2025 watchlist: 8 game-changing Queensland startups to watch at evoke^AG. 2025

1. AirAgri Services

‘Your lifeguard in the bush’  

AirAgri Services is an Australian farm safety tool that includes:  

• Property Map: Streamline your land management with intuitive maps. 
• Farmer Tracking: Keep everyone accounted for and have alerts if anything goes wrong. 
• Inventory Control: Manage everything from chemicals to salt blocks, including machinery and service histories. 
• Task Management: Replace your shed’s whiteboard with our digital task manager. 
• Personal Records: Securely store licenses, health information, and more. 
• Activity Logging: Comprehensive recording for all types of agricultural activities 

2. Carbonaught

‘Helping farmers deliver profitable, low-emission agriculture’ 

Carbonaught’s software makes substituting basalt into a farmer’s fertiliser program simple. The team prospect, screen and connect rock sources (mines and quarries) to the farmer, arrange transport and produce project plans.  

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From there Carbonaught plug farmers into labs and major verification bodies that deliver validated results for both fertiliser and emission reductions. They then package up the results and allow them to be connected via API to emission reporting services and/or carbon credit trading systems.  

 3. Gate 46

‘Turning farm waste into profits’ 

Gate46 installs, manages and maintains Covered Anaerobic Digestors (CADs) and renewable power generation systems (Combined Heat Generators or Pyrolysis Generators) which are specifically designed for the Australian Dairy Industry in regional Australia. 

It supports businesses and local communities by procuring our equipment from Australian companies and utilising local contractors for installation, maintenance and support. 

A Design Build Own Operate Maintain (DBOOM) model has been adopted by Gate46. It sells power and heat back to the farm, at a reduced kWh rate cheaper than the prevailing retail rates. Gate46’s equipment generates Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) through the destruction of methane, LGC’s, VEEC’s or ESC environmental credits, electricity, heat and biochar. 

4. Inform Ag

‘Future Proofing Farming: Discover what happens when farmers work hand in hand with engineers’ 

Inform Ag is out to lead the way in agricultural innovation with solutions that tackle water efficiency, data-driven management, and yield and machinery tracking. Its smart irrigation and GrowData suite empower farmers to be more efficient, sustainable, and productive.  

Image | mOOvement.

5. mOOvement

‘The mOOvement GPS Ear Tags allow you to track and trace your cattle over long distances’ 

mOOvement offers an affordable way to track your cattle. The GPS Ear Tag sends your cattle’s location to provide you with actionable insights and alerts. These insights aim to help you run a better and more efficient beef enterprise and includes a range of features: 

• GPS location of cattle 
• Cattle not moving alert 
• Cattle out of pastures or out of farm alert 
• Updates every one hour 
• Tags are solar powered and reusable 

Take your farm with you and check on your operation anywhere, anytime. 

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6. Rainstick

‘Combining ancient wisdom with modern technology’ 

Rainstick uses electricity to mimic the natural effects of lightning to grow crops bigger, faster and more sustainably. Inspired by the traditions of the Maiawali People of central west Queensland, Australia, Rainstick has built on a 10,000-year-old practice that acknowledges the influence of lightning on how plants grow. 

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Rainstick directly addresses the need for climate friendly interventions that increase crop yields so that farmers can be part of the solution. 

By treating seeds with electric fields (inspired by thunderstorms), Rainstick targets enhanced yields in food crops without changing on-farm infrastructure. 

7. SkyKelpie

‘SkyKelpie is the world leader in drone mustering and aerial stockmanship’ 

SkyKelpie was founded in 2022 to complete groundbreaking drone mustering trials with support from Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) and the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QDAF), which validated the numerous benefits of drone use in mustering.  

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Founder Luke Chaplain is now recognised as one of the leading experts in drone mustering and aerial stockmanship. His vision is to give livestock handlers the necessary tools they need to unlock the powerful benefits drones have to offer. 

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Luke Chaplain, SkyKelpie founder.

