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AgTech News Roundup – 20 March

Mar 21 2025

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In this edition:

• FoodTech 500 (the agrifoodtech sector’s Fortune 500) released for 2024
• AFI share their tips for navigating trade policy uncertainty
• Lessons from the trenches: Fundraising as an agtech startup in Australia
• Plus: Funding opportunities you may have missed

Making headlines in AgTech

The top 500 companies in AgriFoodTech in 2024 revealed

Forward Fooding’s annual list of the top performing companies in the evolving agrifoodtech space has become a milestone event for ag innovators. Not only for its ranking of boundary-pushing companies, but also the accompanying white paper and retrospective industry pulse check. It’s well worth making a cuppa and settling in to review the shifting industry trends and (sobering) global funding shifts. 

Australian Farm Institute: Navigating the Twilight Zone ($)

“Policy uncertainty in trade and climate action creates a risk-averse investment environment,” says the Australian Farm Institute’s Katie McRobert in their latest must-read think piece.

“These factors discourage long-term capital commitments in Australian agriculture and shape the way farmers plan their production cycles. By acknowledging the uncertainties and exploring diverse potential outcomes, we can learn how to build the agile agricultural systems which will be necessary in the coming decades,” Katie McRobert.

Lessons from the Trenches: Fundraising as an AgTech Startup

“Raising capital as an AgTech startup is a long and challenging journey,” writes Drone-Hand Founder and CEO, Edward Barraclough. “But investors are out there – if you’re willing to work the networks and prove your tenacity.” Barraclough’s generous tour through the ‘trenches’ of early-stage fundraising is a must-read for those at the start of their growth quest. He’s done the hard yards (and learned the hard lessons) for you. 

Funding Opportunities

THRIVE Global Impact Challenge 2025

The annual worldwide search for trailblazing startups with solutions that will revolutionise agriculture is on once again! Do you have a solution in one of the six categories for THRIVE’s Global Impact Challenge? Apply now.

RISE Accelerator

The India Australia Rapid Innovation and Startup Expansion (RISE) Accelerator provides support to startups and small to medium-sized enterprises who are working on innovative technology and are considering overseas expansion between India and Australia. Explore the program.

Launch VIC

LaunchVic has partnered with Agriculture Victoria to provide support, funding and investment opportunities to Victorian Agtech startups building farming technology. Applications of these technologies can include: automation, drones, robotics, AI with grants of up to $50,000. Read more.

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