

Our Startup Program
Igniting agrifood innovation.

About the program
The evokeAG. Startup Program serves as a dynamic bridge within the agrifood tech landscape, linking emerging startups and ambitious scaleups with a diverse ecosystem encompassing farmers, innovators, researchers, industry giants, government bodies, and investors. Through this program, founders gain a compelling platform to not only share their stories and success but also to spotlight their groundbreaking innovation, which are pioneering transformative solutions to pressing global agrifood technology challenges. Join us on this journey of innovation and discovery.
Objectives
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Elevate global visibility: Position Australian and international startups and scaleups on a world stage, enabling them to showcase their innovations to a global audience.
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Facilitate investment: Connect startups and scaleups with a diverse network of investors, paving the way for funding opportunities that can drive innovation and growth.
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Catalyse meaningful connections: Foster a thriving environment where startups can form invaluable industry connections, engage with potential customers, and cultivate vital partnerships.
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Showcase agrifood innovation excellence: Spotlight the collective prowess of the agrifood tech ecosystem in Australia and the Asia Pacific, reinforcing the region's standing on the global innovation map.
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Drive adoption and impact: Encourage the adoption of groundbreaking agrifood innovations at both farm and supply chain levels, ultimately advancing the transformation of the agrifood sector.

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Bee Innovative
David & Kate Lyall
Bee Innovative is unlocking global agriculture by maximising pollination. This innovative company have developed BeeDarTM, a radar-like sensor for bees that identifies, tracks and reports bee pollination activity in near real time. This product revolutionises production. Producers can now identify areas of good pollination activity and more importantly poor pollination activity.


Arugga AI Farming
Iddo Geltner
Arugga AI Farming is developing an autonomous greenhouse ground robot that circulates and captures useful data and imagery, to proactively address and treat a number of issues. These robots will be providing a solution to the challenges growers face such as labour shortage and costs, pest and diseases, inaccurate yield prediction and problems with bee pollination.


Mastaplex
Olaf Bork
Mastatest is a game-changer in veterinary point-of-care diagnostic tests for bovine mastitis treatment. Mastatest provides dairy farmers and vets an easy, precise and fast mastitis diagnostic. The company’s unique products and services support antibiotic treatment, decisions and disease management, help improve food quality and combat against antimicrobial resistance driving dairy farm profitably.


Farmbot Australia
Craig Hendricks
Farmbot Monitoring Solutions is a leading Australian agtech company in Internet of Things and precision agriculture. They monitor and report on on-farm water ecosystems delivering near real-time reporting on water trends, consumption and demand.

AgriFutures growAG.
Explore a world of agrifood innovation opportunities.
AgriFutures growAG. is the online marketplace for agrifood innovation. Explore, find and connect with expertise, research and investment opportunities from Australia and around the world in one, easy to use location.
Visit growAG.