8. TerraCipher

‘Host your insights. Maximise your impact.’  

TerraCipher has designed a shaipup algorithm hosting platform and marketplace that enables researchers to make their insights available to their commercial partners and collaborators 10x faster and cheaper than traditional commercialisation pathways. 

Its mission? To empower the world’s greatest thinkers by connecting their insights with TerraCipher’s greatest doers. 

About the evoke^AG. 2025 Startup Program 

• More than 50 startups and scaleups from 10 countries have been selected to feature at Asia Pacific’s premier agrifood innovation event, evoke^AG. in Brisbane on 18-19 February 2025. 

• The selected startups hail from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Chile, India, Israel, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. 

Meet the 2025 cohort: 

• Startup alley: Featuring 40 exhibitors showcasing groundbreaking ideas and technologies. The startups include: Agrology (USA), AirAgri Services Pty Ltd (Australia), Algaesys (Australia), AquaTerra (Australia), ART Lab Solutions (Australia), ATEK Integrated Engineering Pty Ltd (Australia), BirdSol Pty Ltd (Australia), ByoMax (Singapore), Carbonaught (Australia), Cropify (Australia), Dataphyll (New Zealand), Drone-Hand Pty Ltd (Australia), Dyneval (UK), Fieldwork Robotics (UK), Flex Farming Limited (UK), Gate 46 Pty Ltd (Australia), Inform Ag (Australia), Map and Zap (New Zealand), mOOvement (Australia), Nium (UK), Optomni (Australia), People in Paddocks (Australia), Rainstick Pty Ltd (Australia), Residual Barrier Technology (UK), Roam Agricultural Pty Ltd (Australia), SkyKelpie (Australia), Sorensis (Australia), Stoktake (Australia), TerraCipher (Australia) and ZoomAgri (Australia) 

• Agventure Downunder: Connecting international startups with Australian markets to drive collaboration and commercialisation. The startups include: 4AG Robotics (Canada), Airponix Ltd (UK), BioPollen Solutions (Chile), Biotic (Israel), FaunaTech (India), FUL Foods (Netherlands), Lytegro Limited (UK), Mara Bio (New Zealand), RHST Industries Inc (Canada) and VIA BioFuels (USA) 

• Scaleup station: Spotlighting 12 returning enterprises, demonstrating growth and market success. The scaleups include: Agronomeye (Australia), Bee Innovative (Australia), BioScout (Australia), Converte (Australia), CropX (Australia), FarmLab (Australia), InvertiGro (Australia), LB Agtech (Australia), Optiweigh (Australia), Pairtree (Australia), Smarter Ctrl (Australia) and SwarmFarm (Australia) 

• Culinary Capital: Fostering in-depth discussions and connections over a networking dinner. The startups include: Algaesys (Australia), ART Lab Solutions (Australia), AquaTerra (Australia), Cropify (Australia), Dyneval (UK), FUL Foods (Netherlands), Nium (UK), Rainstick Pty Ltd (Australia), Residual Barrier Technology (UK) and VIA BioFuels (USA) 

About evoke^AG.

evoke^AG. is powered by AgriFutures Australia and funded by the Australian Government, Platinum Partner Elders, Host State Partner Queensland Government and Host City Partner Brisbane Economic Development Agency (BEDA). 

The event is a leading global agrifood technology and innovation event that unites the agrifood innovation community across the Asia Pacific and around the world. It is a showcase of bold ideas, groundbreaking innovations and disruptive science driving agriculture towards a better future. 

The 2025 evoke^AG. theme, Common Ground calls upon the global agrifood tech and innovation community to unite on common ground to solve shared challenges and seize future opportunities, together. 

The 2025 event is set to take place at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on 18 and 19 February, shining a spotlight on Queensland’s $23bn agricultural industry. 

evoke^AG. 2025 is an invitation to founders, funders and adopters to break out of siloes, to come together to find common ground, and collectively translate innovation into action.