opened last week for the evokeAG. Future Young Leaders Program and close on September 4. The program, now in its fourth year, offers five emerging leaders the opportunity to… Read more »
Over the past few years we’ve seen an explosion of agrifood technologies and Australian agricultural innovation. Part of this broad trend has seen investment in agrifood tech in Australia grow from US$29.9 million in 2017 to US$90.8 million in 2019, according to AgFunder. There has been a significant increase in capital investment into developing agrifood technologies,… Read more »
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