The Agtech and Logistics Hub in Toowoomba aims to grow and diversify the agricultural value chain through the development and adoption of innovation and technology.
In October 2021, the hub launched its first Open Innovation Challenge. It posed a challenge to early-stage businesses of how ‘digitisation and automation of the agricultural supply chain can drive efficiencies and sustainability’. The hub accepted applications from businesses with innovative ideas on how to address the challenge then worked with them on their ideas to connect with other innovators and industry.
Ten high potential startups and businesses were offered further commercialisation support through the inaugural Agtech Accelerator program.
The ten businesses were:
- 4Zero from Victoria – helps to bridge the gap between operations and the rest of the organisation through advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics, in a way that makes the customer’s life easier.
- Acumen Automation from Queensland – specialises in automating business processes and systems to help companies leverage state-of-art technologies on their journey to achieve greater efficiency, profitability and growth.
- iTrazo from Victoria – develops traceability solutions to effectively aggregate, store, share and analyse millions of supply chain key data and critical trace events from ‘cradle to grave’.
- TracknAct from Queensland – the platform allows real-time temperature and environmental monitoring at a glance, whether in your fridge, cool room or in transit.
- Optomni from South Australia – digitalising the fresh and perishables supply chain with an AI driven trading and optimisation platform, using demand prediction and automated supply matching.
- Agronomeye from New South Wales – using high resolution imaging and predictive algorithms and analytics to digitise complete farming systems to enable sustainable and resilient agricultural management.
- Harvest Ant from Queensland – provides solutions to automatically track and monitor labour efficiency whilst digitising the first mile of harvest from plant to packhouse.
- Mirragin from Queensland – a drones, robotics and autonomous systems consulting company with experience across commercial aviation, agriculture and mining.
- PAStech Rural from Queensland – solving connectivity issues for remote farming locations, which enables the ability to automate processes and enhance business productivity.
- Smart Paddock from Victoria – livestock management platform providing information on the health status, behaviours, and accurate GPS location of all the animals in a herd.
After the Open Innovation Challenge, the ten businesses participated in a virtual showcase (which was recorded) to share their stories with industry, stakeholders, investors and local ecosystems. They discussed their journey so far, what impact they aim to have on the market and how they are going to achieve success.
The Agtech and Logistics Hub will continue to support the ongoing business development of accelerator participants following the conclusion of the program and they look forward to collaborating in the future.
Advance Queensland is proud to support the Agtech and Logistics Hub.
Visit the Agtech and Logistics Hub website to find out more.
